28-May Sainsbury's Cup

The Sainsbury's Cup 2008 saw 16 teams compete for a coveted trophy and helped raise £10,000 for Sport Relief. Matches with a hyperlink have video; just click on them. Firstly; here's some highlights

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PITCH 1 - The Group of Death
RG 'A' 3-0 Sainsbury's
Basebuild 6-1 Wates
RG 'A' 1-2 Basebuild
Sainsbury's 0-0 Wates

RG 'A' 8-0 Wates
Sainsbury's 0-1 Basebuild

1st Basebuild 9pts GD 7
2nd RG 'A' 6pts GD 10
3rd Sainsbury's. 1pt GD -4. Particularly well done to Tony Mars, joint top scorer for Sainsbury's. Below he can be seen applauding some blokes bum
4th Wates 1pt GD -13

PITCH 2
Henry Rileys 2-1 Longcross 'B'
RG 'B' 0-3 Uplands
Henry Rileys 2-0 RG 'B'
Longcross 'B' 0-1 Uplands
Henry Rileys 1-1 Uplands
Longcross 'B' 1-1 RG 'B'

1st Uplands 7pts GD 4
2nd Henry Rileys 7pts GD 3
3rd Longcross 1pt GD -2
4th RG 'B' 1pt GD -5

PITCH 3
Costain 3-0 Midas
Longcross 'A' 1-2 The Mercenaries*
Costain 3-1 Longcross
Midas 0-1 Longcross

1st Costain 6pts GD 5
2nd Longcross 3pts GD -1
3rd Midas 0pts GD -4
* The Mercenaries was made up of spare players, with Sainsbury's Carl Chapman and RG's Roy Allaway subjecting the eventual winners to an early loss, the result was nulled when enough players couldn't be found for the next game

PITCH 4
Pearce 0-0 Kiers
Dudleys 2-0 B and K
Pearce 0-0 Dudleys
Kiers 5-0 B and K
Pearce 6-1 B and K
Kiers 1-1 Dudleys

1st Pearce 5pts GD 5
2nd Kiers 5pts GD 5
3rd Dudleys 5pts 2
4th B and K 0pts GD -12 and Wooden Spoon

QUARTER-FINALS

Basebuild 1-0 Henry Rileys

Uplands 0-1 RG 'A'

Costain 3-1 Kiers

Pearce 0-1 Longcross 'A'

SEMI-FINALS

Basebuild 1-1 Costain
Costain wins 4-2 on pens

Longcross 'A' 0-0 RG 'A'
Longcross wins 4-3 on pens

FINAL

Longcross 2-0 Costain

12-May Amref Charity Tournament at Upton Park

Two quick defeats and some no shows left the team in low spirits. Bailey got a yellow card for displaying is usual rugbyman like tackling and Jimbo took a devastating blow to his wrists after a fine display in nets. Then I hit the PA and got the ringers in - just in time for a showdown with Davis Langdon. We missed several chances and drew 0-0. Then a new experience for an RG outfit - we were heading for the wooden spoon against the already qualified "What does JC stand for?" Personally this was a huge game for me - my mate was in their goal with Rob Green eagerley watching the clash (forget Ronaldo and John Terry). First blood to us as we won a penalty when their defender had too much momentum and carried himself into the box. "What's momentum" asked McEvaddy. I beat my mate then again a few minutes later to make it 2-1. It ended 3-1 to RG and we were thru and condeming DL to the wooden spoon.

Here's the action. Watch for Hunter's failed break away and Liam's CHOP of a tackle


It actually was a wooden spoon. In the quarters; great displays from Hunter and Halli were not enough and we went down to the eventual finalists 1-0

Bailey, Halli, Allaway (3), McEvaddy, Hunter, Ringer (1), Ringer. Man of the Tournament: Allaway

19-May Golf Sainsbury's Tournament

Well done to the RG Team of John Casey, Chris Lambourn, Roger Bradbury and Harvey Smith. Their score of 91 was enough to beat the likes of Henry Rileys, Longcross and Sainsbury's. Apparently it was all down to Harvey, "One hooked drive managed to pick up a path and rolled left and right and back out onto the fairway. It was amazing when it showed up because no one could find the ball". "It was one of my better ones" said Harvey from under his stetson.

Jon Noble, who was holding Rob Holloway's balls as caddy said "We won the prizes that we donated but they seem to have disappeared". But it wasn't all smiles and winning; John Casey fell out with his golf buggy in a row over the accuracy of its golf nav compared to his bag nav.

Special commendation goes to Roy Allaway for being unavailable due to work commitments, a first. He said "Actually I didn't want to play at a course called The Shire 'cos I couldn't handle the hobbit gags. Plus I'm sh**"

CHAMPIONS!