high and wishing the Manchester Grammar School boys success in the final. This showed maturity beyond their years, and for this they should be congratulated.
The week after Stonyhurst we had the long trip down to London for the Rosslyn Park 7’s. The boys were filled with excitement and expectations were high as we were playing well and some of the boys had experienced the competition in the previous yeah, so new what to expect. Unfortunately the boys underperformed as several players of the starting VII suffered with nerves and we lost our first three games to Gravesend School, Pembroke College and Peter Symonds School. A few home truths were explained to the players, specifically the upper sixth students who were about to embark on their last every rugby match for QE. The players were really well motivated to perform and came up against the Monsters from Coleg Sir Gar School in Wales. This was a fantastic game, the Welsh boys were huge and a well organised side. For once the QE team didn’t shrink into their shells but performed admirably. Although we lost the game, I was immensely proud of the players. Over the two years I’ve coached at QE I’ve tried to instil a specific style of play and skill set for the players to use and they succeeded at doing so in this final game. It was a fitting performance for the upper sixth students as they bow out of School rugby and prepare for life at university and also myself who will be leaving QE at the end of this academic year. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed coaching the students here and hope all the players in every year group throughout school continue the progress they are making and are even more successful in the future. I wish all the players in all sports all the very best of luck for the future.
U16’s 7’s
A hardcore group of Niall McSharry, Devon Matheson, JJ Hanrahan and the outstanding Adam Dent all trained exceptionally hard throughout the year. Other members of the year group joined them alongside Toby Yorke from year 10 as the weather warmed up and training for the two sevens competition began in earnest. We took a full strength year 11 side to the Sedbergh School sevens tournament and came up against some very tough schools. The boys showed great enthusiasm to play, but it became evident that we under prepared as several boys had not trained enough and so fitness levels were lacking. The experience of established schools such as Ampleforth, Durham School, Giggleswick and Kirkham showed as we lost all our fixtures, but came away with our heads held high as our endeavours were commended by other coaches.
Injuries and illness forced several changes to the Rosslyn Park squad and we travelled with a depleted squad of only 8 players. James Smith and Charlie Rakocivic stepped up from year 10 to play alongside the consistent Toby York and did a fantastic job of playing against boys a year older than them. Playing against the world famous Rugby School, the boys acquitted themselves well, but failed to make try scoring opportunities count. A narrow loss to The Leys School followed before a bruising encounter with my old school Audenshaw. The boys were particularly well motivated to put in a good performance in their final game of the tournament and played their best rugby of the year. Never shirking a tackle and passing the ball around with some outstanding creative flair, the boys performed admirably, narrowly losing five tries to four. I was delighted with their efforts.
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