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There is lots going on at the club and here we hope to keep you up to date with what's coming up and reports on recent events.

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1st XV snatch hard fought victory at Witney

Ladies' remarkable display to beat Hackney

U14s squeeze close win over Henley

U16s in thrilling draw at Redingensians

U16Bs win at Tadley

U13 Rangers keep on rolling against Aylesbury

Emphatic win over Windsor puts U13As top of the table

U13 Rangers' happy new year win over Windsor

U15Bs tight win over Leighton Buzzard

Colts B in good win over Amersham and Chiltern

90th ANNIVERSARY JERSEY - 2nd order

There is a new opportunity to order the club's 90th Anniversary commemorative rugby jersey.

The deadline is Sunday 12th February for a delivery time of the end of April.

All cheques should be made payable to 'Maidenhead Rugby Club'. No orders will be placed without payment. Cash payments are required to be paid in behind the bar with receipt attached to order form as proof of payment.

Dowload order form here.

Previous orders for the Anniversary shirt are now available for collection from the office.

Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club

Maids welcome a party of 70 tourists from the Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club this weekend. BACRC gave our U16s a fantastic reception on their tour to South America in 2010 and the current Colts are delighted to be able to reciprocate this weekend. The tourists will hopefully be supporting the 1st XV vocally on Saturday afternoon before enjoying the club’s hospitality on Saturday night and playing 3 games on the Sunday against the Under 17s and the 2 Colts squads.

Please make them very welcome and come down and support the Maids' sides on Sunday

'An Evening With' hosted by Alan Black

'An Evening With' which will be hosted by Alan Black in the Bucks New Uni Students Union in High Wycombe on 30th January from 19:00 - 22:00.

The night includes special guests Hugo Southwell (London Wasps and Scotland), Dick Best (Former England manager and British and Irish Lions), and we have also recently confirmed a third guest from Harlequins.

The night will consist of drinks and refreshments followed by a Q&A by Alan Black to all three guests then a short break before questions may be asked by members of the audience.

The evening is in aid of Wheelpower, a charity that aims at transforming lives through sport. On the night there will be donation boxes and raffle tickets where all proceeds go to Wheelpower. Please see Wheelpowers website for more information.

Only 150 seated tickets are available for this event, and with it being so close to the England v Scotland 6 Nations match it promises to be an exciting evening. All tickets can be purchased online at the Bucks website.

The event has its own Facebook and Twitter pages where anyone interested can find all the information necessary, and also post any questions they have about the event.

Further details from Jonathan Lowther 07858334830.

Jamie Tolan selected for SW U18

Congratulations to Colt Jamie Tolan on his selection for the final SW U18 squad to take part in Division play offs in February.

Tour Shirts

Now that the festive season is over, it’s time to start thinking about that RUGBY TOUR! Hawkinsport have a new jersey design tool on their Piranha Sports website which will help you come up with a funky design for your tour shirt. Before you know it tour time will be here, so get designing as lead times will get longer the nearer we get to Easter. www.piranhasports.co.uk

Lead times are currently 8-10 weeks so hurry! If you cannot find the design of shirt you are after, let them know what you are after and they will create it for you. They can also produce polo shirts, T shirts, hoodies, waterproof jackets, bags, beanies and caps in record time, so if you do leave it to the last minute, Hawkinsport CAN HELP! Lead times for these garments are approximately 2 weeks.

Wasps Community Twitter(@waspscommunity)

Wasps Community (@waspscommunity) have launched their own twitter account and and are hoping to hit 1000 followers before Christmas.

As well as the usual updates, @waspscommunity will be providing our twitter followers with the opportunities to win prizes over the next few days and weeks…so don’t miss out! If you are a Twit(ter) ‘follow’ @waspscommunity.

90th ANNIVERSARY JERSEY

As part of the upcoming celebrations for the club's 90th Anniversary we are producing a commemorative rugby jersey so that everyone can have one to proudly wear at the Anniversary match in February.

The deadline is Wednesday 23rd November 2011 so jerseys can be available in time for the Anniversary match in February.

All cheques should be made payable to 'Maidenhead Rugby Club'. No orders will be placed without payment. Cash payments are required to be paid in behind the bar with receipt attached to order form as proof of payment.

Wooden Spoon Annual Lottery

As one of our nominated charities MRFC are selling tickets for the Wooden Spoon Annual Lottery. Tickets have been provided to all playing sections of the club and are also available behind the bar and food counter. The cost of a ticket is £1 with the draw taking place on 12 December 2011.

The 1st prize will be a new car with a long list of other outstanding prizes.

As part of out mutual co-operation on local projects Wooden Spoon has agreed for MRFC to retain part of the proceeds. These funds will be ring-fenced to assist members of the club's thriving Youth section who find it difficult to meet their membership fee. By working in this way we are looking to give them support which would have otherwise been unobtainable.

As an added bonus all sold tickets will initially be entered into an internal club raffle to be made on Sunday 27th November 2011. The prize will be a playing shirt signed by London Wasps! All sold tickets will then be put forward to the Spoon's Annual Lottery draw.

Please ensure all tickets (where sold or not) and monies are left with Jean Kingsley by noon, Sunday 27th November 2011.

Berkshire Ladies lose out to Gloucestershire

Berkshire Ladies lost out to Gloucestershire 17-12 at Newbury last Sunday, with a number of Maidenhead players gaining representative honours.

With three players in the starting line up and another five on the replacements bench, it was a good representation from the Braywick ladies.

Berkshire now travel to Somerset for their next fixture on 6^th November. Full report here.

'400 Club' Winners for Sept 2011

1st N Proddow

2nd K Lawton

3rd A Emmanuel

Youth Tournament Raffle Winners

Thank you to everyone who took part in the raffle. Over a 1,000 tickets were sold.

Congratulations to the following who won;

1st prize - Signed shirt from the Russian RWC squad - E Aitken (00872)

2nd prize - Signed shirt from Harlequins RU Squad - Mr Deans (00399)

3rd Prize - Singed shirt from Sale Sharks - C McKenna (03633)

4th prize - Golf Assessment - S Casserly (02615)

5th prize - Meal for 4 at Toby Carvery - James (03638)

6th prize - Case of Wine - John Evans (00192)

7th prize - £100 M & S Vouchers - N Cottee (00036)

8th prize - 2 Adult tickets to the London Eye - A Hawkins (02598)

9th prize - Tickets to a Sealife Centre - Mr Deans (00398)

10th prize - Cinema Tickets - K Stannard (02002)

11th prize - Ball signed by Martin Corry - N Potter

Maidenhead Ladies selected for Berkshire

An impressive nine players from Maidenhead Ladies were selected for the Berkshire Women's Rugby squad in trials held at Wellington College last Sunday.
Forwards Becky Evans, Jenny Worth, Ailsa Harris, Meghan Whalley, Frankie Diplock, as well as backs Louise Walker, Grace Shaw, Emma Lecount and Jade O'Neill made the selection.
The Maids' contingent makes up a large part of the group, which is also bolstered by players from Bracknell, Reading and Newbury. It is a notable achievement from the Braywick ladies, especially as only Walker and Worth had played rugby before last season.
This season sees a reinvigorated county and divisional programme in women's rugby in England, in an RFU initiative to identify and develop talented female players in the junior and senior game.
The first Berkshire Women's game is against Gloucestershire on Sunday 16^th October.
Also two Maidenhead girls were selected in the Under 18 Berkshire Girls Development squad. Bethany Worth and Roisin Molloy, also earned their places at the Wellington trials.

Rick Wheddon

I am very sad to report that Rick Wheddon, a dear friend and longstanding playing member, supporter and sponsor of the Club, sadly lost his battle against cancer last week at the age of 46. Rick fought the disease for over three years with the same immense courage, tenacity, and humour he approached all things in his life, including rugby. For this he will always be fondly remembered and sadly missed by all here at Maidenhead Rugby Club.
Rick's funeral will be held at St Edmund Campion Church on Thursday 29th September at midday, followed by a wake at Maidenhead Rugby Club.
Rick's wife Jane has extended an open invitation to join her and the rest of their family and friends on Thursday and help celebrate Rick's life. The family will be putting together a "memory box" and have invited everyone to contribute with photo's, stories or anecdotes about Rick, which the family can look over now and in years to come. I have been told that this can include anything that you loved about Rick, including some of the more humorous or colourful events we may of shared with him!
Jane has also requested that instead of buying flowers, she would rather people made donations to 2 charities that were close to Rick's heart and are dedicated to helping not only improve the care and treatment for Cancer sufferers but more importantly to living strong with cancer and making the most of the rest of your life. Details of these will be included on the order of service on Thursday.
Obviously, our thoughts, best wishes and deepest condolences go to Jane and her three children, Beth, Will and Robert and the whole of Rick's family.
For those who wish to send Jane and the family a card, her address is School Cottage, Henley Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 6QW.
John Wanklyn
Chairman & CEO, Maidenhead Rugby Club

Advertiser's Cash for Sport

Win a share of £20,000 for our club. The more tokens we collect the more cash we receive. Tokens will be printed every Thursday in the Advertiser until November 3 If every member collects three tokens each we will definitely win a cash prize, so start collecting now.
All sides should collect tokens and give them in behind the bar or office so we can collect up to £2,000 from the paper. All monies earned has to be invested in playing equipment. Provisional agreement has been reached to put the majority of money into buying rucking shields.............the ones that do not walk on their own or have the gift of invisibility!

NEW MRFC Find a result and report database

Try our new results database MRFC TOTAL RESULTS & REPORT FINDER

You can find any known 1st XV result since the first match in 1922, along with all the results and reports on the website since 1999 plus many other results.
If there is an associated match report there will be a link to it. There are currently over 5000 results which will be continue to be added to.

London Irish Season Tickets Information

London Irish has now released all available seats for the 2011-12 season! To ensure that you don't miss a minute of Aviva Premiership, Heineken Cup and LV= Cup action - secure your place at the Madejski Stadium now! Full Details here.

Maidenhead RFC in Rugby World

Maids feature prominently in Stephen Jones's column in this month's Rugby World. Steve interviews John Wanklyn and discusses the issues around paying players at our level and the finanicial implications of promotion to the National leagues.
The arrticle can be downloaded here (Page1&2 Page3&4)or you could go out and buy Rugby World.

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