Fixtures for 7th January 2012

The next 1st XV game is on 7th Jan an Barnes 1st XV travel to Southend along with the 2nd XV. As these games are being played under floodlights at Southend they will kick off at 3pm.

The Occies play Old Walcoutians 3's away with a 1:30pm kick off and the Vets are playing Purley John Fisher 3's at Barn Elms with a 2pm kick off.

The Deveolpment XV and The Ladies do not have a game this weekend

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Results for Friday 16th and Saturday 17th December 2011

Barnes 1st XV 8 - Richmond 20

Chris "Dunners" Dunlop in full flight!

Photo Courtesy of Ben Gilby

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Get Training Now! 

Tuesday and Thursday are our nights for serious training at 7:30pm sharp at Barn Elms ...so get there this week.. old and new players welcome.....

Barnes 1st XV from 2010/2011 season  - Barnes celebrate victory in the last game of the season to win National League 3 South outright!

Ed Alteirac on the rampage....

Photo courtesy of Ben Gilby

National 2 League South Table  -

17th December 2011

Club	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TB	LB	Pts
Richmond	17	14	1	2	584	307	277	13	1	72
Worthing	17	14	0	3	505	379	126	10	0	66
Hartpury College	17	13	0	4	638	325	313	11	2	65
Old Albanians	17	13	0	4	596	280	316	9	2	63
Henley Hawks	17	12	0	5	473	280	193	9	3	60
Redruth	17	11	0	6	464	423	41	9	2	55
Launceston	17	7	0	10	445	371	74	7	6	41
Southend	17	8	0	9	420	518	-98	5	2	39
Clifton	17	7	0	10	390	440	-50	6	4	38
Taunton	17	7	0	10	418	568	-150	8	2	38
Lydney	17	6	1	10	400	568	-168	7	3	36
Hertford	17	6	0	11	359	505	-146	7	2	33
Shelford	17	6	0	11	373	512	-139	3	3	30
Dings Crusaders	17	4	0	13	299	464	-165	0	7	23
Barnes	17	3	0	14	355	561	-206	4	3	19
Westcombe Park	17	4	0	13	347	565	-218	5	2	18*

Try machine Luke Sawyer in full cry as he attacks the Hertford line again in Barnes RFC exciting 42-36 win against Hertford at Barn Elms in 2011/2012 season

Coaches Corner - Brett Taylor speaks!

News from the 1st XV squad

With new opposition, a world cup and new players the next few months are going to be an exciting time for Barnes RFC.

The new season in National 2 brings fresh challenges with teams we have never faced before and a couple of long trips down to Cornwall. Lessons have been learnt from  our experience in this league two seasons ago and our preparation in pre season has reflected this. Training has been accurate and focused . We have lost a few players but gained some new ones. The collective spirit is still strong and our playing style continues to gain momentum         

.for the rest of Brett's wise words click here...

The Two Marty's have been picked to star in the remake of Twins with Matin Conway taking the De Vito role and Martin Bayfield the Schwarzenegger role  - the two bosom buddies are pitcured here at the highly successful Barnes RFC City Lunch at the RAC CLub

201/2012 1st XV Captain Gary Holmes rampaging away in the 56-24 win over Bridgewater last season (photo courtesy of Ben Gilby)

Barnes 1st XV Captain 

for the 2011/2012 Season - Gary Holmes

for the rest of Gary's wise words click more

Si "Gibbo" Givens storms to the line for one of his two tries in Barnes' impressive 75-3 thumping over Diss in 2010/11 season

Photo courtesy of Ben Gilby

The Chairman speaks!

Michael "Rhino" Whitfield, Barnes RFC's Chairman

So after a momentous season last year we have clawed our way back into National 2 South and the reality has set in  - this is going to be a tough season!!

We have an enviable coaching staff, which attracts players from all over the UK and the innovation shown by Director of Rugby, Carson Russell, and his team of coaches is fast gathering an excellent reputation for all budding rugby players.

This season I am delighted to see that Gary Holmes is continuing as 1st XV Captain, he was a major reason for our success and team spirit last season and I know he is relishing the task ahead......

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for the rest of Rhino's words click more

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Fund Raising Update!

We are now planning to put up the fist part of our wall in the club house and we will have a celebration for all of those who have donated so far before Christmas 2011.

Please don't stop giving, we are half way there and we still need to finish the outside, paint and guttering and new signage in order to complete Phase 2.

To remind you, in Phase1 we have repaired the roof, rewired the whole building, put in new lighting and replaced the swags on roof with a new carpet to boot. We also now have hand driers in the loos.

This little lot used up most of what we have raised so far so we now need to crack on to the finish line and reach our £30,000 target.

If you would like to donate now please go here now and get donating right now:

http://www.justgiving.com/Michael-Whitfield

picture courtesy of Hakan Yazici, Deadlinepix

Barnes have only indoor rugby pitch in the country

In an moment of inspiration we called on Barnes old players Bryn Lee and Jonathan Gallagher from Easigrass to replace our old carpet in the clubhouse with an artificial rugby pitch. This has gone down a storm and we even have a half way line by bar to eoncourage late night scrummaging!

Plans are afoot to add two 22 meter lines and posts and protectors... watch this space but in the interim come nad check it out!

A massive thanks to Bryn and Jonathan for doing this for us at no cost!

Briitish Lions, England and Quins legend Peter Winterbottom passes to Nick Bellis in the Barnes Vets vs Teddington game

(picture courtesy of Jerry Halse)

Old Vets Captains Bryn Lee and  Steve Trew admire Pete Tyler's new found telephony skills whilst Ashley Nicholson makes love to the camera at the 2010 Vets Reunion Lunch where 150 of you turned up on a freezing day in January  (picture courtesy of Jeffy Halse)

Barnes compete in the line out against Rosslyn Park

Jason Leonard looking suitably nervous about scrumaging against Rhino before the start of the Barnes Vets vs Legends XV for the Neil Murphy Benefit fund - the legends won 22- 17