St Leonards CP 0 Crowborough II 31 (HT 0-19) Ports found themselves in the Sussex Bowl semi-final facing higher league opposition. Crowborough had beaten Ports twice last season on their way to a league title and came into this game as strong favourites. Both teams made errors from the off, while it was clear that […]
Lordswood II – 15 St Leonards CP – 65 (HT 10-30) Injuries and unavailability meant that Ports travelled to the Medway towns with only ten players, bolstered by Rye stalwart Cezza, and Welsh centre Matt Mayatt. Lordswood loaned a player too, giving Ports 13 to face a full Lordswood squad. The strange quality of the […]
Medway IV – 29 St Leonards CP – 19 (HT 17-7) Ports eased into 2020 with a friendly after a month away from the pitch. The quickly arranged match saw a bare Ports squad of 15 travel to Rochester to face a sizeable Medway squad. The Ports XV had an unfamiliar look to it. Debutant […]
Hellingly II – 31 St Leonards CP – 12 (HT 10-12) Ports had won their last three league games, but travelled to Hellingly knowing that a strong home team would face them. The early exchanges were characterised by a well-organised Ports side in attack and defence. Matt Standen was a willing carrier throughout, he crashed […]
Newick RFC 34 St Leonards Cinque Ports 15 (HT 19-5) An un-seasonally warm day greeted Ports as they arrived at higher level Sussex 2 club Newick for the last of their pre-season friendlies. Ports were affected by a number of injuries and unavailability and travelled to Newick with only 14 players. Those who did make […]
Crawley XV 31 Ports 21 (HT 10-14) Ports made their annual journey north to face a Crawley XV under lights. As is traditional Ports opened up their squad to guests from other teams, this year Mike Parker and Max Thomason from Streatham and Croydon and Dan O’Rourke from Bromley pulled on the Ports’ shirt as […]
Hellingly 39 St Leonards Cinque Ports 7 (HT 25-0) The omens were clearly not in Ports favour as they prepared for the trip to Hellingly. A number of late drop outs meant that Ports travelled with a bare squad, add to that a swirling wind and freezing rain and most challenging of all a Hellingly […]
Hastings mayor, and speaker of the Cinque Ports, Councillor Nigel Sinden, hosted ‘Speakers Day’ in Hastings last Saturday. There are seven Cinque Ports, and each year, in rotation, the mayor of one of the five head ports and two ‘antient towns’ (sic) is appointed as speaker. The speaker acts as chairman and principal representative of […]
