Rye 38 St Leonards CP 19 (HT 12-19) These two sides only met two weeks ago and it was clear that Rye were stung by the defeat, a strong Rye squad faced Ports but for 25 minutes things looked very different. Ports started with real structure, Rye’s big runners were shackled by big tackling from […]
Rye RFC 21 St Leonards Cinque Ports 27 (HT 14-10) Ports had started the newly structured Sussex Division 3 East with three defeats, all away from home, they continued on the road this week, but only the short hop to Rye. Rye had suffered two defeats too but had bested a Lewes team that ran […]
East Grinstead 59 St Leonards Cinque Ports 17 (HT 38-10) St Leonards Cinque Ports RFC travelled to East Grinstead with a squad badly affected by injuries and unavailability making the challenge of facing a powerful East Grinstead side even more daunting. East Grinstead dominated early possession, Mickey Scriven tackled everything and Nick Giles was a […]
St Leonards Cinque Ports RFC held its annual awards dinner at the Sussex Exchange on Saturday night celebrating a season where they had finished fifth after promotion to Sussex Division 3. Forty players, partners and family members were present to see a number of key awards being presented. Chairman Paul Smart spoke about the development […]
Locks Heath Pumas – 75 St Leonards Cinque Ports – 17 (55-10 HT) For the two previous weeks Ports had heavily defeated two touring sides., now they found themselves on the receiving end against a well organised Locks Heath side that had just been promoted to Hampshire 1. The early exchanges were encouraging. Tom Ingram […]
St Leonards/Rye XV 65 Alresford 27 (HT 31-5) After their own ground became unavailable Ports needed to find alternative arrangements to host touring Hampshire side Alresford RFC and Rye came to the rescue with a ground and a shared team. Ports provided the majority of players, but Rye provided dangerous backline runners and strong back […]
St Leonards Cinque Ports 90 Racal Decca 22 (HT 47-5) Ports found themselves facing touring opposition from South London in the form of Racal Decca. Despite the geographic distance, Racal have maintained friendly relationships with Ports since hosting a touring Ports side in 2012, Ports were well beaten then but defeated Racal at their own […]
Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents 10 St Leonards Cinque Ports 93 The Sea Serpents are Sussex’ newest club, and in two previous meetings with the Ports they were on the end of two convincing defeats. A season of league rugby has sharpened the Serpents and they came into the game off the back of a […]
Heathfield & Waldron III 10 St Leonards Cinque Ports 12 (HT 5-5) Ports found themselves quickly organising a game away to Heathfield, after league opposition Horsham cancelled at the last minute. Despite Ports being a league above, a strong Heathfield team were clearly prepared for the challenge. The early moments were a midfield scrap, Tom […]
