St Leonards Cinque Ports 29 Hellingly II 31 (HT 17-14) Historically these clashes have been very close and this tie was no different, Ports were bolstered by a number of Hastings & Bexhill players as part of their ground sharing relationship and had a sizeable and experienced squad. Ports as typical, were structured and organised, […]
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 […]
Lewes II 36 St Leonards Cinque Ports 12 (HT 17-7) A substantial list of injured and unavailable players meant Ports were without 19 regular squad members for selection, and as late as 6pm the night before the game had only 11 available players. They made the trip to Lewes eventually with a squad of 15, […]
Crowborough II 62 St Leonards Cinque Ports 26 (HT 26-19) St Leonards Cinque Ports came into this game facing a very different Crowborough XV to the one they had beaten convincingly last season. A youthful and well organised team faced the Ports and in the early exchanges Ports had to be alert. George Upton made […]
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 […]
Newick 49 St Leonards Cinque Ports 38 (HT 14-19) Ports continued improvement as a club meant that for the 18/19 season they started with a pre-season game against a Newick side that finished mid-table of Sussex 2 a division above Ports. A large squad, with some notable missing faces travelled to mid Sussex knowing that […]
