Rossendale Too Strong For Beverley

October 17, 2010

Beverley were given a good going over and deservedly went down to their heaviest defeat of the season.  It was not a very good performance.  In fact, let’s be honest here, it was a shambles.  It is a long time since we have seen Beverley play as poorly as this, even if they did eventually emerge with a four try bonus point.  Rossendale were clearly up for it and they…

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Beavers Push League Leaders All The Way

October 10, 2010

Another tight encounter for Beverley and yet another grandstand finish.  They were never more than a single score behind and were desperately unlucky not to snatch victory in the frantic final minutes.  Chester, top of the table with five wins out of five and averaging over thirty points a game, might have been looking for an easy ride here.  Not only did they ultimately have to rely on the boot…

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Beverley Beat Visitors Sandal at Beaver Park

October 3, 2010

You couldn’t ask for better than this.  Two teams going flat out with non-stop attacking rugby gave us a great match.  Seven tries and most of them pretty good ones.  Beverley have been threatening all season to click into shape and today it all came together with a fine performance that brought them a well deserved victory.  With only one previous defeat and the best defensive record in the league…

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Shaw Returns as Beaver’s Shuffle the Pack

September 23, 2010

Beverley RUFC travel to the North East on Saturday to face Darlington Mowden Park in their National League 3(North) fixture, kick off 3 p.m. They will be looking to pick up a win to overcome the disappointment of last week’s narrow defeat by Stockport. Both the Beavers and Stockport played some cracking rugby in a highly entertaining game and it has to be said that, had Beverley started with the…

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Beverley Fight Back Though Lose Out to Stockport

September 19, 2010

Plenty of cracking rugby but overall a rather strange game. With just over half the match gone Stockport led 24-3 and were running away with it. At the end they were hanging on and relieved to hear the final whistle. Stockport with three straight wins are without doubt the strongest side Beverley RUFC have met so far this season. They played with a power and composure that Beverley RUFC could…

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Beavers Beaten By League New Boys Lymm

September 12, 2010

Two evenly matched sides and an exciting encounter at Crouchley Lane.  It could have gone either way.  Both clubs had got their season off to a good start with fine wins and both set out to build on it here by playing fast attacking rugby.  Lymm with the advantage of the slope and blustery wind had the better of the first half. Afterwards Beverley RUFC clawed their way back and…

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Beverley RUFC Beat Waterloo 18 – 11

September 5, 2010

Early autumn sunshine, a lush playing field, and the start of a new season.  All that was needed was a good game and these two sides gave us one.  Beverley probably deserved the victory by virtue of a good second half and having the sharper finishing.  But there was plenty of enterprise throughout by both teams and it was not until ten minutes from the end that an interception try…

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Sweet Victory for Beverley RUFC on the Road

April 15, 2010

This was an extraordinary game of rugby. Littered equally with mistakes and champagne rugby from the Beavers it was nevertheless an exciting game with, eventually, the right outcome. As is normal with the Beavers, this last away game of the season is used as an occasion for the players to let their hair down, dress up in fancy dress and have a good night out on the way home. Unfortunately…

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Beverley RUFC Vs Darlington Mowden Park

April 5, 2010

Plenty of good rugby but overall a strange game.  For Beverley RUFC it was a curate’s egg performance – good and bad in about equal measure.  For twenty five minutes they played some cracking stuff, were leading 17-5, and looked as though they would romp away with it.  Then unaccountably it all went wrong and after that, apart from the last ten minutes, all the good rugby came from Darlington…

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Beverley RUFC Vs West Hartlepool

March 29, 2010

Beverley RUFC rounded off their club’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations with a fine win in the spring sunshine at Beaver Park.  It was hard and physical but always an enjoyable game to watch.  From the early stages a victory for Beverley RUFC always looked probable but for half an hour they made heavy weather of it and at the interval all they had to show for their domination was a single…

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Stockport Vs Beverley RUFC

March 21, 2010

Beverley paid the price for one dreadful lapse in defence to go down to a narrow defeat at league leaders Stockport.  The wet conditions meant the game was fairly error-strewn and often scrappy, but it was exciting and enjoyable for all that.  It was played throughout in a good spirit for which great credit is due to the refereeing of Simon Lazenby who kept it flowing with the minimum of…

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Rossendale Vs Beverley RUFC

March 16, 2010

Over zealous brandishing of yellow cards spoilt what would have been a cracking game at Rossendale.  Ironically it was a match played throughout in a good spirit with both sides intent on fast open rugby.  Almost certainly it would have been a tight contest between two sides which before the rash of the yellow carding looked to be evenly matched and both up for the win. Beverley RUFC took the…

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Pearce Expects a Tough Challenge at Cleckheaton

February 26, 2010

After a disappointing home defeat by Penrith last Saturday, courtesy of a dubious last minute penalty, Beverley RUFC travel to Cleckheaton this weekend to take on the West Riding outfit in the National League 3(North) fixture. Although languishing in the bottom three in the table  for most of the season, Cleckheaton looked one of the better sides when the visited Beaver Park last September and coach Barrie Pearce is expecting…

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Thriller Sees Beverley Lose With Last Kick of the Game

February 22, 2010

This was a real thriller with the result in doubt until the very end.  Fixtures between these two sides invariably produce fast enjoyable encounters and this was no exception.  Their two games this season have yielded a total of 88 points with only a margin of two points difference between the sides.  Today it was once again a nail-biting affair in which Penrith snatched victory with a penalty at the…

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Beverley RUFC Vs Chester RFC Match Report

February 10, 2010

A thrilling game with the result in doubt until the dying minutes.  With two evenly matched sides, lying third and fifth in the table, it was always going to be a tight encounter. On the day Beverley RUFC took their chances better and just about deserved the win.  In the gloomy light and on a heavy pitch this might have been expected to be a forward slog in the mud. …

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Hancock & Gardiner Missing for Chester Visit

February 4, 2010

Chester RFC are the visitors to Beaver Park this weekend for the twice rearranged game  in National League 3 (North). Beverley RUFC lost the corresponding game at Chester early in the season although they felt hard done by that day losing both Junior Tupai to a broken wrist and Goran Jelencic to concussion, very early in the game. Thankfully both have recovered well and have been influential in the Beavers’recent…

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Beverley RUFC Vs Middlesbrough RUFC

January 30, 2010

Beverley RUFC were back playing at their home ground Beaver Park after the long lay off, a good crowd turned out to see the match as Beverley hosted Middlesbrough RUFC in the league. Full Match Report – Beverley 14 Middlesbrough 13 Not a match that will linger long in anybody’s memory but in the end a satisfactory day for Beverley who ground out a narrow victory to move up to…

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Beverley Ready for the Visit of Middlesbrough

January 28, 2010

Beverley RUFC entertain Middlesbrough RUFC at Beaver Park this Saturday in the National League 3 fixture (kick-off 2.15 p.m. In the corresponding fixture at Middlesbrough last October the Beavers lost narrowly 19-12 but felt very hard done by since they had the best of the game and but for a very questionable decision by an otherwise excellent referee, they would have won. They will clearly be out for revenge this…

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