St Albans Centurions

Junior Rugby League teams from across the country converged on St Albans on Sunday for the annual Junior Rugby League Challenge Cup Weekend Rugby Festival. The professional Super League teams had their day at Wembley on Saturday, when the Warrington Wolves defeated the Leeds Rhinos in front of a sell out crowd, and a number of junior clubs who attended that game extended their stay in London to take part in the St Albans festival the following day.

The competition was in three age groups, Under 12's, Under 14's and Under 16's. All the teams played against each other in their age groups in a 15 minute each way 'tries only' competition, with the top two teams from each group playing in the finals. The event was organised by St Albans stalwarts Tony Bottomley and Shane Rampling, who said " It's been a great day, teams from as far apart at Lancashire and Suffolk coming together at St Albans to play junior Rugby League. We just hoped for good weather for the event as we had the Army and other stalls there to keep the teams supporters occupied in between games.
Fortunately the rain stayed away and a great day was had by all."

Finals Result

Under 16's
Leigh East 3 -v- 0 St Albans

Under 14's
Northampton Patriots 13 -v- 3 Eastern Rhinos

Under 12's
Northampton Juniors 6 -v- 2 St Albans

Photos here

St Albans Centurions 54 -V- 4 West London Sharks

This weeks BBC Radio Londons Rugby League show will be featuring Shane and Tony. The show starts at 9pm so remember to tune in and listen to our coaches words of wisdom!

St Albans Centurions 60 -V- 6 Eastern Rhinos

The Centurions were caught cold when from the kick off Nick Woolley knock on and from the result set Pete Lamarrquand kicked through and the bounce beat the Cents defence and prop Brendan Cook dived on the loose ball. This was converted by Lamarquand. So after 3 minutes the Cents were 6 points down.

But then after 10 minutes the Cents opened their account when second row Adam Kambouris scored out wide. This was after Adam Kal high kick was dropped by full back Rodney Arbon. On the restart the Rhinos were penalised for an high tackle. From the tap two good drives by the Cents forwards and on the fourth tackle acting half Shane Rampling went blind and sent centre Aaron Brown in for a try David Kramer converted. Then the Cents forwards took command and the Rhinos had no answer to their strong running and another kick through by Adam Kal caught the Rhinos defence slow to re-act and winger Nick Woolley scored in the corner and David Kramer converted. Straight back from the kick off the Cents were back on the score sheet when full back David Kramer caught the Rhinos defence asleep and raced 60 metres to score and he converted his own try. The Cents defence was awesome and just before the half time whistle David Coyle raced onto a flat pass and burst through the Rhinos defence to score. David Kramer converted. Giving the Cents a 28 - 6 half time lead.

St Albans Centurions have the following events upcoming:

• Monday 23rd August until Friday 27th we have our Junior Summer Camp.
  • Starts at 10am
  • £10 for the full week
  • Attendees will need own packed lunch
  • Open to age groups Year 7 upwards
• Wednesday 25th August we are holding the RFL Junior Leadership Course
• Sunday August 29th is the Rugby League Junior Festival
  • 11AM until 4PM
  • All Players will recieve a T-Shirt and Medal
  • Harlequins Players present to hand out awards
  • Army Display Team and Climbing Wall
  • Refreshements available from KK Catering wagon

Would all U14's and U16's contact Shane with availability for Festival, and U12's contact Shane for availability for a game against Northampton.

Additional Details available on request, contact Shane.