News On The Street

After the tough defeat against Luctonians, Broadstreet 2nds faced Birmingham & Solihull, a club more used to a rivalry with top city side Coventry Rugby rather than Broadstreet. With the 1st XV suffering a defeat against bottom of the table Luctonians, 2nd XV players Chris Idehen, George Walsh & Tim Douglas were drafted in to the 1st XV squad for their away trip to Sandal (Chris Idehen going on to claim MoM for the game). This meant that the team was devoid of the experience afforded to them last week by 1st XV squad players, but gave an opportunity to Broadstreet youngsters like Taylor Smith...

Street subdue Sandal to unexpectedly return from West Yorkshire with the spoils. Broadstreet travelled to Sandal, just south of Wakefield, for the latest round of National League Two North fixtures having had a torrid first half of the season and sitting at the foot of the table after exchanging places with Luctonians following last week’s home defeat to them. A number of changes were made to the team sheet and ‘Street were only able to field two pairs of brothers as opposed to the four pairs we had against Lucs. Sam Gibbons lost his place to Chris Idehen after the flanker’s hard work in the ...

Broadstreet 3rds took to the field on Saturday and provided an early firework display against a powerful Berkswell and Balsall 2nd XV. Broadstreet welcomed back several players that have been absent on World Cup duty (propping up the bars) as a number of regulars were promoted to the ‘Street’s 2nd team. Initially, there was a squabble over the number 10 jersey as a some of the older lags fancy themselves in that commanding position. As it was, ‘Greggs’ Skene won that battle, mainly by arriving early and bribing the Tinkerman – note to younger players: any denomination of notes accepted. B&B t...

Syston 17 – 29 Broadstreet Broadstreet IIs have been playing catch up in the Midlands Reserve League 1 over the last fortnight in order to fulfil the games in hand that they had accumulated over the first 2 months of the season. Their game away at Syston is always a tough fixture and it was good to maintain a traditional match up whilst being in a strong league structure. The 2nd XV, who have had an average age of just 21 for the first 5 matches of the season, was bumped up to 23 for this game with the return of Harry Pendleton to the front row, 1st XV squad member Chris Idehen at Number 8, c...

Broadstreet RFC 1sts Squad versus Otley RUFC - 14th November 2015. Andrew Murray; Luke Hibberd, Tim Douglas, Todd Freemantle, Aaron Martin; Lee Chapman, Nicholas Thatcher; Jack Gibbons, Daniel Martin, Sam Gibbons; Matthew Solomon, Courtney Roberts; Jake Dodd, Stewart Pearl, Richard Stout Replacements: 16 Joe Foreman (FR), 17 Christopher Idehen, 18 Joshua Palmer, 19 Benjamin Palmer, 20 Terry Sigley (FR). Venue : Cross Green, Otley, W. Yorks, LS21 1HE. Kick-off 2:15 pm.