The Bosh Column

yet more from the M&J maths section

Cameron, Thanks for piece on the website re Sen Colts.
Confession though, I got the maths wrong too - points for should be 620 and points difference 460. If you could amend that would be great.
Andy

Note from webby - no wonder the country's in such a mess!!
17/4/12  

TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD !

 Lymm Senior Colts emerged from a brutal eight days of rugby as Cheshire and Northern champions. With bad weather forcing the re-arrangement of the Raging Bull Colts League Cup final, the team faced three finals in eight days.
They started on the Sunday with the Cheshire Cup Final ( last won by a Lymm team in 1981). Facing a recently strengthened and very large Sandbach side they triumphed 27 v 18 in a bruising encounter at Crouchley Lane. The game was a thriller that entertained the large crowd present, but took a toll on the side with Henry Bellis and Greg Robertson being injured and unable to play in the next final.
Celebrations were short and sweet as the lads had another final just 24 hours later, when they faced Rossendale in the League Cup at Eccles. Rossendale had knocked Lymm's main rivals this season, Manchester, out of the Lancashire Cup, and carried with them a good reputation. The Lancashire side proved this reputation was well deserved and confronted the Lymm lads with another highly physical contest. This was an intriguing contrast of styles with the lead changing hands throughout. Lymm thought they had won the game with a late try from Zak Preston but the referee decided he had been held up and controversially disallowed it. Despite a final score of 20 v 20, Rossendale prevailed due to try count back.
Lymm at that point had lost two trophies this season despite only actually losing one game !! ( they lost the league title despite having the better points difference due to victors Manchester having aggregated 5 more points in the two league matches between the sides).
The following Sunday saw a determined and hurting coach load of players head to Fleetwood to face Yorkshire champions Old Brodleians in the Cock o' the North Final. This match was to prove just as demanding and exciting as the other two. Gale force winds ensured that Lymm's usual expansive game would have to be adapted, and it was not until the last twenty minutes or so that the team sorted out how to play effectively. A commitment to running through phases saw the Cheshire boys claw back the Yorkshire sides slim lead and Tim Young snatch a score with just four minutes remaining to ensure the trophy stayed at Beechwood for a second successive year.
The Senior Colts finished with the following record for the season.
COLTS LEAGUE A - Runners Up CHESHIRE CUP - Winners
LEAGUE CUP - Runners Up
COCK O' NORTH - Winners
Played 20
Won 18
Drawn 1
Lost 1
For 593
Against 166
Difference 427
Many thanks to Fletch, Olli and John for the fine coaching they have provided the boys this year, and to our sterling band of parents.
Also to Bentleys and Johnson Group for their kit sponsorships.
The Colts Academy has now amassed 2 Cock o North Cups, 2 Cheshire Cups, 2 League Cups, 1 League Championship, 2 League Runners up, and 1 each Cheshire Cup and League Cup runners up - all this in two seasons !

A RESPONSE FROM ANDY LEACH!!

Great piece but a bit woeful on the maths. Per Raging Bull League stats and Wardy's scores on the website (plus including Anselmians w/o as a win) I make it:

 Played 21
Won 19
Drawn 1
Lost 1
For 720
Against 160
Difference 560
16/5/12

cock of the north pictures

Here

more colts news

Lymm Senior Colts Cock of the North Cup winners again following an 11-8 win against Old Brodleians at Fleetwood this afternoon. Andy  14/5/12

AGm - danny writes...

The AGM took place on Thursday 10th. thanks to the club stalwarts who ensured a quorum for the meeting. The minimum of 25 was exceeded but only just. My thanks go to all attendees and the people who provided reports. AGMs allow all members to shape the development of the club and I urge more people to attend the special general meeting in October / November to approve the acoounts.
Thanks again to everyone who was at the AGM
Best Regards,
Danny McNicholl  
Read Danny's report here

Senior Colts League Cup Final 

The Senior Colts narrowly failed in their attempt to bring home 2 Cups in 2 days, being held 20-20 by Rossendale in the Senior Colts Raging Bull League Cup Final today. The Cup was awarded to Rossendale by virtue of tries scored.
Andy 7/5/12  

jo murphy, rip

LymmRFC is saddened to hear of the recent death of Jo Murphy, a member of the Lymm Hockey Club.
Our sympathies go to her family and friends at this sad time.

cheshire junior finals - a big day for lymmrfc

It was a highly successful day for Lymm teams in yesterday's Cheshire Junior Finals. Our U12s retained the Cheshire Cup with a 42-0 victory over Wilmslow; our U14s retained the Cheshire Bowl with a 25-0 win against Chester; our U15s made it 4 Cheshire Cups in a row by prevailing in an 8-7 "nailbiter" over Macclesfield; whilst our U16s failed to convert their previous Cheshire Plate wins into a Cheshire Bowl victory, losing that final to Altrincham Kersal. Finally, and significantly, our Senior Colts won their Cup final 27-18 against Sandbach retaining the Cup they won last season and becoming the first Lymm team since 1981 to hold the Cheshire Senior Colts Cup - hopefully this win will help ease their aching bones and muscles into today's Raging Bull League Cup Final against Rossendale.
Andy 7/5/12
More on the U15s here  
More on the U12s here.

thank you

I'd just like to thank everyone who played a part in the very successful day we had at Beechwood yesterday when hosting the Cheshire Colts Finals. Four excellent, competitive matches were watched by an appreciative crowd in magnificent surroundings and, thankfully, very pleasant rugby weather and conditions. I have already received the thanks and appreciation of the participating teams and Cheshire RFU for putting on such a well organised event. So thanks to Jim and his grounds team; Rick and his staff; Tony and his team of stewards; Dave and Liam for the programme; Malcolm for looking after the teams and referees; David "the voice of the balls" Millachip; and anyone else that I have forgotten. Thanks.
Andy 7/5/12  

BIG FINISH TO THE SEASON FOR THE SENIOR COLTS

How does 3 Cup Finals in 8 days (2 on consecutive days) sound? That’s what faces the Senior Colts after last weekend’s weather washed out their Raging Bull League Cup Final. The programme now is:-

Sunday 6th May - Cheshire Cup Final at Lymm RFC v Sandbach K.O. 4 p.m. See further details below of Colts’ Finals day at Crouchley Lane on Sunday

Monday 7th May – rearranged Raging Bull North West Leagues Cup Final at Eccles RUFC v Rossendale K.O. 4.30 p.m, the last game of a similar finals day

Sunday 13th May – Cock ‘o the North Cup Final at Fleetwood RUFC v Yorkshire champions Old Brodleians K.O. 4 p.m, again the last game of a similar finals day

Support at all or any matches is welcome.
4/5/12

National 3 play offs

SSE Nat 2 North; Harrogate 25-21 Leicester Lions Hull Ionians 38-39 Otley (Harrogate & Kendal, relegated) Play offs Dudley Kingswinford 36-27 Rossendale (Dale stay in our league) Percy Park 18-12 Liverpool St Helens (Percy Park join Sandach and Billingham in our league) One team will have to be level transferred to Midlands 3

30/4/12

1st XV end of season report

Trevor Williamson has very kindly written an end of season report.
View it here.
Now available on reports page
28/4/12

end of season club dinner - update

This years end of season club dinner is on Friday 25th May 7.30 for 8pm £25 or £20 for students. Venue is the Lymm Hotel.
This is a club event to celebrate the season so we want 1st 2nd 3rd & 4th teams all well represented as well snr and jnr colts their coaches and dads and as many of our alikadoos as poss.
Tickets available from team captains and coaches. 
26/4/12

England Autumn Internationals 2012

See notice from Phil here.
6/4/12

it's a posh party

See poster here.

Lymm Rugby Club Summer Ball – Posh Party on the Pitch Saturday 16th June 2012 – 7.30pm till Late
Tickets £50 – including; drinks reception, 3 course dinner, live music from “Soul Jam” plus disco.
All proceeds go to the Lymm RFC Grass Roots Appeal.
To order tickets, contact Colette Cartwright on ticket hot line 07789 265447 or email ctcartwright@talktalk.net
3/4/12

county championship

Details of this years Championship matches can be viewed here.
hopefully a few Lymm lads may appear.
27/3/12

 

 

A schedule for vists to Bosh is here.

please contact me re visiting as previously arranged (see note from Antonia below.

THE LYMMRFC BOSH ACCOUNT

A bank account has been set up for donations to support Bosh. The account details are given below and donations can be transferred directly on-line or sent by cheque to Lymm RFC for the attention of John Cartwright. Cheques should be made payable to “The Lymm RFC Bosh Appeal”.
If you prefer to donate on-line could you please add your name as a reference on the transfer.
Account Name; The Lymm RFC Bosh Appeal
Sort Code; 20 01 96
Account Number; 73681041
If you would like to take advantage of the Gift Aid scheme for your donation please complete the form here and return to the club as directed on the form.
JC 2/5/12 

Bosh housekeeping

Earlier information can be viewed here.

bosh appeal 2012's fundraising page

My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/BoshAppeal2012

Andy and David Williamson of LymmRFC have set up this fundraising project to raise money for The Injured Players Foundation and Spinal Research, (NOT DIRECTLY TO BOSH, SEE ABOVE FOR DONATIONS DIRECT TO HIS ACCOUNT)
Go to the link above for more information and to donate to these very worthwhile charities.
12/4/12

Some re-scheduling of visits

Bosh is continuing to make stunning progress, as I witnessed today when visiting with Lionel.

With this improvement in mind, it is hoped that Bosh can now start spending weekends at home. He and Antonia have therefore asked me to blank out Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on the visiting schedule.
Because of this change, visiting on Thursday afternoons has now been opened up.
A specific request from Antonia
"We are finding that people have stopped using the schedule to book visits. As it's a long way to go we don't want people to have a wasted journey -visiting when alex isn't there or having a number of people arrive at the same time - which is happening".
Hope this is all clear for you all
16/5/12

Dinner with the Bennett's

Following a fantastic couple of days training and hard work there was a lot to celebrate when JC and Colette met up with Bosh and Antonia for dinner on Tuesday night. During a gym session earlier in the day the Big Man had taken a few steps along the parallel bars, use your imagination!. Yet another target set and met!!! Bosh was on great form and demolished the biggest plate of Piri Piri Chicken imaginable - I pity the poor nurses!!! On returning to the unit Bosh demonstrated yet another new trick, transferring himself unaided from his wheelchair into his bed, long may this positive improvement continue! We expect to see Bosh around the village at weekends in the future as he will be coming home to visit his children and is planning to be at the Club Dinner at the Lymm Hotel in a couple of weeks' time. 16/05/2012 - JC & Colette  

an email from london welsh - for which, our grateful thanks.

Hiya Tosh
Just to let you know we hosted the London Celts (ex London welsh players) annual Ball at the end of march and have historically had wooden spoon as our charitable sponsor. But with the Alex’s recent accident, and as we do consider him one of our own as an ex LW player and “Red Herring”, we have advised the Spoon that we will split the donation this year and so be able to make a contribution to Alex’s recovery (which by the pictures from Botts look amazingly positive!!)
We all hope this small contribution helps in some way and we all wish you, alex and the kids the best over the coming months….surely a great focus for Bosh will be to make the Red Herring Christmas lunch in London…….that being said with his mental strength and recovery he could be ready for the summer outing!!!!
Please let me know the bank details and I will transfer the funds across asap
Take care and all the best to you all from every ex London Welsh/Celt/RH “member”
All the best
The Lord, Dylan and the lads  

ruley encore

Another fantastic week for Bosh. Again he has shown great determination and single-mindedness. He is now managing to move from wheelchair to bed totally unaided and without needing a board to slide along. He can also move from chair to his own car, which meant that he was able to go home on Saturday. It was a day visit but it may not be too long before he will be allowed to stay overnight.
He has lots of physio and OT support. Whilst he is in the pool he has been standing, and taking steps forward, backwards and to the side. However the biggest achievement this week came on Thursday as he walked up the steps that lead out of the pool. He was holding on to the rail, and the water gave him a level of support but as he climbed to the top that support diminished so it was stunning progress.
Each week Alex is surprising all of the medical staff as he defeats every challenge they give him. We keep waiting for the 'plateau' to arrive but it certainly hasn't happened yet,
Steve  14/5/12

Message from Alex - my bank holiday weekend has not been wasted.... Practice makes perfect!

8/5/12

a hello from Antonia

Hi all
Just to let you know about the most incredible day today. In fact, it's been a very big week.
Tonight I watched Alex transfer himself from his wheelchair to his bed and then lie himself down completely unaided. Which means the end of the awful hoist for getting in and out of his chair and bed. It also means independent trips to the bathroom and the ability to get into bed whenever he wants!
He also took some steps in the pool using the parallel bars and then in a later session stood for the first time on his own two feet on dry land.
As usual he's working until he's worn out but he's still making such great progress that I think you'll all be amazed when you next see him.
Hoping to get him out for a home visit later in May which we are all desperately longing for.
Lots of love to you all.
A x  
4/5/12

SOME RESPONSES TO ANTONIA'S EMAIL(ABOVE)

Awesome news. Send him our best and will try and get up to see him again asap Austin Healey

Fantastic news Tosh, thanks for the update. Looking forward to seeing him tomorrow. Alun Peacock

Amazing Tosh and can't wait to see the big man on Monday ! Gregg Botterman

Wonderful news! He's smashing all his targets as expected. Laura Widdall

Just brilliant news, tell him the 'Ladies Night' tickets are booked !, was hoping to pop in to see him over the weekend but suffering from man flu, will arrange something next week. We have now got 43 people for the Morecambe bay walk so I have increased the number to 70. Geoff Haycock

some words from jason cundick

I am still continuing in my distance running quest to raise money for Bosh & his chosen charities. I have just been out for a gentle 3.6mile amble two days after running the longest, coldest, wettest & windyest run of my life so far. I completed the Greater Manchester Marathon in 3hours 54mins 7sec in conditions where seasoned marathon runners said it was a real achievement to finish without hypothermia! Not bad for someone who signed up on 1st April. I am still collecting as I feel the amount I have so far does not reflect the effort & I could not get any media interest to help me out. Thanks to Holmsey for providing a cheer that helped me climb out of the subway in the last mile & push for a 'sprint' finish.
Jason
2/5/12

Manchester to Blackpool Sponsored Bike Ride

To support Alex and his family; Antonia, William, Elizabeth and Thomas, a group of Lymm RFC ex-players will be undertaking the Manchester to Blackpool Bike Ride on 8th July 2012. As well as hoping to raise funds to support Alex’s rehabilitation and a variety of spinal injury charities we wanted to also dig deep and show Alex that he has our support every pedal of the way – so please support us in supporting Alex! - all donations are gratefully received.
The current team includes; Hesky, Floss, Ash, Ruley, Rick Johnson, Graham Beddard, JC
If you would like to contribute to this activity please download a copy of the sponsor form here and ask your family and friends for their support. Completed forms should be returned to Lymm RFC with a cheque for the amount donated, made payable to “The Lymm RFC Bosh Appeal”. Alternatively donations can be transferred directly to the Lymm RFC Bosh Account, sort code 20 01 96, account number 73681041, please add your name to the transfer details as a reference and forward your sponsor form to Lymm RFC for the attention of John Cartwright. If you would like to take advantage of the Gift Aid scheme for your donation please tick the gift aid box on the sponsor form and include your full address. Alternatively please complete the form here and return to the club as directed on the form.
JC 2/5/12

Ruley writes

I visited on Friday and continue to be inspired by Bosh's positivity and progress.
He has moved down the corridor to a 'lower dependancy' ward and has hit some of his 6 week targets in the first week!
His major focus now is on moving from bed to chair to bed without the use of the hoist. Once he can master that he may be able to stay overnight at home, which will be wonderful for Antonia and especially William, Elizabeth and Thomas.
He has much 'finer' control of his arm and leg movements and been able to stand unaided in the pool for the first time.
Steve
30/4/12

 

Earlier information can be viewed here.

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