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Here’s how 2012 is shaping up for the Green Horde:
Jan. 20 – Visit to Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital 1:00pm – 3:00pm (Thank you Dom, Hannah, RIch and JV for stepping up to volunteer to help distribute the toys first.)
Mar. 10 and 11 – Savannah Tournament
Mar. 31 – High School Rugby Festival at SPIRE/ vs Pitt at SPIRE
Apr. 7- Erie and Kent State at Home*
Apr. 14 – Scioto Valley at Home*
Apr. 21 – BG Away*
Apr. 28 and 29 – Playoffs – First game v. Cleveland Rovers in Elkhart Indiana
May 5 – Canton v Social Side Away
May 12 and 13 – Round of 19 at Founders Field in Pittsburgh
May 19 – Open
May 26 – Open (Possibly Cleveland Cup)
Jun 4 – Final Four or Cleveland Cup
Jun 23 – Firehouse 7s in Lemont, Illinois
Jun 30 – Lakefront 7s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 14 – Rock n’ Roll 7s in Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 21 – Rock Hard 7s in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Come and join the premier rugby club in Cleveland.
Schedule updates!
Playoffs have been set. The first round of playoffs will be played April 28 and 29 in Elkhard, Indiana. Our first game is against the Rovers.
This year’s Rock n Roll 7s tournament will be on July 14. Mark your calendars and stock up on the sunscreen. Sign-up details will be coming soon. As in past tournaments, there will be qualifying, social, women’s and high school brackets.
On Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, some of the Green Horde members visited the Cleveland Clinic following a hugely successful donation drive at Claddagh Irish Pub on the previous Wednesday. They distributed mass amounts of the toys that had been donated to the cause and still had some left over. Check out some of the pictures from the event and other donations we have done. More are on their way so be on the lookout for more.
Thank you to Mark from Claddagh for helping us out as well.
Winter practices have begun!
Sessions are on Tuesdays at SPIRE Institute in spacious Geneva, Ohio. Sessions start at 7:00pm and end at 9:00pm.
Carpools will be leaving from the Cuyahoga County Airport, Downtown and Mentor at 6:00pm. The address to the facility is: 1822 South Broadway Geneva, OH 44041.
Be sure to bring molded cleats or field shows if able. Since the field is turf, long sleeves would be a good idea as well. Alcohol wipes are strongly suggested to wipe down cuts and scrapes post practice.
The AGM was hosted at Mullarkey’s in Downtown Willoughby.
When the votes were all tallied and totaled, there was a changing of the guard in the Executive Board. The new members at the the top of the Green Horde are:
- George Jeney (President)
- Drew Roberts (Vice President)
- Pat McGrath (Treasurer)
- Jason A. H. Rolf (Secretary)
- Mark Viviani (Match Secretary)
Judging by the names above, the team is in good hands. The coming year should be even better than the last one with these men at the helm.
The holidays just ended but there is time to give to those who really need it. There are a vast number of children who are in the Cleveland Clinic’s Children’s Ward who were not as fortunate as the rest of us this holiday season. Claddagh and the Green Horde want to help them out, and they need all the help they can get!
On January 18, 2012 items will be collected at Claddagh in Lyndhurst for the team to distribute to the children that Friday.
Whoever comes in on that Wednesday from 5:30pm until closing and brings a toy with them we will give them 15% off their total food bill…
As the start of the new year approaches, it is time to look forward to the future. Here’s a list of what the Green Horde has on its social and competitive schedules so far…
It’s probably very safe to assume that very few rugby players in the Midwest, especially in the lower divisions, have played on a regulation rugby pitch. This is to be expected because there are very few rugby complexes in the US or sports complexes equipped to hold a rugby pitch to begin with.
There is, though, a big difference between a field that is a little too short or a tad too thin. There is even a case to be made for fields that are not the most level or well manicured patches of earth in existence. These allowances have their limits, though.
