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CLUB SENIOR PRESENTATION NIGHT - 2011/12
Mike Sanderson3 Jul 2012 - 09:13
CLUB SENIOR PRESENTATION NIGHT - 2011/12
Penrith Rugby Club finally drew a line under the 2011/12 season when they held their senior presentation night last Saturday. The evening began with an excellent beef dinner and the proceedings were opened by new director of rugby Nigel Beaty who gave a run down on how things would work in the coming season, it soon moved on to the real business of the night.
Outgoing first team captain Mike Raine gave a run down on the season and alluded to its up and down patchy nature, he thanked those that had helped him along the way and the effort that had been put in the final run in to ensure Level 5 rugby was secured for next season. Players and officials alike agreed on the outstanding performer of the season as Paul Newton picked up both the Player of the Season and the Players' Player awards.
Paul sets himself such high standards and lives up to them every week, both in attack and defence, and very very rarely makes anything approaching a mistake. He finished the season carrying a serious groin injury but had no intention of letting anyone down and saw the season out making the league status safe and securing the county cup for the fourth time in succession.
Craig Price was a popular choice as Most Improved Player in his first season at the club and James Ellar took the Top Try Scorer award with 15 tries.
Lee Chapman presented the second team awards and looked back at an extremely difficult first half of the season, their promotion the season before into the Salford Leagues Premier League and the loss of coach and mentor Beef Robinson to the first team along with several leading players had given them a mountain to climb. They faced the top northern clubs' second teams and came up against many "contracted" players. They had taken some heavy defeats, one of 108 points, but had fulfilled every fixture and once the league was split at the turn of the year had improved markedly.
He thanked Matt Hawkins and James Sanderson who had come on board on the administrate side during this difficult period and in the second half of the season they had played well enough to maintain their position in the Premier League had they not been moving into the Cumbria Leagues. The Player of the Year Award went to club veteran and mainstay Steve Dixon for sterling work throughout the season, young Ryan Hunter who has come on in leaps and bounds picked up the Players' Player Award and Karl Rylands was Top Try Scorer.
Both Chapman and David Potts who presented the Third Team review of the season expressed their keenness to give the new Cumbria leagues a real good go, it wasn't perhaps where they had hoped to be but they were looking at it positively.
David Potts also reported on a difficult season with the 2nd team's problems causing them problems with availability for their side. Their Player of the Year Award went to Tom Hodges, Players Player went to Scott Davidson and Young Player to Jobert Fermilan. Terry Balmer picked up, not for the first time, the Top Try Award with 15 tries and has now scored 499 for the club.
The Luke Johnson Memorial Trophy for the Most Improved Young Player went to Karl Rylands, the club award of team of the year went to the Seconds for coming through all their trials and tribulations intact and the final award of the evening was for Volunteer of the year and went to the ever popular Brian Armstrong for both his pitchside duties and his work on the fabric of the club.
Outgoing first team captain Mike Raine gave a run down on the season and alluded to its up and down patchy nature, he thanked those that had helped him along the way and the effort that had been put in the final run in to ensure Level 5 rugby was secured for next season. Players and officials alike agreed on the outstanding performer of the season as Paul Newton picked up both the Player of the Season and the Players' Player awards.
Paul sets himself such high standards and lives up to them every week, both in attack and defence, and very very rarely makes anything approaching a mistake. He finished the season carrying a serious groin injury but had no intention of letting anyone down and saw the season out making the league status safe and securing the county cup for the fourth time in succession.
Craig Price was a popular choice as Most Improved Player in his first season at the club and James Ellar took the Top Try Scorer award with 15 tries.
Lee Chapman presented the second team awards and looked back at an extremely difficult first half of the season, their promotion the season before into the Salford Leagues Premier League and the loss of coach and mentor Beef Robinson to the first team along with several leading players had given them a mountain to climb. They faced the top northern clubs' second teams and came up against many "contracted" players. They had taken some heavy defeats, one of 108 points, but had fulfilled every fixture and once the league was split at the turn of the year had improved markedly.
He thanked Matt Hawkins and James Sanderson who had come on board on the administrate side during this difficult period and in the second half of the season they had played well enough to maintain their position in the Premier League had they not been moving into the Cumbria Leagues. The Player of the Year Award went to club veteran and mainstay Steve Dixon for sterling work throughout the season, young Ryan Hunter who has come on in leaps and bounds picked up the Players' Player Award and Karl Rylands was Top Try Scorer.
Both Chapman and David Potts who presented the Third Team review of the season expressed their keenness to give the new Cumbria leagues a real good go, it wasn't perhaps where they had hoped to be but they were looking at it positively.
David Potts also reported on a difficult season with the 2nd team's problems causing them problems with availability for their side. Their Player of the Year Award went to Tom Hodges, Players Player went to Scott Davidson and Young Player to Jobert Fermilan. Terry Balmer picked up, not for the first time, the Top Try Award with 15 tries and has now scored 499 for the club.
The Luke Johnson Memorial Trophy for the Most Improved Young Player went to Karl Rylands, the club award of team of the year went to the Seconds for coming through all their trials and tribulations intact and the final award of the evening was for Volunteer of the year and went to the ever popular Brian Armstrong for both his pitchside duties and his work on the fabric of the club.
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