New Season, New Challenge.

2006 RCSL Champions – ‘The Rock’

The Rock’s 2007 season will be the busiest and most exciting in their history, featuring an attempt to three-peat as national RCSL champions,the Anglo – Canadian Challenge against English County Champions Lancashire,and high profile games against Irish Colleges and Canada.The Canada game will be their last game before taking off for France and the 2007 Rugby World Cup.The Rock will relish this game in view of the rejection by the Canadian selectors of several of their best players,and the Newfoundland public will welcome Canada back following their superlative performance against USA in St John’s on 12 Aug 2006.

The Rock will visit Toronto for a preseason tour with a depleted squad and will blood several young players.They will play Irish Canadians on Sat May 19 and the Crusaders on May 21.

The RCSL season will feature home games v Quebec on Jun2,v Ottawa on Jun 16 and v New Brunswick on July 14.The Away games will be against Toronto on Jul 21,Halifax on Jul 23 and Niagara on August 4.The National final is scheduled for Aug 18 at the home of the winners in the west.

The big games against visiting teams will on Jun 9 against Lancashire,Jul 7 v Irish Colleges and on Aug 25 v Canada.

‘”We will have most of our players back again this year including Rod Snow,Sean O’Leary and Chris Mooney” commented coach Pat Parfrey.”Brian Cook and Brendan Parfrey have retired ,Mike Webb will be occupied with Canada ,as may Ciaran Hearn who has blossomed as a carded player in Victoria.Tyler Wish is on the road to recovery from his cruciate knee surgery and we are optimistic he will play during the summer.Mike Yetman is also considering a return to active play following his knee surgery.Our regular squad(Walsh,Densmore,Williams ,King,Hill,Alcock,Buseman,Kevin and Owen Parfrey ,Fagan,Meyers,Simpson,Paul,Blanks,McKenzie,Wilson,Warden,Picco,Rudofsky) will all play,and we have added some fine young players to the group including Chris Burt,Mike Holloway ,Matt Clarke,Colin and Steve Penney,Jolon Jenneaux,and Cyril Bugden”

Captain Peter Densmore is really looking forward to the 2007 season.”There’s a great buzz at training and everybody is looking forward to some excellent games.Nearly all the East teams improved last year.and the schedule isn’t favorable with the traditionally difficult games against Ontario teams taking place in mid summer heat.However we believe our team hasn’t peaked yet,-- we aim to improve the quality of our play,and enjoy our journey together”.