Benjis

Summer is an elusive thing in the Netherlands, but when it arrives, for that one weekend, it does deliver.  BSN travelled to Oisterwijk to play the Moederdag Toernooi in 29 degrees heat and sunshine.  Good job they were playing in their black home and away kit!  With sixteen teams from across the Netherlands, BSN were…

After a great but exhausting weekend of rugby at Chichester, the Kika Rugby Tournament now seemed like a bad idea, given the impending Moederdag Tournament on Sunday. Short on players, I contacted the Gouda’s head coach; Nick, recruiting Nick’s son Jack and teammate Mik to make a squad. Amstelveense RC was hosting its 4th Kika…

Two Benjis teams went to Gouda to play against the home sides, DIOK and HRC.  After a warm week, the temperature had dropped, there was water on the pitch and threatening black clouds scudded overhead.  BSN had mixed results, losing and drawing to DIOK, but beating HRC and Gouda. In the first match T-Rex took…

After two weeks of pulling together sides by borrowing players from the opposition, head coach Daran was glad to have enough players for a starting nine plus one substitute for the friendlies at Delft. Three matches were played against Delft and two Rotterdam teams, with fine team play by BSN. The first match was against…

The remaining Benjis made up for missing out of the British School holidays, by having a rugby holiday themselves, dozing and sleepwalking through 3 games against HRC and Gouda. With players thin on the ground, no-one was expecting much more than a workout in the warm weather at Gouda. You could even tell how dozy…

The BSN Benjis secure 3rd place at the International Youth Tournament! Well, I say the BSN Benjis… With the BSN Easter holidays in full swing, along with famine, illness, mechanical failure and a host of other excuses which would have made Lachlan’s mum Louise proud :-), the depleted Benjis squad came to Hilversum with one…

The Benji’s brought two teams to the District Championships at HRC to contest in the Cup & Plate competitions, with the Tigers competing for the Cup. What were instantly noticeable were the small and narrow pitch sizes. Some shambolic (or maybe even contrived) planning at HRC saw four pitches crammed onto one full size playing…