Slippery Oyster’s
Match report by Neil Wallace; Saturday 26th November saw the BSN Juniors playing away to Oysters RFC, Oisterwijk. The weather was sunny and dry and a good match seemed on the cards. Sixteen BSN players were available for the game, limiting the Coach’s options and forcing some to adopt unfamiliar positions. The local team benefitted…
Out of the Arms of the Octopus
Under blue skies, the Minis had a successful Bondsdag in Noord Brabant. BSN lined up on a frosty field in Uden against RC Octopus representing Nord Brabant, RC Eemland representing Utrecht, and Voorburgse RC Zuid Holland. First up was Eemland, who BSN hadn’t played in a year. The last meeting was as Benjis in a…
California Dreamin’
Some west coast warmth would have been welcome. The leaves may have been brown and the skies grey in Leiden, but the BSN Minis found success . Two games won. The first against DIOK by a good margin and the second against HRC in a closely contested game of rugby. BSN scored eleven tries against…
Winning in the Rain
The BSN Minis brought two teams to HRC, winning five out of six games in the sunshine and the showers. Fielding an A and a B team, BSN played against teams from Delft, Hermes Schiedam, DIOK and HRC. BSN A took on Delft B in their first match and racked up the tries. Louis scored…
Nightmare with the Hookers?
The weekends Halloween fixture at the British School was changed at the last minute (I can’t guess why?), which meant an early… 9:00am kick-off at The Hookers. We’ll forgive the Dutch planners as they wouldn’t have known the school was closed! With many players still on holiday, a full 15 “man” squad recorded wins against The…
No slip-ups at HRC
The half term holidays seem to come around thick ‘n’ fast nowadays and with depleted squad sizes affecting all regional clubs, it resulted in a fixture change from Sparta to HRC, allowing us to play on their new all-singing, all-dancing 4G pitches. Whilst the Minis were fielding only one squad, we had more than enough…
BSN Minis take the Jan van Burg Trophy
The Minis travelled to the Hook of Holland to spend the day competing in the Jan van Burg trophy. Eight teams turned up from across Zuid Holland and were split into two pools of four, with BSN lining up against the Bassets, Delft and HRC. Gouda and Rotterdam waited in the knock-out stages, but no…
New Recruits
The normal yearly disruption to the players schedule doesn’t come in the form of weather phenomenon’s in Holland but the annual iPad roll-out program at the British School, which meant the Minis were missing around 9 players for today’s fixture at Sparta. Still, it was a blessing in disguise, as it grave the coaches an…
Sparked into Life
A year on from the Hutspottoernooi, BSN were back at DIOK. They were no longer Benjis and there was no stew pot trophy to win, but there were games to be played against the home side and old rivals, HRC. DIOK were first up and BSN eased into a 5-0 first half lead. A pass…
The New Minis
BSN started the new season at RC Hookers with two comfortable wins in the sunshine. With the entire Minis squad stepping up from the Benjis last season, there were new skills to master in the twelve player game, including kicking and line outs. In the first match against the Hookers, the team were still finding…