Gibraltar National Day Touch 2009
06/12/09 10:17 Filed in: Gibraltar
WINNERS
The inaugural Gibraltar touch rugby tournament took place this year at Victoria stadium, Gibraltar. POH put together a good team with debut for Albert Loddo of the Gibraltar team. It was a great day and POH put some good touch rugby together seeing off a Gibraltar Veteran team and a Gibraltar team before playing the evening final under floodlights.
It was a great evening of Rugby and POH were run away winners in the extended final to take the trophy.
Presentations were made on GBC television and some coverage in the local press was also given. We were also awarded the rugby trophy at this years Gibraltar National Day presentations taking the first rugby prize ever awarded in Gibraltar.
The inaugural Gibraltar touch rugby tournament took place this year at Victoria stadium, Gibraltar. POH put together a good team with debut for Albert Loddo of the Gibraltar team. It was a great day and POH put some good touch rugby together seeing off a Gibraltar Veteran team and a Gibraltar team before playing the evening final under floodlights.
It was a great evening of Rugby and POH were run away winners in the extended final to take the trophy.
Presentations were made on GBC television and some coverage in the local press was also given. We were also awarded the rugby trophy at this years Gibraltar National Day presentations taking the first rugby prize ever awarded in Gibraltar.
Marbella 7´s 2009
17/09/09 20:56 Filed in: Marbella
POH got together this summer to compete in the Marbella Club tournament in the south of Spain. Competition was tough with the mainly argentinian side from Benalmadena, featuring one Spain international player (whatever) drawn in the same group as POH. A tough and physical encounter came down to the wire with the scores even after an early score from debutant Niall Copeland was cancelled out by a late score from our opponents. An even later try from Joey Garcia put POH into the lead with seconds to spare and this ultimately determined the group.
The second group game against the hosts Marbella was a no contest with POH just too strong but in 35 degree heat, this is exactly what we needed.
The Semi final was a tougher game but two early scores settled the nerves and further scores from Albert Isola and Nick Isola (aka ´headboy´) left us in a comfortable position just playing out the game with some excellent possession pull out rugby.
The Final was an interesting game with POH drawn against the very originally named team from Gibraltar ´Hercules 009.´Despite the blatant plagiarism (for which they would pay) and the lack of research which would have shown the young Gibraltar team that they were named after a landfill in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_009_Landfill, Hercules had done well to win a very close encounter in their semi final and arrived in the Final in high spirits.
POH however, unleashed the ´smackdown´from minute one, scoring two tries in quick succession and demonstrating some physical defence which had the opposition spinning. Eventually an Albert Isola knee to the head of one of the Hercules 009 players brought the game to an early conclusion with POH already 27-0 ahead.
Hercules 009...thanks for coming, but please, get yourself a new name, this Rock ain´t big enough for the both of us.
POH POH POH
The second group game against the hosts Marbella was a no contest with POH just too strong but in 35 degree heat, this is exactly what we needed.
The Semi final was a tougher game but two early scores settled the nerves and further scores from Albert Isola and Nick Isola (aka ´headboy´) left us in a comfortable position just playing out the game with some excellent possession pull out rugby.
The Final was an interesting game with POH drawn against the very originally named team from Gibraltar ´Hercules 009.´Despite the blatant plagiarism (for which they would pay) and the lack of research which would have shown the young Gibraltar team that they were named after a landfill in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_009_Landfill, Hercules had done well to win a very close encounter in their semi final and arrived in the Final in high spirits.
POH however, unleashed the ´smackdown´from minute one, scoring two tries in quick succession and demonstrating some physical defence which had the opposition spinning. Eventually an Albert Isola knee to the head of one of the Hercules 009 players brought the game to an early conclusion with POH already 27-0 ahead.
Hercules 009...thanks for coming, but please, get yourself a new name, this Rock ain´t big enough for the both of us.
POH POH POH