Caldy – That Friday Feeling 31st Oct ’25

After starting the Champ campaign with four successive bonus point wins the Ravers have momentum and their supporters are somewhat giddy with excitement. Not surprisingly Caldy’s taciturn Director of Rugby Gareth Davies is somewhat more balanced in his assessment. “We were given a favourable opening sequence of games, with three at home and I am delighted that we have taken full advantage of the opportunity it gave us. However, we haven’t played as well as results suggest and it is about to get an awful lot tougher. We now have a run of games leading up to Christmas against 5 of the sides that will definitely be competing for the top six. We are at a very obvious disadvantage against the fully professional sides like Cornish Pirates and we need to try and pick up points where we can.”

This very tough run of fixtures starts this weekend in the round 5 match at the Mennaye Field against Cornish Pirates. The 750-mile round trip has never ended well for Caldy who have never won at the Mennaye Field. This weekend’s task will not have been helped by the five enforced changes to the match day squad as Davies explained. “We have a few lads unavailable this Saturday, but it does provide an opportunity for us to freshen things up. Over the season we expect to utilise 35 to 40 different players in the 1st xv match day squad. The 1st xv and 2nd xv squads train together as one senior group. Transitioning players through our 2nd xv into our 1st xv is fundamental to our rugby model”

Caldy’s first ever visit to the Mennaye Field was in late March 2007 when as Champions of North 1 they took on the now defunct Mounts Bay side in the semi final of the Intermediate cup. Caldy’s then player-coach Matt Holt put together a montage of video clips to inspire the squad to reach the final at Twickenham. This stirring video became a Ravers classic but had little impact on the squad’s match day performance as they succumbed to a terrific Mounts Bay side 33-10. Mounts Bay went on to win the final at Twickenham. Picking out familiar faces in the crowd and on the pitch in this video is a nostalgic delight.

https://www.facebook.com/roger.flashman/videos/10210460466766986

Saturday’s match against Cornish Pirates is being shown in the Paton Field clubhouse with a special offer – £15 for burger and chips plus a pint of your choice for the live stream event.

Matt Cairns has selected the following squad for Saturday’s Champ away fixture at the Mennaye Field against Cornish Pirates.  The match kicks off at 2.30 pm.

1. M Weatherby
2. O Hearn
3. N Rushton
4. T Sanders
5. M Loboda
6. S Olyott
7. D Owen
8. JJ Dickinson (c)
9. T Akehurst
10. K Wilkinson
11. W Robinson
12. M Barlow
13. C Wilkinson
14. R Tudor
15. M Kilcourse

Replacements
M Gallagher, R Higginson, M Rabbette, J Jones, T Parry, O Wynn, L Barker, J Mitchell

Caldy clubhouse ‘President’s Bar’ & ‘The Hatch’ catering open from 1.00pm tomorrow
For those unable to make the long trip to Penzance we will be live streaming the Champ Rugby game on the clubhouse tv – Cornish Pirates v Caldy – kick off 2.30pm – please get down to Paton Field clubhouse tomorrow afternoon & support your Ravers !

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Community Rugby – Sunday 2nd November 
This Sunday we have a block booking fixture with Bowdon, with odds travelling to Bowdon and evens at home at Paton Field. The u16s have an away game v Sandbach.
Following a successful Preliminary League A campaign, Junior Colts are starting their NW Conference League A games with an away trip to Heaton Moor – kick off 12.30pm.
Senior Colts have another transition week, with many of the lads off to a second week of County training. Good luck also to 12 of our u16s who are at a Sale PDG Festival.
Minis
u6s training at home
u7s, u9s, u11s away at Bowdon
u8s, u10s, u12s at home v Bowdon
Juniors
u13s, u15s away at Bowdon
u14s training at home
u16s away v Sandbach
Girls
u12s, u14s, u16s, u18s training at home 
Junior Colts
u17s away v Heaton Moor kick off 12.30pm
Senior Colts
u18s transition week

Good luck to everyone & enjoy your rugby this weekend !

But please remember “No referees, No games” – disrespect or verbal abuse of rugby match officials is totally unacceptable & has no place in rugby.

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Rugby coming up
Saturday 8th November – Champ Rugby round 6
Caldy v Worcester Warriors kick off 2.00pm at Paton Field
Match Tickets are available to buy here : https://caldyrugbyclub.com/buy-tickets-membership/
Hospitality available for more details & bookings please contact Kenzie
email : [email protected]

Saturday 8th November – NOWIRUL Premier League
Sedgley Park 2nd xv v Caldy 2nd xv kick off 2.00pm at Park Lane, Whitefield, Manchester M45 7DZ

Sunday 9th November – Cheshire Junior Cup round 1
Wilmslow u18s Senior Colts v Caldy u18s Senior Colts kick off TBC at King’s Road, Wilmslow SK9 5PZ 

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Date for your diary 
Thursday 13th November – Caldy Sports Club AGM
7.30pm start in the clubhouse, Memorial Hall, Paton Field
Please note the AGM agenda includes proposals to allow Oxton Hockey Club to join as full members of CSCL