National League 2 North 24/25 Season
Saturday 12th October 2024
Harrogate Men's 1st XV
V
Chester RUFC 1st XV
KO 3:00pm
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Harrogate v Chester - 12th October 2024
Welcome to Harrogate Rugby Club...
Dear Friends, Supporters, and Rugby Fans,
Good afternoon and welcome to Harrogate Rugby Club for our third national league game of the 2024 season against Chester RUFC.
LLLLL, that isn’t a stutter it is, unfortunately, our current performance in this league! But are surprised? We knew this was going to be a huge step back up from Regional 1 and we have seen exactly what we expected.
So if we knew this was going to be the case what have we done about it? Well the statistics speak for themselves, at this stage when last in this division we had just 4 points from an away win at Huddersfield. We has also only 11 tries at this point rather than the 17 we have scored this season.
The challenge remains defence as we consistently give away points even if the margins we are losing by are now reduced. But there is no doubt this is a better start to the season than when we last played in this league! So what does that mean for today’s game? Well, we need to win and given when Chester last visited that is what happened I think we can go into today’s game with confidence and positivity! Up the Gate!
Yours in Rugby,
Mark Garrett
Chairman, Harrogate RUFC
Welcome Chester RUFC - A brief history..
Having played on pitches at both the Racecourse and Bumpers Lane, in 1932, the Club moved to rented facilities at Boughton Hall as tenants of the Cricket Club. Here they stayed for almost 30 years until an old American army camp, along with adjoining fields, at Vicars Cross was purchased and the Club moved there in 1961.
The introduction of league rugby for season 1985/6 revitalised Chester rugby and started a new era. Chester was one of ten teams in the inaugural North West 1 League and the following season, despite a variable record, were placed in the first official Courage League, North West Division 1. In 1994 a new clubhouse was built and in 1998 Chester were promoted from North West 1 to North 2. Two years later another promotion, to North 1, along with another losing Cheshire Cup final, against New Brighton, as in the previous season, gave the Club its most successful season to date. Since the turn of the century Chester has made that final four more times, winning the Cup in 2004.
The 2007/8 season was one of the most successful in the Club’s history. Not only were Chester promoted as League Champions from North 2 West (having been relegated from North 1 the previous season) but they also won the EDF Intermediate Cup, at Twickenham, with a 21-18 win over local rivals Birkenhead Park.
Team News...
Harrogate RUFC
15 – Ted Morley
14 – Amrit Sharma
13 – Conor Miller
12 – Fred Chell
11 – Jake Abram
10 – Tom Steene
9 – Tom Pettitt
1 – Steve Maycock
2 – Charlie Head
3 – Jacob Percival
4 – Callum Russell
5 – Sam Brady (Capt)
6 – Edward Challis
7 – Ben Richardson
8 – Will Hill
Replacements:
16 – Oliver Fretwell
17 – Lawrence Richmond
18 – Sam Shepherd
19 – Oliver Toomey
20 – Harry Taylor
Chester RUFC
15 – Jacob Browne
14 – Harvey May
13 – Samuel Russell
12 – Izaak Gosling
11 – Tyler Spence
10 – Gregory Smith
9 – Joseph Harrison
1 – Wade Williams
2 – Harry Holden
3 – Michael Ashdown
4 – Ewan Naylor
5 – Alastair Murray
6 – Declan Norrington
7 – Cameron Wilkinson
8 – Scott Richardson
Replacements:
16 – Thomas Guest
17 – Alfie Longstaff
18 – Robert Willetts
19 – Jake Maher
20 – Ciaran O’Donnell
Today’s Referee:
National 2 North Table
Today's League Games
Season 2024/25
| Date | Opposition | Home/Away | Result | Date | Opposition | Home/Away | Result |
| 07-Sep-24 | Billingham | Away | 33- 12 L | 21-Dec-24 | Wharfedale | Away | |
| 14-Sep-24 | Wharfedale | Home | 29-35 L | 11-Jan-25 | Sheffield | Home | |
| 21-Sep-24 | Sheffield | Away | 57-19 L | 18-Jan-25 | Preston Grasshoppers | Away | |
| 28-Sep-24 | Preston Grasshoppers | Home | 31-38 L | 25-Jan-25 | Lymm | Home | |
| 05-Oct-24 | Lymm | Away | 57-24 L | 08-Feb-25 | Chester | Away | |
| 12-Oct-24 | Chester | Home | 15-Feb-25 | Fylde | Home | ||
| 19-Oct-24 | Fylde | Away | 01-Mar-25 | Sheffield Tigers | Away | ||
| 26-Oct-24 | Sheffield Tigers | Home | 08-Mar-25 | Hull Ionians | Home | ||
| 09-Nov-24 | Hull Ionians | Away | 15-Mar-25 | Tynedale | Home | ||
| 16-Nov-24 | Tynedale | Away | 22-Mar-25 | Otley | Away | ||
| 23-Nov-24 | Otley | Home | 05-Apr-25 | Hull | Home | ||
| 07-Dec-24 | Hull | Away | 12-Apr-25 | Leeds Tykes | Away | ||
| 14-Dec-24 | Leeds Tykes | Home | 26-Apr-25 | Billingham | Home |
