Presentations Day
Another fantastic season has drawn to a close and we enjoyed many highlights, including:-
- a great balance of games, 5 development matches (all won), 13 friendlies, 6 League and 2 Sevens tournaments
- real competition for places which produced a lot of individual improvement and strength in depth
- a superb tour to Italy, completing tours of all 6 Nations, excellent fundraising efforts
- Joe Gwyther and Ed Simmons both played for Hampshire and won places at the London Irish AASE programme
- Joe Gwyther played for England North
- 16 of our squad also played up for Colts this season and proved themselves
- Runners up Alton 7's Cup
- Winners New Milton 7's Cup
- 4 new players all did well, integrated into the squad
- fantastic attendance at training and for matches, despite it being a tough academic year
Overall playing record 2011-12, 15-a-side matches reveals that we were the hardest working squad in the entire club, many of our games were away as the Finnimore was being rebuilt.
| PLAYED_ | _WON_ | _DRAWN_ | _LOST_ | _TRIES FOR_ | _TRIES AGAINST |
| 27 | 16 | 1 | 10 | 122 | 65 |
The personal points table is as follows, note that 23 out of a squad of 29 scored points this season.
| POINTS | PLAYER |
| 154 | Will Hamer |
| 70 | Oscar Jermyn |
| 65 | Joe Gwyther, Adam Stoller |
| 63 | Ed Simmons |
| 60 | Ed Benn |
| 35 | Josh Smith |
| 30 | Charlie Rands, Kit Trigg |
| 26 | James Forrest |
| 25 | Ralph Andrews, Charlie Hibbert |
| 15 | Krishna Gurung, Dan Mortara, Ed Pasfield |
| 10 |
Alex Adams, James Airey, Kieran Beardsall |
| 5 | Alex Heath, Doug Lowe, Joe Randall, Liam Sommers, Aaron Whatling |
We hope that as many as possible wil progress on to Colts next season, we know they're all good enough!
The 4 player awards went as follows:-
PLAYERS' PLAYER AWARD - Ed Benn and Krishna Gurung
Based on the players' voting for man of the match throughout the season, this was shared by 2 of our new players, one forward and one back.
| MOTM POINTS | PLAYERS |
| 5 | Ed Benn, Krishna Gurung |
| 4 | Oscar Jermyn, Adam Stoller |
| 3 | Charlie Hibbert, Josh Smith |
| 2 | Ralph Andrews, Ollie Brench, Charlie Rands, Ed Simmons, Aaron Whatling |
| 1 | James Forrest, Will Hamer, Dan Mortara, Ed Pasfield |
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - Liam Sommers
Shortlisted - Will Hamer, Alex Heath, Joe Michael, Dan Mortara, Aaron Whatling
ENDEAVOUR AWARD - The Carpe Diem Tour Squad
Shortlisted - Ollie Brench, Charlie Rands, James Airey, Tom Bugler, Josh Smith, Fonzy Ledesma
COACHES' AWARD - Joe Gwyther
Shortlisted - Ralph Andrews, Ed Benn, Ollie Brench, Krishna Gurung, Oscar Jermyn, Dan Mortara, Josh Smith, Adam Stoller
