Ready4Rugby Tournament

29 October 2020

With 691 tries scored, 215 players taking part and 134 matches overseen by 16 referees, The Ready4Rugby Tournament at Shiplake College has come to an end. With some amazing performances from Years 9 to 11, we reveal the winners here:

Year 9 - Scotland
Year 10 - France
Year 11 - Wales
Year12/13 - England

A big thank you goes to the Saturday rugby staff who organised and refereed every Saturday morning to make this half of term a huge success.

Year 9 Report Provided by Mr Cooper

Week 4 of the Year 9 Six nations was a cracker of a final week with games like France 6 versus England 8 and Wales again recording a second win over Italy 3-2.

Honourable mentions go to: David Gemmell who scored two wonderful tries including a side step which could be up there with the try of the tournament, Liam Cawdell and Dan Wilson also had amazing final weeks, and a big shout out has to go to Henry Johnston who although he was off-games, still turned up to show his support and dedication.

Year 10 Report Provided by Mr Olhausen

The final scores are in and WOW!... What a fabulous final morning of action in the Year 10 Ready4Rugby tournament. Inspired individual tries, a 9-9 draw, and the final table positions hanging in the balance even into the dying moments of the last round of matches.

Commiserations to Wales who took the wooden spoon. Despite scoring an impressive 53 tries, Italy came 5th. England scored a remarkable 59 tries (the highest tally) but they still finished in the bottom half of the table.

A special mention goes to Scotland and Ireland who were the runners up. This year's winners and crowned champions of the Ready4Rugby 2020 tournament are France who scored an impressive 55 tries in their 10 matches and racked up 7 wins and 1 draw. Special mentions from the final matches also go to Freddie Stewart, Ewan Pratt, Archie Esselmont, Evan Thomas, Noah Scotchbrook, Ed Houghton, Camillo Voncke, Ben Zacharias, Ollie Smee, and Olivier Wrobel. Thank you to all the players for the commitment and passion they displayed throughout the tournament.