Seniors

Fixtures

First XV

Second XV

Third XV

l League game, hb Hampshire Bowl game, f Friendly, jv RFU Junior Vase, mt Merit Table

2011/12 season

Senior Coaching Team

Andy Boyes (Head Coach), Dave Craddock, Jon Ingarfield, Richard Rowledge and Dave Saunders.

2011/12 First XV Captain

The Club is pleased to announce the re-election of Russell Smith to Club & First XV Captain. Russ led the team to runner-up spot in Hampshire One last season, losing the play-off to Surrey One runners-up Old Blues RFC. Russ will be supported again by Vice-Captain Paul Fudio, who hopefully will be recovered from a bad ankle injury in time to start the season.

2011/12 Second XV Captain

Adam Blyth steps down as Captain, having got the Second XV to third spot in Merit Table Two, and hopefully promotion to Table One when the season starts. He is replaced by James Hixon-Broad, who hopes the move up in playing standard will benefit the whole Club.

2011/12 Third XV Captain

The success of the Social XV last season has prompted the players to request Merit Table action. This will give the players a proper fixture list, but will need them to give more commitment to continuing Captain John Harris.

Results

First XV

Visit the official RFU site for a full list of results and the Hampshire league table.

Second XV

Visit the official RFU site for a full list of results and the Hampshire league table.

Third XV

Visit the official RFU site for a full list of results and the Hampshire league table.

Social XV

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Eastleigh 79-0 Nomads RFC

28th Jan 2012

Eastleigh went top of league for the first time this season with a 12 try, 79-0 victory over second from bottom Nomads. Whilst Nomads made the game a contest, Eastleigh dominated all areas of play. Five trys were scored in the first half with the bonus point secured by the 30th minute. The first half try scorers were Ash Holland, Richie O'Donnell (2), Adam Kidd and Martin Kirby. Phil Baldwin added a penalty and 4 conversions. The score was 36-0 at half time. Eastleigh shuffled the back row and back line in the second half to try some different options and scored a further seven trys. The scorers were Paul Fudio (2), Chris Cove (2), Jack Curtis and Ash Holland (2). John Lynch added 4 conversions.
The Pipestock Man of the Match was Richie O’Donnell.

Coach Andy Boyes said 'I'm really pleased with how the team performed today, we wanted to put in a strong performance. It's great to go top of league but there's still a long way to go until the end of the season. Fordingbridge will push us all the way and United Services Portsmouth will be in the mix.

Congratulations to Ash Holland for his hatrick of trys and Andy Innes for his first team debut.'

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Millbrook RFC 3-21 Eastleigh

14th Jan 2012

Eastleigh's winning ways continued with an away victory over 3rd place Millbrook. After Millbrook's unexpected win over league leaders Fordingbridge before Christmas, Eastleigh needed a strong performance to keep the pressure on Fordingbridge; and that's what they delivered. From the kick off, Eastleigh were on the front foot with a midfield break by flanker Richie O'Donnell. Within 10 minutes an unconverted try scored by Paul Fudio made the score 5-0. Using the kicking game Eastleigh continued to put the pressure on Millbrook but strong defence kept them out. Millbrook tried to gain ground using their forwards and as result Eastleigh conceded a number of penalties at the breakdown. It was no surprise, shortly before half time, that an Eastleigh flanker was shown a yellow card for persistent infringements. Eastleigh stepped up a gear and following an excellent cross field kick by flyhalf Phil Baldwin, Ash Holland scored an unconverted try in the corner, his 6th try in 7 games. It was 10-0 at half time.

After the restart and with 3 minutes remaining on the sin bin Eastleigh nearly scored in the corner following good interplay between the forwards and backs. The second half continued in much the same way as the first, with Millbrook trying to use their pack to gain ground and Eastleigh looking to build the phases and use their backs out wide. As Eastleigh started to take control, Millbrook conceded a number of penalties. Phil Baldwin kicked two to take the score to 16-3. With 5 minutes remaining, following a interception scrum half, Sean Hayes ran the length of the pitch to score an unconverted try in the corner. The final score was 21-3 to Eastleigh. The Pipestock man of the match was loose head prop Paul Taylor, his scrummaging, work at the breakdown and all round play was immense.

Eastleigh coach Andy Boyes said 'We started very well and got an early score which put Millbrook under pressure, they came back at us through their forwards and we conceded too many penalties at the breakdown. At half time we talked about the penalty count and corrected it after the break. The second half was one of our best all round team performances of the season. I was especially pleased how we stepped up a gear and scored when we were down to 14 men.'

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