Flying Kukris RFC

The AGM was held on the 6^th May 2018 at HLYIS. Luckily the early morning rain cleared up and it was a great day.

We would like to welcome Michael Flowers who has voluntered for the position of Head of Minis

The new Committee can be seen here on the Committee page. 

In addition to meeting and being coached by 3 England Sevens star players, each participant was given a commemorative Canterbury T-Shirt. The 2 hour session comprised drills, games, Q&A’s, photo-shoot & an autograph session. Our FK players were joined by players from Hong Kong Football Club, Island School and Harrow International School all of which use Canterbury kit.

The session went extremely well and the Players had a cracking time.

Player Jade Scrouther said afterwards "It was great to spend time with Charlie, Will and Alex.  We had a lot of fun doing some drills and trying new moves with them and the boys."

All thanks should be given to Anna Holmes (Sales Manager Asia – International Business Manager  - Pentland Asia) who brokered the arrangement and to FK’s very own Kit Manager Melissa Jupp who used her charm and business guile to secure the involvement of our FK players. Also thanks go to our hosts Mr Barney Durrant and Harrow International School.

Hopefully this event will be offered again next season, so watch out and work hard kids.  

For more pictures of this event please visit our gallery here

Natalee has a go in the Mud!

Natalee (U14G) is one of the sharpest, most determined and most ferocious players we have in Flying Kukris RFC. Whilst she’s a lovely, quiet and unassuming girl she’s never slow at getting stuck in to the Rugby action, wherever she can find it. She’s so keen she even takes her rugby gear on Holiday!

So whilst on a visit to England over Easter she sought out the local playing fields and found just what she wanted and immediately just got stuck into the rugby, mud and fun.

Playing for a new club “Shrewsbury” U13 girls, she found herself in a tough match facing off against Worcester, the Midlands Champions, who ultimately won the game 7 tries to 3.

Natalee, perfectly at ease with a new team of girls she didn’t know,  immediately made a massive impact and played an ever increasingly important role in the game, putting in tackle after tackle she opened the scoring with the first try. She also took on all kicking duties and helped the new Shrewsbury team to hold their own against the more organised and disciplined West Midlands Champions.

Impressed with Natalee’s performance, the Shrewsbury coach commented “the standard in Hong Kong is clearly higher than in England…so when can she join Shrewsbury?”

The Shrewsbury Coach and U13 girls were also really impressed to hear that Hong Kong U13 girls play full size pitches, not half size pitches, as in the UK.

The Shrewsbury girls were welcoming and friendly and asked Natalee lots of questions about rugby in Hong Kong and the club she played for… and when can she play for them again?

But poaching aside, it was not all plain sailing, Natalee did have some trouble dealing with the slippery and muddy conditions when running and kicking, but in the end the smiles say it all and she had a fabulous muddy time and made some great new friends.

But best of all Natalee was super impressed with the after match reception where the girls were well looked after in fantastic facilities, treated to showers, food and soft drinks whilst the club organised all the girls dirty laundry!!

If anyone else has any news / contribution they would like to have included on the website please email me at [email protected]

 

For your info there is a great video featuring our parnter team HK Scottish here (It needs sound)

EdUHK Pitch Update

Our new Astro pitch is providing a much better surface to train and play on, with rugby markings and posts.  This will also provide a local venue for our kids to play competitive matches and watch other rugby fixtures.

 The infill granules are "EPDM" which are not only virgin rubber (rather than recycled tyres etc) but also pale in colour so hopefully won't get so hot and at the very least won't show so much when they fall out of shoes / boots after using the pitch!

For the start of the season we currently have the options of Grass and Astro on Sunday mornings and Astro on some Sunday afternoons.  We also have Astro available on Wednesday evenings for mid-week training.

The grass pitch has had new drainage and irrigation pipes installed and has been re-turfed.

Level 1 Referee courses

All coaches, parents and players are encouraged to attend Level 1 Referee courses before the start of next season.  Anyone over the age of 14 can attend the Level 1 Referee course if they would like to improve their skills in this area and contribute more to giving players a fair go on the pitch. Dates of courses can be found here

Those interested should contact David or Joe to sign up.  Alternatively, they can contact Matt Rodden directly at [email protected]

Prerequisites are completion of Rugby Ready and Laws test on World Rugby (www.worldrugby.org) which everyone is encouraged to complete anyway.  The Club will reimburse the fee on production of their Level 1 Referee certificate.