Ladies and Gents;

This is going to be a special day....

changes are afoot!

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=#408040[size=200THE ARMY ARE COMING![/size
The Army Rugby League has deemed that The Tom Sephton Memorial Trophy match is of a much greater importance than initially announced. The Director of Army Community Rugby League, Major Richard Naivalurua, has stated that it deserves a MUCH higher profile.

To that end, The original Crosfields ARLFC opposition, A Royal Engineer Select 13 Team, has now been stood down, in their place a Full Strength ARMY Rugby League Select 13 will now take their place on the field.
Players in the ARMY Select side are coming from all over the UK, Northern Ireland and Europe and will feature soldiers from countries even further afield, of Fiji, South Africa and Australia.

Brigadier Andrew Sharpe OBE – The Colonel of the MERCIAN Regiment, (The regiment of the late Tom Sephton) will be amongst the military dignitaries in attendance – and will be bringing his ‘boots along in order to take part in the match himself! (Post match he will be amongst those presenting awards to the teams.)
This in itself is a major honour – it seems that Brigadier Sharpe may be the highest ranking military officer to ever play for an ARMY rugby representitive side!


=#FF0000THE CHALLENGE CUP IS COMING!!!!!!

Warrington Wolves RLFC have very kindly allowed Crosfields ARLFC to look after the CARNIEGE CHALLENGE CUP for a few hours on the day of the match.
The Cup will be on display outside of the Crosfields Clubhouse from 11:30 to 2:00pm and the public will, for a small donation to Help for Heroes

, be able to be photographed alongside it. Photographs will be printed and available on the day!

=#FF0000THE Big Crosfields raffle is COMING!
Along with all of the above the Big Crosfields Raffle has made a reappearance. Along with the usual array of top quality prizes on offer – signed Superleague and Championship players Rugby shirts, signed rugby balls and much much more,(Booze!) the star prize is a pair of VIP Corperate Tickets for the Superleague grand Final!!

Please come along and help make this a day to remember for all the right reasons.

A Mercian

brilliant, all i wanted to hear! shame i missed it!

thanks geordie!

Close but not quite Geordie ..... after much recounting of the many, many coins .... just to be 100% sure, the grand total that Crosfields ARLFC will be sending to Help for Heroes is .... £7659.86p ....... not bad if I do say so myself!!!!!







The game itself was indeed a full blooded affair .... both sides were DETERMINED to do Toms memory justice! Hard physical Rugby League played for all the right reasons in the very best of spirits.

It was a very memorable and humbling day in Warrington – the Army won a nail biting game 32 – 30 (although they were were 3 tries to nil down after 20 minutes) against a very, very tough team.

Brigadier Andrew Sharpe OBE (Late CHESHIRE) Regimental Colonel of the MERCIAN ran on for last 10 minutes (at 50 the oldest player to ever pull on the Army RL shirt in anger) and did a solid job for us at prop (never dropped a ball or missed a tackle). Pte Tom Snooks 1 MERCIAN, from Burtonwood (at 17 and too young to deploy on operations; the youngest player to pull on the Army RL shirt in anger at open age) was outstanding at full back and Man of the Match. They all did Army RL proud but most importantly they provided much appreciated support to the family and friends of Tom – Well Done!

To para phrase from Brig Sharpe’s email this morning:
“... please pass on my profound thanks to all at Crosfields ARLFC. I know that the Sephton family were deeply moved by the gesture and the commitment, and the people of Warrington (MPs, mayors and all) got a taste of what Army commitment to each other is all about. I am very, very grateful”.

Geordie you were right on one thing that’s for sure, Crosfields did Tom Proud.

Al



The Brigadier and Tom Snooks

A Review of 2011's Tom Sephton Memorial Trophy.
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fixed mate, give it a go now.