Ormskirk RUFC

Ormskirk Raiders 3-8 Ruskin Park 2
Ormskirk Lions W-L Prenton 2
The Art of War/The Game of Rugby
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu, Chinese Military General, Strategist and author of The Art Of War, 544BC-496BC.
All […]

Dear Members,
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of club member Bruce McKinnie who passed away on Sunday morning at Queenscourt Hospice in Southport.
Bruce was an active and popular member of Ormskirk RUFC. As well as a long playing career, Bruce also coached the Ormskirk Ladies team and was an active […]

Ormskirk Lions (4ths) 20-14 Formby Vikings
3rd December 2011
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley, English writer, 1894-1963
The acid test of any fledgling team is how they respond to adversity. Like a boxer who takes a punch to the chin, […]

Winnington Park 1st XV 13 – 6 Ormskirk 1st XV
Ormskirk travelled to Cheshire to take on 6th placed Winnington Park with a strong looking squad and hopeful of recording a surprise victory. Playing into the wind in the first half, Ormskirk’s pack, bolstered by the return of Graeme Bowling, Kieran Mahood and Ben Davis, took […]

26th November 2011
“And curlew calls to curlew, and I remember as I go
The merrier sounds and echoes out of seasons long ago
When nights were full of laughter and all the days were bright
And the heart too young to listen to the curlews in the night”
Idris Davies, 1905-1953 Welsh Poet.
Beautiful words from a little known Welsh […]

Eagle 2+1 71-14 Ormskirk Lions (4ths)
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer.
Half-time: Eagle 50-0 Lions. Yes, deal with it.
The second half was a much different affair. I should report that the last […]

Ormskirk 1st XV 7 – 26 Tyldesley 1st XV
Ormskirk lost out to 3rd placed Tyldesley in a stop-start affair played out in great conditions for rugby at Green Lane. Both teams started strongly, testing their opponents defence with direct running and good ball retention, meaning that for the first 5 minutes possession only changed hands […]

Ormskirk were the latest team to face the daunting task of visiting Heywood Road to face a Sale team that have aspirations of playing at a much higher level. No other team has come close to Sale this season and it is hardly surprising when they are regularly fielding many Sale Jets (Sale Sharks development […]

ORMSKIRK TIGERS (3rds) 38-21 ORMSKIRK LIONS (4ths)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22TH 2011
DREAMS IN ELYSIAN FIELDS: JACK CALL CUP 2011
‘The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made […]

Liverpool Collegiate 1st XV 17 - 22 Ormskirk 1st XV
In perfect conditions for rugby and in front of a large crowd, Ormskirk produced their best performance of the season as they defeated Liverpool Collegiate in a highly competitive encounter. Collegiate were celebrating playing their first ever match on their new pitch in front of the […]

IN SEARCH OF SAM BOTFIELD
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
From The Old Man and The Sea, by Pulitzer prize winning American novelist, Ernest Hemingway.
This is a Lions tale of a sunny Saturday October afternoon at Green lane with high expectations involving grim […]

Maxine (Jack Call’s daughter) has asked if anyone is able/wants to attend a memorial service for Jack.
Details as follows:
•St. Michael’s Church, Aughton
•November 6th
•1.45 pm
Please let Monty or Biscuit know if you’re planning to go along.

1st Team v Liverpool Collegiate (away)
12.15pm meet - 3pm KO
1. H Hirsimaki
2. G Bowling
3. V Gately
4. B Davis (capt)
5. D Hitchlock
6. G Roberts
7. M Rothwell
8. G Dawson
9. A Croft
10. G Prytherch
11. J Hodson
12. A Ainscow
13. M. Johnson
14. L Parker
15. A Lambie
Res. M Webster
Res. B McCarthy
Res. A Wilson (TBC)

1. P O’Malley
2. C Parlour
3. D McCready
4. S Clarke
5. J Bennett
6. F Dunn
7. P Shopland-Reed
8. K Mahood
9. S Fogarty
10. P Armstrong
11. A Frost
12. J Thomas
13. S James
14. T King
15. N Gordon
Res. G Pearson
Res. M Waterhouse (TBC)
Res. M palfreyman (TBC)

1. T McDermott
2. A Povey
3. N O’Donovan
4. P Doyle
5. T Gladwin (capt)
6. J Stripp
7. S Tasker
8. P Kearney
9. G Owens
10. R Ward
11. J Lyon
12. S Eve
13. M Essex
14. P Jamieson
15. Joe Hodson
Res. TBC
Res. TBC
Res. TBC

1. B Stevenson
2. S Richmond
3. N Roper
4. R Gibbon (capt)
5. P Waywell
6. E Quirk
7. M Tamblyn
8. C Sibley
9. J Kendrick
10. A Glover
11. I Critchley
12. G Dowling
13. S Lambie
14. J Robertson
15. A Bennett
Res. J Broxton
Res. M Chesworth
Res. A Morrison

Having previously held ‘Strength Camps’ at Fylde RFC Steel Habitat comes to Ormskirk! This ‘Strength Camp’ in Ormskirk will be the 1st to be held at this location. Head coach Mike Waywell alongside his coaching support staff will take charge of this camp, an Everton FC strength & conditioning intern will give the presentations on […]

Ormskirk again came off second best against a team that they will feel they could have beat after a mistake-ridden 10 minute period of the 2nd half allowed Hoylake to run in 3 unanswered tries. Due to a combination on injury, unavailability and suspension ‘Kirk were forced to make 6 changes to the team that […]

HOYLAKE 2NDS 62-7 ORMSKIRK LIONS (4ths) SATURDAY OCTOBER 8TH 2011
‘Do you not see how necessary a world of pain and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?’ John Keats, English poet, 1795-1821.
Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan. No matter what the heart tells you, you will hit that […]

1. H Hirsimaki
2. G Bowling
3. V Gately
4. P Davis
5. C Kirby (TBC)
6. M Rothwell
7. G Roberts
8. D Hitchlock
9. A Croft
10. G Prytherch (capt)
11. R Doolan
12. M. Johnson
13. J Hodson
14. B McCarthy
15. L Parker
Res. M Webster
Res. A Wilson (TBC)
Res. R Pope