Development XV Win Sussex Bowl

The Development XV travelled to Haywards Heath to defend their Sussex Bowl title on a wet and windy bank holiday Sunday. With captain Terry Butler unavailable and the County’s decision to stage the Colts Final between Worthing and Lewes immediately before the senior game claiming seven of the youngsters who have played in the D’s, it was a much changed team sheet which manager Mark Sanderson filled in. more...

Development XV Bowl Final

Sunday 2nd May sees the Development XV travel to Haywards Heath to play Chichester 2nds in the final of the Sussex Bowl. After beating Lewes 2nds and Brighton 2nds in previous rounds the D's will be looking to retain the Bowl that the 3rd XV won last season.

Bunce's homehardware sponsor the Development XV

Worthing RFC is very grateful to Bunce's homehardware for providing excellent support to the Development XV. The team are pictured here in their brand new kit. Will all WRFC members please make sure that they support Bunce's homehardware at every opportunity. Their web site can be reached by clicking on the advert on the right hand side of the WRFC Home Page.

Brighton 2nd XV v Worthing Development

When most of the county was frozen out, the Development side travelled to Brighton. The warm up began in earnest on the 3G pitch after a pitch inspection had revealed a firm but thawing pitch and it had sufficiently thawed so that the game could be started on the main pitch with the option of transferring to the ATP if the need arose at half time.
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Worthing Development v Crawley 1st XV

The eagerly awaited meeting of the top two sides in Sussex 1 took place at The Rugby Park on Saturday.
There were many questions being asked as to how good the two sides were and as always in a game like this the questions remain unanswered.
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Lewes 2nd XV v Worthing Development

Sussex Bowl - Lewes 2nd XV v Worthing Development XV
21st November 2009

Worthing Dev XV travelled to Lewes for the second time in two weeks to start their defence of the Sussex Bowl.

Yet again there were major changes to the side form the previous week and the need to include the evergreen Derek Cleaves ( 50 something young), in the front row highlights the dearth of fit front row players everyone seems to be suffering.

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Holbrook 1st XV v Worthing Development

Our arrival at Holbrook was somewhat fragmented as for most of the team this was their first visit to “The Holbrook Club” and it proved difficult for some people to navigate their way there.
The weather conditions were clearly going to be a major influence on the style of rugby that anyone was going to be able to play with 60 mph winds forecast for 3 pm.
During the warm up, seeing the size of not just the Holbrook pack but also their backs, gave cause to concern for El Tel. We had a relatively small side out and it was clearly going to be a forward’s day.
The briefing from Mick on Thursday had been “I want a fast wide game” oh how wrong you can be!
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Worthing Development v Seaford 1st XV

Saturday and the visitors to the roundstone this week were Seaford who were arriving off the back of a good win last week. The weather had poured down since the early hours of Saturday morning but fortunately the rain abated 1 hour before kick- off and it turned into a pleasant Autumn afternoon.
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Worthing Development 38 v 19 Burgess Hill 1st XV

Worthing Took to the field wearing the New strip that has been kindly sponsored by Bunce’s the Home Hardware Sussex based company that has been serving the people of Sussex for over 80 years, thank you.
Saturday saw the Development side entertain the table topping side from Burgess Hill, the game kicked off with the visitors much the stronger of the two sides. more...

Uckfield 1st XV v Worthing Development

The development side travelled to Uckfield on Saturday to take on one of the inform sides in the Sussex 1 league, quite a large and partisan but friendly and knowledgeable crowd came to cheer on the home side on.
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