His name is Eamon Doyle and he is a fully qualified and experienced rugby coach from Northern Ireland. I'll give you a little background on our new Coach and then set out what we at Frederick Rugby are required to do to ensure that the new Coach can effectively make us a better team.

Eamon began playing rugby at the age of 12 at grammar school then moved on to the Cookstown RFC Men's Club near Ulster, Northern Ireland. In addition to being the A-side Fly Half, Eamon began taking on the role of Player-Coach in 1995. In 1996, Eamon took on the additional role of Head Coach of the local High School team. In 1997, at the age of 26, Eamon's playing career was ended through injury (ACL). He then took over the role of Head Coach at Cookstown RFC, full-time, and began his Coaching accreditation courses with the IRB. By the end of 1998, Eamon was fully accredited up to level 3 Coaching, the highest level attainable in Ireland. This level Coach is authorized to Coach teams from Junior level, through Men's Club to Provincial level (regional all-star teams). At Cookstown RFC, Eamon coached the men’s A-side and B-side as well as the U16 youth squad.

I hope that you can see what a great opportunity we have here. First of all, take a moment to think. Frederick Rugby has done so well that the Club is discussed in Rugby Club bars in England and Irish Coaches want to come to the program. That is credit to all of us, players, former players, Club mates and supporters.

In order for Eamon to build-up the Frederick Rugby Program we need to do a few things for him. Most important is to make the commitment to attend practice. We will also have to work on our fitness, outside of practice, and be open to new ideas. If we go into the Fall ‘99 season together, with the desire to let Eamon help us be the best team in the Mid-Atlantic, there is no way that we can fail.

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Walt Winn has done a great job of expending English John’s creation. Lots of archive stuff and news. If you have e-mail and would like to receive match reports etc just send me an e-mail to

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Saturday July 31^st Middletown, MD

As your newly appointed coach for this Fall season, it gives me great pleasure in joining a club as prestigious as yours. As I have already seen from your new web page, you nearly know more about me than I do. Now for the boring part.

A rugby coach is: a leader; An organizer /manager; a friend/counselor/teacher; a motivator; and a fall guy/scapegoat

My reason for becoming a coach are:

1. To achieve on the field success

2. To help players enjoy themselves

3. To help players develop, both within and outside rugby

4. To help promote and develop rugby as a whole

The continued growth of your rugby club will rely very much on the input of all the members. People willing to contribute to the game need 2 valuable commodities Time and Knowledge/willingness to gain knowledge.

One of the most important issues of any sport as you all well know is FITNESS, FITNESS, FITNESS. I will endeavor to develop your skills and your game.

On a softer note, anybody wishing to talk to me about the game at any stage is more than welcome. If they are carrying two pints (with my name on one) I will talk to them even longer!!

Yours in sport,

This past Saturday (July 17th) a fair number of Frederick guys went down to

Mannassas, VA to play in the Boo-Daddy Sevens Tournament. This is a "Harlot-Fest" format, whereby players enter individually and are then picked out of a hat and randomly assigned to one of 13 teams.

This is a fun time. The rugby is a reasonable level and you get a chance to meet and get to know other rugby players from the area. Last year, Bryan

"Rabbi" Gustafson's team won the Championship, the year before Pete Ireland and I were on the winning side. Frederick always seems to do well, this year was no exception.

Frederick players ended up on several teams. Blue: Eric "The Claw" Aldinger, Brian Taormina and Steve Roads (Frostburg guy training with Frederick) Red: Art Hall and Mike "Tool-Time" Taylor Green: Kenny Orndoff and Darren "Fainting Bear" McCauslin Orange: Jay Myles and Pete Ireland Brown: Jamie Romano White: Bryan "Rabbi" Gustafson Pink: Saverio Roberto Gold: Julian Reading

My team got to the Cup Semi-final but was comprehensively beaten by Art and

Tool's side. In the other Cup Semi-final, The Claw's team beat Kenny's side, having early beaten Saverio's side.

The Cup Final then contained 5 Frederick Players (pretty good showing!!). Eric, Brian and Steve proved too much for Art and Mike in the end, but it was a fun match to watch. Jamie's team won the Plate final (well dome James!).

As you would expect we had to deal with some odd reffing as both Kevin "Pie-man" Fraser and Kevin "F$#@ Me" Eagar were in attendance (just kidding guys HA! HA!).

Frederick rugby rounded out a summer of social sevens in style this weekend, going 4 and 1, to take the Plate trophy.

The day really wasn't as hot as anticipated. Had a fair amount of cloud cover and a little sprinkle of rain. The fields were OK, just hard and brown - but that's 7s for you in Maryland! We all have extra strawberries and weeping wounds!

Frederick turned up with just the right number of players for one of these tournaments.

Jamie Romano and Art Hall turned up in time for the second match (Art's map reading skills have deserted him for the last two weeks) and Timmy Desmond arrived at lunchtime to replace the Ferret (who had to get back home to tend to his pregnant wife). Just in time for the final young Will "Wheels" Brewington strolled up.

The first match placed Frederick against a solid USUSHS team. Unfortunately we were pretty cold and went down 19 - 12. Actually - although this was strictly for fun and all - we were pretty disappointed at letting ourselves down on that one. Of course it was all because Eric Aldinger missed that one tackle (just kidding HA! HA!). That was the only match that Frederick was to lose, but it bumped us out of the Cup and into the Plate competition. Solid wins against West Potomac and Towson State Oldboys rounded out the pool play. In the semi-finals Frederick played very well and beat our local "friends" Washington Irish and then even sweeter went on to thump Severn River in the final. Captain Jamie Romano has a good-looking trophy now acting as Sunny's water bowl at home.

Thanks to Kenny for running things, thanks to everyone for paying and a good time was had by all. Our two college players (just with us for summer vacation) Steve from Frostburg and Cutter from Mount Saint Mary's have both developed really well though the summer and should go back to their programs with some confidence.

Thanks also to Jim and Laurel Ford for stopping by and also the elusive Jeff Lutton was on hand.

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