Archive for the ‘Match Report’ Category
PUC stun BRFC in championship semi-final
BRFC’s dreams of reaching a first corpo championship final for 20 years were dashed by a battling PUC side on Saturday. The visitors outscored their hosts by three tries to one in a 25-13 victory that also ended the expats’ thirteen match unbeaten run. After winning the league phase outright and beating 8th placed Renault two weeks previous – albeit …
by Tom Bentley on April 10th, 2013 Comments Off
BRFC Fight their Way out of the Quarter-Finals vs Renault
Nobody said the route to the final would be easy, but BRFC Paris moved one step closer last Saturday after seeing off the challenge of Renault at Domont. The first competitive game for the expats since the middle of February was always going to be a war of attrition and this was confirmed within the first five minutes of …
by Richard Woolf on March 29th, 2013 Comments Off
Match Report – BRFC closer to home playoff with win over Centrale
The British RFC Paris edged a little closer to finishing top on Saturday with a bonus-point, 27-3 victory over Entraide Centrale. It was the boys’ first home game of 2013 and they capped it with a solid 2nd half display, putting their opponents to bed with a three try blitz. Things weren’t so rosy early on however as Centrale were …
by Tom Bentley on February 20th, 2013 Comments Off
BRFC ease to early morning victory over ACBB
The expat boys confirmed their newly regained, top-of-the-table spot on Saturday with a convincing 38-10 bonus point win over AC Boulogne Billancourt on Saturday. The early morning kick off didn’t put either team off as the game began in earnest with ACBB, a team in the lower echelons of the league, dictating the play. This was more of BRFC’s doing …
by Tom Bentley on February 13th, 2013 Comments Off
Match Report – BRFC survive hail storm to skin PORC on own turf
The BRFC Paris squad is still to taste defeat this season after overcoming a powerful PORC (Paris Olympique Rugby Club) side 19-8 in Bobigny. This was secondary news however to the abomination experienced by the players in the changing room before-hand – a tale that has to be brought to light before any rugby can be covered. As the team …
by Tom Bentley on February 7th, 2013 Comments Off
Match report – BRFC win but fail to impress against Police
Greasy was the operative word as BRFC won 19-8 but failed to impress against a lowly Police 92 side. The expat boys had set out to rake in five points against the bottom placed team but returned with four after a lengthy series of knock-ons in the wet conditions prevented them from scoring the bonus point try. Yet it started …
by Tom Bentley on January 16th, 2013 Comments Off
Match Report – BRFC defeat PUC to reach Christmas Undefeated
BRFC Paris reached the christmas break undefeated after vanquishing a valiant PUC side 10-18 in the trenches of eastern Paris. The expat boys lie 2nd in the table, one point adrift of HEC but with a game in hand after last weekend’s clash with ACBB was prematurely called off on the thursday due to some dangerously blue skies and mild …
by Tom Bentley on December 18th, 2012 Comments Off
BRFC go top with emphatic Pompiers win
On the day England picked off the Kiwis (sorry Dougs), BRFC took their own famous scalp with a four try, 30-10 victory over a previously undefeated Pompiers side. The weighty fireman pack only rarely found a way through the fired-up defence of a home team that quickly extinguished their rival’s hopes with a red-hot display of counter-attacking rugby. It was …
by Tom Bentley on December 6th, 2012 Comments Off
Match Report – BRFC weather HEC onslaught to secure fourth victory
BRFC Paris equalled last year’s tally of wins in only their fifth match of the season with a hard fought victory over an HEC team confident of toppling the XV that beat them so convincingly last season. HEC’s pre and post-match taunts were ridiculed as the expats emerged the bigger men and 6-10 victors from an encounter that could have …
by Tom Bentley on November 21st, 2012 Comments Off
Match Report – BRFC remain undefeated after Bouygues draw
The British RFC maintained their undefeated record in Paris’ 1st Corporate Division this Saturday. It didn’t come with the exact result they were looking for though after drawing 10-10 with a Bouygues side that scrambled well throughout. The first half proved very different to the second up in Domont as Bouygues came into the break leading 5-10. It was BRFC …
by Tom Bentley on November 13th, 2012 Comments Off