We have a limited number of tickets available for purchase by sponsors and paid up members for each of England’s two Six Nations matches at Twickenham.

The 2024 matches are versus Wales (Saturday 10th February) followed by Ireland (Saturday 9th March).

Inevitably prices has risen slightly although we do have mainly top notch Category 1 seats.

Please note that tickets will initially only be sold in pairs with payment being required in advance – this is because the RFU has altered it’s payment system.

Sponsors and members should register interest to N.Sylvester@hotmail.uk by 30th September 2023 at the latest.

We have no information regarding England away match tickets at this time.

The Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday 4th July at Tregony Sports & Social Club after pre-season training at the same venue. Approximate Start Time is 8.15pm.

As a transparent and open club, all members are invited to join our Committee – we’re always looking for enthusiastic people to join our merry bunch of volunteers. For further details please refer to www.roselandrfc.com or contact Nick Sylvester (Hon Secretary) by email at N.Sylvester@hotmail.co.uk. All nominations must have been received by Nick by the end of Sunday 25th June at the latest.

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Saturday May 6th

Alverton Hotel, Truro.

6pm for 7.30pm. Carriages at Midnight.

Tickets, £36 per person from Eventbrite or Doug Moore

For rooms please book direct with The Alverton Hotel on 01872 276633 (10% discount)

Mystery guest speaker, you will not be disappointed!

Come and celebrate the Coronation with rugby royalty!

We are sad to report the passing of two great stalwarts of the Club and would like to extend our condolences to their families.

Jill Greet, a life-long resident of Portscatho, passed away recently at the age of 91 years after a short illness. She was a Vice-President of the Club since its founding in 1971. She was also an enthusiastic supporter of Penryn and latterly the Cornish Pirates and was often to be seen at the Mennaye. Jill never failed to pay her subscription to our Club by a cheque in the post every year for over 50 years. We will be forever grateful for her interest and support.

Tony Cowan has been well known to regular supporters on the touchline at Philleigh. He became involved with the Club in 2001 following a trip to see the British and Irish Lions in Australia with some long-standing Club members. For a number of years he took on the role of Team Secretary and became very adept at persuading, cajoling and encouraging players to turn out on Saturday whatever their very good reasons for non-availability! Tony rarely missed a game, home or away, whatever the weather. he regularly travelled with Roger Grove to games and doubtless their combined analysis would have ensured regular victories, if only we could have listened! Tony always enjoyed a couple of pints after the game and a chat with the players and the other supporters. He was much valued as a friend and respected by all who knew him. Tony passed away at home in Veryan. He will be sadly missed.

Saturday March 4th 2023.

K.O. 2.30pm at Philleigh.

You are invited to join us for a great fixture between Roseland, currently placed fifth in the league and top of the league, Perranporth. This is always a challenging game recalling many battles of old. There will be a buffet lunch, for Club Sponsors and Past Players, in the Roseland Inn before the game and conviviality and beer afterwards.

All are welcome – Sponsors, Past Players, Supporters and Friends.

We look forward to seeing you.

As 2022 comes to a close, we take our Christmas/New Year break hoping that all our members and supporters have enjoyed plenty of festive cheer.  

The first half of the season has been challenging for junior club rugby nationwide with Cornwall being no exception.  An alarming number of scheduled fixtures have been cancelled due to falling player participation – it’s good to see that the RFU and CRFU are proactively trying to address the situation as best possible.  On a positive note, this makes it all the more pleasing to report that Roseland RFC has suffered no such fate.  

We have played all 12 of our scheduled pre-Christmas league fixtures, the only exception being our away trip to Camelford who have unfortunately withdrawn from the league due to a continued lack of players.   Our playing record stands at 5 wins and 7 losses as we stand a very respectable 7th out of 10 in Counties 3 Cornwall League.

Having opened strongly against the incredible Redruth Albany, who somehow keep going despite a -792 points difference from 11 games so far this season, we took a bit of a battering away at Launceston.   Then followed a home defeat to St Agnes, when we fell foul of the new guidelines designed to get matches played with less than 15 a side when we thought we had been conceded a victory, and a tough loss at St Just was next.   Hardly in crisis yet in need of a result, the boys bounced back immediately with an away win at Bude (amazing what a bus trip does!) and a great home win against our greatest rivals, Lankelly Fowey in front of an excellent crowd.

Spirited performances followed against a very strong Camborne outfit and Wadebridge, the latter unluckily resulting in a narrow defeat in injury time.   Defeat followed at a rejuvenated Perranporth, in the howling wind and rain, but then possibly the highlight of the season so far – Launceston were our visitors with our boys seeking to avenge a painful 75-10 thrashing in September.  The lads pulled it off with a cracking 17-15 win care of an injury time try.  Finally, at table topping St Agnes, the lads put in another great shift to come away with a losing try bonus point, scoring six tries in total including the final score of the game.  

Most recent was the traditional friendly Boxing Day fixture with Truro – at Truro this year, the game was full of cheer and played in an excellent spirit.   I don’t know what the score was except that both teams scored plenty of tries with Truro expectedly coming out on top.

And so we move on to 2023 and a further 6 league matches, the first of which is the challenging visit of St Just to Philleigh on 7th January, when we hope to see many of you.  This season’s format is such that our league season ends in early March following which various cup competitions commence.  We have been drawn against Camborne School of Mines in the Cornwall Clubs Cup and have elected to enter the Papa John’s Community Cup.  Regionalised in the early rounds, our initial opponents are not yet known be we look forward to it nonetheless, especially as the competition final takes place at Twickenham at the end of April – now that really would be “living the dream” ! 

This just leaves us to thank all our members and sponsors for your continued support and to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.

Cheers

Nick

(Nick Sylvester, Secretary)

Merry Christmas to and from everyone at Roseland RFC.

Boxing Day.

Truro v. Roseland

K.O. 11.00 am

See you there.

Starting with our home game against Lankelly this Saturday we will be collecting foodbank contributions for the local area. Any tins and packets and also toiletries will be most welcome. Please bring your donations to any of our home games for onward distribution to our local foodbanks.

Thank you for your help in helping others.

We have a limited supply of tickets for England home matches at Twickenham against Scotland (4th February) and France (11th March).

Inevitably prices have risen considerably – we do have excellent Category 1 tickets but be aware these are £137 each. 

All members are invited to register interest by email to N.Sylvester@hotmail.co.uk by Monday 24th October at the latest.

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League matches are in Counties Three Tribute Cornwall

Kick-off times – 3pm during BST and 2.30pm during GMT unless otherwise stated.

10/9/22 – Redruth Albany (H)

17/9/22 – Launceston II (A)

24/9/22 – St Agnes (H)

1/10/22 – St Just (A)

15/10/22 – Camelford (H)

22/10/22 – Bude II (A)

29/10/22 – Lankelly-Fowey (H)

5/11/22 – Camborne II (A)

12/11/22 – Wadebridge II (H)

26/11/22 – Perranporth (A)

3/12/22 – Redruth Albany (A)

10/12/22 – Launceston II (H)

17/12/22 – St Agnes (A)

26/12/22 – Truro (A) 12 Noon kick-off

7/1/23 – St Just (H)

14/1/23 – Camelford (A)

21/1/23 – Bude II (H)

28/1/23 – Lankelly-Fowey (A)

11/2/23 – Camborne II (H)

18/2/23 – Wadebridge II (A)

4/3/23 – Perranporth (H)