10 a side 20 mins each way
Squad:
Harry Gallagher
Max Bilton
Cody Dahler
William Blomfield
Ieuan Preece
Craig Carrington-Porter
Ryan Cummisky
Bradley Sherwood
Charlie Higgs
kurtis Good
Coach Glyn James
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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1 Tony Thoma
2 Graeme Scott
3 Dinu Floredan
4 Steve Demosthenow
5 Dave Carruthers
6 Adam Foggarty
7 George Agathocleous
8 Warren Dean(o)
9 Kyle Kleyn
10 Dimitri Maratheftis
11 Danny Humphreys
12 Matt Lowe
13 Fidias Efthymiou
14 Matt Landers
15 Jack Bilton
16 Andy Michael
17 Charles Gallagher
18 Cameron Carrington-Porter
19 Sotiris Ioannou
20 Nik Panayiotou
Nigel Jarvis
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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Paphos Tigers v 2nd Princess Wales Royal Regiment
(2PWRR)
Joint Services League
Kiniras Sports Ground Paphos
Kick Off 2.30pm
Sat 30th Jan
1.30pm Paphos Tigers Minis Tournament
Invite to Akrotiri, Limassol & Dhekelia
for a Mini Tournament to precede the big match.
Come on down and watch a great afternoon of Rugby
Nigel Jarvis
Secretary
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo.
Dhekelia Lions 29 – Paphos Tigers 7
So the day of the first "Big Cat Fight" arrives. Yet again this fixture had to be rearranged due to pitch & weather conditions in Paphos, so this was played away at Dhekelia.
Rugby is played with a squad of 22 players and all are necessary but unfortunately 6 of the Tigers forwards 14 man squad were carrying injuries so this depleted their back up seriously, so these holes were filled with young Tigers and good old reliable Gary "Sinatra" Thomson who made yet another come back and played brilliantly.
The match got off to a flying start and the Home side Lions narrowly missed a penalty after only 2 minutes, but a hard fought match with the ball travelling from end to end and desperate tackling by both sides to prevent scores being made, kept both teams on their toes and it was 33 minutes before the first score came to the Lions, who created a great try from a short tap penalty, and duly converted to take them to a 7-0 lead.
From the restart a bad kick ahead from the Tigers went straight into the Lions hands and from their own 22 metre they counter attacked and scored again but missed the conversion so the Lions now lead 12 -0, and this score line held until half time.
The Tigers needed a quick score to get back into this game but unfortunately another aimless kick ahead from them resulted in another pick up and counter attack with the Lions getting another converted try and taking them to a good lead of 19-0.
However this was not all one way traffic and the Tigers started to get more possession and their forwards were starting to get the edge over their much larger opponents.
Five minutes late centre George Agathocleous pounced on a loose ball on the Lion's 22 metre line after heavy pressure from the Tigers and sprinted for the line scoring and converting so bringing the Tigers back into this game at 19-7 and another 30 minutes to play..
The Tiger's lineout's were a vast improvement on the previous week with AJ Pugh and Ginge "The Spring" Carruthers doing great work, but it was not enough to claw back the score despite numerous attempts by the Tigers who were just falling narrowly short of scoring, and the Lions took another fifteen minutes before they got another score this time a penalty which took them to 22-7.
This hard battle ensued right into injury time when the Tigers with their backs turned let in an unusually soft try which flattered their opponents score and made the final score Dhekelia Lions 29 Paphos Tigers 7.
This was the first loss of the season for the Tigers and a very hard match had been fought, and both sides were battle scarred bruised and bloody at the end, but a right royal rugby match had been played and enjoyed by both sides and their enthusiastic supporters.
The Tigers now need to go away and lick their wounds and learn to stop aimlessly kicking away such hard earned possession and that will soon get them back into their winning ways
Nigel Jarvis Secretary PTRFC
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon group & Mercato del Golfo.
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Dont forget your passports or ID cards
1 Dinu Floredan
2 Graeme Scott
3 Tony Thoma
4 Steve Demosthenow
5 Dave Carruthers
6 AJ Pugh
7 Cameron Carrington-Porter
8 Chris Thoma
9 Dimitri Maratheftis
10 Matt Lowe (Capt)
11 Danny Humphries
12 Fidias Efthymiou
13 George Agathocleous
14 Matt Landers
15 Jack Bilton
16 Terry Preston
17 Gary Thomson
18 Andy Michael
19 Kyle Kleyn
20 Charles Gallagher
21 Nik Panayiotou
Nigel Jarvis
PTRFC are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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After an unexpected switch of venues from Limassol to Paphos with just a few hours notice, the well organised Tigers supporters managed to get the pitch marked and poles upright in time for a 2.30 kick off.
So this local derby commenced with both teams having to make a lot of changes due to injuries the match was wide open and anybodies for the taking.
Early pressure came from Limassol and only good defence by the Tigers prevented an early score, however after 15 minutes another team change had to be made by Tigers as second row Vlad Mihaylov left with an ankle injury, and for a while their pack lost some formation and Limassol took advantage with a quick tap penalty and almost scored again but were held up by good covering tackles.
The Tigers were starting to put some good moves together but because of last minute errors they were not realised into points , and unusually they even missed a couple of penalties, so went into half time with the score, a probable fair reflection at nil all.
The Tigers needed a quick score to start the second half and thought they had achieved this after 2 minutes, but the referee judged it was knocked on when being grounded and was disallowed. Tiger hooker Graeme Scott disagreed with this decision and was sin binned for 10 minutes for dissent. Limassol took advantage of this situation and nearly scored a try themselves but were forced into touch preventing this score. Several rolling rucks were tried against the Tigers which were held up, and a frustrated Limassol flanker was sinbinned for fighting. However Limassol used their lineout advantage to great effect, and kept the pressure on the Tigers. Both sides were being penalised for silly matters and Limassol No10 Jonathan Davies converted his penalty to take the visitors into a 3-0 lead.
It was another 10 minutes before Tiger George Agathocleous levelled the score, and a quick tap penalty taken by the Tigers was only just held up inches short of the line.
Unfortunately over the next 10 minutes both Tiger's Thoma and Crusaders Spring were both yellow carded, and further penalties were missed, but tries were still to come.
Young Charles Gallagher came into the pack freeing up Agathocleous so the Tigers were able to reshuffle their backs and this made a marked difference to their style and within 5 minutes a try was forthcoming. A great scrum picked up and taken on 3 times by the forwards sucked in Limassol and so the ball went along the backs for George Agathocleous to score under the posts ands he made sure of this conversion taking the Tigers to 10-3
At the restart Tiger Captain Matt Lowe took a hanging 50/50 ball and freed it up to go along the line and George and Dimitri inter passed several times with all their backs covering 60metres before Dimitri scored under the posts, converted again by George.
Final score Tigers 17 Limassol 3.
This was a typical local derby, with both sides missing key personnel, sinbinnings, missed penalties and disallowed tries, but the Tigers have now played 6 and won 6 matches in the League and are currently table toppers, with 6 more matches to go.
Nigel Jarvis Secretary PTRFC
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon group & Mercato del Golfo.
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1 Dinu Floredan
2 Graeme Scott
3 Tony Thoma
4 Steve Demosthenow
5 Vlad Mihaylov
6 Cameron Carrington-Porter
7 George Agathocleous
8 Warren Dean(o)
9 Andrew Michael
10 Dimitri Maratheftis
11 Matt Landers
12 Matt Lowe (Capt)
13 Fidias Efthymiou
14 Danny Humphreys
15 Jack Bilton
16 Terry Preston
17 Ben Stephens
18 Charles Gallagher
19 Sotiris Ioannou
20 Nik Panayiotou
21 AJ Pugh
22 Kyle Kleyn
23 Dave Carruthers
Nigel Jarvis
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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We can now confirm what our next three fixtures are up to the end of January.
16th Jan Limassol Away
23rd Jan Dhekelia Home
30th Jan Dhekelia Away
regards
Nigel Jarvis
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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Tigers 16 Akrotiri 3
On a hot sunny afternoon in early January the Joint Services League recommenced.
The Tigers having won their first four encounters were hoping for another win and the well drilled and coached RAF side were out to spoil this aspiration.
Early pressure from Akrotiri nearly realised points when an attempted drop goal just narrowly missed, and a penalty just after also missed, and it was 20 minutes before Tiger George Agathocleous stepped up and converted his first score to take the Tigers 3-0 up.
The very big heavy Akrotiri pack was hard to control, and their over exuberance in a scrum resulted in another penalty to the Tigers and George stepped up again increasing the Tigers lead to 6-0 and 25 minutes gone.
The match was a very fast and hard encounter and good moves by both teams were only narrowly stopped, and this end to end match was still wide open, and the Tigers were penalised for tackling a man without the ball, and on 30 minutes the Akrotiri No.10 duly slotted his chance and made the score Tigers 6 Akrotiri 3.
Akrotiri kept up the pressure and were trying hard for another score but a scrum on the Tigers 10 metre line was well defended and a great blindside break out by scrum half Kyle Kleyn and Dimitri Maratheftis made over 50 metres to relieve the pressure. However this was not enough and at the next scrum the big RAF pack drove through the Tigers this time, but again good Tiger defence kept them out. Great breaks by big Tiger centres Fidias Efthymiou and George Agathocleous kept causing the RAF all types of problems, and the Akrotiri side were penalised in their desperate defence for "going over the top" of a ruck, and although George missed this chance he did not on the next when young full back Jack Bilton was late tackled, he made sure of this penalty and so at half time the Tigers were leading now by 9 points to 3.
Changes were made to the back row to start the second half and old Tiger campaigner "Deano" replaced the young and improving Sotiris Ioannou at back row, and an early score was just what the Tigers needed, and this happened within the opening few minutes as winger Danny Humphreys kicked ahead for centre George Agathocleous to chase and catch and sprint 40 metres into the corner for a cracking try, which he duly converted as well, giving the Tigers a lead of 16 points to 3.
Penalties were awarded and missed by both sides, and in the last 15 minutes huge efforts were made by Akrotiri to get back into this game but fantastic defence by the Tigers who were adamant that this would not (and did not happen).Numerous rolling rucks and mauls by Akrotiri were kept out by some brilliant tackling and defence and the pride of the Paphos Tigers team.
Three more substitutes were made during the second half including 17 year old Cameron Carrington-Porter making his debut, and so another great win for Paphos and five wins out of five in the league for this triumphant team.
Nigel Jarvis Secretary PTRFC
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo.
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1 Vlad Mihaylov
2 Tony Thoma
3 Dinu Floredan
4 Steve Demosthenow
5 Dave Carruthers
6 Dan Mcfarlane
7 Sotiris Ioannou
8 AJ Pugh
9 Kyle Kleyn
10 Dimitri Maratheftis
11 Matt Landers
12 Fidias Efthymiou
13 George Agathocleous
14 Danny Humphries
15 Jack Bilton
16 Warren Dean
17 Andy Michaels
18 Charles Gallagher
19 Cameron Carrington-Parker
20 Nik Panayiotou
21 Matt Lowe
22 Terry Preston
23 Chris Larsen
Nigel Jarvis
Secretary
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cuprus,
Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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I attach a breakdown of the forthcoming Rugby Internationals so you can plan your support well in advance !!!!
This covers the Heineken Cup, RBS Six Nations and the Summer Internationals
Plus of course the Cyprus International matches that will be played at the Paphiakos Stadium in Paphos.
There's plenty happening so enjoy your rugby and don't forget to support the Paphos Tigers as well.
Nigel Jarvis
Secretary
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon Group & Mercato del Golfo
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Paphos Tigers are back in action in this Chinese Year of the Tiger !!!!
Paphos Tigers v RAF Akrotiri
Joint Services League match
Kick Off 2.30pm
Kiniras Sports Ground
This Saturday 9th Jan 2010
We have won the M1 Lux Cup at the Fun Day , and are undefeated in the league so far this season so come on down and help "roar" the Tigers on.
Nigel Jarvis
Secretary
Paphos Tigers are sponsored by M1 Lux Cyprus, Horizon group and Mercato del Golfo