October 2011

Royal Navy Senior XV Produces a Positive Start to the International Defence Worl

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The Navy made their debut in the inaugural IDWC 11 with a solid performance against an experienced Australian Federal Police team running out comfortable winners by 73 points to nil. The Navy side fielded some new faces with 5 players pulling on the dark blue shirt for the first time. On a surprisingly cold and damp afternoon in Viking Park, Canberra the Navy made a bright start with LS (Kev) McCrossan (HMS Lancaster) taking the Navy's kick off and driving the ball deep into AFP territory, after several phases of play a scrum was awarded to AFP on their own line, a mistake at the back of the scrum allowed Navy Skipper PO (Dave) Pascoe (RNAS Culdrose) to pounce on the loose ball and touch...

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