Middlesex Rugby
Northolt/SODAM Festival
Results & report
| Teams | W | D | L | Try’s | Pts F & A | Pts | Bonus Pts | Total | Pos |
| Sodam RFC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 144-10 | 30 | 3-1 | 32 | 1 |
| O Isleworthians RFC (TTteam) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 102-53 | 24 | 3 | 27 | 2 |
| Lon. JapaneseRFC | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 58-89 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 3 |
| West London RFC | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 33-79 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
| Ealing Exiles RFC | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 44-88 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
| Northolt RFC | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 17-74 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Ian Wells writes
The Northolt/SODAM Charity Challenge Trophy 28 April 2007
The 2nd Northolt/SODAM Charity Challenge Trophy sponsored by Waverley TSB formerly Beersellers, was held at Northolt RFC on Saturday 28 April. Six teams took part, SODAM, Northolt, West London, Ealing Exiles, Old Isleworthians and London Japanese! This annual tournament, is about having fun and enjoying good competition, but equally important it is to raise funds for a different charity each year.
Last year the tournament raised £350 for the Booths Children’s Hospital Burns Unit in Cheshire which operated on one of SODAMs former Captains more times than he cares to remember and almost a further £100 for equipment for the Northolt minis section.
This year the charity chosen to receive support was the Friends of Rwanda Rugby whose aim is to support school and community participation in the game of rugby, promote reconciliation and encourage a healthy and active lifestyle amongst the Rwandan people.
It was a glorious day which coupled with the hard uneven pitches meant a tough day ahead for the competitors. But before the competition could even start a work party from Northolt, consisting of Colin, John, Pete (who managed to get sun stroke) and Steve needed to erect the new posts which had only been delivered for the second pitch the afternoon before.
The tournament was again to be played in a round robin format with each team expected to play 5×30 min games! Something, which, proved hard going for several teams, particularly those with the smaller squads.
It came as no surprise to see the London Japanese arrive first with plenty of time to spare but with other teams struggling for numbers the start was delayed for 30 mins but even then SODAM who were not involved in the opening games had to lend two of its squad to Ealing to get things going.
The tournament started with two competitive matches between West London and Ealing Exiles and the London Japanese and Northolt with West London just edging out Ealing and the team play and organisation of the London Japanese proving too much for Northolt who went down 19-00. The next round saw the two strongest teams as it turned out playing what effectively decided the trophy with SODAM narrowly beating Old Isleworth 14-10 after taking an early 14 nil lead. This also proved to be the only game in which a yellow card was issued. Dom it is all yours! Both teams went on to record 3 further wins with SODAM recording 19 unanswered tries and Old Isleworth scoring another 13 but neither had to play their final games which were forfeited as 15-00 defeats by West London and Northolt who were feeling the effects of the days efforts.
The top try scorer was Trevor of Old Isleworth who ran in 8 tries closely followed by the SODAM half backs Rob Robinson (6) and Dom Wilson (5)
The raffle raised £177 and the total raised for the during the afternoon for the Friends of Rwanda Rugby was £527.
