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www.rugbyleagueinternationalscores.com/News/CZRLNewsMAY2008.doc

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www.czechrugbyleague.com/

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Spoke with Andy Fairhurst on the weekend after the RL GF, looks like the Czech v Germany game will be on the 1st weekend of August in Czech rep, most probably either Prague again or in Beroun.

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www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1029

This is awesome news... Michael I have played the Heidelberg nines with, top guy and andy is also very good. I know both well.

RUGBY LEAGUE DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS ANNOUNCED IN CZECH REPUBLICþ
Tuesday 10th March 2009

Michal Priputen and Andy Mulhall have been appointed as the first part time development officers in the Czech Republic by the Rugby League European Federation.

The pair will share some duties and cover different geographical regions, Michal looking after West and Central Bohemia - which includes areas such as Beroun and Praha - and Andy concentrating on East Bohemia and Moravia - which takes in Brno and Pardubice.

31 year old garden designer and site manager Michal is a native of Prague who is a current Czech Republic Rugby League international while Brisbane-born Andy, who was graded with Souths in the city, has been living in the country for the past five years and been involved in RL development there for the last three seasons.

A graduate in sociology and political economy, he has previous experience of development work in Melbourne and Hobart and is currently in the process of writing a PhD in sports management with an emphasis on RL development in emerging nations.

President and Secretary of Czech RL Milan Mrtynek welcomed the pair to their new posts.

"The appointment of Michal and Andrew means that we can now spread geographically across the Czech Republic to reflect the growing interest in the game" he said.

"Their experience, enthusiasm and hard work will also allow us to launch the Czech Republic's first domestic competition in the Summer."

RLEF Development Executive Kevin Rudd commented, "This builds on the hard work put in place by the Czech RL Board and Andy Fairhurst who left the country to further his studies at Leeds Met University after organising our successful under 18's tournament there last summer."

"The RLEF are happy to support the Board's strategy for integrated development and we hope that this provides a further building block towards instituting a senior domestic competition and further junior involement in the sport."

[Druzik]

CzRL 2009 programme

17.4.09: Beroun v Pardubice (14.00: Srbska)
25.4.09: Pardubice 5 aside touch tourney
British 18s v Czech youth
2.5.09: Slavic Cup: Czech v Serbian universities (Pardubice)
30.5.09: CzRL domestic semi-finals (Praha)
13.6.09: CzRL finals (Pardubice)
20.6.09: Bohemia v Moravia (Praha)
20.6.09: Catalonia vs. Czech Republic (Barcelona)
27.6.09: Czech Republic v Oldham (Praha)
4.7.09: Czech Rep v Germany (Olomouc)
11.7.09: Italy v Czech Rep (Padova)

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www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1067

MORAVIA CLAIM ORIGIN CROWN
Sunday 17th May 2009

Moravia won the inaugural Czech Rugby League State of Origin clash, beating Bohemia 48-32 in a terrific showdown in Prague.

Magnificently led by hat trick hero and man of the match Josef Kuchera, the Moravians produced a stunning first half display before Bohemia hit back to trail by just ten points on the hour.

The Moravians - drawn largely from Czech soldiers based in Praslavice just outside the city of Olomouc - hit the ground running, Michal Kuchera claiming the history-making opening try after four minutes, part of a personal haul of 16 points as he also landed six conversions.

His brother Jan posted his first four-pointer soon after, Andrew Mulhall replying for Bohemia.

Filip Kopecky narrowed the gap further but three tries in seven minutes from Marcel Mana, Zdenek Zahrada and Joseph Kuchera’s second stretched the Moravian lead to 26-8.

Czech Republic skipper Michal Priputen’s try and a goal by Jan Buben put Bohemia back in touch but five minutes before the break Kristian Ernst fought his way across to make it 32-14 at half time.

Zahrada’s double a minute in the second half looked to have secured victory but as Moravia's big men tired in the humid conditions, Bohemia began to work their way back into the game.

The selection, mainly made up of young players from club sides Pardubice Jets and Beroun Black Panthers, dominated a fifteen minute spell when they crossed three times through David Lahr, Buben and Priputen’s brace to make it 38-28 but they were unable to close the gap any further.

Martin Giel’s try in the 65th minute eased Moravia into a decisive lead and they ensured an historic victory when Josef Kuchera clamed his side’s ninth and his third touchdown.

Showing terrific spirit and resolve, Bohemia had the final say when Vlado Sapar crossed for his side’s seventh try, Buben kicking only two goals.

Although a loser on the day, Mulhall, the Rugby League European Federation's Eastern Bohemian & Moravian development officer, believed the game was highly significant for Czech Rugby League as a whole.

“We saw a lot of young talent come through today” he said. “We're really looking forward to establishing this fixture as an annual State of Origin clash to serve as a basis for national team selection.”

[Ryan N]

May 19, 2009 21:24:44 GMT 10 Druzik said:

www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1067

MORAVIA CLAIM ORIGIN CROWN
Sunday 17th May 2009

Moravia won the inaugural Czech Rugby League State of Origin clash, beating Bohemia 48-32 in a terrific showdown in Prague.

Magnificently led by hat trick hero and man of the match Josef Kuchera, the Moravians produced a stunning first half display before Bohemia hit back to trail by just ten points on the hour.

The Moravians - drawn largely from Czech soldiers based in Praslavice just outside the city of Olomouc - hit the ground running, Michal Kuchera claiming the history-making opening try after four minutes, part of a personal haul of 16 points as he also landed six conversions.

His brother Jan posted his first four-pointer soon after, Andrew Mulhall replying for Bohemia.

Filip Kopecky narrowed the gap further but three tries in seven minutes from Marcel Mana, Zdenek Zahrada and Joseph Kuchera’s second stretched the Moravian lead to 26-8.

Czech Republic skipper Michal Priputen’s try and a goal by Jan Buben put Bohemia back in touch but five minutes before the break Kristian Ernst fought his way across to make it 32-14 at half time.

Zahrada’s double a minute in the second half looked to have secured victory but as Moravia's big men tired in the humid conditions, Bohemia began to work their way back into the game.

The selection, mainly made up of young players from club sides Pardubice Jets and Beroun Black Panthers, dominated a fifteen minute spell when they crossed three times through David Lahr, Buben and Priputen’s brace to make it 38-28 but they were unable to close the gap any further.

Martin Giel’s try in the 65th minute eased Moravia into a decisive lead and they ensured an historic victory when Josef Kuchera clamed his side’s ninth and his third touchdown.

Showing terrific spirit and resolve, Bohemia had the final say when Vlado Sapar crossed for his side’s seventh try, Buben kicking only two goals.

Although a loser on the day, Mulhall, the Rugby League European Federation's Eastern Bohemian & Moravian development officer, believed the game was highly significant for Czech Rugby League as a whole.

“We saw a lot of young talent come through today” he said. “We're really looking forward to establishing this fixture as an annual State of Origin clash to serve as a basis for national team selection.”

What's going on here? Were the dates changed? Or did you have them wrong on the site? I had it on the News Fader but at a different date...

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I guess it must have been moves, since the Czechs are playing Catalonia on the 20th and its when this was originally scheduled. But the SoO is trhe selection game for the national team so they needed to have it now. They have now 4-5 weeks to have the team get into camp and train...

Yeah I suppose they changed it from what I was given originally... but I was never notified of the change.

Sorry.

[rhino]

Just received word from Dan

Czech republic has beaten Germany 30 - 4 in the Central Euro Derby.

Dan was at the game and will give a full report on his return

[jim]

Jul 5, 2009 9:14:26 GMT 10 rhino said:

Just received word from Dan

Czech republic has beaten Germany 30 - 4 in the Central Euro Derby.

Dan was at the game and will give a full report on his return

That's quite a turnaround. The Germany squad looks much the same so it looks like the Czech's have got alot stronger, although they were smashed by Catalonia who I would have thought are about on par with Germany

Looks like it's a battle between the Czechs and Italy now, still think Italy will have them but it is unpredictable.

How did Catalonia go against Morocco anybody know?

[rld]

Jul 5, 2009 22:40:24 GMT 10 jim said:

Jul 5, 2009 9:14:26 GMT 10 rhino said:

Just received word from Dan

Czech republic has beaten Germany 30 - 4 in the Central Euro Derby.

Dan was at the game and will give a full report on his return

We certainly missed Leo Berngruber at 7 who has retired. Also we were missing our main Prop Moritz Hottenrott who sadly had to pull out last minute due to family commitments and others like Nico Koch, Michael Glaser, Markus Keinhorst, Alex Klöpper. But that should take nothing away from the Czechs who were tough and have an Army team playing now and so are a bit fitter and aggresive than last year.

It was 10-6 at half time but things went from bad to worse in the second half especially with a weak inexperienced bench. Germany had a couple of guys new to Rugby League and odd guy drafted in on Thursday evening who had only played just 20 minutes of any form of Rugby when he played in last weeks State of Origin as we had problems bringing in somebody as they needed to have Friday off work! 5 players pulled out with less than 5 days to go-similar to the Czechs last year when they played Germany. And thats the problem when you take an amateur team on a long trip people pull out and the preparation is never as good as it should be because of various reasons.

It was a bad day at the office for Germany as we lost 4 experienced players in the second half to injury- Simon Cooper, Jimmy Keinhorst, Kristian Keinhorst (Captain) and Domink Bastian. Sadly 6,9 and 13 were off. Hopefully all should be back but Domink Bastian at Fullback looks out with a shoulder injury.

The Czechs deserved the win and hope this gives them a boost in promoting the game there and as usual they were the perfect hosts. Congrats to the Czechs and fully deserved. Germany have many things to look at both as individuals and as a team. Domestically the Czechs are in front of Germany and probably that was another factor. We in Germany need to get more games on though many people have to travel 3 hours or more just to get a game on and thats where a lot of Germany problems lie in the fact that the 80-90 based players are spread all over from Bad Reichenhall to Cologne which is a distance of 720km!!

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Simon as you say it was a deserved win by the Czechs, but the signs are there for Germany that despite the inexperienced team, there are the players in the lower rakns that should be able to step up and fill the void in the future.

I thought it was a pretty good exciting game over all, the game did stand in the balance at half time and I think the 11-1 penalty count should have given you more points but in the end the inexperience did show a bit.

Nice to see a good warm up with some amateur boxing

The setting as always in Europe was superb with a well overe 1000 year old town as the backdrop with one of the most spectacular cathedfrals in Europ looming over the stadium.

Hopefully Germany can get a win over the Italians in two weeks.

I will try and get some photos up tomorrow.

[rld]

When you lose your 6,9 and 13 its always a hard ask. Sadly 4 players dropped out with less than 5 days to go so the hunt to find players free to travel Friday was on and our bench was weak to say the least. Sebastian Vermaat has only played 20 minutes of any rugby and did not drop the ball once despite playing Prop/Back row most of the 2nd half. We were lucky to find 4 players who could get Friday off work to travel
I dont know why but it was just whatever we did failed.It was the experienced guys who made many mistakes- Jimmy Keinhorst failing to find touch with a kick. Nick keinhorst failure to kick a simple conversion. Jimmy Keinhorst losing the ball on a break. I lost the ball twice for no reason as did Micky Reinhold and Kris Keinhorst. Was just the basics we did wrong and we simply did not deserve to win or get any where near. Was frustrating to say the least especially after spending a lot of the week chasing round trying to find 4 Players. On Thursday we had one Sub! So least we got 17 out.

What Boxing? Who got the yellow? And I am a little angel mate as you well know!

[Spider]

Jul 5, 2009 22:40:24 GMT 10 jim said:

Jul 5, 2009 9:14:26 GMT 10 rhino said:

How did Catalonia go against Morocco anybody know?

Morocco won 29-6.

Congrats to Czechs for their first win!

[Druzik]

Jul 7, 2009 3:28:09 GMT 10 rld said:

When you lose your 6,9 and 13 its always a hard ask. Sadly 4 players dropped out with less than 5 days to go so the hunt to find players free to travel Friday was on and our bench was weak to say the least. Sebastian Vermaat has only played 20 minutes of any rugby and did not drop the ball once despite playing Prop/Back row most of the 2nd half. We were lucky to find 4 players who could get Friday off work to travel
I dont know why but it was just whatever we did failed.It was the experienced guys who made many mistakes- Jimmy Keinhorst failing to find touch with a kick. Nick keinhorst failure to kick a simple conversion. Jimmy Keinhorst losing the ball on a break. I lost the ball twice for no reason as did Micky Reinhold and Kris Keinhorst. Was just the basics we did wrong and we simply did not deserve to win or get any where near. Was frustrating to say the least especially after spending a lot of the week chasing round trying to find 4 Players. On Thursday we had one Sub! So least we got 17 out.

What Boxing? Who got the yellow? And I am a little angel mate as you well know!

I am not naming names... yes Kucera got the Yellow ... lol ... he did charge with the elbow Oh yes I know your an "angel"