Simone Franchini 9's - Results

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The Simone Franchini 9's was on Saturday 14th June. With a torential down pour at the start of the day the tournament had about an hours delay. 9 teams competed, BARLA had two teams, Corbeil, Isle d'France (a paris based team), Italy, Amici di Simone which was an italian team, Bad Reichenhal from Germany, Salses from near Perpignan and London Skolars also sent their 3rd team. There were 3 groups of 3 with 4 teams going to the final and the rest playing out a bowl final. The two BARLA teams were very dominant throughout the day as were Corbiel and Skolars. These made it trhough to the Semis and the two BARLA teams made it to the finals with the B team putting on a RL clinic in the final to win 23-4. The Paris team did well also, but there were issues with the registration of the players and so were docted points and played in the bowl group.

So Results are as follows:

BARLA A 32-00 Italy
BARLA B 20-08 London
Bad Reichenhal 00-18 Corbeil
Amici di Simone 00-18 BARLA A
BARLA B 16-00 Salses
Bad Reichenhal 00-14 Isle d France
Italy 08 vs. 04 Amici di Simone
London 14-04 Salses
Corbeil 08-06 Isle d france

STANDINGS

Group A
team P W D L PF PA PD Pt
BARLA A 2 2 0 0 50 00 +50 4
Italy 2 2 1 0 1 8 36 -28 2
Amici di Simone 2 0 0 2 4 26 -22 0

Group B
team P W D L PF PA PD Pt
BARLA B 2 2 0 0 36 8 28 4
London 2 1 0 1 22 24 -2 2
Salses 2 0 0 2 4 30 -26 0

Group C
team P W D L PF PA PD Pt
Corbiel 2 2 0 0 26 6 -20 4
Isle d France 2 1 0 1 20 8 12 2*
Bad Reichenhal 2 0 0 2 0 34 -34 0*

*Isle d France plyed with non registered team, so defaulted their matches. They dropped to the bowl stages.

Semi Finals of top group
BARLA A 26-10 London
BARLA B 20-08 Corbiel

3/4 Play off
Corbiel 18-16 London

Final
BARLA B 23-04 BARLA A


Bowl Qualifier
Salses 20-10 Amici

Bowl Semis
Bad Reichenhal 04-16 Salses
Isle d France 22-06 Italy

Bowl final
Isle d France 18-04 Salses

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There are some photos up here.

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What the BARLA boys get upto in their spare time... I remember watching this thinking what the hell it was!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uYKje__zu4