25th February 2007 - Royals 3-0 Red Rovers

Royals showed no lack of practice or match fitness as they comfortably defeated Red Rovers by 3 goals to 0 today at Russell's Meadow. A hat trick by substitute Bourne made sure of the result. Red Rovers came to physically outplay the Royals but the superior fitness and skill paid off in the Royals favour.

Royals stay 2 points clear at the top of the table tonight, whatever the outcome of the other results.

A full match report will appear here.

21st February 2007 - Red Rovers match review

Royals take on red Rovers this weekend in their first game for 3 weeks. Their last game, which seems a long time ago was the creditable 1-1 draw with Onny eagles at the end of January.

Red Rovers come to the match straight from a superb win over Presteigne North in the quarter finals of the cup, whom they defeated by two goals to one, and are thought to be back to full strength for the forthcoming game.

The games takes place at Russell's Meadow with a 10:30am kick off.

21st February 2007 - Training re-commences on Thursday

Training re-commences on Thursday evening from 6-7pm at the school tennis courts. Almost 3 weeks have elapsed since the squad last trained due to inclement weather and half-term.

19th February 2007 - Royals players give good account against Hereford

Seven Royals players represented for the Stoke City Development Centre on Friday night against the Hereford School of Excellence. Although the results went against Stoke, 0-1 and 0-3, both matches were actually close games.

It was the first time that many of the Royals team had played in a competitive match with their Meole Brace counterparts but they showed no signs of not having played together before.

All players came through without injury and although Royals have not had a game for nearly 3 weeks, fitness was not a problem.

14th February 2006 - Royals have Wikipedia entry

The Royals now have their own entry in the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project which was launched in 2001. The Royals entry can be found here.

12th February 2006 - Royals players selected to play for Stoke City

Although the Royals have not played a competitive game for 2 weeks, some of the squad will however get some match practice. Michael Brayne, Rory Smith, Harvey Carless-Turland, Tom Lewis, Craig Keugler, Sam Green and Luke Miles have all been selected to represent Stoke City when they play Hereford on Friday night.

12th February 2007 - No training during half term week

There will be no training this week as it is half term week.

9th February 2007 - Onny Plus friendly called off

The game on Sunday against Onny Plus has been called off due to the adverse weather conditions.

8th February 2006 - Training cancelled tonight

There is no training tonight for the Royals due to the inclement weather.

8th February 2007 - Royals keen for Onny friendly to go ahead.

Royals will be hoping that this weekend's friendly fixture against Onny Plus will go ahead, despite the weather. With several players coming back from illness, the match would be a welcome workout  for them to re-gain fitness, prior to the second half of the season's "run in" It would also be an opportunity for the reserves to get some match practice.
Brayne, Groom, Smith and Agnew have all missed training through illness but have all now recovered.

The match is due to be played at the Burway, Ludlow on Sunday with a 11am kick off.

If the match does go ahead Royals will be playing in red.

6th February 2007 - Desktop wallpapers now available

Two new Royals desktop wallpapers are now available for download, to have as your Windows desktop. They can be found here. There is also a link on the homepage.

5th February 2007 - Weekend results roundup

Only one match took place in division 1 this weekend, between Onny Eagles and Red Rovers, where the Eagles came away 11-1 winners. This means that the gap at the top of division 1 is now down to 2 points, with both the Royals and Onny having played 4 games.

4th February 2007 - Free weekend suits Royals

Royals postponed match against Ludlow benefited them in the end. Four first team players are suffering from a virus and the time off will aid their recovery. Groom, Brayne, Smith and Agnew are all on the sick list, although at different stages of recovery. With a friendly against Onny Plus arranged for next weekend, it is hoped that all four will be back to something near full fitness.