PLEASE NOTE _ There is a practice at Moore RFC this Monday 8th Feb and Monday 22nd Feb both for 6.00pm.

Cheshire earnt a hard fought victory over Durham on Sunday at Lymm by 20 points to 8.
A scrappy first half were endeavour triumphed over skill ended 3 points all and it was all to play for in the second half. A try by Lewis McKay (Stockport) who stole away from a maul and charged 25 yards to the line was cancelled almost immediately when Durham responded strongly and scored a try in the corner.
It was then nip and tuck for 20 minutes with both sides having opportunities before Jake Winstanley (Stockport) broke from a scrum on the Durham 22 to restore the 5 point lead. In the last 10 minutes Durham threw everything into attack but were met by a resolute defence. In a final attempt to draw level, a loose pass was intercepted by Catahan (Wirral) who raced 75 yards to score under the posts. Bills (Wirral) converted to close out the game. 

Wirral resident David Ewing has been elected to represent Cheshire on the RFU Council from July 2010 replacing the long serving Mike Lord. 
Having been forced to retire as a player at the age of 20 with a detached retina, received whilst playing for Old Birkonians, David spent 4 years with the Liverpool and District Referee Society, before setting up a Colts side at Old Birkonians. He was invited to join the Cheshire Colts committee in 1974, and was appointed a North of England Colts selector in 1975. He has been involved with Cheshire and the North ever since becoming Chairman of North under 18 clubs in 2001 and elected President of Cheshire in 2002. He is also currently Cheshire Chairman of Youth Rugby.
From a sporting family his father, Bill Ewing,  served on the Badminton Association of England and his elder brother Roger Ewing also sits on the BA of E. 
His other brother Bryan was chairman of North Colts. 
David also played Cricket for Cheshire and is currently Chairman of Cricket at Oxton Cricket and Sports club that play in the premier division of the Cheshire County League.
David was Ewing was elected by a majority vote at Cheshire RFU meeting and he will be set for busy period at Twickenham where he is determined to represent the interests of Cheshire RFU & North of England Rugby in general.

Peter Rhodes (President), Colin Free (Chairman of Executive), Bryan Davies (Hon. Treasurer) & Bob Lewis (Asst. Hon. Sec.) attended a meeting at Preston Grasshoppers RFC last night.  The concerns of the representatives from Cheshire, Cumbria & Lancashire where presented to Andrew Scoular (RFU Community Director) as part of the RFU consultation process.  We feel sure that these concerns with regard to the change of RDO title, lower minimum entry qualifications etc have been taken on board.  The three Counties represented have already been at the fore front of changes to CB strategic planning, the roles of the RDO’s & Community Rugby Coaches with Clubs, schools & other outside bodies and the way those people are managed by the Regional Rugby Development Officer Dave Southern.  Although there will be some adjustment to the areas/clubs that the RDO’s deal with this will have little impact on their overall workload.

Bryan Davies – questioned the financial implications which we were assured were no worse than neutral if not a saving of one or two per cent of budget.  He also enquired about the overall CB budget going forward and Mr Scoular appeared to be reasonably positive about future real term increases.

The squad for Sunday against Durham is as follows, with the final side depending on 2 or 3 fitness tests