Yorkshire RFU

Pocklington 7's

Friday 25th March
12:00pm
Created by Lindsey Oddy

The 2016 Pocklington Rugby Sevens

Pocklington RUFC again stages Yorkshire’s oldest and biggest rugby seven-a-side tournament, when the 58th John Smith’s Pock 7s gets underway at 12 noon at Percy Road next Friday (25 March).

The event has been held at Pocklington every Good Friday since 1959, and has grown from humble beginnings into one of the county’s major rugby occasions, becoming an annual Easter reunion for many rugby enthusiasts, with Pocklington exiles travelling back from across the country, and even abroad, for the holiday weekend.

This year’s tournament has a full entry of 24 sides, with again a mixture of local clubs and teams from further afield battling it out in the main competition and plate, including a strong entry of sides from North and East Yorkshire. The 2016 Pock 7s draw was made on the set of BT Sports ‘Rugby Tonight’ programme by TV rugby pundits and former England stars, Ugo Monye and Lawrence Dallaglio.

There are eight former winners taking part, with current holders of the Fowler Trophy being Oxfam Crusaders, a group of Norfolk rugby playing schoolfriends who put together a sevens team to raise money for charity.

The action gets underway early at 12 noon, with a first round tie between Hull Ionians and Selby. More than six hours of non-stop sevens rugby follows with the final scheduled for 5.40 pm.

Draw
First Round
A: Hull Ionians v Selby (12.00)
B: Old Pocklingtonians v Old Peterites (12.20)
C: Driffield v Yapham Badgers (12.40)
D: Bridlington v The Pilgrims (1.00)
E: York v Stingers 7s (1.20)
F: Goole v Brookfield (1.40)
G: Woldgate OB v Social Stingers (2.00)
H: Old Tridents v Three Feathers (2.20)
Second Round
Leeds Beckett v Winner A (12.40)
Old Hymerians v Winner B (1.00)
Newitts Centurians v Winner C (1.20)
Pocklington v Winner D (1.40)
Oxfam Crusaders v Winner E (2.00)
Malton & Norton v Winner F (2.20)
Northern v Winner G (2.40)
Doncaster Phoenix v Old Hymerians (3.00)