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ALL Yarnbury's games on Saturday were postponed but the club dinner took place last Thursday.

Traditionally Yarnbury hold their annual dinner on the Thursday before Easter and this year was no exception as they celebrated their 136th year in existence and as such are known as Yarnbury (Horsforth) RFC before the split with Rugby League.

Although nowadays it is nothing but a distant memory this title shows a committment to propogating rugby sport in the community and this was the gist of the speech given by Yarnbury's 80 year-old president Raymond Johnson when he gave a toast to Yorkshire Rugby and the game.

Raymond is Mr Yarnbury' to old and young alike having served the club for half of the last century.

He explained the massive progress made on the playing side over the last year with four teams on the field every week despite atrocious conditions recently.

Yarnbury Senior side are pushing for promotion to Yorkshire One in third spot.

The second string (Yarnbury Hornets) are top of the second team merit league and thirds and fourths/veterans are performing well every week.

Also the Yarnbury Colts are top of League 2 and stronger than for many years with the U-17s following the same development path.

Paul Trigg, Yorkshire Council member, responded to the toast on behalf of Yorkshire Rugby and first team skipper Ben Horner thanked the guests for their support.

These included Paul Trigg, Tony Keegan (Old Modernians), Richard Smith (West Leeds), Jim Chapman (Aireborough) and Alex Bowden representing Beverley.

The guests numbering around 100 had a thoroughly enjoyable evening, the event being finished off with performance by a local comedian.

Saturday sees a return to league action at Dinnington for a crucial game and the Aire-Wharfe Cup between Yarnbury Hornets and Aireborough first team will be re-arranged for early April after Saturday's snow postponed all games.

10:18am Thursday 27th March 2008

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