West Dublin Rhinos American Football

Rhinos 4th Annual Awards Night

Oct 242011

A big thank to you all of you who came out on the night of the 2nd of October to support the Dublin Rhinos as they celebrated their 4th Annual Awards Night.

After a long season with ups and downs it was the perfect way to end the season and unwind with friends and family.

The awards winners were:

Offensive Most Valuable Player: Ross Carrick

Defensive Most Valuable Player: Adam Skelly

Special Teams Most Valuable Player: Barry Bolton

Captains Award: Lorcan Sherlock

Rookie of the Year: Paul Hosford

A big thank you also goes out to some of the Rhinos supporters who kindly donated prizes for the raffle held on the night.

We also have to extend our thanks to The Foxhunter Pub, Lucan for their continued hospitality.

Pictures from the night to follow.

Rhinos reminder!

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Sep 302011

The Rhinos start preparing for the 2011/12 season this coming Sunday, October 2nd 2011 @ 11:30am.

The Rhinos first annual football combine is taking place this Sunday in Castleknock College.

All new and returning players are welcome to attend. Suitable training gear required, boots, tracksuits etc.

See you Sunday!

Rhinos 1st Annual Football Combine

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Sep 012011

Rhinos players of old, present and future are invited to attend the Dublin Rhinos 1st Annual Football Combine being held on the 2nd of October at Castleknock College.

The Rhinos are celebrating returning to training towards Shamrock Bowl XXVI with an NFL-style Football Combine.

There will be a number of different drills being run on the day, a selection of which you can see below to whet your appetite.

The 40 yard dash, the meat and potatoes of the combine. This is a straight forward measurement of speed.

The Vertical Jump, how high can you go?

The Broad Jump.

The 20 Yard Shuffle.

The 3 Cone Drill.

So as you can see there is plenty to look forward to on October 2nd. It will give a good indication to ourselves, and indeed to our coaches of the current ability we all possess. Over the course of our preseason we will be aiming to improve our fitness and skill level and we will run a second combine before the start of the season to find out how much we have progressed.

Oh and there is no need to worry, there will be none of this at our comine…

See you on October 2nd folks!

Annual General Meeting Success

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Sep 012011

The Rhinos Annual General Meeting for the 2011/2012 Irish American Football League Season was held last night at the Foxhunter Pub, Lucan.

The meeting was attended by over 20 current players and coaches to discuss the path the Rhinos are going to take to Shamrock Bowl XXVI next year.

The current serving board of 5 was re-elected and have retained their positions, they are as follows:

Chairman: Daniel Breslin

Secretary: Barry Bolton

Treasurer: Christine Hayes

Board Member: Stevie Moon

Board Member: Pauly O’ Tooley (it rhymes)

The most hotly discussed topic of the meeting was training. Training for the coming season starts back in 5 Sundays time. October 2nd will see the Rhinos host an NFL-style football Combine for all current and any potential players who wish to join the team. This will be an enjoyable day and a good way to ease back into the training routine.

For current team members, particularly those who missed the meeting, full details will be circulated in the usual manner.

Until then, get practicing your 40 yard dash times because we have a combine coming up!

Rhinos AGM upcoming!

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Aug 152011

The Dublin Rhinos Annual General Meeting is coming up shortly.

The meeting is due to take place on August 31st at the Foxhunter Pub in Lucan. The meeting will kick off at 7:30 PM and a full agenda of topics has been prepared for the evening.

All current and potential players/coaches are encouraged to attend.

Rhinos 14 - 24 Cowboys

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Jun 272011

The last game of the season for the Dublin Rhinos saw them travel to sunny Lurgan where they took on the Craigavon Cowboys in what was a must win game for the playoff hopeful Cowboys.

The final result came in as a 24-14 loss to the Cowboys, the Rhinos with only pride to play for travelled well and played their signature hard nosed football.

Full report will follow.

Rhinos given 30-0 victory over Trinity.

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Jun 192011

The Rhinos were gifted with a 30-0 victory over central division rivals, Trinity College after Trinity were forced to pull out of the fixture.

Unfortunately there was no option to rearrange the fixture to a more suitable date and a forfeit was the only option.

After a thrilling match up earlier in the season everybody on the Rhinos was aching to get another chance to play the Trinity students but this rivalry will have to be put on hold until next season.