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SIX DAYS TO GO: THE UPDATED TOP TRY-SCORERS LIST (N0. 10-1)
Who will climb the ranks this season?!
WITH just six days away from our first National One match of the season at home to Darlington Mowden Park (3pm), we update our list of all-time first-team league top try-scorers – can Jez be toppled this term?!
No. 10 – James Baker (-1)
Position: Prop
Total Tries: 48
First Try: Olney (a) – September 3, 2005.
Last Try: Blackheath (a) – November, 25, 2023
Most tries in a game: (1) – 48 times!
Most tries in a season: Eight in 2012/13.
Most tries against: (4) – Oxford Harlequins and Chinnor
Tries by season:
2005/06 (2) – Olney (a), Slough (a).
06/07 (2) – Windsor (h), Swanage & Wareham (h).
07/08 (1) – Reading (h).
09/10 (2) – Chinnor (h), Maidenhead (h).
10/11 (6) – Chinnor (a), Oxford Harlequins (h), Cleve (a), Coney Hill (h), Oxford Harlequins (a), Cheltenham (a).
11/12 (2) – Bournemouth (a), Bridgwater & Albion (a).
12/13 (8) – Maidenhead (h), Malvern (a), Old Patesians (a), Barnstaple (h), Brixham (a), Oxford Harlequins (a), Weston-super-Mare (a), Avonmouth Old Boys (a).
13/14 (7) – Worcester Wanderers (a), Weston-super-Mare (h), Old Centralians (h), Old Patesians (a), Amersham & Chiltern (h), Newton Abbot (a), Old Elthamians (a).
14/15 (3) – Hornets (h), Old Centralians (h), Oxford Harlequins (a).
15/16 (3) – Bury St Edmunds (h), Bishop’s Stortford (h), Worthing (a).
16/17 (1) – Clifton (h)
17/18 (2) – Clifton (h), Taunton (h).
18/19 (4) – Henley (h), Barnes (a), Worthing (h), Clifton (h).
19/20 (2) – Blackheath (a), Cinderford (h).
22/23 (2) – Chinnor (a), Chinnor (h)
23/24 (1) – Blackheath (a)
No. 9= Ben Henderson (=)
Position: Hooker
Total Tries: 51
First Try: Chard (a) – September 27, 2014.
Last Try: Cambridge (a) – January 28, 2023.
Most tries in a game: (2) – Bishop’s Stortford (April 8, 2017), Worthing (April 22, 2017), Broadstreet (October 14, 2017), Canterbury (December 9, 2017), London Irish Wild Geese (September 8, 2018), Tonbridge Juddians (October 20, 2018), Worthing (November 24, 2018), Dings Crusaders (March 2, 2019).
Most tries in a season: 21 in 2018/19.
Most tries against: (6) – Worthing.
Tries by season:
2014/15 (2) – Chard (a), Old Redcliffians (a).
15/16 (2) – Southend (a), Chinnor (a).
16/17 (9) – Barnstaple (h), Bury St Edmunds (a), Bishop’s Stortford (h), Barnes (a), Cinderford (a), Bishop’s Stortford x2 (a), Worthing x2 (h).
17/18 (9) – Broadstreet x2 (h), Wimbledon (a), Canterbury x2 (a), Worthing (h), Chinnor (h), Canterbury (h), Henley (h).
18/19 (21) – Canterbury (h), London Irish Wild Geese x2 (a), Bury St Edmunds (h), Tonbridge Juddian x2 (h), Dings Crusaders (h), Taunton (a), Worthing x2 (h), Redruth (a), Clifton (h), Birmingham & Solihull (a), Old Albanian (h), Barnes (h), Guernsey (a), Tonbridge Juddian (a), Dings Crusaders x2 (a), Worthing (a), Clifton (a).
19/20 (3) – Hull Ionians (h), Sale (a), Chinnor (a).
21/22 (3) – Tonbridge Juddians (h), Chinnor (h), Cinderford (a)
22/23 (2) – Sale (h), Cambridge (a)
No. 9= Max Hayman (+15)
Position: Hooker
Total Tries: 51
First Try: Darlington Mowden Park (a) – October 23, 2021.
Last Try: Birmingham Moseley (a) – April 27, 2024.
Most tries in a game: (3) – Birmingham Moseley (February 25, 2023)/Darlington Mowden Park (November 4, 2024)
Most tries in a season: 26 in 2023/24.
Most tries against: (6) – Birmingham Moseley
Tries by season:
2021/22 (8) – Darlington Mowden Park (a), Sale x2 (h), Plymouth Albion (h), Leeds Tykes (a), Birmingham Moseley x2 (a), Birmingham Moseley (h).
2022/23 (17) – Esher (h), Chinnor x2 (a), Bishop’s Stortford x2 (a), Leeds Tykes x2 (a), Plymouth Albion (h), Taunton Titans (a), Bishop’s Stortford (h), Cambridge (a), Chinnor (h), Rosslyn Park (h), Birmingham Moseley x3 (a), Plymouth Albion (a)
2023/24 (26) – Birmingham Moseley (h), Sedgley Park (a), Rosslyn Park x2 (h), Taunton Titans (a), Bishop’s Stortford (h), Leicester Lions (a), Darlington Mowden Park x3 (h), Sale x2 (a), Richmond (a), Sedgley Park (h), Rosslyn Park x2 (a), Leicester Lions (h), Darlington Mowden Park x2 (a), Sale (h), Cinderford x2 (a), Plymouth Albion x2 (a), Richmond (h), Birmingham Moseley (a)
No. 7 – Craig Clements (-1)
Position: Wing
Total Tries: 55
First Try: Frome (a) – October 5, 2002.
Last Try: Barnstaple (h) – April 9, 2011.
Most tries in a game: (3) – Buckingham (h) – (April 22, 2006) and Windsor (October 7, 2006).
Most tries in a season: 16 in 2005/06.
Most tries against: (4) – Buckingham and Cleve.
Tries by season:
2002/03 (5) – Frome (a), Oakmedians (h), Calne (h), Wootton Bassett (a), Ivel Barbarians (a).
03/04 (3) – Bournemouth (a), Bournemouth (h), Tadley (a).
04/05 (4) – Tadley x2 (a), Bradford-on-Avon (a), Trowbridge (h).
05/06 (16) – Grove (a), Beaconsfield (a), Swindon x2 (h), Amersham & Chiltern (h), Buckingham (a), Chipping Norton (h), Amersham & Chiltern (a), Swindon (a), Grove (h), Olney (h), Chipping Norton x2 (a), Buckingham x3 (h).
06/07 (7) – Henley Wanderers (h), Frome (a), Swanage & Wareham (a), Windsor x3 (h), Aylesbury (a).
07/08 (3) – St Ives (h), Reading (a), Bracknell (h).
09/10 (3) – Taunton (h), Reading (h), Cleve (a).
10/11 (14) – Cleve (h), Coney Hill x2 (a), Oxford Harlequins (h), Weston-super-Mare (h), Cleve x2 (a), Coney Hill (h), Newton Abbot (a), Barnstaple (a), Old Patesians x2 (h), Oxford Harlequins (a), Barnstaple (h).
No. 6 – Tom Vooght (=)
Position: Flanker
Total Tries: 56
First Try: Southend (a) – November 21, 2015.
Last Try: Cambridge (h) – April 30, 2022.
Most tries in a game: (2 – 11 TIMES!) – Clifton (December 16, 2017), Worthing (January 6, 2018), Wimbledon (March 3, 2018), Plymouth Albion (December 14, 2019), Chinnor (January 10, 2020), Hull Ionians (January 25, 2020), Cambridge (September 4, 2021), Leeds Tykes (September 25, 2021), Darlington Mowden Park (October 23, 2021), Taunton Titans (January 29, 2022), Blackheath (April 9, 2022).
Most tries in a season: 15 in 2017/18.
Most tries against: (5) – Canterbury and Worthing.
Tries by season:
2015/16 (4) – Southend (a), Chinnor (a), Canterbury (a), Bury St Edmunds (a).
16/17 (4) – Worthing (a), Barnstaple (a), Barnes (a), Taunton (a).
17/18 (15) – London Irish Wild Geese (h), Worthing (a), Tonbridge Juddians (a), Canterbury (a), Clifton x2 (h), London Irish Wild Geese (a), Worthing x2 (h), Tonbridge Juddians (h), Barnstaple (a), Wimbledon x2 (h), Canterbury (h), Henley (h).
18/19 (7) – Canterbury (h), Henley (h), Old Albanian (h), Barnes (h), Tonbridge Juddian (a), Worthing (a), Birmingham & Solihull (h).
19/20 (12) – Canterbury (a), Rosslyn Park (h), Plymouth Albion x2 (h), Chinnor x2 (a), Richmond (h), Hull Ionians x2 (a), Rotherham (h), Old Elthamians (a), Cinderford (a).
21/22 (14) – Cambridge x2 (a), Leeds Tykes x2 (h), Darlington Mowden Park x2 (a), Leeds Tykes (h), Taunton Titans x2 (h), Birmingham Moseley (a), Birmingham Moseley (h), Blackheath x2 (a), Cambridge (h)
No. 5 – Andy Amor (=)
Position: Flanker / Inside Centre
Total Tries: 59
First Try: Wootton Bassett (h) – March 13, 2004
Last Try: Bury St Edmunds (h) – December 2, 2017.
Most tries in a game: (3) – Bridgwater & Albion (April 21, 2012).
Most tries in a season: 11 in 2011/12.
Most tries against: (5) – Barnstaple, Bridgwater & Albion and Weston-super-Mare.
2003/04 (1) – Wootton Bassett (h).
04/05 (2) – Frome (h), Tadley (h).
05/06 (7) – Olney (a), Bletchley (h), Swindon (h), Amersham & Chiltern (h), Amersham & Chiltern (a), Stow-on-the-Wold (h), Slough (a).
06/07 (6) – Swindon (h), Salisbury (a), High Wycombe (a), Cheltenham x2 (h), Henley Wanderers (a).
07/08 (2) – Weston-super-Mare (h), Maidenhead (a).
10/11 (5) – Bridgwater & Albion x2 (h), Oxford Harlequins (a), Barnstaple x2 (h).
11/12 (11) – Old Patesians (h), Weston-super-Mare (a), Barnstaple (a), Newton Abbot (h), Chippenham (a), Old Redcliffians (h), Barnstaple (h), Old Redcliffians (a), Bridgwater & Albion x3 (a).
12/13 (7) – Avonmouth Old Boys (h), Chippenham (a), Oxford Harlequins (h), Brixham (a), Chippenham (h), Amersham & Chiltern (h), Avonmouth Old Boys (a).
13/14 (8) – Brixham (a), Old Patesians (h), Newton Abbot x2 (h), Weston-super-Mare (h), Worcester Wanderers (h), Old Patesians (a), Amersham & Chiltern (h).
14/15 (9) – Barnstaple (h), Chard (a), Newton Abbot (h), Old Redcliffians (a), Brixham (h), Weston-super-Mare (h), Bracknell (a), Old Redcliffians (h), Weston-super-Mare (a).
17/18 (1) – Bury St Edmunds (h).
No. 4 – Seb Reynolds (Non-mover)
Position: Wing / Centre
Total Tries: 78
First Try: Bournemouth x2 (a) – September 27, 2003.
Last Try: Exmouth (h) – January 28, 2012.
Most tries in a game: (4) – Maidenhead (March 13, 2010).
Most tries in a season: 13 in 2010/11.
Most tries against: Bournemouth – 6.
Tries by season:
2003/04 (4) – Bournemouth x2 (a), Trowbridge (a), Dorchester (a).
04/05 (9) – North Dorset (a), Bournemouth (a), Wootton Bassett (h), Bradford-on-Avon (a), Trowbridge (h), North Dorset x2 (h), Frome (a), Devizes (h).
05/06 (10) – Olney (a), Slough (h), Bletchley (h), Stow-on-the-Wold (a), Amersham & Chiltern x2 (h), Chipping Norton x2 (h), Stow-on-the-Wold x2 (h).
06/07 (12) – Henley Wanderers x2 (h), Frome (a), Swindon (h), Swanage & Wareham (a), Cheltenham (a), High Wycombe (h), Marlow x2 (a), Windsor (a), Bournemouth (h), Frome (h).
07/08 (3) – Bracknell (h), Coney Hill (h), Bracknell (a).
08/09 (10) – Cleve (h), Oxford Harlequins (h), Clifton x2 (h), Oxford Harlequins x2 (a), Chippenham x2 (h), Cleve (a), Clifton (a).
09/10 (12) – Chippenham (a), Chinnor (h), Bournemouth x2 (h), Exmouth (h), Maidenhead (a), Chippenham (h), Exmouth (a), Maidenhead x4 (h).
10/11 (13) – Bridgwater & Albion (a), Cheltenham (h), Exmouth (h), Newton Abbot (h), Cleve (a), Coney Hill (h), Newton Abbot (a), Barnstaple (a), Old Patesians x2 (h), Cheltenham (a), Weston-super-Mare (a), Barnstaple (h).
11/12 (5) – Bridgwater & Albion (h), Amersham & Chiltern (h), Newbury (a), Newton Abbot (h), Exmouth (h)
No. 3 – Jak Rossiter (=)
Position: Wing
Total Tries: 84
First Try: Henley (h) – September 17, 2016.
Last Try: Sale (h) – March 9, 2024
Most tries in a game: (4) – Hull (September 17, 2022).
Most tries in a season: 20 in 2022/23.
Most tries against: (6) – Bury St Edmunds.
Tries by season:
2016/17 (14) – Henley (h), Barnstaple (h) Barnes (h), Cinderford (h), Bishop’s Stortford (h), Worthing (a), London Irish Wild Geese x2 (h), Henley (a), Chinnor (a), Exmouth x2 (h), Cinderford (a), Clifton (h).
17/18 (9) – Henley (a), Tonbridge Juddian (a), Old Redcliffians (h), Taunton (a), Chinnor (h), Tonbridge Juddian (h), Bury St Edmunds x3 (a).
18/19 (18) – Canterbury x2 (h), London Irish Wild Geese (a), Bury St Edmunds x2 (h), Barnes (a), Guernsey (h), Tonbridge Juddian (h), London Irish Wild Geese (h), Henley x2 (a), Bury St Edmunds (a), Barnes (h), Redruth (h), Clifton x2 (a), Birmingham & Solihull x2 (h).
19/20 (12) – Birmingham Moseley (h), Hull Ionians (h), Canterbury x2 (a), Sale (a), Richmond (h), Hull Ionians x2 (a), Blackheath x2 (h), Rotherham (h), Old Elthamians (a).
21/22 (5) – Bishop’s Stortford (a), Sale (h), Darlington Mowden Park (h), Chinnor (h), Caldy (h).
22/23 (20) – Chinnor x2 (a), Hull x4 (h), Bishop’s Stortford (a), Darlington Mowden Park (h), Rosslyn Park (h), Birmingham Moseley x2 (h), Plymouth Albion (h), Sale (h), Hull (a), Darlington Mowden Park (a), Leeds Tykes x3 (h), Plymouth Albion (h), Taunton Titans (h).
23/24 (6) – Bishop’s Stortford (h), Leicester Lions (a), Darlington Mowden Park (h), Bishop’s Stortford x2 (a), Sale (h)
No. 2 – Robbie Stapley (=)
Position: No. 8
Total Tries: 99
First Try: Cleve (h) – September 13, 2008.
Last Try: Plymouth Albion – March 26, 2024
Most tries in a game: (3) – Newton Abbot (November 19, 2011), Old Redcliffians (December 10, 2011), London Irish Wild Geese (December 23, 2017) and Chinnor (March 18, 2022)
Most tries in a season: 27 in 2011/12.
Most tries against: Chinnor – 10
Tries by season:
2008/09 (7) – Cleve (h), Weston-super-Mare (a), Oxford Harlqeuins (a), Cleve (a), Bournemouth (a), Clifton x2 (a).
09/10 (7) – Chinnor (h), Barnstaple (a), Bournemouth (h), Weston-super-Mare x2 (h), Maidenhead (a), Chippenham (h).
10/11 (10) – Cleve (a), Exmouth (h), Newton Abbot (a), Barnstaple (a), Old Patesians x2 (h), Oxford Harlequins (a), Cheltenham (a), Weston-super-Mare (a), Barnstaple (h).
11/12 (27) – Old Patesians (h), Exmouth x2 (a), Bournemouth x2 (h), Newbury (a), Newton Abbot x3 (h), Old Redcliffians x3 (h), Weston-super-Mare (h), Oxford Harlequins x2 (a), Exmouth (h), Amersham & Chiltern x2 (a), Bournemouth x2 (a), Newbury x2 (h), Newton Abbot x2 (a), Chippenham (h), Chinnor x2 (h).
15/16 (9) – Chinnor (a), Canterbury (a), Clifton (h), Cornish All Blacks x2 (a), Dorking (a), Southend (h), Bury St Edmunds (a), Cambridge (h).
16/17 (8) – London Irish Wild Geese (h), Chinnor (h), Bury St Edmunds (a), London Irish Wild Geese (h), Old Elthamians (h), Clifton (h), Worthing x2 (h).
17/18 (8) – Worthing x2 (a), Wimbledon (a), Canterbury (a), London Irish Wild Geese x3 (a), Worthing (h).
18/19 (3) – Henley (h), Birmingham & Solihull (a), London Irish Wild Geese (h).
19/20 (4) – Chinnor (h), Old Elthamians (h), Darlington Mowden Park (h), Rotherham (h).
21/22 (10) – Bishop’s Stortford (a), Taunton Titans (h), Darlington Mowden Park x2 (h), Chinnor x3 (h), Birmingham Moseley (h), Blackheath (a), Chinnor (a).
22/23 (4) – Cambridge (h), Birmingham Moseley (a), Leeds Tykes (h), Plymouth Albion (a)
23/24 (2) – Taunton Titans (a), Plymouth Albion (a)
No. 1 - Jez Flynn (=)
Position: Scrum-half
Total Tries: 101
First Try: Supermarine x2 (h) – March 30, 1996.
Last Try: Redruth (a) – April 30, 2016.
Most tries in a game: (3) – North Dorset (March 13, 1999) and St Ives (February 16, 2008).
Most tries in a season: 12 in 2000/01 and 2001/02.
Most tries against: (7) – Bournemouth and Wootton Bassett.
Tries by season:
95/96 (2) – Supermarine x2 (h).
96/97 (3) – Corsham (a), Wootton Bassett (a), Wimborne (h).
1998/99 (5) – North Dorset x3 (a), Blandford x2 (a).
99/2000 (9) – Swindon College Old Boys (a), Tadley (h), Wootton Bassett (a), Windsor (a), Sherborne (h), Ivel Barbarians (a), Devizes (h), Wootton Bassett (h), Bournemouth (h).
00/01 (12) – Swindon College Old Boys (h), Salisbury (h), Ivel Barbarians x2 (h), Bournemouth (h), Devizes (a), Wimborne (h), Wootton Bassett (a), Swindon College Old Boys x2 (a), Devizes x2 (h).
01/02 (12) – Salisbury (a), Aylesbury (h), Slough (h), Tadley x2 (a), Amersham (h), Olney (h), Tadley (h), Slough (a), Reading Abbey (h), Aylesbury (a), Salisbury (h).
02/03 (7) – Wootton Bassett x2 (h), Bournemouth x2 (h), Calne (h), Devizes (h), Wootton Bassett (a).
06/07 (8) – High Wycombe x2 (a), Bournemouth (h), Swanage & Wareham (h), Swindon x2 (a), Henley Wanderers x2 (a).
07/08 (10) – Maidenhead (h), Weston-super-Mare (a), Chinnor (h), Coney Hill (a), Bournemouth (a), Old Patesians (a), St Ives x3 (a), Cleve (h).
08/09 (7) – Chippenham (a), Oxford Harlequins (h), Clifton (h), Old Patesians (h), Weston-super-Mare (a), Chippenham (h), Bracknell (h).
09/10 (6) – Exmouth x2 (h), Maidenhead (a), Chippenham (h), Coney Hill (h), Oxford Harlequins (h).
10/11 (5) – Cheltenham (h), Cleve x2 (h), Exmouth (h), Old Patesians (h).
11/12 (10) – Bridgwater & Albion (h), Old Patesians (h), Amersham & Chiltern (h), Barnstaple (a), Bournemouth (h), Newbury (a), Chippenham x2 (a), Amersham & Chiltern x2 (a).
12/13 (4) – Exmouth x2 (h), Maidenhead x2 (h).
15/16 (1) – Redruth (a).
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