If you struggled to find some answers, the comforting news may be that so did I when putting the answers together on Monday - and I had originally found them to write the questions !

*** FIRST XV ***

> Which New Zealand club did Devin Coyle play for before coming to Kendal ?

Ashburton

from the Wirral programme : Our Director of Rugby

> How many of the Kendal squad in the opening game against Wirral had come through the Youth Section ?

Eleven

Wirral programme
Website : Match Report

> Who are the joint top try scorers so far this season ?

Ollie Rose and Dan Shorrock

eight each

Website : Season Stats 24/25

> The team earned Try Scoring Bonus points in each of the first how many games ?

Five

Various places at the time
Website : match reports
Rossendale Programme : Half Term report

> What percentage of tries has Aaron Stephen converted so far this season (up to and including Blackburn and the Aspatria Cup game) ?

75.56%

34 of 45 tries (2 tries were Penalty Tries so no kick needed)

Website : Season Stat’s 24/25

At the moment the BEST figure of any of the last 20+ Seasons
YES that DOES include the Mark Ireland years – although he may not necessarily have taken all the conversions in those seasons – he certainly had a spell out injured in one season

> Which two players passed 200 appearances for the Club this season ?

Glen Chesher and Matt Houghton

various places including
Website : Match Reports
Manchester Programme : Presidents Patter
Manchester Programme : Head Coach report
Website : Season Stat’s 24/25

> Which player has picked up four 'Man of the Match' titles so far this season ?

Ollie Rose

Website : Match Reports (where the name is added each week)
Website : Season Stat’s 24/25
Website : Man of the Match page

> Which of this season’s squad has scored the most points for the club in their career ?

Dini Noyo

295 from 59 tries

Website : Season Stats 24/25

Hopefully he will be back for the 300

> Who made a surprise return away at Rossendale (and did it again last weekend) ?

Reece Tomlinson

Website : Match reports

> Which home game had to be switched to accommodate the Community Fireworks taking place at Mint Bridge ?

Stockport

Website : Match report
Website : find Community Fireworks (9th November) and see which team were played that weekend

*** WASPS ***

> Which player is sponsored by Club President Arthur (he may have mentioned it occasionally !) ?

Scrum Half Emma Lifshitz

Programmes : Presidents Patter : Stoke / Penrith
Wasps Programmes : Presidents Patter : Sefton / Birkenhead Park / Liverpool St Helens)

He even has a T-Shirt - may also have a restraining order !

> In her player profile, who claimed “I’ve tried to retire from rugby but I just can’t let go of the game” ?

Second Row Kerri Jackson

Wasps Facebook pages

> The team played a rare Saturday game on the same day as the other First XV were playing the same team – both Won. Who were the opposition ?

Birkenhead Park

Website
Wasps Facebook Page
Programme

> Which opposition team fielded two International Rugby League players ?

Southport

Website
Wasps Programme : Birkenhead Park

> With the normal place kickers off the field, who added the penalty to give the team the lead in their last game before Christmas ?

Allysia Hine

Website : Match Report
Wasps Facebook

I have since found it wasn’t Allysia’s first successful kick for the Wasps, as she converted a try in her first game back with the team at Darlington in February 2023

As well as normal first choice place kickers Tamar Benson (88) and Sophie Postlethwaite (9) a number of others in the current squad have successfully taken conversions : Hayley Hodgson (17) Lydia Fleming (10) Sioned Jones (2); Hailey Coutts (1) Ellie Dixon (1)

> Who has been Opposition choice for Player of Match in half the games so far ?

Emma Lifshitz

Facebook page
Website : Match reports

> Who in her Player Profile listed “Supporting Breweries” as a hobby, and “keep moving house and need people to move furniture” as an answer to “Why Rugby” ?

Laura Kay

Another of the team's Second Rows

Facebook page

> Who is the team’s top try scorer this season ?

Hayley Hodgson (5)

Match Reports
Facebook pages

As inevitable as it is unexpected

Inevitable as Hayley has been top or second top try scorer for the team in every season since she joined in 2014/15 with total of at least 129 tries (probably more as there are not details of all games)

Unexpected as Hayley has only played in four of the team's eight games so far this season

> Who are the team’s two Vice Captains ?

Fleur Stanton and Sarah Wilkinson

Wasps Facebook Page
Website : Team details on Match reports

Both have been part of the team from its first season in 2013/14

> Who is the team mascot and companion of one of the flying wings ?

Reggie Roo

His own Profile on the Facebook site and also the Player Profile for wing Sophie Postlethwaite

So he has probably telling anyone who will listen, that it is all his training that led to the excellent opening try which set the Wasps on their way to a narrow win against Liverpool St Helens in the last game of the year.

Was the most serious look of all the Profile photos – but I think has now been beaten by Wispa, another canine supporter

*** GENERAL ***

> How many Life Members (including Honorary) were there at the start of the season ?

Twenty Nine including six Honorary Life Members

Programme : Wirral

> Where did the Under 16s go on Tour in the Summer ?

North Wales
based at Bryntisilo Outdoor Education Centre at Llangollen

Programme : Blackburn

> How many away trips does the RFU First XV Travel grant pay for ?

Just over Half of ONE away trip

Probably the daftest / most depressing answer of all

The annual grant is £400 and a coach for an away game is £700

Programme : Manchester

The Presidents Patter in Penrith Programme pointed out that the RFU Chief Executive's bonus was 950 times the figure we get for travel - It’s called getting your priorities right !

> How many club volunteers help at this year’s Community Fireworks ?

Fifty Four
with almost 7,000 local people at the club that evening

Much more positive !

Programme : Penrith

> Which of these has not been quoted in one of this season’s programme’s (that I have spotted !) Barack Obama, JK Rowling; Oscar Wilde; Magic Johnson ?

JK Rowling
unless you know differently !

Barack Obama (Stoke Programme : Our Head Coach)
Oscar Wilde : (Manchester Programme : Head Coach)
Magic Johnson (Penrith Programme : Kendal Youth Round Up)

> Which former player from the early 2000s, on a visit to the area, turned out for the Second XV against Stockport ?

Casey Mee
Scrum Half / Outside Half, who played in the team that got promotion to the third tier of English Rugby and also "the" Cup game against London Scottish

Penrith Programme : Presidents Patter
Website

> What was launched at the Club on the 12th November ?

The Players Pathway Programme

Another Positive !

Facebook page (2nd / 12th / 26th November)
Penrith Programme : Kendal Youth Round up

> Which former Junior Colt, currently at Sedbergh School, represented Ireland Under 18s earlier this season?

Charlie Dinneen

Facebook page (28th October)

Possibly the hardest answer to find.
I was sure it had been mentioned on the website or in the programme, but if it was I cannot now find it.
May have been announced at the AGM ?

> What price does a half day hire of the Function Room start from ?

£100

Various Programmes

> Which player’s occupation is “Communications Manager for a Labour MP” ?

Joe Anderson
who works for Carlisle MP Julie Minns

Rossendale Programme

Now back to the more serious business next Saturday of games at Mint Bridge against Anselmians - then Sunday away at Driffield.