Entries by Lonsdale

Adult Male Competitions Survey

The RFU Community Game Board (CGB) is asking for feedback from adult male players to help them protect the future health of the game for current and future players. A CGB task Group has been set up to review the adult male competition structure of the RFU leagues (English Club Championship) from Level 3 (National […]

Youth Awards Day

The annual Youth Section Awards Day has been moved to Sunday 29th March 2020, two weeks before the Easter weekend period. The change from the original date of 5th April is to enable more players, parents/guardians and volunteer coaches to attend. Last season many people were already away on their holidays following the end of […]

Youth Training Resumes

We hope all our youth players and their families had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. But now that the festivities are over, it’s time to get your boots out and head back to Hurlingham Park for the first youth training session of 2020. Training resumes on Sunday 5th January. Usual time, usual place. (10am […]

Old Reigatians 1st XV v Hammers 1s

Old Reigatians’ Twitter account described the fixture as “the final dress rehearsal for the new season”, in fact, neither team was caught mumbling their line out calls or repairing their costumes, instead there was a high-quality game of rugby under the August currant bun. Old Reigatians (OR) started the first half the better team, dominating […]

FREE Welcome / Welcome Back BBQ

To mark the beginning of an exciting new season, we are holding our annual Welcome / Welcome Back Barbeque on Sunday 22nd September. The festivities start after training, at around 12.00 noon and all food and refreshments, including wine and beer are FREE. This is a great opportunity for a get-together for new and returning […]

Hammers U9s promote Rugby X

A group of Hammers U9s helped Lawrence Dallaglio to promote the new five-a-side format “Rugby X” which will take place at the O2 Arena in October this year. The BBC Breakfast Show ran a news item about the event and Dallaglio asked Matt Wilkinson, the U9s coach , to bring some of his young players […]