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3 May 2022Being the final game of the season, I’m going to begin this match report with a couple of ...
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15 April 2022All the group matches have now been completed and the finals day will be as follows. Below...
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11 April 2022The Covid pandemic was seemingly behind us and we were looking forward to taking almost 60...
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11 April 2022On Saturday 2nd April the players were very grateful to Jason and Anna Kedgley for a great...
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28 March 2022When a lot of families were settling down to a Mother’s Day lunch, ORRFC U15 Boys were tr...
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28 March 2022A sell out pre match lunch on Saturday, where we raised £700 for charity, was followed by ...
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8 March 2022This weekend was yet another fantastic milestone in what is proving to be an amazing seaso...
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6 March 2022What a great weekend at Park Lane with comprehensive wins for the A XV and the Colts, a na...
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5 March 2022Saturday February 26th saw 8 talented Old Reigatian girls and boys proudly represent the c...
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4 March 2022Sunday 27th saw Esher travel to Park Lane, one of very few home games for the U16’s, but t...
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3 March 2022Old Reigatian Rugby Club has partnered with a local team of Ukrainian & British volun...
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4 February 2022Last Saturday Old Reigatian 1st XV travelled to Weybridge to play Reeds, Reeds have two g...
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4 February 2022For the second time this season the U16’s made their way to Mitcham to play Old Ruts. The...
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4 February 2022This week saw the start of the knock-out phase of the national Cup, with the winners progr...
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4 February 2022On Sunday a large Raiders Cs squad made the journey to a very sunny Sunbury and London Iri...
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31 January 2022The Role To take responsibility for being the point of contact for league and cup fixtures...
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16 January 2022After two years of intensive lockdown conditioning, the ORRFC U12 Raiders were ready to be...
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15 January 2022ORs 1st XV travelled to South London on Saturday to face Chiswick for the second time this...
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8 January 2022Saturday Old Reigatian 1st XV travelled to Southampton to face Tottonians who were one pla...
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14 December 2021There are a limited number of tickets available to fully paid up club members for the 6 Na...
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11 December 2021Saturday Old Reigatian 1st XV travelled to Winchester historically an extremely difficult ...
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6 December 2021This Saturday Old Reigatian welcomed Old Tiffinians to Park Lane for round 8 of this seas...
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30 November 2021A crisp and bright Sunday morning saw us hosting Horsham for a friendly with a great turno...
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30 November 2021With a coach load of players and supporters, plus those travelling to Sunbury -on-Thames, ...
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13 November 2021Old Reigatian 1st XV hosted Eastleigh on Saturday with the visitors sitting one place bel...
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8 November 2021A SPECTACULAR firework display and bonfire held at Old Reigatian RFC for Guy Fawkes Night...
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6 November 2021Old Reigatian 1st XV travelled to Twickenham Rugby Club Saturday which is in fact in Felt...
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30 October 2021Old Reigatian 1st XV hosted Reeds Weybridge Saturday with Reeds sitting second in league w...
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25 October 2021Saturday 23rd saw Old Reigatian 1st XV travel to Chobham off the back of a two defeats fr...
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20 October 2021Today would be the first real test for the U15 girls this season and came in the shape of...
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20 October 2021Last Saturday Old Reigatian were again at home and hosting Chiswick RFC. For the second ga...
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6 October 2021In what only can be described as a foul day at Park Lane, Old Reigatian hosted Tottonians ...
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6 October 2021Our U18 girls came top of their pool of which there were 4 pools of 4 teams We drew with ...
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6 October 2021On Sunday the under 13’s took part in their first competitive festival and we arrive...
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1 October 2021The Walking Rugby section of Old Reigatian RFC started in early 2020 and for reasons known...
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1 October 2021We are looking for a number of enthusiastic individuals (18+), to join us behind the club ...
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1 October 2021The term ‘Friday Night Lights’ is often associated with American high school and college f...
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29 September 2021Now that we have reached U12, The Raiders will play a series of truly competitive matches,...
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29 September 2021Saturday Old Reigatian returned to Hove RFC for the first time since 2018 when they lost t...
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26 September 2021Saturday 12th saw ORs play their final pre season fixture and took on the London 2 South E...
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6 September 2021Seven of our U16 Boys had a great day as Quins kicked off the season with an internal fest...
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6 September 2021For the third warm up fixture the senior squad travelled to Beckenham. Beckenham will be c...
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2 September 2021Eight members of the Old Reigatian RFC Walking Rugby squad set out for Bristol on Friday t...
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1 September 2021Saturday 28th Aug the senior squad had their second pre season fixture following a 34-12 w...
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25 August 2021We would like to thank The 150 Club for the funding of our new website. When it was decide...
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25 August 2021On Sunday 22nd August six of our U18 girls from Old Reigatian RFC entered the National Eng...
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19 July 2021In June some of our U18 and U15 girls took part in trials at the regional touch rugby tour...
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6 July 2021As you may recall, we were planning to hold our 2021 AGM on Tuesday 29th June. This was sc...
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6 July 2021Peter Harrison KGCN CBE 29.4.1937 – 18.6.2021. Peter was brought up in Cheshire. He and hi...
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Inaugural U11 Girl’s Festival of Rugby
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Home » Inaugural U11 Girl’s Festival of Rugby Published: 6 October 2021 This Article was Written by: Kate Birinder-Ross |
Sunday 3rd October saw Old Reigatian hosting the inaugural U11 Girl’s Festival of Rugby. With the older girls away at the Guildfordians Festival, the U11’s didn’t want to miss out, so we decided to host our own.
With 12 clubs expressing interest, we finally had confirmation of 7 that would attend (the others sadly had to pull out due to availability and fuel anxiety issues). So the scene was set for a day of high energy, fun and friendly girls rugby. Saturday presented a challenge weather wise, and this coach looked at the incessant rain and grey sky with a sense of impending doom, but Sunday morning arrived with a clearer forecast, and a lightning of mood!
With the visiting clubs due to arrive for an 1130 start, it was all hands to the pumps to get the fields of play ready, and provide a welcoming environment. As the visitors started arriving, the sun came out, and we were greeted by the most awesome sight of close to 100 girls warming up in club colours across 12 Acres. Truly a sight to behold!
Visiting clubs were Dorking, Farnham, Guildford, Old Allynians, Chobham, Cobham and Worthing. Great Team Managers, Coaches and engaged parents, from all, and there was a real buzz and excitement in the air. A quick coaches briefing, and onto (friendly) matches. We wanted the games to be fun in focus and all inclusive, so ran two streams of contact and non-contact games. Whilst we stressed that scores would not be recorded, I’m sure the girls did!
Onto the games, and each team played two 7 minute halves, with a total of 4 games per team. ORRFC fielded 3 (!) Contact teams and 1 touch team, and all the games were contested in a high energy fashion. There was no clearly dominant team, so as spectators, we were treated to end to end, evenly contested games. It was a real visual treat! However, the standard of rugby was the real stand out of the weekend. All our girls stepped up, and there was a sea-change in their application, motivation and drive to play. Each and every girl had an individual moment of sublime brilliance, from a bone crunching tackle, to a poetic pass, a cheeky offload, to a scintillating, scything run to score. All done with massive smiles and prodigious work-rates! Visiting girls all played well, fairly and to a high standard. They were all polite, engaged and similarly had excellent skills on display. Support from the sidelines from all parents and guardians was epic, and really gee’d the girls on. We have a large squad forming a very unique bond with each other, and it was great to see the spirit of teamwork and support they showed each other.
Ultimately, as a non-competitive (very competitive!) festival, there was no overall winner, but anecdotally, I ‘ve been told that ORRFC collectively scored more than conceded, so I’ll take that as a win. However, cliched as it will sound, Girls Rugby was the true winner this weekend. The smiles, chatter, re-telling of events after the games and in the bar was the best we could have wished for, and the engagement from all clubs and parents, especially about wanting to recreate this as a regular event was most promising.
