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English rugby union club, based in Wiltshire

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Rugby team
Salisbury
Full nameSalisbury Rugby Club
UnionDorset & Wilts RFU
Nickname(s)Green and white
Founded1912; 112 years ago (1912)
LocationSalisbury, Wiltshire, England
Ground(s)Castle Road (Capacity: 2,000 +100 covered seating)
ChairmanRussell Jugg
PresidentRichard Larcombe
Coach(es)Gareth Blackborrow & David (Jonah) Thorpe
Captain(s)Dan Hammond & Miles Thompson
League(s)Regional 2 South Central
2022–237th
Official website
salisburyrfc.org

Salisbury Rugby Club is an English rugby union club in Salisbury, Wiltshire, who play in Regional 2 South Central, a level six league. The club is based at Hudson's Field, Castle Road, near Old Sarum.

Former players include Richard Hill (Saracens, England, British and Irish Lions), Mike Brown (Harlequins Leicester Tigers and England), Will Stuart (Bath Rugby England), Cadan Murley (Harlequins).

Structure

Senior sections: the senior section has up to three teams who play regularly. There is currently no women’s senior squad.

Junior section: split into Minis and Juniors. The Minis accepts children from Reception to Year 6 (U6s to U11s). These are mixed and play in line with RFU Age Grade rugby (touch rugby up to and including U8s, and then contact from U9s to U11s). The Junior section splits into boys' and girls' squads with the boys having teams from U12 to U16s and the Colts, and the girls having U12s, U14, U16 and U18s groupings. This is in line with RFU Age Grade rugby.

Charitable rugby: the club works in conjunction with charities and private coaches to train students at sixth form colleges in Salisbury and the surround area to have a Salisbury 6th Form Colleges team (in a Barbarians RFC-like set up). This initiative is endorsed by Mike Brown.

Sponsors

Club sponsors include:

  • Spire Printing
  • Heritage VW – Mini Rugby
  • Nunton Dairies – Mini Rugby
  • Chaffyn Grove school – Mini coaches' kit
  • Sarum Vision – Junior coaches' kit
  • NFU Mutual – Junior playing strips

Honours

See also

References

  1. Tony Williams and Bill Mitchell, ed. (1990). Courage Official Rugby Union Club Directory 1990–91. Windsor: Burlington Publishing Co Ltd. pp. 167–204.
  2. "South West Play Offs 2014–2015". England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. "2010-11 South-West Division". England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  4. "South West Play Offs 2015–2016". England Rugby. RFU. Retrieved 26 January 2017.

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