Match Reports

In front of a noisy, excited crowd at Kingsholm the Remembrance Rugby fixture between UK Armed Forces and Rugby for Heroes promised to be an exciting game even before the first whistle had blown. The UKAF team was without some of their big names, though Josh McNally did travel up to present the team their …

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by Matt Merritt from inthecheapseats.co.uk It’s been a long wait for the return of forces rugby, with inter services games suspended for the last two years due to Covid we’ve missed out on some great matchups, so it was somehow fitting for the return of military women’s rugby to come in the form of a …

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On a wet an gloomy November night at Ashton Gate Stadium, home of Bristol Bears, the U.K. Armed Forces Rugby men’s team took to the field for their annual Remembrance fixture. This year the opposition came from Rugby for Heroes and they produced a team littered with ex internationals and former Premiership players. The first …

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Eddie Jones, the England Head Coach stated before the World Cup that whichever team who coped with adversity in Japan the best, would be the one standing more chance of winning the trophy.  And that quote was fully tested as the build up to the Final of the International Defence Rugby Competition 2019 could not …

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Despite a continued spell of British like autumnal weather, the Semi Final of the IDRC 19 between the UK Armed Forces Rugby Team and France National Military Rugby Team, the defence version of Le Crunch was played in another hot and humid stifling atmosphere. Although preparations for the UKAF team had gone well, early match …

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