Bishopton RFC, formed in 1994, is based in the village of Bishopton, Scotland. We are a grassroots rugby team that pride ourselves on our community spirit.
14 months ago paisley put 70 points on us in a pre season game. Today we beat them in a league game. I’ll leave you with that. Ruari out, hopefully Andy Duncan will be back from his date next week
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Congratulations to Rory Jackson for his third Scotland U18 cap.
Final score from the Kingholm Stadium in Gloucester, Scotland 42 Ireland 40.
We are sure you heard the roar back in Bishy!!
@Scotlandteam
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#asone
#alwaysabishyboy
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Sean Callaghan will be taking the role of our Part Time Development Officer for this season.
Sean will work with Park Mains High school & our local catchment Primary schools, to help grow and develop our Junior Section.
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Bishopton Ladies win 3/3 games on at SRU Development tournament held at Dunfermline.
Huge congratulations! Vanessa Reid was our Crabbies Player of the Day.
Sarah Milnes and Monica Marshall were The Glen Lusset Glue Player of the day. Thanks to Cartha who helped fill numbers!
We are delighted to announce Bishopton Rugby's committee for the 23/24 season. Some returning faces as well as the welcome addition of some new members.
As a committee, we are dedicated to helping Bishopton rugby thrive and grow.
Bishopton ladies won their first tourament tonight
@whitecraigsrc
winning all four of theirs games Niamh was our player of the tourament. Great to watch their growing confidence and wonderful to see two ladies who have only been invovled for a week, enjoying the game already.
🟢⚫️🟡 WELCOME CIERA CAMPBELL🟢⚫️🟡
Bishopton RFC are delighted to anounce our new Senior Male team coach, Ciera Campbell.
Ciera joins us from Strathendrick, another strong Community focused club, where for the last 3 years, she coached their Senior men's Team.
#MonTheBish
Man of the match is Rob Wallace for outstanding defence and all round superb performance. Kyle Haldane got glue player for the tap tackle of the century
Bish get a turnover on our 5m we move it wide and Katharine Ross breaks to the opposition's 22 and passes to Megan Cassidy who runs in and scores in the corner!
Full time at Lenzie. The host continued their fine run of form running out 36-7 victors. Though it was a strong performance from the Bish.
Today’s Pride of the Clyde Man of the Match was Gary Clark
And today’s C-R-Y Glue Player was Jack Burns.
👏 THANK YOU 👏
Thank you to everyone who has joined us on this incredible journey this season and helped turn Holmpark into a fortress 💪!
Undefeated at home all season thanks to the outstanding support we've had from you! 🗣
#MonTheBish
#TheBishAreGoingUp
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FULL-TIME 🟢⚫️🟡
UDDINGSTON 0 - BISHOPTON 24
It's a bonus point win for Bish Ladies to start the 23/24 Woman's West Div 2 campaign off in style.
#MonTheBish
Congratulations to
@HamiltonBulls
who have won club of the season. It’s been a long hard season and everyone in the running deserved a chance at the award
BISHY BEARS | Starting XV 🟢⚫🟡
Before the men's season opener tomorrow at Bishopton, the Bishy Bear's Over-35 team travel to Kilmarnock to take on the Kilmarnock Polar Bears.
The match is at Queen's Drive, Kilmarnock with an 11am KO!
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Our Junior Section are getting things kicked off this weekend with an open day on Sunday the 26th of August.
Secondary School children will be starting at 10am
P1-P3 from 11am
and P4-P7 from 12pm
We are always looking for help with coaching or catering on home fixtures.
Bish get a penalty from a driven lineout on the Ardrossan 10m Kirstie Brownlee takes a quick tap moves the ball to Ashley Campbell who charges up the middle the ball is recycled from a ruck and Brooke Martin scores under the post
Today’s The Glen Lusset Bar Glue Player went to the whole team, who over the course of the last few months have come together and put in the hard hours to compete in their first ever games of full contact rugby, showing that they can take anyone on together!
BISHY BEARS | Starting XV
The season kicks off tomorrow for our Bishy Bear's Over-35 team, as they take on Greenock Wanderers 'Old Crocks' as the opening game of the Wanderers' 150th-anniversary celebrations.
The match is at Fort Matilda, Greenock with a 7pm KO!
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BISHOPTON MENS | Starting XV 🟢⚫🟡
After a convincing win vs Paisley last weekend our Men look to continue their strong start away to Lomond & Helensburgh tomorrow!
Get across to Helensburgh for 3pm to show your support!
Matchdays at Bishopton brought to you by Lorimers!
An outstanding solo try from Alex Neil as he collects the 22 drop out and runs it all the way from the halfway breaking 2 tackles and going past 3 other men to touch down Moore get the conversion
Todays Ingliston Country Club & Hotel Player of the Day was Ryan Moore who was instrumental in defence completing several turnovers and regaining possession.
Congratulations to our P5 team, who won the Ardrossan Mini tournament yesterday. They won 4 from 4, beating Cumnock, Ardrossan, Kilmarnock and Greenock.
Our P6-7 team won 3 from 4 losing to Cumnock.
Many thanks to
@ArdrossanRFC
for hosting and running a great tournament.
💥 INTRODUCING THE MATCHDAY TRY CANNON💥
With extensive consultation with Renfrewshire council & a generous donation from BAE Systems, we're delighted to officially announce the newest addition to our matchday entertainment, the Bishopton Rugby Try Cannon!
On their return to West 2 our Men's team kick-off their league campaign with an exciting match vs Paisley RFC!
This is how we line-up to kick-off the season!
Get down to Holmpark for 3pm to show your support!
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Today our P6-7s welcomed Larne RFC mini U12s. Great game with both teams giving there all.
The Larne team were so touch on hearing about Matthew's Trust, they made a donation. They also swept up the changing room after they were done.
#respect
#rugbyvalues
#rugbyfamily
So its taken a lot of hard work but Rugby is now back on the curriculum at Park Mains High School. Today classes started for all S1 pupils.
Our thanks to Park Mains staff, Active Renfrewshire and our sponsor for their support.
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#growingthegame
#boysandgirls
#asone
We are pleased to announce our fixtures for the season!
Our Men's 1XV are proudly competing in
@TennentsLager
West Division 2 after their well-deserved promotion last season. The team will be working hard when pre-season starts to prepare for this new chapter.
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A fantastic start to the season with a bonus point win. Today’s Pride of the Clyde Man of the Match was second row Gary Clark on his return to action after 2 years out. And today Lorimers Glue Player was prop Boab Moore for leading from the front i a strong Bishopton scrum.
Try number 5! And it’s Taylor to McGowan this time as he returns the favour. As m.catto breaks away and gets it to Macmillan the. To Taylor. Catto converts 17-34 Bish
🫡 CLUB CAPTAINS 🫡
We're delighted to announce our senior team captains for 2024/25.
Our Ladies 1XV, Kirstie Brownlie will remain as team captain along with Jen Thompson-Ross as vice-captain.
Alex Neil remains our Men's 1XV captain along with Kyle Robertson as vice-captain.
TRY BISH!! As the Catto brothers combine when max breaks away off the back of the scrum and puts ruaridh in for the score. Conversion just wide. 17-22 Bish
Sean's latest skills video today is for all our backs future and current and for all our forwards again future and current, who always love explaining how things should be done to our backs.. 🙂😃😄
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#communityclub
#staysafe
#stayhome
#asone
A busy day today with two matches opening up Holmpark for the season. Meaning its finally time to get our new posts to use that went up with help from
@RoyalBank_Rugby
@ryanwilson89
and Jonny Gray
Time to get down and support the club!
U18s K.O 12:30 and Seniors 15:00
We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Macron, who will be our new club kit and merchandise provider. We are delighted to be working with such a well established rugby brand.
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In the spirit of rugby and the global community it fosters, we are delighted to share Bishopton Rugby Club recently donated our old 1st team jerseys to Spikers Rugby Club, located in Ogembo, Kenya.
Today’s Lorimers Man of the Match was Alex Neil with a hat trick of tries, multiple lineout steals and an assist for good measure an all round performance from the towering Second Row.
BISHOPTON LADIES | New Strips!🟢⚫🟡
With our Women's team getting their league campaign underway this afternoon we'd like share our new kits and to thank our new sponsors for the season.
Enzos are the women's new lead sponsor, with their logo proudly displayed on the front
Tomorrow see the return of league action as the Tennent's West Region League Division 3 gets underway when we welcome Shawlands to Holmpark.
With several players set to make their competitive debut, while as a club celebrate the start of our 25th season!
#MonTheBsh
And we have landed in Edinburgh! Refreshments in hand and we are not long out from hitting Murryfeild.
The old drags and the young guns are out for a top night tonight!
#ClubAwardDinner
#AsOne
#monthebish
#Peroni