News & information for Oxfordshire's rugby community and CB. Follows not necessarily endorsements or views of the CB. Bill Beaumont Div2 champions 2023/24.
Congratulations to our two new life members Nigel Dudding of
@HenleyHawks
and Matt Goode of
@BanburyRUFC
. Both just approved at our AGM in the last few minutes.
Thank you for everything you’ve done for rugby… so far 😁.
PS: Stuart is on tiptoes for the second photo🤣
One Match... 2 photographers.. 101 amazing photos now on our website.
Thanks to Simon and Andrew for their efforts at our match vs
@warwickshirerfu
yesterday.
Andrew:
Simon:
Ok. There’s one more tweet… just heard that the
@GAB_RFC
U16s girls won the Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire intercounty championship 19-0 against
@HavantRFCGirls
. Congratulations GAB and commiserations Havant!
#ThisIsTheLastTweetTodayIPromise
Congratulations to Daisy H for being the ORFU nominee for the
@honda
Volunteer of the year award for everything she has done to support womens rugby
@OxfordQuins
Amazing!
What? You want pictures from yesterday I hear you say?
Well
@MrManagerSir
took loads. There are some on our site and if you follow the link below you can then get access to all of them as well.
Congratulations to Aubrey Doran from
@HenleyHawks
for receiving his
@Honda_UK
Volunteer recognition award
@Twickenhamstad
recently. Seen here shaking hands with Nigel Gillingham (President of the
@RFU
).
Some willing volunteers starting their refereeing journey in the community game. Thanks to the
@RFU
for funding the next stage and
@GAB_RFC
for hosting.
Just got off the phone with our
@rfu
council member Rob Walsh. The excellent news is he is out of hospital and at home recovering. 😁
He has been overwhelmed by the kind messages you have sent him and thanks you for your thoughts.
Our photographers were at it again!
Top 50s from Andrew and Simon from the match vs
@nld_rfu
. A narrow victory secures our place in the final.
Andrew:
Simon:
Some amazing photos from the day.
There are 450 girls
@BanburyRUFC
for a festival today. Why not come down and give it a look?
✅sunny day
✅coffee
✅bacon rolls
✅rugby
✅Free entry
Thanks to
@keithkeith123
for the photo!
This season we have funded 13 Match Officials through our Young Whistlers Programme.
That's 13 young people aged 14 - 17 who have successfully completed the
@QKidsFirst
Refereeing Children (Level 1) and
@EnglandRugby
Referee Award (Level 2)
#CrouchBindGrow
@ERRefereesAssoc
After a fine win away last Sunday, our County U15s Girls are going to
@BicesterRUFC
to play
@BerksRFU
. If you haven't watched the girls play it's well worth the trip. Sunday 14:00 (warm up from 13:00).
Just to say a big thank you to
@GAB_RFC
@BrakeStratfield
today. You couldn’t sort the weather but it was a cracking day otherwise.
Also shouldn’t forget our coaching team, physio, first aiders, referees from
@Oxonrugbyrefs
,parents and anyone else we should have mentioned. 😂
And finally an absolutely amazing game to finish.
@BanburyRUFC
U15s win the county cup beating
@HenleyHawks
U15s 19-14. Another couple of minutes and that could have gone the other way.
The County U16 girls are
@OxfordQuins
this Sunday for the “battle of the rivers”.
County Twitter has to be neutral so whether you support
#TeamCherwell
or “the other lot” 🤣 come along to watch what will be a great game of rugby.
Ps. Sorry
#TeamThames
… you’re great too. 😁
Full time!
@OxfordshireRFU
50 Eastern Counties 23. Good start for the county men with a bonus point victory. Thank you to all who came up and supported!
Our final tweet of the weekend.
A huge thank you to both
@BanburyRUFC
and
@oxfordrfc
for hosting finals this weekend.
An amazing weekend of rugby officiated by
@Oxonrugbyrefs
. None of whom forgot their boots today Rob 😇😁
Well this is exciting!
Oxfordshire girls U16s ERDPP fixture vs
@GRFUrugby
at Hartpury College on Saturday. It’s a full on day of Women's Rugby!
✅3 x U16 fixtures
✅U18 Gloucester-Hartpury v Wasps (several Oxfordshire Girls in both teams)
✅Premier 15s match G-H v Wasps
In two hours time (14:00) our under 15s girls county side will play
@BerksRFU
U15s
@BicesterRUFC
. Why not come down and watch what will be an exciting game. I mean, it’s not like anything exciting is happening in the football today is it? 😇
Thanks
@LonglevensRugby
for hosting. Looks a good crowd.
Commiserations to
@GRFUrugby
for losing a very tight game. We were stressing at our volunteer event
@OxfordQuins
with regular WhatsApp updates from our president.
🏉 Gloucestershire 19 - 29 Oxfordshire
A great turnout today for the County semi-final & another great day for Longlevens Rugby hosting this event.
Congrats to Oxfordshire who advance to the final & well done to Gloucestershire for making it to the semi's. 👏
@GRFUrugby
On Friday evening we are absolutely delighted that not only are
@DidcotRUFC
Valkyries playing their first ever XV game (against
@wallyRFCmaidens
) but now....we've heard RFU Community Rugby Coach
@NickToddRFU
is the match official.
Does it get any better than this?
#KYBO
Premiership and World cup star Joins Banbury RUFC's Coaching team
Banbury RUFC are delighted to announce the signing of former Tonga international Soane Tonga'uiha as player-coach.
Christine and Mark Boland of
@BanburyRUFC
were guests of ORFU
@Twickenhamstad
yesterday. Kindly hosted by council rep Rob Walsh. In fairness, county Twitter would have taken that gig!
We are
@FaringdonRUFC
for our biggest day of girls rugby! Half an hour before the first match and the place is buzzing. Really friendly welcome (and a tasty bacon brioche!)
#countycup
@BanburyRUFC
played
@OldBloxhamist
for the centenary opener. You might also spot
@rfu
president (Rob Udwin) in the picture as well 😁. (if that doesn’t get us a retweet nothing will 🤣😁😁)
Despite the cold and wet conditions our U18s players put in a strong performance winning 15 - 0 against
@DorsetWiltsRFU
. Thanks for a good contest.
Our next selection match will be on Sunday 17th December against
@DevonRFU
. Can't wait!
As the 2019-2020 season approaches we would like to thank
@Wadworth
for their continued support of the BBO Leagues (
@BucksRFUNews
@BerksRFU
@OxfordshireRFU
) and look forward to another successful year in partnership.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jonathan Dance from
@BerksRFU
. Through his work
@RFUSouthWest
he was incredibly supportive of rugby in Oxfordshire.
Our deepest condolences to his family, friends and all at our fellow CB. RIP Jon.