An excellent performance by the volunteers again on Friday 28th August means the Barbarians Building is all but finished – thank you! We will be meeting there again on Friday 4th Sept to do the finishing touches and to carry out other jobs which Albert needs us to do prior to the start of […]
The summer has been a busy period with a number of changes to the playing squad, and even with just a few days before our opening league game at Blaydon on Saturday, final preparations are continuing. Departures include Tom Bason, Richard Pike, both retired. Alex Gallagher (Rosslyn Park), George Oram (Rotherham) and Gavin O’Meara (Old […]
The final dress-rehearsal before the new term begins and comfortable, seven tries to two, victory for The Club on their all-weather surface at Well Hall. Fielding a much changed pack from the side that finished their 2014-15 campaign, the hosts went ahead in the seventh minute after fly-half Freddie Gabbitas slotted an easy three points […]
I am pleased to announce that Colin Ridgway has agreed to return to the Club to take up the vacated role of Director of Rugby. He played at the Club for a number of seasons, alongside current Head Coach Mike Friday, Forwards Coach Mattie Stewart and even our current Chairman! He takes up […]
Mañana los Bandito, Edición de esta semana viene de la soleada Gran Canaria, donde es un agradable de 30 grados con el cielo azul, una brisa refrescante y una cerveza aún más genial! (All errors courtesy of Google translate). Bandits vs London French Match Report For those of you who missed it, the match report […]
Dear All Fixture lists for the forthcoming season are published under the section of the website for each particular team. To see 1st XV fixtures, for example, select ‘Teams’ on the top menu bar of the home page, then ‘1st XV’ and ‘Fixtures’. A quick shortcut to the 1st XV fixtures is here http://3.8.206.122/1st-team-fixtures/
I would like to inform you all that due to personal and family reasons, as well as increasing demands on his time due to new responsibilities accepted within his role at work, Simon Legg, our current Director of Rugby, has made the decision to step down. His services to the Club go back over […]
RED BOOK – After many years of loyal service the Red Book has been laid to rest as part of the Club’s cost-cutting exercise. We thank Peter, Mandy and others for their dedicated collating and editing of the RB over a number of years. However, all is not lost as the wide range of information […]
Morning Folks, Welcome to this week’s, early morning edition of the Bandits’ Newsletter and to the launch of the rugby season. A season that looks very promising with a large number of Bandit’s committing to play more than one game and promising to drink the bar dry! GAME ON | Bandits vs London French | […]
This new season promises to be an exciting one as we look forward to both another campaign for the Club and to welcoming the Rugby World Cup back to our shores. Both will be tremendous and, having looked at the fixture schedules for the world cup and those of the various teams that the Club […]