RNRU Royal Navy Rugby Union

Royal Navy U23 Head Coach, Lt Doc Cox RN, has named his 30 man squad for the 2008 Inter Service Championship. The squad will be looking to defend the title it won last year when they take on an RAF U23 team on Friday night at Burnaby Rd, KO 19:00. The RAF will be looking to bounce back after a first round lost at home to the Army U23 last weekend. In appalling conditions they went down 19 – 3. However Doc, who watched the game, isn’t underestimating the task ahead and is fully aware that the RAF U23 will pose a serious challenge. The squad is led by HMS St Alban’s AB(Sea) Will Cairns who is one of a number of players who was involved last season and also is a player who...

Gollings returns for England Sevens Friday November 14, 2008 Issued by Jessica Chambers England Sevens record breaker, Ben Gollings (Gold Coast Breakers), returns in coach Ben Ryan's squad ahead of the Emirates Airline Dubai and South Africa Sevens (28-29 Nov & 5-6 Dec). Gollings, the IRB World Sevens all time highest points scorer, is joined by Leeds Carnegie try machine Tom Biggs, powerful winger Uche Odouza (Suntory, Japan) and scrum half Kevin Barrett (Exeter Chiefs). The 12-man squad will travel to Dubai, the venue of next year's Rugby World Cup Sevens (March 5-7 2009), where they will take on Portugal, USA and Fiji on day one of the IRB Sevens Series. Also included in the side ...