Blackadders Touch

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  • Blackadders Regional Representation at the Nationals Touch Series

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    We had four Blackadders’ players represent us at the recent England Touch Nationals weekend (29th April to 30th April 2023) at Highfields Sports Complex, University of Nottingham. What are the ‘Nationals’? The Nationals series is a weekend of competitive touch rugby, where each region is represented in a variety of divisions from seniors, men’s, women’s…

  • New tournament with In2Touch announced.

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    We are pleased to announce a new tournament for spring of 2023 and running for 6 weeks from the 6th of May. Please go to the In2Touch section of the website for more information. In2Touch at Blackadders

  • NERDS round 1 Stockton

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    This Saturday was the first round of the North East Raiders Development Series at Stockton Rugby Club. Blackadders didn’t have enough for a full team (it was Six Nations and Carabao Cup weekend) but we wanted to take the opportunity to get some touch played and gain more experience for some of our players who…

  • England Touch at Rockcliff Training

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    On Thursday 19th January 2023, Chris Simon and Sammie Phillips, representatives from England Touch were in the region and decided to call by to see what Rockcliff social touch was all about.  Sammie ran the warm up and even got the opportunity to join in with the session. They definitely got the experience of the…

  • What a year 2022 was!

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    The year 2022 was a big year for Blackadders Touch Rugby, which saw the team celebrate their 15th anniversary! To help make it a year to remember the team managed to squeeze in three friendlies, the Newcastle Falcon’s Nuffield Winter League (which ran until June, so not really winter!), four competitions, two female only competitions,…

  •  A TOUCH OF CLASS AT ROCKCLIFF RFC

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    Blackadders Touch Rugby are a long established touch team based at Rockcliff Rugby Club. To help celebrate their 15th anniversary as a team they hosted an eight team charity competition on the 9th July, with all profits raised going to the Maggie’s Centre at the Freeman Hospital (www.maggies.org/our-centres/maggies-newcastle/). Touch rugby is a mixed non contact…