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 haven’t had much touch tournament time. Gareth […]
Read moreOn 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 North East weather with temperatures dropping to […]
Read moreThe 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 charity walk and a number of […]
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On Saturday 8th October, Blackadders attended the North East Raiders Development Tournament held at Stockton Rugby Club. Team moral and positivity was high throughout the day and the squad nailed Adders on three by the cup final! It was a long day which started with three group games followed by a three hour break before going into the semi finals. The team […]
Read moreBlackadders 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 sport for players of all ages and […]
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Last year as a team we decided to raise funds for the Maggie’s Newcastle at the Freeman hospital, and we set off with the target to raise £5k, through a wide range of activities from bake sales, raffles to bonus balls and 100km sponsored walk, wearing our custom designed charity vests. To help draw the celebrations to a close, we finished by […]
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On Saturday 9th July 2022 Blackadders Touch Rugby celebrated their 15th anniversary since the team was first established way back in 2007! And what better way to celebrate than host a touch charity competition in support of Maggie’s a local cancer charity based at the Freeman Hospital. The eight teams were split into two even groups, with the top two from each […]
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The final day was here, we started the same as the day before, fairly early but thing too crazy. We were sadly another 2 down with injuries from the day before, hopefully they will be back to normal soon. We went back to the finishing point from the day before, we back tracked a bit and headed back through Cambois. There was […]
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After a full day of walking, we all woke to a fabulous cooked breakfast at the hotel. Sadly one of the members had to stop walking due to an injury. So sadly we have to move on one person down, but we hope to have them back to training soon. We started just after 9, knowing we had less of a distance […]
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So it began, day one of the walk for Maggies. We started at 0800, leaving our respective homes at least an hour before that. We started at the foot of Bamburgh castle and started the walk south. Full of energy and excitement for the weekend to come. We snaked our way down the coast, making sure to take in the stunning scenery […]
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