RNRU Royal Navy Rugby Union

M6/50 Charity WattBike Challenge in aid of Charlies Beach Hut It’s been 35 years since they were last on the same team! Now two former navy rugby players and former Command Field Gunners are coming together as teams mates for the last time in their service careers! Kerry Packer (KP) and Doc Cox will be donning lycra, mounting Wattbikes and attempting to ride 1million metres in just 50 hours in memory of their mate CPO Graham ‘Sid’ Street, who recently passed after fighting cancer.  The M6/50 challenge was the brain wave of KP and its aim is to keep Sid’s legacy alive in raising funds for a national charity that he was a proud patron of. Charlies Beach H...

Champing at the bit to improve on last season, the Navy Mariners (over 35s) were eager to uphold a pre-Christmas fixture for the first time in a decade. Last season saw a genuine improvement in both fitness, cohesion, skill and performance. And it was that backdrop which secured a healthy representation from last season plus an additional four new players in the debut fixture against the Commons and Lords RFC at Hammersmith and Putney RFC. With the genuine prospect of regaining the Inter-Service crown for the first time since 2016, the squad is still keen to recruit at th...