The Royal Navy Rugby Union Director of Rugby, Mark Deller, Lays Down his Aims for the 2015/16 Season
By Mark Walker, the RNRU Director of Communications
Responsible for all RN Representative Rugby outputs, including financial control, performance management, coaching and game preparation, Mark Deller, the RNRU Director of Rugby, is preparing to deliver the RNRU representative teams for the Season ahead. While his goal is to achieve a creditable winning record in the Inter-Services Championship, before that he has to prepare for the International Defence Rugby Competition (IDRC) and Under 23s Season. On the eve of the start to the training camp for IDRC I caught up w...
Rugby World Cup 2015 has only just reached the half way stage of the pool stages but already the tournament has proved a headline writers’ dream. It was always going to be the biggest World Cup ever, but thanks primarily to Japan the tournament received an additional impetus that few of the organisers could possibly have dreamed off. On the 5 th October Japan’s Defence Force rugby team will join eleven other Defence Forces from around the world, at the Guildhall Portsmouth, for the opening ceremony of the 2 nd International Defence Forces’ Rugby Cup. Drawn in the same pool as the Royal Navy and with an opening match at US Portsmouth against New Zeala...
Since the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 Navy Referees have refereed at World Rugby events in all the major rugby playing nations. From Murrayfield to the Millennium Stadium, Brisbane to Buenos Aries and Durban to Dunedin the Royal Navy’s rugby group of referees, unique amongst the Services, have whistled the highest level games across the globe. However until this weekend the show piece event, the Rugby World Cup, had been absent from the Society’s cv.
On Friday night former Chairman, Roger Baileff, become the first Navy Referee to officiate in a World Cup when he was part of the officiating team for the opening game, England v Fiji. Less than 24 hour...
As we enter into Rugby World Cup 2015 in the background the rugby calendar still roles on for the Premiership clubs (though league matches don’t start until the quarter-finals stage). As the international players are away with the national sides an influx of younger players either from the margins of the first team or from the academies will be expected to step up to the mark. The teams in the south west are no exception and the Exeter Chiefs looking to test their resilience in different ways continued their pre-season build-up by being put through their paces by the Royal Navy. Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, the home of initial officer training, hosted the Chiefs for...
After what seems an inexhaustible amount of time RWC 2015 is nearly upon us and Portsmouth and the Royal Navy are playing their part in the build up by welcoming the United States rugby squad as they prepare to do battle in the World Cup. The home of Royal Navy sport, HMS TEMERAIRE and more precisely the home of Royal Navy Rugby: Burnaby Road is to be their base as they put the final touches to their RWC preparations.
The Eagles will spend the days leading up to their first match on 20 September in Portsmouth. Playing Samoa in Brighton, we can expect a bruising encounter.
Led by the captain, Chris Wyles, into HMS Nelson’s Wardroom the players and management took their seats t...
