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Chief Petty Officer Billi Staite
Chief Petty Officer Billi Staite joined the Royal Navy in 2002 as an Air Engineering Technician, providing vital engineering support to the Commando Helicopter Force which saw her deploy to destinations including Afghanistan, USA and Norway.
In 2017 she retrained as a Biomedical Scientist and is now one of 17 amongst the entire of defence. In her current role she provides testing and analysis to Defence Medical Services and support to operations as well as the NHS.
Billi was first capped by the RNRU in 2017 and she hopes to take her cap total into the dou...
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"This is our first meeting with Bristol and the team are looking forward to the challenge."
Commander Arty Shaw
The Royal Navy's trimmed down Inter Service squad will be under the lights and under the microscope against a Bristol Bears select XV at Frenchay tonight.
Commander Arty Shaw, the Senior XV Director of Rugby said, "After 3 fiercely contested trial matches, our journey toward the Inter Services commences in earnest. The squad has had a great week, formally welcomed by the Chair of Navy Rugby on Monday where the honour of their selection was reinforced. This is our first meeting with Bristol and the team are looking forward to the challenge. It promises to be a great night."
The match takes place at Dings Crusaders RFC Ground at Shaftesbury Park, Frenchay and the match kicks off at 1...
As March rolls in the freshly trimmed down Royal Navy Senior Men's Squad headed north from their training camp in Taunton to face a Bristol Bears Select XV.
The team were eager to entertain under Friday night lights on a fast synthetic pitch at the home of Dings Crusaders and Bristol Bears Women. In the first few minutes both sides took the opportunity to move the ball around as the conditions with still dry and 9 minutes into the game Bristol struck the first blow. With some clever play their scrum half taps and goes quickly and spots a gap behind the Navy defence, a deft chip over the top and their winger scores in the corner, the difficult conversion was made. After Bristol's secon...
After a 2 year unexpected break rugby has finally returned to HMS Collingwood (CWD) with an excellent start to what remains of the 21/22 season.
Training started in February with only a handful of players attending. As the weeks have gone by 30+ keen young men and women have attended, of varying experience levels.
Last week saw their first fixture against US Portsmouth 2s who are a very experienced side. Pitch conditions were quite challenging after the back to back recent storms. This was to be a big test and was played as a training game. Once the team had settled some very good flowing rugby and set pieces that had been used in training now were started to be seen. After 60...
The RNRU Mariners travelled to Havant RFC to take on a strong Vets side and a passionate Wednesday Night Crowd.
Ultimately the Mariners lost out to a dominant and well drilled side by there were still many positives to take.
Line up
1. CPO Peter Manning
2. PO Rhys Bingham
3. LH Chris Ellor
4. LT Ian Scovell
5. PO Kieran Heffernan
6. PO Peter Erne
7. PO Kali Junior
8. CPO Rob Fuca
9. PO Christopher Hart
10. LT Dane Smallbone
11. AB Steve Mohony
12. PO Phil Parsell
13. LPT Dean Fentum
14. CPL Semi Tabanivesi
15. LH Paul Saberton (c)
16. PO Steve Pearse
17. PO Andrew Johns
18. PO Peter Kewn
19. PO...
