RNRU Royal Navy Rugby Union

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 mins the score was 21-12 to the home side. Due to the rapidly deteriorating pitch it the match was called after 60 mins for player safety.