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BRFC may refer to: Angling * British Record (Rod Caught) Fish Committee Association football Professional clubs: * Berwick Rangers F.C. * Blackburn Rovers F.C. * Brisbane Roar FC * Bristol Rovers F.C. Other clubs: * Ballymacash Rangers F.C. * Ballywalter Recreation F.C. * Banbridge Rangers F.C. * Barton Rovers F.C. * Bridon Ropes F.C. * Brightlingsea Regent F.C. * Brimsdown Rovers F.C. * Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. * Brora Rangers F.C. * Burnham Ramblers F.C. Rugby union In Wales: * Baglan RFC *Bala RFC *Bangor RFC * Banwen RFC *Bargoed RFC * Barry RFC *Beddau RFC *Bedlinog RFC *Bedwas RFC * Bethesda RFC * Bettws RFC * Betws RFC * Birchgrove RFC *Blackwood RFC *Blaenavon RFC * Blaina RFC *Bonymaen RFC *Brecon RFC *Bryncethin RFC *Bryncoch RFC *Brynithel RFC *Brynmawr RFC In England: *Barking Rugby Football Club *Barnes Rugby Football Club *Barnstaple RFC * Basingstoke R.F.C. *Beckenham Rugby Football Club *Berwick RFC *Billericay Rugby Football Club *Birstall RFC *Blaydon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Record (Rod Caught) Fish Committee
The British Record (Rod Caught) Fish Committee -(BRFC) is the official organisation taking responsibility for all angling fish records within the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, collectively known as the "British Records". Since 2009 the BRFC has been part of the Angling Trust BRFC Committee The committee is composed of volunteers, including specialists in marine and specialist in freshwater fish, all with specialist knowledge of angling and the natural world and experience working with a background of various organisations, such as the scientific advisors to the Environment Agency and the Natural History Museum, angling organisations such as (SFSA)- Scottish Federation of Sea Anglers. The committee will inspect each claim and adjudicate on its credibility before publishing a list of British Record Fish at regular intervals. BRFC Historical Timeline 1968 BRFC Purge of British records Formed in 1968, one of the first and most noted decisions was to purge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangor RFC
Bangor Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Bangor) is a Welsh rugby union team based in Bangor, North Wales. Bangor RFC is a founding member of the Welsh Rugby Union. The club fields a Seniors, Youth, Juniors and Ladies teams. History Bangor RFC was formed in 1876, with three players in the team who would eventually represent their country, Hugh Vincent, Charles Allen and Godfrey Darbishire. In 1881 Bangor RFC sent representatives to the Castle Hotel in Neath where they were one of the clubs that formed the Welsh Rugby Union. That same year Bangor RFC player Godfrey Darbishire played in the first Welsh international against England. All competitive rugby ceased in Wales after the outbreak of World War I, and Bangor RFC disbanded. Although rugby was played after the War it wasn't until 1929 that Bangor RFC reformed and played in the North Wales Rugby Union league.''Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981'' pp271, David Smith, Gareth William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaina RFC
Blaina Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Blaina in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent in Wales. They presently play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division Three East league and are a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. History Towards the end of the 19th century industrialism in the late Industrial Revolution was spreading through the South Wales Valleys. With the migrant workers into the South Wales coalfield came the game of rugby union and in 1875 players from local sides amalgamated to form a club which played on a ground provided by the Lancaster company. Their chief patron and founder was a Mr. Sidney Lancaster.Smith (1980), pg 27. The club applied for and was accepted into the Welsh Football Union in 1895.Smith (1980), pg 101. That same year, Blaina joined the newly formed Monmouthshire league, along with teams such as Abercarn, Cwmbran, Ebbw Vale and Pontymister RFC began to produce a crop of players with good potential.Smith (1980), pg 105. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaenavon RFC
Blaenavon Rugby Football Club are a Wales, Welsh rugby union club based in the town of Blaenavon, South Wales. Blaenavon RFC is one of the older members of the Welsh Rugby Union founded in 1877 in the Iron and coal town of Blaenavon and is a feeder club for the Dragons (rugby union), Newport Gwent Dragons. Blaenavon RFC first game was against local rivals Abergavenny on Thursday, November 8, 1877, and ended in a draw. An infamous event in the history of Blaenavon RFC, was during the final of the Godfrey Jones Cup in April 1926. The competition had been devised 'to improve Welsh rugby via the running game'. In December 1947 a combined Pontypool RFC, Pontypool, Talywain RFC, Talywain and Blaenavon side played against the Australian national rugby union team, Australian national team at Pontypool Park as part of a post-war rebuilding tour. The game ended with Australia winning 9–7. A photo and a programme are displayed in Blaenavon R.F.C. club house Blaenavon Rugby Football Club w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwood RFC
Blackwood Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team. Blackwood RFC was established in Blackwood in 1889 and in 1918 gained the status of membership of the Welsh Rugby Union. They play their home games at Glan-Yr-Afon Park. History and development In the 1960s the club purchased an old police station and converted it for use as a clubhouse. In 1997 a new 800-seater stand was constructed with the capital coming from match sponsorship and donations. In 1998 Blackwood RFC purchased approximately one and a half acres of land adjacent to its playing field at Glan-Yr-Afon from British Gas. This purchase also included an on site disused gas service centre. This property was purchased with the full support of the WRU. In 2002 the club undertook a renovation of the gas service centre. The old clubhouse in Hall Street was closed in the May 2003 with the focus of developing a new clubhouse for the start of the 2003 season. The new clubhouse opened for the start of the new season in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birchgrove RFC
Birchgrove Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Birchgrove in Swansea, Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Ospreys The osprey (; ''Pandion haliaetus''), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and a wingspan of . It is .... Birchgrove RFC fields a senior and youth team that often combine as a senior team. Club honours * WRU Division Four South West 2009/10 - Champions Youth Rugby Birchgrove RFC Youth Team reformed in the 2012–13 season with former First Team player Conrad Beynon coaching. They are currently playing in WRU Osprey OE League. Their captain is scrum half Leigh Di'Iulio. References Rugby union teams in Wales Rugby union in Swansea {{Wales-rugbyunion-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betws RFC
Betws Rugby Football Club () is a Welsh rugby union club based in Betws, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Betws RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Scarlets. History Although it is accepted that Betws RFC was in existence some years before the 1890s, the first hard evidence that the club existed was through an Amman United fixture card dating from 1903 and so this was the date taken as the birth of the club. There is also little known about the club until after the Second World War. The club was certainly extant and playing in the late 1940s, officially reforming in 1953. As members of Llanelli & District they soon became successful and a decade later they had added 11 district titles. The 1959/60 season saw the club record a treble when they claimed the League Championship Challenge Shield, Open Cup and Lady Howard Cup and the continued success was evident in 1967/68 when they retained the Open and Lady Howard Cups supposedly from the season before. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettws RFC
Bettws Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Bettws, Newport in South Wales. It currently plays in the Welsh Rugby Union The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; ) is the governing body of rugby union in the country of Wales, recognised by the sport's international governing body, World Rugby. The WRU is responsible for the running of rugby in Wales, overseeing 320 member clu ... Division Five East. References Facebook Bettws Rfc Rugby union teams in Wales Rugby union clubs in Newport, Wales {{Wales-rugbyunion-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethesda RFC
Bethesda Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Bethesda) is a Welsh rugby union team based in Bethesda, North Wales. Bethesda member of the Welsh Rugby Union The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; ) is the governing body of rugby union in the country of Wales, recognised by the sport's international governing body, World Rugby. The WRU is responsible for the running of rugby in Wales, overseeing 320 member clu ... and is a feeder club for the scarlets. The club fields a senior and youth team. Club badge Bethesda's club badge is a lion rampant in front of a lightning bolt on a blue background. Notes Rugby union teams in Wales {{Wales-rugbyunion-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedwas RFC
Bedwas RFC () is a rugby union club located in the Wales, Welsh village of Bedwas. Bedwas has two senior teams, their 1st XV competing in the Welsh Championship and their development side, the Bedwas Barbarians. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for Dragons (rugby union), Dragons regional team. Club history Like many Welsh rugby teams the origin of the club is difficult to piece together having been formed by local workers rather than by a college or university. There is some evidence that a team played in Bedwas as early as 1885, though official recognition of Bedwas RFC is placed at 1889. Bedwas RFC was a founding member of both the Junior Monmouthshire League (1903) and the Rhymney Valley League (1906), and in 1910 applied for and succeeded in joining the Welsh Rugby Union. At the outbreak of World War I (1914) rugby ceased in most of South Wales and this was true of Bedwas. After the war a period of rebuilding occurred with the club based initi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedlinog RFC
Bedlinog Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Bedlinog, South Wales. The club was formed in its present state in 1971 by a local youth club, which was at the time organised by Welsh international Steve Fenwick. Currently the club consists of three teams; 1st's, development, and youth. The club play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division one east and is a feeder club In sports, a farm team (also referred to as farm system, developmental system, feeder team, or nursery club) is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful pl ... for the Cardiff Rugby . Club honours * 1999/00 WRU Division Six East - Champions * 2006/07 WRU Division Four South East - Champions * 2007/08 WRU Division Three South East - Champions * 2008/09 WRU Division Two South East - Runners up * 2015/16 SSE Swalec Plate Champions References Rugby union teams in Wales Sport in Merthyr Tydfil County B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beddau RFC
Beddau Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Beddau, South Wales. The present club was formed in 1951–52, but it can trace its roots to around 1900. Beddau RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for Cardiff Blues. History Beddau had a village rugby team from around 1900 until the Second World War. During the war all the club's records were destroyed apart from a few remaining photographs of Beddau RFC teams from the late 1930s. Beddau RFC was reformed in 1951-52 and has since been based in Castellau Road, Beddau. The club plays at Mount Pleasant Park, Beddau. Today Today, Beddau RFC plays in the Welsh Championship, WRU Championship. In the 2006–07 season, Beddau RFC won the Division One East League, but were denied promotion to the Premier League as their grounds were deemed not to meet WRU criteria. This ruling was upheld at an EGM by 67% of members. The club was entered into the inaugural Swalec Championship and had several go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |