Salisbury Rugby Club is an English
rugby union
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club in
Salisbury
Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wi ...
, Wiltshire, who play in
Regional 2 South Central
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, a level six league. The club is based at Hudson's Field, Castle Road, near
Old Sarum
Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest recor ...
.
Former players include
Richard Hill (
Saracens
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,
England
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,
British and Irish Lions
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),
Mike Brown (
Harlequins Leicester Tigers
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The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home ...
and
England
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),
Will Stuart
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Early life
Stuart started playing rugby at Andover RFC in Hampshire be ...
(
Bath Rugby
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England),
Cadan Murley (Harlequins).
Structure
Senior sections: the senior section has up to three teams who play regularly. There is currently no women’s senior squad.
Junior section: split into Minis and Juniors. The Minis accepts children from Reception to Year 6 (U6s to U11s). These are mixed and play in line with RFU Age Grade rugby (touch rugby up to and including U8s, and then contact from U9s to U11s). The Junior section splits into boys' and girls' squads with the boys having teams from U12 to U16s and the Colts, and the girls having U12s, U14, U16 and U18s groupings. This is in line with RFU Age Grade rugby.
Charitable rugby: the club works in conjunction with charities and private coaches to train students at sixth form colleges in Salisbury and the surround area to have a Salisbury 6th Form Colleges team (in a
Barbarians RFC-like set up). This initiative is endorsed by
Mike Brown.
Sponsors
Club sponsors include:
* Spire Printing
* Heritage VW – Mini Rugby
* Nunton Dairies – Mini Rugby
*
Chaffyn Grove school – Mini coaches' kit
* Sarum Vision – Junior coaches' kit
*
NFU Mutual
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– Junior playing strips
Honours
*
Dorset & Wilts Cup winners 1989–90
*
South West 2 East champions: 1997–98
*
Southern Counties (north v south) promotion play-off winners: 2000–01, 2014–15
*
Southern Counties South champions: 2010–11
* Southern Counties Cup winners 2014–15
*
South West 1 (east v west) promotion play-off winner: 2015–16
See also
*
Dorset and Wilts Rugby Football Union
Dorset and Wilts Rugby Football Union (Dorset & Wilts RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in the counties of Dorset and Wiltshire, England. Dorset & Wilts RFU is a Constituent Body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and is responsible for ...
References
External links
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Rugby union teams in England
Rugby clubs established in 1912
Rugby union in Wiltshire
Salisbury
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