WIMBLEDON GIRLS RFC

Girls in all school years are invited to join our new dedicated Girls team.

Training is held on Sunday Mornings 10am- 11:30am.

Wimbledon RFC have a strong, successful Minis section which thrives on the support of Coaches and Parents. The Minis are currently mixed, with boys and girls training together.

With the RFC’s drive to promote and strengthen Women & Girls rugby, we feel that it is only right that the girls deserve their own team.

We have another fabulous Comedy Night ! Comedy commences at 8:30pm. Doors open from 7pm. Food is not included in the ticket price but Mick will be happy to provide some if booked in advance.

Tickets are £20 each and are available from social@wmrfc.co.uk or call Una on 07703190554 or by card at the WRFC bar from 30 September. We have an early bird discount on the ticket price of £15 each until the Quiz Night on 14 October.

Wimbledon RFC are hugely looking forward to welcoming Battersea Ironsides, Chobham, Farnham, Teddington, Cobham, Dorking, Esher and Camberley to our festival this Sunday. The weather's set fair, the BBQs are charged and the rugby will be fantastic. Attached is a downloadable copy of the programme and registration forms. If you need directions to Wimbledon Rugby Football Club click here

The headline timings for the day are
Register at the relevant age group control tent by 0930
Referees briefing at 0945, control tents again
First games kick off 1000 sharp

Today's format
The competition for each age group will be split into two or more age leagues of four or five teams. Each team will play three or four games to decide league positions and the first two in each league will play final deciders for the Festival Cup and Plate competitions with 3rd and 4th place deciders for some age groups.

Pitch plan
NOTE: CHANGE SINCE THIS PLAN WAS MADE! U8 NOW BETWEEN U7 AND U9!

Please park considerately
Wimbledon RFC is situated at the heart of a residential community. Please refer to our parking policy, park where you are asked (and more importantly please respect anyone asking you NOT to park in certain places). On-site parking is shown on the above pitch plan. If you arrive late you may have to park off-site as shown on the parking policy.

The rules we'll be playing in the festival
u7-u11 New Rules of Play
u12 Old Rules but with no conversions (except for sudden-death conversions)

Scoring for the festival
Three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss.
In the event of a tie for a league place, places will be decided in the following order:

1. Most tries scored,
2. Least tries conceded,
3. Finally, the toss of a coin, except for U12 which will be decided by sudden-death conversions at centre 15m line as follows: if the first team's player converts and the second team's does not then the first player’s team wins. Each player can only kick once. If it's still level after the regular age-group number of players in a team have completed conversions, then toss of a coin.

Note: the scoring and rules were updated Friday 2 October at 9pm to correct a couple of inconsistencies

Matt Spour, pro photographer and minis dad and coach, took photos of the Word Cup with all of our age groups when it visited the club earlier in the month.

See and buy them here: www.photoboxgallery.com/WRFC_webb_ellis

You can buy small prints, large prints, keyrings and t-shirts. Go fill your boots. He's kept the costs as low as he can so don't miss out! Also, any monies raised will go towards the club's development (changing rooms etc).

There's even a pic of the club's coaches partaking in frankly disturbing lunges.

Remember: all the World Cup games are being shown at the clubhouse. No need to be lonesome on your sofa!

Please let's get any outstanding subs in this Sunday. There is a subs desk in full operation to make paying your subs as easy as possible.

We made this film to mark our big birthday. Those of you at the ball will have seen this in all its glory.

The building work on the new changing rooms has started so parking might be more of a challenge. If parking off-site please park respectfully of our neighbours' entrances and verges.

Wimbledon Under 15s are getting into World Cup spirit by playing the Italian team Pordenone (http://www.rugbypordenone.it/) at 11am. Here's what happened in May at the away fixture...

Wimbledon U18s are playing Richmond FC at 11am, too.

The clubhouse will be open for all the World Cup games.

Last Sunday we were proud to host the World Cup trophy at the club. Great that Esher RFC could join us for training and see the cup too.

Under 6s look happy to be with the cup

As do the Under 11s

Slight change to the allocation last season. Please park sensibly. Most importantly, let's have a brilliant season. Training starts 10am sharp

STOP PRESS: There's a rumour that there are some World Cup-based goody bags for the first 100 people to pay their subs!

Calling all existing and budding coaches and referees (and interested parents/kids)

Links to all the RFU (England Rugby) age group regulations are here: http://wmrfc.co.uk/coaching-public-refereeing

There are links on that page to the laws of the rugby, where to find details on coaching courses you might want to attend and info on what qualifications you need to referee at each age group. There's also a link to the club's disciplinary policy, too.