Tuesday, 18 August 2015

AAAARRRRRR! It be Cornish night!!

Whether ye be a scurvy sea dog or the village idiot there is plenty of place for eye patches, smocks, straw hats, wooden legs and pitchforks (not real ones) including any other stereotypes we can lump onto the beautiful county of cornwall.

Get down for a wurzelling good time on cider, sing a few sea shanties, have plenty of grog and survive a good old fashioned keelhauling, (all in the appropriate attire of course), and walk the plank of shame all the way home (or someone else's house/gym treadmill). All at the fantastic Millwall rugby club CORNISH NIGHT!

LAST ONE UP THE OLD SEA DOG GETS A LICK OF THE CAT!


On offer among all manner of bounteous treats are the following:
- "Cornish Gold"
- "Scrumpy"
- "Ratler"
- "Proper job"
- Paddles of cider for those who just cant decide
- cornish shots......(i don't know either..)
- and of course the obligatory pasties

don't forget your gear, or do and have to bargain an eye patch or a maritime related hat at the bar for a few pieces of eight.


GERROF MOI LAAAND! 'EE WUZ WORRYIN' MOI SHEEP! etc...


at 19:00


Millwall Rugby Club
75 Manchester Road, E14 3DN London, United Kingdom

Touch Final Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow, we finish the Touch season with the Tangibles in the Final and the Intangibles playing the final game of the year. Who's in?

18:30                                     The Intangibles vs Da Muppets (Pitch 3)

19:10 FINAL                        The Tangibles vs Jugmongous Jugs (Pitch 2)


We're the holders from the Spring league so want to continue the winning ways.

Email timmcdonagh@millwallrugby.com






Sunday, 16 August 2015

Clubhouse openings, pre-season training and touch times (w/c 17/08)

Pre-season training:
Pre-season training for both mens and ladies is on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm


Touch Rugby: 
Our sessions on Millwall Park will continue take place on Sundays from 12.30pm to 2.30pm


Club Openings: 
Monday - Open from 7pm 
Fisher & Ed will be looking after you for this Monday.  Come down to pre-season training and have a few drinks afterwards.

Wednesday - Open from 7pm
Gareth will be looking after you for this Wednesday. Come down to pre-season training and have a few drinks afterwards.

Saturday - Open from 6pm
Patrick will be opening the club today and will be showing the 1st half of ITA v SCO game followed by the FRA v ENG game followed by the recording of 2nd half of the ITA v SCO game, so come down early and keep Patrick company.

Sunday - Open from 2.30pm - 4.30pm  
Flex will then be opening the clubhouse after the Sunday Touch sessions for a few hours so why come down to touch and have a few drinks afterwards. 

Return to Rugby Project - Kick Off Meeting this Monday

Meeting after training this Monday

Following last year's successful "Rugby Basics" programme, we have plans to start it off again this season. But the great news is that the idea has "gone national" and is going to be marketed nationally as a "Return to Rugby" Programme starting around Sep 14th.

Millwall has been invited to be one of a small number of clubs involved in the launch, which could be a really exciting opportunity for us!

To make it work we need people interested in coaching, participating, involving the new guys socially in the club and probably more besides.

To kick it off, Martin MacTaggart from the RFU will be coming along to speak to us after training tomorrow night (Monday 17th August) at 9pm.

If you are interested in learning more, please come along at 9pm Monday.  

Please let me know you're coming by emailing me at andrew@millwallrugby.com

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Changes to our #O2Touch Rugby Sessions

Changes to timings


Our Thursday touch rugby sessions have now stopped for the summer in order to let you all focus on main club training.  We've noticed numbers dropping off, so decided it's time to stop.  The Sunday sessions however will continue, as always, throughout the winter.

We're changing the time of Sunday sessions to bring it half an hour earlier to help organisers who run other sessions in the morning.  The new time will be 12.30pm until 2.30pm.  This is effective from this coming Sunday 15th August.

Changes to session fees


Effective immediately: in the interests of encouraging participation in our Millwall Park sessions we've decided to abolish the £3 fee for non-members to play.  This means that, like all our club training, all Millwall Park sessions are now free of charge.  We will still be taking a register however, as this is a requirement of our O2Touch sponsorship.

Effective from January 2016: recognising the costs of entry into the competitions (which can be upwards of £350), as well as the fact that we now provide shiny kit for you to wear, we've decided to bring our competition/league-sessions in line with the rest of the club.

  • This means that you must be a fully paid up and current member of the club to be selected to play and you'll need to pay match day subs to contribute... unless you're a life member. 
  • Rather than being £10 as with our full-contact rugby, the subs for touch rugby will be a reduced £5 (unemployed the same).  
  • As is usual, regular club volunteers benefit from 50% off what they would otherwise have to pay.
  • The same trial rules apply for people who have never been members before (one game with no match subs to pay, and no membership requirement until just prior to third game)

If you've got any questions, please email one of us on the touch rugby committee (Nigel, Darryl, Scott, Mike, Andrew)

Monday, 10 August 2015

Online Press Coverage - The Wharf - 4th August 2015

Press Coverage - East End Life - 10th August 2015

We've got a nice write-up this week promoting the club in the council's free newspaper that is delivered to lots of homes locally.

Click on the picture to zoom in.