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The Emerging Men’s and Women’s National Touch Series is back for Round 2 this Saturday, with 10 Men’s and seven Women’s teams heading to Cheltenham. Two new teams have come into the Women’s competition, which will be decided on a round-robin basis. Thames Valley (who won Round 1), Revolution, Cheltenham, Oxford and Bristol all return for Round 2, and they will be joined by Birm ...

The Emerging Men’s and Women’s National Touch Series had two new winners in the opening round at Cheltenham last Saturday. The competitive nature of the Women’s tournament was reflected by the number of draws (3), the number of games where the teams were separated by one try (8), and the fact that no team went through the day unbeaten. At the end of the pool stages it was Thame ...

England was the leading nation in the opening weekend of Autumn Internationals in Manchester. This was the first chance that the Opens teams from the home nations had had the opportunity to compete at this level since the 2019 World Cup, and England had the best of the Saturday at Broughton Park RFC, with the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Opens teams winning all of their nine games ...

The Autumn International Series continues into Sunday this weekend with Masters internationals against Wales. The Men’s 40s, 45s and 50s have already played Wales over the last few weeks, with the 40s winning 11-2 and 11-0 and the 45s splitting two matches 4-5 and 8-7 at Llantwit Fadre RFC in late July, and then the 50s winning two Tests 14-0 and 13-0 in Cheltenham at the end o ...

The National Touch Series moves into the Men’s and Women’s phase this September with the first of two Emerging tournaments at Cheltenham RFC on Saturday. Ten Men’s and seven Women’s teams will be heading to the west country from across the country, with clubs as far afield as Leeds, Crewe, Exeter and Canterbury represented. One Men’s team to watch out for is Turtles, a new Lond ...

International Touch returns to the Home Nations this weekend, and the England Opens teams have been named to take on their counterparts from Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The four nations are heading to Broughton Park RFC in Manchester for a day’s worth of capped internationals, with all the Field 1 action being live streamed on the England Touch YouTube channel. For these teams ...

Wigan Touch Warriors and Yorkshire Thorns will be going head-to-head this weekend representing the respective Foundations of Wigan Warriors and Leeds Rhinos in a special tournament being held at Wigan St Cuthberts RLFC by the RFL. The pair will also be going up against a team from Warrington Wolves as the RFL seeks to use Touch as part of its community offering. Both the Englan ...

The England Touch Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) working group has been reflecting on its inaugural year having firmly put in the foundations on a journey to ensure that Touch is a sport for all. This past year has seen the introduction of an EDI policy, a trans, non-binary and gender diverse policy, a diversity survey amongst our High Performance camp, a formalised pa ...

The 2021 Nationals drew to a close at a sun-drenched Oxford RFC, with the four titles being split across three regions. West Wildcats and North-West Blades secured their first titles of 2021 in the Girls 15s and Boys 15s respectively. Both of these competitions were played out across round-robin stages, with the Wildcats winning a best-of-three series against South-East Taipans ...

The 2021 Nationals ends this Sunday with the Juniors the focal point of attention at Oxford RFC. In all 15 teams will compete across four categories, namely Boys 18s, Girls 18s, Boys 15s and Girls 15s, with most regions represented in one of the tournaments. The action taps off at 10am with all teams playing 30-minute matches with a five-minute half-time and five minutes betwee ...