Welcome to the U16 squad pages

We are recruiting and warmly welcome new players to join a tight and growing bunch of lads who are now competing at the highest level in Hampshire. The coaching team seek to develop all players as a single squad to reach their potential both as individuals and as a team. This is a friendly and highly social bunch of players who love their rugby and play the game in the right way. Our core values of teamwork, sportsmanship and endeavour form a strong foundation - of course we play to win but most of all we play because we love to play!

In addition to 6 competitive league matches, the majority of our fixtures are friendlies or development fixtures where we seek to give players at all ability levels the chance to play, develop and enjoy themselves.

The squad is supported by a dedicated Team Manager and 4 RFU qualified coaches all with enhanced RFU CRB checks, a brilliant group of parents and a club which values the development of boys as people as well as rugby players. The club also offers bacon butties and hot tea and coffee!

Training and touring!

During the season we train on Thursdays 19:00 – 20:30, also on Sundays 10:00 – 12:00 when we have no fixtures. See the Fixtures and Results section to check whether we have a match. There is pre-season training on Tuesday evenings throughout June and July and the club will be running summer touch rugby on Thursdays.

As active tourists the squad has previously played in Jersey, France, Ireland, Wales and Scotland is currently organising a tour to Italy in 2012. This will be the final leg of our 6 Nations tours.

Browse around – we hope you enjoy our web pages, and if you're thinking about joining and taking up the best participation sport in the world – come on down, the mud is lovely!