Pre-Season and Summer Holidays

Millwall Rugby Club will be running free rugby taster sessions every Friday during the summer school holidays.

The sessions, titled “Rugby Fridays” are part of the Canary Wharf Group Summer Programme of Sports.

Training for the new season for children aged 7-16 begins on Wednesday 8th of June from 6pm-7pm on Millwall Park. Beginners welcome!

Anyone interested in playing youth or tag rugby for Millwall Lions should contact Matt on 07884012678 or email youthchair@millwallrugby.com

Rugby Club puts on Tag Success!

Four of the Isle of Dogs local primary schools participated in an inter-school tag rugby competition on Thursday 19^th of May run by the Rugby Football Union and hosted by Millwall Rugby Club.

Harbinger, St Edmunds, Arnhem Wharf and Cubbit Town all fielded 3 teams each in the event at Millwall Park held in glorious sunshine.  

Over 180 year 3 and 4 children took part in the tournament, which followed 6 weeks of in-school coaching sessions arranged by the club as part of their strategy to be more embedded in the local community.  

Teams from each school were split into three pools, playing 5 minute matches against the other teams in their pool.  The teams with the most wins finished top of the pool and were declared the winners.  Arnhem Wharf won one pool, while St Edmunds primary topped the other two divisions.

RFU Community Rugby Coach Dean Cutting, who delivered the programme for Millwall Rugby Club said the event was a definite success:

 “All the children had lots of fun and I was impressed at how well they adapted to the rules of tag rugby. The event is a testament to Millwall Rugby Club, who are working hard to forge partnerships with their surrounding primary schools”

Muslimah Khanom, teacher from Arnhem Wharf Primary thanked the club for putting on a ‘brilliant’ tournament:

“We really enjoyed ourselves and the children are really excited about how well they did. I’ve really enjoyed working with Millwall Rugby Club and my class are all now enthusiastic budding rugby players!”

Scott Vinnicombe, Tower Hamlets Rugby Development Officer, was present on the day and hailed the Isle of Dogs rugby club for their innovative approach to working with schools:

"The work that Millwall Rugby are doing to promote youth rugby in the borough is outstanding. This programme, which the club have put on at no cost to the participating schools, will be a tremendous help to the development of rugby throughout Tower Hamlets".

Millwall Rugby Club will be running free rugby taster sessions every Friday during the summer school holidays. The sessions, titled “Rugby Fridays” are part of the Canary Wharf Group Summer Programme of Sports.

Training for the new season for children aged 7-16 begins on Wednesday 8^th of June from 6pm-7pm on Millwall Park. Beginners welcome!

Anyone interested in playing youth or tag rugby for Millwall Lions should contact Matt on 07884012678 or email youthchair@millwallrugby.com

For more information, visit www.millwalllions.com

Awards, School Event and Pre-season

YOUTH END OF SEASON AWARDS

Don't forget, the Lions Annual Awards night is on THISSaturday 14th of May 2011.

Doors open at6pm, with speeches and awards from 7pm

The following awards will be presented:
Mini's Team Presentation
Under 12s Team Presentation
Under 12s Player of the Year
Under 12s Most Improved Player
Under 15s Team Presentation
Under 15s Player of the Year
Under 15s Most Improved Player
Colts Player of the Year

along with a host of special volunteer awards...and some speeches from each team coach and captain.

A buffet dinner will be provided, along with music and dancing after the award presentations.

Tickets cost £5 for adults and £3 for kids (aged 15 and under) and can be purchased at the door.

We want you all to join us as we celebrate another successful season for Millwall Lions!




SCHOOL TOURNAMENT

Millwall RFC will be hosting a primary school tag rugby tournament next Thursday 19th of May 2011.

We are expecting 180 kids to attend from 4 of our closest primary schools: Cubbit Town, St Edmunds, Harbinger and Arnhem Wharf.

In order to run this efficiently we are seeking volunteers to assist in the running of the day from refs to pitch marshals to coaches to help between games and runners to help with paperwork

Volunteers should arrive at the clubhouse around 10.30 - 11 am the kids will turn up at 12 hoping to get started by 1pm and finished by 2.15 followed by club presentations.

If you can help out on the day, please contact Scott Vinnicombe (Youth Coaching Coordinator) on vinnicombes@hotmail.com or call 07826556746




TRAINING INFORMATION

Pre-Season training for the new season will begin onWednesday 8th of June 2011 at 6pm on Millwall Park.

These sessions times are for all teams.

There will be no Sunday morning training sessions until the new season begins in September.


Let's go to Work!

Matt Shorrock
Youth Chair



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