Latest Minis & Juniors News

13th Jul'08 - Fixtures for both Minis and Juniors for the 2008/09 season are now on the website.

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8th Jul'08 - Opro Mouthguards will be at the Club on Sunday 14th Sept'08 to take gum shield impressions - for more information visit the Opro website.

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6th Jul'08 - As we get ready for the 2008/09 season here's a quick recap of the very successful 2007/08 season that our Mini & Junior section has had .........

The match reports for last season can be found within the Minis & Juniors Archives section

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29th Jun'08 - Three Derby RFC U16s players have been included in the Leicester Tigers U16s EPDG Squad  (Elite Player Development Group) in a Rugby Tournament taking place on the 31st August'08 at Oval Park in Leicester, they are: Sam Tresidder, Rory Lynn and Tom Summerscales.

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26th Jun'08 - Tonight at 7:30pm at the Club is the Minis & Juniors section AGM.

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8th Jun'08 - Derby RFC Minis & Juniors 2007/08 end of season Presentation Day took place today at the Club, here's the Presentation Day Photographs. As soon as I have an upto date list of recipients I'll post it onto the website.

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5th Jun'08 - RFU Grand Prize Draw Winners 2007/08 - details of Winners can be found on the RFU website www.rfu.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.News_Detail/StoryID/20024

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4th Jun'08 - Photograph Ordering on the Derby RFC website - Buy 2 and get 1 Photograph Free when ordering from the e4creative Photo Galleries displayed on the Derby RFC website. Please see the website online Photograph Ordering form for more information.

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1st Jun'08 - Three Coaches setoff for Twickenham at 6am (hic) yesterday morning with Derby's U9s, U11s and Supporters on them, the destination was Twickenham for the Gullivers Finals Day.

In the Gullivers Final our U9s won by 1 Try to Nil against Braintree and our U11s lost by 2 Tries to Nil against Salisbury. To reach Twickenham both sides had got through the Qualifying tournament at the Gullivers Festival in Nottingham earlier this year. As a Club Derby RFC have been very privileged to have had Teams reach the Twickenham Finals day for the past 5 years, it's not everyone that can say they've played at Twickenham. Well done to both of our young sides this year, I'm sure that it will be a day that they will remember for a very long time.

Once the Gullivers Finals had been played out we all sat back to take in and watch the Guiness Premiership Final between London Wasps and Leicester Tigers unfold in front of over 81,000 supporters inside Twickenham - awesome !

Here's the Photograph Galleries of our U9s at Twickenham, our U11s at Twickenham and also of the London Wasps v Leicester Tigers match.

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30th May'08 - Derby's U9s and U11s are off to Twickenham tomorrow (Sat 31st May) to contest in the Gullivers Plate Finals.

The Minis & Juniors Presentation Day will take place at the Club on Sunday 8th June. The Minis Presentation will run from 10am to 11:30am and the Juniors from 11:45am to 1:45pm. If the weather is fine it is planned to hold the Presentations outside. As it's a family occasion there are also plans to have a BBQ, Bouncy Castle, Treasure Hunt and Raffle.

The Minis & Juniors AGM will take place at the Club on the 26th June'08 at 7:30pm. Here's the agenda for the AGM (Microsoft Word doc).

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14th May'08 - Congratulations to Derby's U13s, U14s and U15s who all won their respective NLD 7s tournaments last Sunday. Derby U15s entered 2 teams with the second team beating Nottingham in the Plate Final. Read the U13s tournament report and the U14s tournament report.

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8th May'08 - Derby's U14s were Runners Up in the Newbury 10s Festival last Sunday in a tight final game against Bristol St Mary's. Here's the report & photos from the Festival.

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4th May'08 - Congratulations to Derby's U17s who won the U17s National Shield final today against Bracknell hosted at Worcester RFC. Derby were trailing 07 - 14 but brought the game back to 14 - 14. This is how the game ended but on a 'Try Count back' it was Derby's two Tries to Bracknell's one that gave Derby's U17s the win. Here's the Match Report and Photographs from the game.

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1st May'08 - Digital copies of e4creative action Photographs - following recent enquiries digital copies of action photographs are now available. All digital photos will be sent on a CD. So far the Galleries that have the action photo Digital option are the Derby Minis Festival 2008 (13th Apr'08) and the NLD Cup Finals Day (27th Apr'08) both of which are on the e4creative website. All other e4creative galleries featured within the Derby RFC website can be found here.

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28th Apr'08 - At yesterdays NLD Finals Day at Market Rasen Derby RFC had 3 sides competing, our U13s, U14s and U15s. Our U13s and U15s won their Finals whilst our U14s finished as Runners Up following their game with Nottingham. With just 7 minutes remaining our U14s were leading 07 - 06 but a penalty was awarded to Nottingham which they kicked to make the final result 07 - 09 to Nottingham. Here's all 3 NLD Final match reports: U13s Derby v Paviors, U14s Derby v Nottingham and U15s Derby v Kesteven. All 3 reports include a selection of photographs as well links to the full Photograph Galleries.

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23rd Apr'08 - A change of venue for the Colts v Buxton Derbyshire Cup Final on Sunday 27th April, this was to be held at Belper RFC but this has now been changed to it being hosted at Chesterfield RFC, kickoff is 11.30am. See the Club News entry dated 23rd Apr'08 for a list of of forthcoming club competitions / activities as there's quite a few happening over the next few weeks.

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20th Apr'08 - Derby's U17s are through to the National U17s Final after beating Keswick 32 - 10 in today's Semi Final. The Final is due to be played in Worcester in early May, we're waiting for the exact date and who the opponents will be. Here's the match report from today's game.

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15th Apr'08 - The Derby RFC Minis Festival 2008 took place on Sunday 13th April.  Photograph Galleries from the Under 7s, Under 8s, Under 9s, Under 10s, Under 11s, Under 12s and the Presentations can all be viewed on the e4creative website at www.e4creative.co.uk

Results at the Festival were:

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5th Apr'08 - Due to the Seniors NLD Finals Day being hosted at Derby RFC tomorrow (Sunday 6th April) the scheduled Minis & Juniors fixtures have all been rearranged to take place at other locations within Derby. See the Minis Fixtures and Juniors Fixtures for latest updates.

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27th Mar'08 - On Friday 21st March Ilkeston RFC fielded an ’Academy Invitational XV’ when hosting Irish touring side Bruff U18’s, who were preparing for their provincial Munster cup final in a week’s time. The game, which resulted in an 8 try 34-15 win for the Ilkeston Barbarians, featured three Derby RFC U16s in the form of Ryan Holmes, Tom Rusga and Joe Pass as well as several players from Nottingham Academy – with Academy Manager John Widdowson watching the game. A thoroughly enjoyable game to play and watch – it was played in true Barbarian spirit; with the Barbarians only meeting up during the warm up of the game, in contrast to Bruff who have reportedly been together since U10s and undefeated since 2005/06.

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24th Mar'08 - Derby have 3 Junior sides that have reached the NLD Cup Finals in their respective age groups, these are our U13s, U14s and U15s. The Finals will take place at Market Rasen RFC on the 27th April. In the U13s Final it's Derby v Paviors (KO 1:45pm), in the U14s Final it's Derby v Nottingham (KO 12.15pm) and in the U15s Final it's Derby v Kesteven (KO 1:30pm).

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22nd Mar'08 - Gullivers update - Derby have 2 teams going to the Twickenham Finals Day in May (our U9s and U11s) following their success at this weekends Gullivers Festival in Nottingham. We so nearly had all 4 of our Minis sides going but our U10s were beaten 2 tries to 1 in their Bowl Semi Final game against Old Northamptonians and our U12s lost by 1 try to nil in their Cup Qtr Final game against Northampton Old Scouts. Here's the Photograph Galleries of all of our Derby teams in action at the Gullivers Rugby Festival: Under 9s - Under 10s - Under 11s - Under 12s.

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20th Mar'08 - Gullivers 2008 - Good luck to all of our Minis sides (U9s to U12s) who are taking part in the 2008 Gullivers Festival tomorrow and Saturday. This year the Festival is being held at Grove Park Playing Fields, Lenton Lane, Nottingham NG7 2SA.

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9th Mar'08 - Derby's U12s Wasps are the 2008 NLD U12s Cup Champions following their win over Stamford today at the NLD U11s and U12s Finals Day hosted at Derby RFC. Today saw over 800 players taking part of which Derby had 3 teams that had come through the earlier Qualifying rounds to reach today's Finals Day. Our U11s and U12s Wasps were in their respective NLD Cup competitions and our U12s Hornets were competing in the U12s Shield Competition. Today's Finals Day had Pool knockout stages in the morning and then Semi Finals and Finals in the afternoon.

Here's the Results of today's NLD U11s and U12s Finals Day:

Here's the Derby U11s Photograph Gallery featuring their Pool game against Kesteven U11s, here's the Derby U12s Hornets Photograph Gallery featuring their Pool games against Boston U12s and then Glossop U12s and here's our Derby U12s Wasps Photograph Gallery featuring their games against Newark U12s, Lincoln U12s and Stamford U12s.

Match Reports from some of our Junior games played today include: U13s Ilkeston 17 - 21 Derby Stags, U15s Market Harborough 03 - 28 Derby 'A' XV, Derby Dev XV 25 - 24 Lutterworth.

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6th Mar'08 - On Sunday 9th March Derby RFC host the U11s and U12s NLD Finals with 44 teams taking part. See the revised Fixture updates for our Minis and Juniors sides this Sunday with Training taking place at West Park School whilst any home scheduled matches are being held at Derby University due to the NLD U11s / U12s taking place at Derby RFC.

Directions to West Park School are: From Derby: Take A52 towards Nottingham, Exit at 2nd Spondon turn-off (signed Spondon/ IIkeston), Continue up Lodge Lane North and into Church Street, Take 2nd left into Park Road and park at the car park at the end of the road, Go through the gate on the left hand side and follow the path past the tennis/netball courts and onto the playing fields.

Directions to Derby University can be found here.

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2nd Mar'08 - Derby's U16s are knocked out of the NLD Cup in today's 17 - 25 Semi Final loss against Lincoln. Here's the match report.

Match Reports from today include U13s Tigers v Sandbach, U13s Stags v Mellish and U15s 'A' v Sandbach.

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27th Feb'08 - The U14s have recently been on Tour to Devon, here's the Tour Report and Photos.

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24th Feb'08 - Derby's U16s are through to the NLD Cup Semi Finals after winning today's home game 31 - 06 against Southwell. Here's the match report and photographs from the game along with Photographs from today's other home Juniors fixture of Derby U15s v Paviors U15s.

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23rd Feb'08 - There have been some RFU Law Variations applicable at Under 19s and below. Here's a copy of this document (Adobe PDF Format sized at 146kb).

Note that all Forms and Documents relating to the Minis & Juniors section can be found in the Minis & Juniors Forms & Documents webpage.

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19th Feb'08 - Wild Park Leisure Paint balling - Half term special - Thursday 21st Feb is now fully booked but the offer has been extended to include Friday 22nd Feb'08 - Whole day Paintballing £25 including 300 paintballs & complimentary Bangers & Mash. £40 including 600 paintballs. To book or for more information please contact Wild Park Leisure on 01335 360485.

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15th Feb'08 - RFU Grand Draw - This year the return on the ticket sales is 90% Derby RFC and 10% RFU. The tickets are £1 each and first of 40 prizes is £10K. Here at the Club the monies raised through selling these tickets will split as follows ... 70% on equipment, 20% on Ground improvements for the training pitch and 10% to the RFU. Each club section (Ladies, Minis & Juniors and Seniors) has ticket allocation and the equipment will geared towards themselves, the more each section sells the more for them. The Minis and Juniors section tickets are being co-ordinated by Graham Darby. If you'd like to buy tickets and/or are willing to help sell some to friends, relatives, workmates etc then please see Graham.

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10th Feb'08 - Derby RFC hosted the NLD U15s 'round robin' fixtures between Nottinghamshire U15s, Lincolnshire U15s and Derbyshire U15s. Here's Photographs from all of the games.

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9th Feb'08 - Derby's U9s played a 'curtain raiser' game prior to today's Midlands Two East league fixture of Derby 1st XV v Paviors 1st XV. Here's the Photographs from the U9s game.

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7th Feb'08 - At last Sunday's NLD U11s and U12s Qualifiers held at Ilkeston RFC our U11s and U12s Wasps have both successfully gone through to the Cup stages in their respective age groups and our U12s Hornets have gone through to the Shield stage. Congratulations to all 3 teams.

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3rd Feb'08 - Derby's U13s and U14s are through to their respective age group NLD Finals following wins today in their semi final fixtures. Our U13s won 22 - 17 against Kesteven whilst our U14s won 14 - 00 against Market Deepings. Our U13s and U14s join our U15s who have already made it through to their NLD Finals. Congratulations to all 3 teams.

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24th Jan'08 - England Saxons v Ireland ‘A’ Welford Road, 1st Feb'08. The Under 13s have organised a coach to the Saxons game at Welford Road on February 1st and there are currently a few seats available. The coach will leave the club at 5.30pm, returning around 10.45pm and seats cost £5. If you want to reserve a seat on the coach, please call Phil Eades on 07939-597981. Note that you need to purchase tickets for the game yourself separately.

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19th Jan'08 - Due to the rain there have been a number of changes to tomorrow's (Sun 20th Jan) Minis & Juniors Fixtures and Training sessions. Effectively this means that there is only one home match taking place tomorrow and that is the U16s v Southwell in the NLD Cup. All Training at Derby RFC has also been cancelled for tomorrow. See the latest Minis Fixtures and Juniors Fixtures for all revised changes.

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15th Jan'08 - There's no Minis & Juniors mid week training at the Club on Wednesday (16th Jan) due to the constant rainfall on the pitches this week.

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13th Jan'08 - Derby's U16s got their NLD Cup campaign off to a good start today with a 45 - 00 home win over Mansfield. Here's the match report from the game.

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10th Jan'08 - U17s please note that Training on Sunday 13th Jan will commence at 2pm once the Colts return from their away fixture at Paviors.

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23rd Dec'07 - Today's U15s fixture result was Derby 22 - 12 Hereford. What a superb game of rugby between two terrific teams. On a cold and foggy day the standard of play was just awesome and the intensity of the game was second to none. Congratulations to both sides for putting on a superb display of hard and fast rugby. Here's the match report and photographs from the game.

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20th Dec'07 - On Sunday 23rd Dec'07 there's a very special match lined up when Derby's U15s takeon Hereford U15s. What's so special about this game I hear you ask !!! - well not only are both sides unbeaten this season but each is their respective current reigning Three County Champions. Derby are the NLD Champions and Hereford are the West Midlands champions. Kickoff is at 12 o'clock. This promises to be an excellent game of rugby and is the only game taking place on Sunday at Derby RFC, your support would be most welcome.

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8th Dec'07 - All Minis & Juniors Training and Fixtures at Derby RFC for tomorrow Sunday 9th Dec'07 have been cancelled due to the state of the pitches following the recent continuous rainfall over the last few days.

Note that the Minis & Juniors cancellations tomorrow also includes the cancellation of the NLD U14s County games which were due to commence at 1:30pm. An alternative venue has tried to be found but other Clubs are in the same position as we are.

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5th Dec'07 - Minis & Juniors Training tonight Wednesday 5th Dec'07 is cancelled at Derby RFC due to the state of the pitches following the recent continuous rainfall over the last few days.

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3rd Dec'07 - Derby's U15s 'A' XV are through to the Finals of the NLD Cup after their 00 - 45 away semi final win over Sleaford yesterday. The final will take place on the 27th April 2008. Derby's U15s were also in Semi Final action yesterday in the NLD Shield, they faced a strong Nottingham side and it was Nottingham that won the game 15 - 05.

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20th Nov'07 - Derby RFC hosted the NLD U9s and U10s Qualifiers last Sunday 18th Nov'07 in what was a very cold and wet day. Full credit to all of the youngsters who took part from all of the teams. The Rugby was of a high standard when you consider the conditions that they were playing in. Here's the U9s Photograph Gallery and here's the U10s Photograph Gallery. Both Derby age groups fielded 2 teams and one team from each age group have made it through to the next stage of the competition which will be held in 2008.

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17th Nov'07 - Google Map link included in the Fixture Maps for Nottingham as their Minis & Juniors play at 'The Bay' in Nottingham. Nottingham's Mini & Junior site don't list any directions just the Google Map link.

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15th Nov'07 - U13s Stags Training (and possibly U17s) on Sunday 18th Nov will take place at West Park School at 10:15am. Directions to the school - From Derby: Take A52 towards Nottingham. Exit at 2nd Spondon turn-off (signed Spondon/ IIkeston). Continue up Lodge Lane North and into Church Street. Take 2^nd left into Park Road and park at the car park at the end of the road.  Go through the gate on the left hand side and follow the path past the tennis/netball courts and onto the playing fields. 

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25th Sep'07 - Lexus Tournament success - Minis & Juniors Chairman Graham Darby writes .... The big weekend has come and gone already and once again Derby RFC have shown themselves to the rest of the Region and Lexus UK that not only are we more than capable of running a major sporting event but also of competing within it to the highest level.  None of this would have been possible without the enormous efforts of so many who gave up their time whether employees of the club, volunteers, parents or committee members.  It wouldn’t be right to single anyone out so please accept my personal thanks to all of you. 

Running a successful competition is one thing but the success of the Derby teams entered was no mean feat either with a Derby RFC side in every final ending with two runners up and two champions.  To all those players let me just say what a remarkable achievement that represents and just how proud the Club is of you, well done lads.

I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to our Club President Mr Paul Richardson for coming along to present the trophies.

A special mention must also go to the lads from the U15’s development side who made up the majority of Walsalls U15’s. This was arranged last minute rather than lose a team from the league.  That is the spirit of rugby and your willingness to help a fellow team in this manner is a credit to you, thank you. 

I must also say a big thank you to Hinckley, Walsall, Olney, Norwich, Kenilworth, Nottingham and Stourbridge RFC’s, the way in which your players, parents and coaching staff conducted themselves both toward the tournament and to us as a club was exemplary and made the whole day a great pleasure to host. 

Here’s looking forward to the next Lexus Regional Tournament - Graham Darby, Derby RFC Minis & Juniors Chairman.

Lexus Junior Rugby Festival Results for each Final in each Age group .......

U13s Walsall 10 - 00 Derby

U14s Nottingham 12 - 00 Derby

U15s Derby 10 - 07 Norwich

U16s Derby 10 - 00 Olney

Photograph Galleries from the Festival for the U13s - U14s - U15s - U16s and Presentations are now online.

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21st Sep'07 - Congratulations to our U14s who at the Derby City Council Sports Award evening last night at Pride Park were voted the Derby Sports Team of the Year following their success as the 2006/07 U13s Lexus National Champions. Photographs of our then U13s (but who are now U14s for 2007/08) in action at the Lexus Finals Day which was held at Old Albanians RFC on the 7th April'07 can be viewed here.

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20th Sep'07 - On Sunday 23rd September the club is hosting the Lexus Junior Tournament with over 600 players expected to take part in the tournament.  Consequently there will be no mini training (Under 7 to Under 12) at the club. Instead training will take place at West Park School, West Road, Spondon DE21 7BT.  Training will start and finish at the usual time and more details are available from the age group coaches. 

Directions to the school - From Derby: Take A52 towards Nottingham. Exit at 2nd Spondon turn-off (signed Spondon/ IIkeston). Continue up Lodge Lane North and into Church Street.   Take 2^nd left into Park Road and park at the car park at the end of the road.  Go through the gate on the left hand side and follow the path past the tennis/netball courts and onto the playing fields.  We will be training on the lower fields so turn left and the training area is on your left. 

If this car park is full, go back down Park Road, turn left up Church Street again and take the next left into West Road.  The school is at the end of the road on the left hand side. There will be ample parking in the main school car park or on the road.  The pitches are approximately 300 metres from the car park. 

Walk from the car park with the reception building on your right hand side and down the steps between two classroom blocks.  Go straight across the next level and through the gate.  Follow the path past the tennis/netball courts and onto the playing fields.  We will be training on the lower fields so turn left and the training area is on your left. 

Please note that changing rooms will not be available on the day. 

If you have any questions, please contact your team manager. 

Full directions are on the school website www.westpark.derby.sch.uk/directions

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14th Sep'07 - The Lexus Launch evening took place at Derby RFC last night. Gary Sandler (Sales Manager) at the  local Derby Lexus Dealership presented Derby's U13s, U14s, U15s and U16s teams with their Lexus sponsored playing shirts.

Pictured below is Gary Sandler of Lexus presenting the Playing Shirts to Kevin Tomlinson (U13s), Glenn Martin (U14s), Adrian Summerscales (U15s) and Joe Pass(U16s).

U13s	U14s	U15s	U16s

The Shirt Handover was preceded by three Ladies Rugby games (U15s, U18s and Seniors) involving players from Derby RFC, Melbourne RFC and Stafford RFC. Photograph Galleries of the three games can be found in the Ladies Rugby Photo Galleries page on this website.

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13th Sep'07 - Cakes, Bottles and Raffle Prize donations are being sought for the various stalls that we'll have at the Lexus Junior Rugby Festival which is being hosted at Derby RFC on the 23rd Sept'07. Cakes, Bottles and/or Raffle Prize donations can be brought to the Club Shop on the evening of the 22nd or to the Stalls themselves on the 23rd.

Remember that tomorrow evening Friday 14th Sep'07 we have the Lexus Launch evening here at the Club when our local Derby Lexus Dealership will handover the Playing Shirts for the Derby RFC U13s to U16s players taking part in this years Lexus Rugby Festival.

This launch evening starts at 6:30pm and will be preceded by some demonstration Rugby games by our newly formed Ladies and Girls sides and followed by England's crucial game vs South Africa in the World Cup. Lexus will be supplying a large screen outside to enable us to enjoy the evening al fresco. There will also be a Hog Roast and BBQ. Come along and enjoy the evening with us here at Derby RFC on the 14th September and also at the Festival itself on the 23rd September.

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7th Sep'07: Following their success as the 2006/07 U13s Lexus National Champions Derby's U13s have been short listed for this years Derby Sports Award Team of the Year.

The Derby City Annual Sports Awards recognise amateur sportspeople in 14 categories, including disabled sportsperson, junior team and community coach. The awards, run by the Council, the University of Derby and Derbyshire Sport (a partnership of government bodies, sports clubs and other organisations) will be presented on Thursday 20 September at Pride Park. The winners will go through to the Derbyshire Sports Awards to be judged against winners from all the other Derbyshire districts. Those awards will be presented in October.

Photographs of our U13s in action in the Lexus Finals Day which was held at Old Albanians RFC on the 7th April'07 can be viewed here.

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27th Aug'07 - O-Pro will be visiting Derby RFC on Sunday 16th September from 10am to take impressions for mouthguards. Designs and prices are available on the O-Pro website, and when ordering, Derby RFC appears in the drop down menu for schools & clubs.

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18th Aug'07 - Derby RFC will be hosting the 2007/08 Lexus Midlands Rugby Tournament which will take place on Sunday 23rd September'07. Prior to that our local Lexus Dealership in Derby will be at the Club on the 14th September to formally handover the Playing Shirts for our Junior sides taking part in the tournament. Lexus are also supplying a big outdoor screen for the night of the 14th so once the Shirt handover is completed everyone can then sit outside and watch the England vs South Africa game. More information about the tournament will be on the website in the coming weeks.

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23rd Jun'07 - The Minis & Juniors Fixtures for the 2007/08 season are now on the website. Here's the Minis Fixtures and here's the Juniors Fixtures.

The Minis & Juniors Archive section is now online. Here you'll find match reports and photographs from previous seasons.

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18th Jun'07 - The U14s have organised a Golfing fundraiser at Breadsall Priory on 21^st Sept'07.  18 holes on the Championship Course followed by dinner at the Priory will cost £50. For further details please contact Glenn Martin on 07786 641558 email: gmartin@caps-solutions.co.uk or Richard Madeley on 07885 998321 email: richard.madeley@gajholdings.co.uk

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9th June'07 - Rolls Royce came to Derby RFC on the 7th June 2007. Over 160 employees and guests enjoyed some pre-evening entertaining Tag Rugby with 4 sides taking part including Derby's U12s who have received sponsorship from Rolls Royce and who also won the Tag Trophy ! Here's the  Photographs from the evenings Tag games as well as a report by Martin Kent (U12s Coach and Vets XV Player).

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28th May'07 - Twickenham Finals update - Derby's U11s finish runners up to Northampton Old Scouts and our U12s share the Trophy with Hertford after their final was all square. Here's the Photograph Gallery from the day which also includes the U12s Twickenham report.

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27th May'07 - Tomorrow (Mon 28th May) sees Derby's U11s & U12s travel to Twickenham to play in the Finals of the Gullivers Tournament. Both sides reached this stage after their success in the regional Gullivers tournament which took place on the 6th/7th April at the University of Nottingham grounds. Despite this bank holiday weekends weather (raining !) I'm sure that it won't dampen the enthusiasm and excitement of playing at Twickenham.

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24th May'07 - Minis & Juniors 2006/07 Presentation Awards Photograph Gallery is now online.

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23rd May'07 - The Derby RFC May Ball 2007 Photograph Gallery is now online with over 200 photographs from the night.

The Minis & Juniors AGM will take place on the 20th June at 7:30pm at Haslams. Our Minis & Juniors section have had tremendous achievements throughout this past year and people's comments and support for the forthcoming season are actively sought. Please make every effort to attend this AGM, it's your Club and it's in your interest to be there.

Ladies Junior & Senior Rugby at Derby RFC - The Club plan to introduce two Junior sides at U15s and U17s and a Senior Ladies side. More details will follow but initially this initiative will launch on the 11th July at the Club and the first Seniors Ladies session will commence on the 30th July. The Junior Girls Rugby will commence when we have sufficient numbers. If there are Girls at U15s or U17s or Ladies who would like to play in the Senior Ladies team next season (2007/08) then can they initially please make contact with Graham Darby via email at graham.darby@derbyrfc.co.uk

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10th May'07 - Minis & Juniors Presentation Dates are as follows... Juniors is on the 16th May at 6:30pm and the Minis is on the 20th May at 10:30am.

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1st May'07 - Success at the NLD 7s for Derby's U13s, U14s & U15s ..... to crown a fantastic season after winning the National Lexus Finals, Derby's U13s went on to win the NLD 7s tournament at Ilkeston last Sunday. Twenty four teams from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire took part. The U13s Derby Tigers won their pool without conceding a point. They then beat Paviors 10 - 00 in the semi final and went on to beat Kesteven 15 - 10 in the final.

Derby's U14s were also in fine form, travelling to Sleaford to take part in the NLD 7s U14s competition. Only last week they won the NLD U14s Cup, a few weeks previous they were runners up in the National Lexus Finals U14s competition and last Sunday they won the NLD 7s U14s Cup. Here's the match report from the NLD 7s tournament.

Derby's U15s won the NLD 7s Plate competition and our U16s made it through to the Plate semi finals losing narrowly to Kesteven 21 - 17.

Derby RFC hosted the NLD 7s U16s competition last Sunday 29th April. Bill Treddenick comments .... "A good day all round, good humoured and well played fast rugby in the sunny dry conditions.  A big thanks to the pitch managers and scores runners who kept the whole day bang on time". 

Teams that entered :

Plate Semi-Finals (for Pool runners-up)                                
Grimsby B 00 - 50 Paviors     
Kesteven 21 - 17 Derby B  
                                       
Cup semi-Finals (for Pool winners)                                     
Mansfield A 21 - 10 Deepings     
Hull Ionians B 31 - 12 Newark
                                                                     
Plate Final                                    
Kesteven 12 - 27 Paviors A
                                                                        
Cup Final                                      
Hull Ionians B 31 - 05 Mansfield A

Plate Runners up Kesteven	Plate Winners Paviors	Cup Runners up Mansfield	Cup Winners Hull Ionians B

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28th Apr'07 - Derby U12s Tigers & Stags Reports from the Derby Minis Festival held on the 15th April and the Ilkeston Minis Festival held on the 22nd April have now been added to the U12s 2006/07 Match Report page.

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24th Apr'07 - Ilkeston Minis Festival held on the 22nd Apr'07 - here's some Photograph Galleries of our Derby sides taking part: U9s - U10s - U11s - U12s.

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22nd Apr'07 - More success for Derby's Juniors as our U14s lifted the NLD U14s Cup today following their win over Melbourne U14s. The Final was held at Mansfield RFC. Here's the match report & photos.

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20th Apr'07 - Our U14s takeon Melbourne in the NLD Cup Final on Sunday 22nd April at Mansfield RFC. Kickoff is at 10:30am. On the same day here at Derby RFC we're hosting the NLD Junior Plate Finals from 11am.

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16th Apr'07 - Derby RFC Minis Festival held on the 15th April - there's over 800 photographs spread across the Photograph Galleries of the U7s, U8s, U9s, U10s, U11s and U12s.

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10th Apr'07 - The Derby RFC Minis Festival takes place this Sunday 15^th April with 48 teams competing across six age groups.  Clubs taking part include Derby, Melbourne, Ilkeston, Stoke, Kettering, Leicester Vipers, Ashbourne, West Norfolk and Paviors.  Please come down and support all the players and the club.  The Festival is an important fund raiser so the more the merrier!  If you are coming to the Festival please arrive in plenty of time so you can get parked and onto the ground before the first matches at 11am.

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8th Apr'07 - Derby's U13s are Lexus Tournament winners following their success at yesterday's Finals Day held at Old Albanians RFC, our U14s were Tournament runners up. On the day both Derby sides had to play in round robin heats and the top two teams in each age group (U13s to U17s) would then compete in the Final played out on the main pitch in front of supporters from all teams. In the Finals our U13s played Canterbury and Derby came from behind to win whilst our U14s took on Norwich and narrowly lost.  An excellent days play by both sides whose standard of Rugby did Derby RFC proud. All of the winning teams and runners up received Lexus Tournament medals presented by Richard Hill. Here's the U13s Photograph Gallery and here's the U14s Photograph Gallery.

Gullivers Update - Derby's U11s and U12s are off to Twickenham following their success at this years Gullivers Festival held in Nottingham on Easter Friday and Saturday. Congratulations to both teams. Derby had 4 sides taking part in this years Gullivers Festival and here's the Photograph Gallery links to all of them - U9s, U10s, U11s and U12s.

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3rd Apr'07 - Photograph Galleries of our U7s and U8s competing in the NLD U7s & U8s Finals Day at Nottingham RFC on the 1st April'07 are now on the website.

Good luck to all of the Minis sides taking part in the Gullivers Tournament on Easter Friday and Saturday of this week and also to our U13s and U14s who travel to Old Albanians on Saturday to take part in the Lexus Finals Day following their success in the North West & Midlands Lexus Regional Tournament held here at Derby RFC on the 24th Sept'06.

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