OURFC are delighted to announce an exciting line-up of fixtures for the Blues for the forthcoming season, with the home match highlight being the return visit of the Russian National team on Sunday 10th November. The Blues will have a total of six home fixtures in the run up to the 2013 Varsity Match on Thursday 12th December, which includes not only Russia but Trinity College Dublin, Newport Gwent Dragons, Worcester Warriors, Major Stanley’s XV and Sydney University who are in the UK on tour as part of their 150th Anniversary celebrations. In Hilary Term the Blues have their regular fixtures with the three services teams, Crawshays and Penguins plus an away trip to Bristol RFC, who are aiming for promotion back to the Premiership this season.
The Blues will return for their preseason training camp on Monday 2nd September when they will spend a week in Oxford, before taking the ferry from Portsmouth to Santander to spend two weeks in Northern Spain/Southern France. They have a fixture with the Biarritz Espoirs organised for Friday 13th September with a second fixture to be confirmed.
The other OURFC teams have 90% of fixtures confirmed too as the club looks to build on it’s successful 2012 Varsity Campaign of 4 wins from 5 matches.
For full details of all the 2013/14 fixtures, please click on the fixtures tab at the top of the page.