On Saturday morning the Men’s Blues kicked off their 2019/20 season with as match in Sagamihara,Tokyo on their Japan tour. The match was literaally a game of two halves, as the first 40 minutes saw the Blues face the professional players of the Mitsubishi Dynoboars and the second forty the amateur All Mitsubishi team. an 11am KO […]
Month: September 2019
Men’s Blues squad to face All Mitsubishi
The squad to face the All Mitsubishi RFC on Saturday 14th September, KO 1100 at Sagamihara includes 13 Blues and just one making their OURFC debut. Starting XV: 1 E Friend (Univ) 2 A Oswal (SEH) 3 B Parker * (BNC) 4 J Dix * (Oriel) 5 C Haggett (Magd) 6 C Pozniak * (St […]
Men’s tour diary Part 1
In traditional OURFC fashion, the Men’s Blues tour started with an early departure from a pitch black Iffley Road with half-asleep players bumping into each other as they collected bags and boarded the bus. Just as it appeared that for the first time in OURF history the bus would leave at the appointed hour of […]
Women’s Blues squad for Gilbraltar Tour announced
Captain Hazel Ellender has selected 30 players to travel to Gibraltar for the Women’s Blues preseason tour, the second year running the squad have travelled to Europe in September to start their season with some warm weather training. The squad includes 11 returning Blues and many players making the step up from the successful Panthers […]
Men’s Blues squad for Japan announced
Following a successful preseason week in Oxford, Captain Ed David has selected a 29 man squad to travel to Japan to contest the second edition of the World University Rugby Invitational Tournament (WURIT) – the inaugural event was hosted by OURFC in Oxford in 2015. The squad includes 17 returning Blues and only two players […]