Old Yards Vixens Girls Rugby

🦊 JOIN THE VIXENS. BE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL. 🏉

Ready to try something new, make amazing friends and be part of an incredible team?

Old Yardleians Vixens are recruiting girls of all abilities in: 🏉 U12 | U14 | U16 | U18
Whether you've never picked up a rugby ball before or already love the game, there's a place for you in our Vixens family.

🔥 Wednesday evening training 🍔 Summer BBQ after training 💪 Sunday morning training (bring your own food) Fun, fitness, friendships and confidence ❤️ Qualified coaches and a welcoming club for everyone.

Come and see what all the excitement is about. Bring a friend and give rugby a go!

Old Yardleians Vixens – Strong Together. Fearless Together.

📍 Training every Wednesday and Sunday 📩 Get in touch to find out more or simply turn up and join in!

Working with the brilliant team at Achieve Health we have set up some health and injury prevention checks for our girls.

2nd September | 7–9pm
Old Yardleians Rugby Football Club

We’re offering free 15-minute injury assessments for the Old Yardleians Vixens during training.

Whether you’ve got a ni**le that’s been bothering you, a recent injury, or simply want some advice on how to keep your body rugby-ready, come along for a quick assessment and diagnosis.

No booking needed — just pop in, say hello and get checked out.

Keep playing. Stay strong. 🦊❤️👌

North Midlands RFU

Season start for the community game postponed / rescheduled to 21st September.

Due to the intense heat, pitch conditions and player welfare.

🚨 BREAKING: The start of the community game season has been delayed.

The RFU has confirmed tonight that the competitive community game season across England will be delayed by two weeks. This affects every club in the Midlands pyramid from Regional 1 to Counties 4.

Here's what you need to know.

The season now starts the week commencing 21 September, not 12 September as planned. All fixtures scheduled for 12 and 19 September are postponed and will be rearranged by Regional Organising Committees.

Why? The drought. Over 70% of England is now officially in drought conditions with no meaningful rain forecast. No region in the country is currently at "normal" status. The RFU has taken the decision on three grounds, player welfare on hard pitches, competition integrity, and giving clubs planning certainty now rather than a last minute call.

The important details:

Friendlies can still go ahead where conditions allow, with a full risk assessment, so pre-season rugby isn't cancelled, and the two week delay may actually give conditions time to improve for warm-up games.

Training continues, with modified contact guidance on hard ground.

The November break is expected to remain in place, and the RFU expects the programme to catch up by Christmas or early New Year. The season will not be extended.

The National Leagues (Levels 3 and 4) are exempt and may play, due to irrigated pitches and their longer fixture programme.

This will be disappointing for clubs, players and volunteers who've spent all summer preparing. But the decision has been made with player safety at its heart, and the certainty of a confirmed date is better than a moving target.

We have the full breakdown, including age grade competitions and what it means level by level, on the website Link in comments.

Our thanks to Chris at RFU Council for making sure the Midlands grassroots community got this news quickly.

Pre-Season training continues Tuesdays and Thursdays 7pm start! 🏉☀️

Superb achievements are like buses this week. Two coming at once 👇💥👌

More accolades for our under 18's, player Kate Edwards is in the European Youth Touch Championship held at Warwick University. Kicks off on Thursday with the opening ceremony and games are on Friday through to Sunday.

This year the Mixed 18s take on Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, Lebanon and the Caymen Islands in the group rounds! We wish Kate, who's co-captain, and the team the very best. Will keep you posted on how they gets on. What a fantastic achievement!

It's a big event this and lots of games are being live streamed to YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/internationaltouch

Schedule here.
https://www.internationaltouch.org/events/european-youth-touch-championships/2026/

Update.

Scotland won both games. Beat Netherlands 14-5 and beat Wales 27-24. Played both games back to back.

Sophie scored one in each game - played a blinder against the Welsh! 💥 💪🦊

Some fantastic news for the club. Sophie Whyte had been selected for the Women's U18s Scotland team 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💥 🏉

The U18 Women will face the Netherlands and Wales in a Summer Series festival in Amsterdam.

This is a great achievement for Sophie who's been a Vixen from day one. Everyone at the club wishes her well and good luck to the Scottish team in the festival.

Some links in the comments.