Touch Rugby Casual Session

Stanley Park, Blackpool

Every Wednesday 7pm

Rugby Pitch Back of Astro-Turf

This week we saw the return of Blackpool youth games, where again tag rugby league was one of the 40 sports offered to the schools in the Blackpool area.

The Northern Rail 9’s returns to Blackpool for its second year, this exciting competition will be kicking off at 10am on Saturday 17 July at Fylde RUFC, Lytham. Blackpool Panthers the reigning champions have drawn Doncaster and London scholars in pole 4.

This exciting 9’s competition will feature all 18 English Co-operative Championship and Championship 1 clubs, that are not participating in the Northern Rail Cup Final. This year the tournament will be decided in one thrill packed day where you will be able to see 40 + game throughout the exciting day collimating with the final, kicking off at 6.30pm.

Tickets to the Northern Rail 9’s will go on sale at Blackpool Panthers next home game verse South Wales (Saturday 3^rd at 3 o’clock) from the Panthers Office at Fylde RUFC Lytham, priced at just £9 for adults and £5 for concessions.

This week we saw the return of the Blackpool NHS health week, this year for the first time the Blackpool Panthers linked with Blackpool NHS to put on the First Touch Competition. The Event was held at Stanley Park on Wednesday 17^th of June.

The competition was a huge success with four teams battling it out to be crowned Touch Champions, the game of touch is an exciting and fast game which can be played by everyone  as shown last night as players from rugby league to rugby union and even the Blackpool master all trying their hand at touch rugby.

On Thursday 20^th and Thursday 27^th of May the Blackpool Sport partnership and the Blackpool Panthers held a succession of rugby league tournaments. The first of which was a tag tournament for the primary schools, four primary schools took part in the highly skilled event where Roseacre, Waterloo, Stanley and Our lady’s each played three exciting games of tag rugby league. The schools played in a merit league where the competition was hard fought with every team displaying excellent skills but it was the unbeaten Roseache who finished top.

A fantastic day of Rugby League was held on Sunday in Blackpool. Blackpool Panthers staged their 1^st Primary School TAG tournament before their home match against Gateshead Thunder. There were over 40 participates taking part. The Grand Final was between Stanley Primary v St Cuthbets Primary. After a hard fort final the winner was Stanley Primary to clinch the tournament title 3-2.

Two other Blackpool School teams entered Roseacre and Our Lady’s Primary.