Ormskirk RUFC

ORUFC Under 7s v Tarleton - Home - 21.10.07
The under 7s made a great start to their 07/08 season when playing at home to Tarleton. We would like to say a huge thank you to Tarleton who agreed to a last minute fixture. 
We lost half our squad at the end of last season to the […]

First XV Match report – 20.10.07
Oswestry 13-25 Ormskirk (Half-time 3-13)
Ormskirk travelled to the English/Welsh border to play Oswestry for last weekend’s league fixture. The team arrived in good spirits and put on a fine display of running rugby and - more importantly - came home with a convincing win. Having been knocked out of […]

LEOS LADIES II 5 – 26 ORMSKIRK LADIES
Turning over last season’s third placed team in North 2 26 – 5 on their own patch should have been a cause for celebration for the newly promoted Ormskirk Ladies. But it wasn’t. Despite the comfortable margin the game finished with a sense […]

Due to an amended fixture the under 13s found themselves travelling down the East Lancs on Sunday to play the usually well drilled and organised Leigh team. After two close games with Leigh last season, Ormskirk’s coaches were looking at this game as a guage to see how the team were progressing. Although a couple […]

Sunday 7th October 2007
Blaydon 2nds             10
Ormskirk Ladies          33
Tries : A O’Malley, C Rylance (2), E Gander, L Robinson
Conversions : J Leitch (4)
Boarding a suitably re-inforced bus Ormskirk Ladies began their new season with a bladder threatening trip to Blaydon.  It would have been nice to go with a proven front row, but regular prop / […]

Southport u14s 8pts - Ormskirk u14s 38* pts
In their second Lancs Junior Challenge match, Ormskirk continued their improvement this season by taking apart a spirited Southport side in a second half display of counter attacking 15-man rugby.

The game started with Ormskirk scoring two good tries from Gavin Griffiths and a first of the season from […]

With Littleborough crying off from this week’s Lancashire Cup game it allowed a friendly fixture to be played against Broughton Park who were eager to wipe out the memory of their defeat to Ormskirk in last season’s Lancashire Cup semi-final. With Ormskirk having a large squad including several newcomers Broughton Park’s coaches graciously agreed to […]

Sunday 30th September 2007
Ormskirk Ladies 0
Vagabonds 60
There are probably better ways to start a season than to play a friendly against Vagabonds.  With not much else to do in the Isle of Man other than launder money and scrape motorcyclists off bridges there is plenty of time left over for rugby training.  Vagabonds WRUFC had […]

First XV match report – 29.09.07
LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE 7 – 19 ORMSKIRK
It wasn’t the prettiest of rugby matches but Ormskirk were glad to leave Liverpool with 2 more points for the season’s league table after a scrappy encounter against Collegiate. With a side unchanged from the one that was victorious last week Kirk started […]

After a succesful opening fixture against New Brighton last week, Ormskirk were looking forward to playing old rivals Waterloo in the first fixture of this season’s Lancashire Cup. As usual the coaching staff were forced into further changes this week due to an injury to last season’s player of the year Craig Ennis and the unavailability of […]

First XV Match Report – 22.09.07
ORMSKIRK 20 – 13 ASHTON ON MERSEY
With help from new kit and sponsors, Cater-Bake, Ormskirk collected their first points of the season with a convincing win over Manchester’s Ashton on Mersey at Green Lane on Saturday. Although the score line was close, four tries to one highlights Kirk’s potential […]

After all the excitement of getting to last seasons Lancashire Trophy Final, Ormskirk were looking forward to the start of a new season with renewed confidence and vigour .

As usual Ormskirk were suffering from early absentees including second rower Marcus Rylance who is likely to be out for a few weeks with a broken […]

First XV Match Report – 8th September 2007
Ormskirk 12-22 Warrington
Ormskirk’s First XV went into the league’s opening game looking to capitalise on their recent run of good form. Having won their last two cup matches the players were confident that they could beat visitors Warrington at Green Lane. It was a closely fought battle but […]

Saturday 1st September 2007
Ormskirk 29- 10 Wallasey (EDF Senior Vase Round 1)
For the second time in 6 days the Ormskirk’s First XV made their way to the second stage of a cup competition by beating league rivals Wallasey. In a hard fought game that needed extra-time to decide the victor, the ‘Kirk players […]

The annual Ormskirk RUFC 7s came around last Saturday with a record number of players taking part - 110. There was a mixture of experience and youth in this year’s teams with the youngest player being 11 years old & the oldest past 50.

The majority of teams where made up from Ormskirk’s present & […]

Very much mixed feelings for the Ladies after their trip to the Vale of Lune 10s Tournament last Sunday. Pride for qualifying for the Cup and giving a battling performance against Premier 1 hosts Vale of Lune Ladies in the semi final and dismay at losing centre Emma Gander  and hooker Lesley Kenny to injury.

The […]

Jack Call Cup – April 28th 2007
ORMSKIRK 3RD XV 5 ORMSKIRK 4TH XV 18
The World Cup, the Six Nations Championship, the Heineken Cup. These are all big name trophies in the world of rugby. Add to this list the Jack Call Cup! In Ormskirk, this is the trophy to win. This much coveted […]

Ormskirk Ladies    46
Fleetwood            19
Tries : E Gander (4), A O’Malley (2), G Kendall, R Cowan
Conversion : J Leitch (3)
Back in October the Ladies went to Fleetwood and, for the first time in years, beat them.  The confidence that one victory brought set the Ladies on course for an all conquering season, unbeaten in the League, that […]

After qualifying second from their pool of six, Ormskirk  were looking forward to playing in the inaugural Lancashire under 12s trophy at Liverpool St Helens over the weekend. With a full squad to pick from it meant that the coaches were left with some difficult choices to make when having to pick the the final 18 […]

Preston Grasshoppers            12
Ormskirk Ladies                     35
(Tries : R Cowan 2, A O’Malley 2, C Nixon, G Myles, E Gander)
The Ladies together with the girls from Wigan WRUFC took on Hoppers … this season’s winners of Division North 2 … and beat them comfortably.  To be fair their Preston were seriously understrength and a couple of knocks robbed […]