Following Government’s announcement last week that outdoor team sport can resume from Wednesday 2 December, we are delighted to confirm that Government has today approved our submission to return to 15-a-side contact rugby, with some adaptations.

Further detail on these adaptations and associated laws will follow tomorrow. However, they are briefly summarised below:

• There will be no scrums or mauls in the game
• Where the game would restart with a scrum, this will be replaced with a free kick
• A minimum of five and a maximum of seven players from each team are required to form a lineout

What does this mean clubs can now do?

• Clubs can resume adapted training for 15-a-side contact rugby again from this Wednesday. Further detail to follow tomorrow.

• Clubs can resume friendly fixtures from Friday 18 December - this is to allow players to prepare properly and safely, having not been training over the past month.

• Clubs can still play Ready4Rugby if they have matches coming up from 2 December to 18 December and beyond. There is no obligation to play adapted 15-a-side contact fixtures.

We Restart from Thursday too.....

Planned league with in The Yorkhire Coast & Wolds region.

Adapted Laws

With all the disruption and the cancellation of the  formal RFU league competition for 2020-2021, a group of Yorkshire Coast and Yorkshire Wolds Teams have joined together to create a local recovery competition consisting of 10 weeks of rugby action with all teams playing home and away. All we need now is the go ahead from HM Government and the RFU and we are set.

The six teams are Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, Us, Pocklington & Scarborough.

This is going to be our first steps back to rugby. The start date or type of game we’ll be playing hasn’t been confirmed, but this will to be our start back to rugby!

Games will be arranged at all adult levels, 1st XV, 2nd XV and hopefully the 3rds as well.

Watch this space and our social media feeds for further information. Fixtures will be posted on the website when the dates are confirmed. There’s also a dedicated website which is still in development but will contain all the fixtures, league table and other information. Click here to visit the official website.

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