Yorkshire Rugby

Fixtures attached

I posted this on the wrong board!

Fixtures are now up on the RFU web site.

It certainly will be a challenging season for every club involved in R1NE and R1NW.

I have seen a couple of Scunthorpes good players have decided to keep playing National League rugby. I wonder if most of Hulls players will also be jumping ship.

It's not difficult to notice Ilkley, Scarborough and Driffield have been getting their cheque books out again.

Any early shouts? Who's got the luck of the draw?

Alnwick first 3
York away
Blaydon away
Driffield home

Blaydon
Scunthorpe away
Alnwick home
York away

Driffield
Scarborough away
Scunthorpe home
Alnwick away

Hull
Sandal away
Scarborough home
Scunthorpe away

Ilkley
Northern away
Sandal home
Scarborough away

Middlesbrough
Ribb away
Northern home
Sandal away

Northern
Ilkley home
Middlesbrough away
Ribb home

N Ribb
Middlesbrough home
York home
Northern away

Sandal
Hull home
Ilkley away
Middlesbrough home

Scarborough
Driffield home
Hull away
Ilkley home

Scunthorpe
Blaydon home
Driffield away
Hull home

York
Alnwick home
Ribb away
Blaydon home

Quote from: Yari on Jun 23, 2026, 05:37 PMIt certainly will be a challenging season for every club involved in R1NE and R1NW.

I have seen a couple of Scunthorpes good players have decided to keep playing National League rugby. I wonder if most of Hulls players will also be jumping ship.

It's not difficult to notice Ilkley, Scarborough and Driffield have been getting their cheque books out again.

Excuse me Sir, we don't have a cheque book. We have a Coutts Silk card......

Any idea why we're starting a week later than usual ?

Quote from: Pristine Shorts on Jun 24, 2026, 07:25 AMAny idea why we're starting a week later than usual ?

Because there isn't enough games to fill out a full season??

Quote from: avinastella on Jun 24, 2026, 09:38 AM

Quote from: Pristine Shorts on Jun 24, 2026, 07:25 AMAny idea why we're starting a week later than usual ?

Because there isn't enough games to fill out a full season??

I don't mind it actually. Gives everyone a chance to have pre-season friendlies a week before the season starts without being affected by bank holiday weekend.

Never known the season not start on the first Saturday of September. Mind you, we go way past the end of April these days and I think we have two games in April next season, as opposed to one this past one.

Alnwick lad here wishing everyone a good season when it comes.
Our 2nd team have joined the leagues this year and at the moment, with infinite wisdom, the fixture gods have arranged for both teams to be either away or at home on the same date. Hopefully, something can be done before September.

RuggerBug,
          you have more chance of being on a day return trip to Mars then getting anything changed. I spent about six hours a couple of weeks ago speaking to Peter Morgan, Bob Morrison, both of whom are influential on the make up of the fixtures. It seems they dont like each other and so decided not to have a common sense chat about clubs sustainability and reduced travel costs. Surely it cannot be beyond supposedly intelligent people to pick up a phone and have a sensible chat regarding your post. After all we "Allegedly put people on the moon some 58 years ago". But phone calls and communication seem to have taken a back seat and not necessary by the "Powers that be".
Maybe thats why the chair of the Yorkshire Competitions committee has resigned. He is a good rugby bloke. Make of it what you will but I am personally very disappointed that common sense could not prevail, a reasonable request could not be discussed/or responded to. It smacks of dictatorship arrogance to me. All I want is whats best for all clubs, not just North Ribb.

Quote from: Ribbflagman on Jun 24, 2026, 09:37 PMRuggerBug,
          you have more chance of being on a day return trip to Mars then getting anything changed. I spent about six hours a couple of weeks ago speaking to Peter Morgan, Bob Morrison, both of whom are influential on the make up of the fixtures. It seems they dont like each other and so decided not to have a common sense chat about clubs sustainability and reduced travel costs. Surely it cannot be beyond supposedly intelligent people to pick up a phone and have a sensible chat regarding your post. After all we "Allegedly put people on the moon some 58 years ago". But phone calls and communication seem to have taken a back seat and not necessary by the "Powers that be".
Maybe thats why the chair of the Yorkshire Competitions committee has resigned. He is a good rugby bloke. Make of it what you will but I am personally very disappointed that common sense could not prevail, a reasonable request could not be discussed/or responded to. It smacks of dictatorship arrogance to me. All I want is whats best for all clubs, not just North Ribb.

Don't agree with you very often 'Ribble', however your experience of certain members of YRFU is similar to mine.
They have a Canute like attitude to change and are clinging on as hard as they can to 'how it used to be'.
Those days are gone... and I for one  mourn their passing, however unless we embrace the new reality we are destined to whither on the vine.

THANKS JIM,
           It really is a shame that zero communication from the aforementioned people was not forthcoming, Both people I mentioned stated that they would do their best to help reduce travel costs  However they have simply chosen not to have the decency to communicate with each other or me to even tell me that the request was not possible (It would have been if they could have been arsed to talk to each other as requested) and then revert. I know I constantly bang the drum. But I personally believe we need as a county to have genuine rugby folk making decisions in the clubs they purport to represent rather than telling lies to member clubs and massaging already inflated egos. I say this on behalf of all clubs and not just the club I am committed to, North Ribb.

I suspect part of the problem is when you look at it from your own clubs perspective it seems like it should be easy to solve, but then when you try to put the whole together incorporating all the clubs you get too many clashes that it becomes unworkable. As an example when i looked at the fixtures my first thought with my "club glasses" on was why on earth have they not matched up our 1s and 2s fixtures up when they play the same club but then the thought of doing that for every club made my brain hurt.

Upside i can see from my own clubs perspective is we have a game at home most weekends, downside is we never get a weekend were both the 1s and 2s are home togoether or playing against the same club together which were always the best weekends for socials (especially if you got a club to agree to host both the 1s and 2s same day and then return the favour later in the season).