Aberdeen Touch Rugby

Registration for the ATR one day tournament will close on Wednesday 21st September.

Autumn Touch League Final Results

The Autumn League has now concluded and I hope you enjoyed playing in it
League winner -NE Nomads with 9 straight wins!...
Cup winner - NE Nomads
Quaich winner- Panthers who beat Leopards red in a drop-off
Tankard winner - Halli Ducks
I would like to thank you all for coming along and playing, those of you who refereed, Leopards for helping set up, Shire for lining the pitches and the Quines for staffing the desk and letting me play.
Full results here

Autumn Touch League Weeks 5&6:

last weeks games concluded the Autumn league so congratulations to NE Nomads, this year's league winners with 9 unbeaten games. If the table is correct, next week's cup semi final games will be Nomads v Leopards Black and Hoodlums v Granite Guerillas with the winners going into the Autumn cup final. Panthers will play Rebel PT Tigers and Leopards Red will play Galactic Guerillas in the Quaich Semi finals with Halli ducks and Spare Tyres contesting the Tankard. Remember that tap off for week 6 is 6:15 not 6:30 so we have enough light to complete the games safely!

Autumn Touch League Week 4 Results:

ATR Autumn One Day Tournament:

Hi all, registration for the last ATR tournament of the 2016 season is now open. We will hold the annual one day autumn tournament on Sunday 25th September. I realise that this is the day after the regional representative competition in Perth. Please fill in the registration form and return to me asap if you wish to book a place. The autumn tournament is often a more relaxed, fun event so teams of all levels are welcome.

Here are the results for week 4. The leagues will conclude next week but as there will only be 1 round of games, I am happy to try and arrange friendly matches, let me know if this is of interest to you by sending me a facebook message. Once the league is concluded, I'll draw up the fixtures for week 6 which will be Cup week. The league positions will determine whether you contest the Cup, Quaich or Tankard. Let me know if you spot any errors.
Next week will also see the North East Touch Association AGM at Woodside immediately after the games are concluded.... This is the regional governing body for Touch so, if you want to know what goes on in terms of regional and national representation, referee training/coaching, coaching and the annual Ball, come along and meet the people that make it happen.
Finally, please check the cardboard box at the control desk for any missing drinks bottles or items of clothing.

Autumn Touch League Week 3 Results:

Results from week 3 here. At least the sun was out last night - makes a change! Another water bottle has been Incarcerated in the lost property box, the owner can secure it's release next week !

Autumn Touch League Week 2 Results:

Here are the results from Week 2 games and updated league table.

Autumn Touch League Week 1 Results

After a major hic-cup with getting enough equipment scraped together to actually play the games last night, here are the results, updated league table and fixtures for next week. As usual, if you spot any errors, let me know.

Autumn Touch League 2016

Here is the first draft of the Autumn league fixtures. Please let me know if you spot errors or clashes. We have 10 teams this year so this will run as a single league. This gives each team 9 league games. The normal cup format doesn't suit 10 teams so, the top 4 teams will go into the cup semi-finals, the next 4 to the Quaich semi-finals and 9 and 10 straight to the Tankard final. There will be play-offs for the losers. All cup games will be played in Week 6 with an earlier tap off for week 6 (6:15pm) to take account of the earlier sunset in early September.

Now that the dust has settled on the European Championships and the participating Aberdeen-based players are slowly recovering, it is time to open registration for the 6 week Autumn tournament. Like previous years there are no separate leagues but the cup competition gives everyone a chance of winning silverware. The season starts on 3rd August and will run for 6 weeks. Entry forms are available or you can register online above . Registration closes 27th July.

Final results for the AberdeenTouch summer league

Hi all, firstly thanks to all who participated in this years summer Touch tournament, I really hope you enjoyed it. the winners of the various leagues were: Experience Mx, Firebirds; Intermediate A Mx, Panthers; Intermediate B Mx, Urban Guerillas; Novice, Gordonian Pelicans; Men, Shell; Women, Guerillas Girls.

The Cup competitions saw Firebirds take the Mx Cup, ConocoPhillips untouchables the Mx Quaich, Gordonian Pelicans the Mx Tankard and Leopards Too, the MX Plate.

The Men's Cup was won by Shell, the Quaich by Gorgeous Guerillas and the for the newly introduced Women's Cup, the winners were Guerillas Girls. Congratulations to all and to all the other teams who took part.

The Autumn league will start on 3rd August and run for 6 weeks, watch here for updates. Finally, good luck to all the Aberdeen players who are representing the various Scotland teams in this years European Championships in Jersey and to the Aberdeen based referees and team managers and coaches.

Week 10 Schedule: click here

Hi all, last week coming so it is finals night. I have scheduled friendly matches for those not involved in finals or semi finals. I am running short of referees so please just referee the friendly games yourselves, one team does the first half and the other, the second. I hope to have the bar open so you can have a drink and watch the finals. I hope all dedicated refs can make it down for a wee bit of practice before Jersey.

WEEK 9 RESULTS:

Hi all, here are the results from Week 9. Once these are confirmed, I will finalise the week 10 schedule. There are spaces for friendly matches for those not involved in finals or semi-finals but I am aware that some teams are beginning to struggle for players. If you are sure you can't raise a team, let me know other wise I will try to schedule a game for you. Equally, if you don't have a team but fancy a run around, come down and you may get a game for another team. Which brings me to ringers - be very careful about borrowing players especially those that play in a higher league, it is grossly unfair to teams who don't do this especially when trophies are at stake. The rule is a maximum of two players from a league above and with the consent of the opposition.

It looks like Firebirds can't be caught in the Expert league and same for Panthers in the Intermediate leagues but next weeks results will confirm!
Finally, I am still missing some trophies that should be given out next week, if you have any (or previous team captains have any) please return them.

Hi folks, the Shell/ Leopards conundrum has been resolved so here is this weeks schedule. Please check it carefully. also, please watch out for your refereeing slots as we are in the knock out stages of the cup so referee allocations depends on who wins or loses games. I have done my best to fit in the games missed from last week, please check that you are happy with these. PWC can't make the games this week so Pelicans get a bye in the Tankard QF. As normal with the knockout stages it is difficult to allocate referees in advance so a) please volunteer to ref if you can and b) if no ref shows before the hooter goes, let me know.

Ta and good luck to all teams

Week 8 Results here:

Congratulations to Gordonian Pelicans who just pipped ConocoPhillips to win the Novice A League also to Shell Men, winners of the Men's League and Guerrillas girls, Women's league winners.

Results from Week 7 are here

Hi all, here are the results from last night and the fixtures for next week. The novice league is now concluded and once the results are confirmed , we can announce the 2016 Novice league winner. This means that next week the Novice teams will only have friendly games until we go into the cup knockout stages the following week. All teams will be involved in these at some level whether, cup, quaich, tankard or plate. There are some league games to conclude for the Intermediate and Expert leagues and the Mens/Womens teams will go into their respective cup play offs next week.

Weeks 5-10 Schedule

Hi all, here is the schedule for the remaining 6 weeks of the Summer season as far as it is possible until we know the outcome of the cup games and the Mens/womens league and cup games. A few things to note. I always try to give teams 2 games per night, sometimes this doesn't work out, where this occurs I have scheduled some friendly games for those teams with players not necessarily involved in the Mens/womens games. The friendlies can be self refereed (each team doing one half) or grab a ref who is looking for practice or assessment. Week 8 was particularly bad for this as the Novice teams had effective completed their league. For this, I have allocated two games a piece entirely randomly and these won't count for the league as there isn't enough time to do another round. For the teams also competing in the Mens/womens leagues, I have tended to leave them with one Mx game. Week 9 referees will be allocated once I know which teams are playing in which Cup competition and Week 10 will be a combination of friendly matches and cup finals and a few league games. I would like to introduce a Women's cup this year and have scheduled that in, let me know if the women's teams are ok with this and I'll buy a new trophy. Finally if you spot any mistakes please let me know.

Results for week 4 and Cup pools

here are last nights results. I will do up next weeks fixtures for the cup now that I know the number of Men's and Women's teams I have and where I can get referees from. The Cup pools are shown and a note of how I see the cup games panning out with the top 8 contesting the Cup and Quaich. The next 8 for the Tankard and, as there are 2 pools with 5 teams and 2 pools with 4, the 5th place teams will go into a Plate quarter final with the losers from the Tankard quarter finals. Hopefully this will work and give everyone sufficient games and something to contest.

Week 3 Results and week 4 schedule

Hi all, here are the results for last nights games and Week 4 schedule. Week 5 will see the start of the single sex leagues (so please register your teams asap) and the cup games so we will suspend the league games for a few weeks.

Week 2 Results: here are week 2 results. Lost property is beginning to accumulate again including a branded water proof jacket, various joggers, water bottles and T-shirts. All can be reclaimed next week.

REVISED WEEK 2 SCHEDULE: Here is a revised schedule for May 4th (Star Wars day). The revisions have minimised the number of back to back games. Please look at the revised fixtures, I have emailed all team captains as well but please pass the info on to your team as some team captains may still be on holiday or out of email contact. Weeks 3& 4 will follow asap.

Men's and Women's leagues: Registration is now closed for the Men's and Women's leagues which start on 25th May and will run for 6 weeks. Tournament guidelines can be found here.

We now have 6 Men's teams and 4 Women's teams for the single sex leagues that will start Wednesday 25th May. Look out for fixture schedule here and on facebook.

Week 1 results:

Despite the poor weather, it did stay dry for the most part, I hope you all enjoyed your first week back. Here are last nights results and current tables. As always, if you spot any errors please let me know.

Summer League:

Hi all, thanks for registering for the 2016 Aberdeen Touch Rugby Summer 2016 tournament. Here is the schedule for the first 2 weeks of the leagues. I'll work up weeks 3 and 4 soon so you can plan ahead.

A few things to note. There are fewer teams this year. I have split the leagues into 3 main groups; Experienced, Intermediate and Novice. The Intermediate group will play in a combined league of Intermediate A and B but I will separate out the results from both so that we will have a Intermediate A and B winner. The Experienced and Novice leagues will function on their own.

There will be back to back games for some teams but I will try to have a longer break between games where this occurs, if it is a REAL issue for you, let me know asap. If you have any issues with the schedule or spot mistakes, please let me know asap.

We will tap off at 6:30 on Wednesday so please be on time and I aim to finish the league by 29th June so that those involved in the Scotland teams for the European Championships can have a few days break before heading to Jersey.

As always, Aberdeen Touch facebook page is the preferred means for communicating announcements so please make sure you are a member of that group and encourage your team to sign up as well.

Results of the Spring 1 day tournament:

Hi folks, apologies for the delay but here are the results from yesterdays tournament. Hope you all enjoyed it and aren't too sore today. Congratulations to Firepack and Stirling storm who won the quaich after a drop off with Guerillas. Apologies again for the weather, I do my best but....

The placings were:
1 Firepack - Cup winners
2 Stirling Univ
3 Shell
4 Hoodlums
5 Stirling storm- Quaich winners
6 Guerillas
7 Leopards
8 Guerillas Killer Bees

The full results are here.

Registration for the Spring 1 day tournament on 23rd April will close Sunday evening (17th) and registration for the leagues will close on Friday 22nd.