• Congratulations to Louis Dunbavin, Luke Groves, John Brear and Rich McKowen, who were all in the starting line-up for the full Warwickshire XV against Leicestershire on Saturday

• We hosted the fourth running of the Warwickshire Walking Rugby tournament with 8 clubs taking part and for the third time we lifted the trophy, beating Old Leamingtonians by 4 tries to 2 in the final

• We also entertained San Isidro from Madrid who were on tour and although we provided Spanish weathe,r we had too many ex-superstars on display and won comfortably.

The Royals Rugby League side are also about to get into their season and their fixtures are below -

16 May – Peterborough (A)
23 May - Staffordshire Quantums (A)
06 Jun - North Midlands Knights (H)
13 Jun - NE Worcestershire Ravens (A)
20 Jun - Staffordshire Quantums (H)
04 Jul - N Midlands Knights (A)
11 Jul - Nottingham Outlaws (A)
18 Jul – Peterborough (H)
25 Jul - NE Worcestershire Ravens (H)

The RL Ladies are already into their programme and will play at different venues culminating with a finals’ day at Leamington on 26 July. The other games are at -

07 Jun – Aston Warriors
14 Jun – Outlaws
28 Jun – Bears
12 Jul – Hurricanes
19 Jul - Raiders
26 Jul - Leamington

The Two Castle Run will be held on Sunday 14 June, from about 7.30 am to 11.00 am. We have been asked, as in previous years, whether we can provide some marshals to help with the run and the good news is that for everyone we provide we get £50 - so it is a nice little earner. If you can help, please contact Lucy Ramsbottom on +44 7904 105584 or lucy@ramsbottom-events.co.uk. She will need your name and phone number

The Nations Championship is the new biennial rugby tournament created by Six Nations Rugby and SANZAAR. It will feature all 10 of the associated unions - England, Italy, Ireland, France, Scotland and Wales plus Argentina, Australia, New Zealand South Africa and two invitational sides - Japan and Fiji. The tournament will take place every two years outside of the Rugby World Cup and Lions’ tours enhancing the existing July and November international windows
The Six Nations teams will form a Europe Group and the SANZAR teams, plus the two invitational sides will form a Rest of The World group.
This July, the Europe Group teams will travel south to play three fixtures. In November, the Rest of the World teams will travel north to take on the Six Nations teams. Over the course of the two legs, a team will play each team from their opposing group. Points are earned that will inform table standings which will then dictate opponents for the Finals Weekend fixtures.
England have three games at Twickenham in November - Australia (8 November) Japan (14 November) and New Zealand (21 November). We are able to apply for tickets for the NZ and Oz games in accordance with our normal allocation. These have been purchased and are now available to members. Tickets for the Japan game are available to the club without a quota and can still be applied for.
Following the group games there will be a Finals Weekend played over three days (27, 28, 29 November) with two games on each ticket. The club is able to apply for finals weekend tickets, but we don’t have an allocation and don’t know who will be playing in any game or what the demand will be, so we haven’t applied at this stage
If you are interested in the Australia or New Zealand games please apply on the attached form in the normal way
If you are interested in the Japan game or any of the finals weekend games please contact me direct to discuss your requirement
AGM – The AGM will be held on Wednesday 29 July at the Club. Please put this in your diary and if you are interested in coming forward to help with the running of the club, please let me know. Papers will be sent out in due course

The next main confirmed Centenary Event is the Golf Tournament on Wednesday 24 June, organised by Pete Forrest at Leamington Whitnash – we are looking for around 50 past and present players and numbers are looking good. Entry fee is £65 including bacon bap on arrival and dinner afterwards. Contact email peteaforrest@hotmail.com. Pete has written to all the confirmed entrants this week. If you haven’t heard from him, please check to confirm he has you on his list

We are informed that Tony Grimes’s funeral event will be held on Sunday 7 June at 3.00 at the family farm in Long Itchington. This will be a celebration of his life and all are welcome

Johnlizlyons@btopenworld.com