Welcome to U 15′ s (Born 2005)
Team Manager Joe Toomey (087 668 4265 or Clontarfrugby2005@gmail.com)
We train every Tuesday 18.00-19.00 on the All Weather pitch at Castle Avenue and Sunday’s 11.00-12.00 on the grass pitch at Castle Avenue.
Fixtures 2019:
September 29th : Lansdowne v Clontarf
October 6th : Clontarf v MU Barnhall
October 20th : Ashbourne v Clontarf
November 10th : Clontarf v Malahide
November 17th : Balbriggan v Contarf
November 24th: Clontarf v Coolmine
We are delighted to welcome our new Head Coach Malachy Bradley this season. Mal has a serious coaching pedigree (Trinity College first ) and has recently retired from Clontarf Junior rugby.
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Appropriate Studs
There is a massive focus this year on making sure that the players are wearing boots with studs that are appropriate and legal for playing rugby. Referees have been instructed to check for illegal studs before a game begins and if a player does not have the correct studs on their boots they will not be allowed to play. Legal rugby studs need to be 10mm at the top as per the graphic below:
Here are some general guidelines:
- If your boots have screw-in metal / plastic / plastic & metal studs they MUST meet the World Rugby standards (10mm at the top as per the graphic above)
- As a general rule Nike and New Balance don’t make rugby boots and if you have these boots you are highly likely to have to swap out the studs that came with them for rugby studs
- Adidas soccer boots are also likely to require their studs to be swapped out as well, but Adidas do make rugby boots and they meet the standards
- Brands like Canterbury, Patrick, Asics and Mizuno also make rugby boots that meet the standards
- Boots with moulded plastic studs will be allowed (though in general they are not recommended as when we get into winter they don’t give much traction on wet rugby pitches)
- Boots with blades will definitely not be allowed and as are also not allowed on the All Weather Pitch in Clontarf
- Boots that are missing one or more studs will also not be allowed.
Here is an example we’ve been given of boots with legal studs:
And here is an example of illegal studs:
Please print this page out and show it to your son. If in doubt on anything above, please check with one of the coaches.