The Club was privileged to receive, from Vice President Bobby George, a superb commemorative print of the now historic 1971 British Lions winning series tour of New Zealand.

John Dawes led a side that was to rewrite history and launch a platform for the greatest period in Lions history.

Our under 8 squad enjoyed a memorable day at Twickenham on the 15th September2007 when they entered a London Header Tag Festival. Playing four matches against teams from Wasps Harlequins and Saracens, winning 2, drawing 1and losing1 match which saw them just miss out on the final.

They can be seen here as a squad, getting ready to travel on the first team bus and also enjoying a view of "Headquarters" the magnificent Twickenham Stadium

The Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Houghton Regis based caterers "Food 4 Thought" to service both it's match day operation and clubhouse event operations.

Owners Tony & Karen Chambers who are well known to club members, impressed us with the range of catering and service options that they are in a position to offer us, which are vital in enabling us to expand our current service levels, as well as our commercial and social hire opportunities.

Their appointment will start with our next home match against Longton on the 20th October and their first menu and the opportunity to book your lunch will be posted on the website and throughout the club within the next 10 days.

We all at the club would like to welcome them aboard and look to them helping us expand our service levels to all of our members as well as new and existing commercial partners.

Dunstablians Rugby Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Samurai Sportswear as their official Techical Kit partner.

Samurai's association with the Dunstablians RFC will see the unique Samurai Sportswear brand being the 'Official Technical Apparel, Replica & Equipment suppliers' to Dunstablians RFC until the end of the 2010 season.

They comment: "Dunstablians RFC set very high standards on and off the field, and Samurai Sportswear plans to exceed these standards with a new and fresh range of products available for players and supporters.

Samurai is a great fit with Dunstablians RFC, we share similar values in heritage, tradition, sportsmanship and technical excellence which will be one of the focal points of we believe to be a great partnership.

As a brand that lives and breathes Rugby, we are delighted to establish this partnership with Dunstablians RFC and we're looking forward to giving the 1st team and the rest of the club that competitive edge.

Combining the latest technology with comfort, style and durability are our brand hallmarks and we want to continue this. We want to ensure the players can get the job done and look great doing it.

Samurai, along with providing match day product will be providing a range of replica products for Dees fans, and will be developing along with the club ranges that suit both men and women. The new partnership will play a major role in taking Samurai's Rugby product to the Bedfordshire area, particularly as the company increases its casual wear presence in retail stores.

You cannot underestimate the power of club pride, which Dunstablians RFC seem to tap every year.
Samurai will deliver new products for men, women and children, to cater for the Dees faithful.

In addition to its partnership with Dunstablians RFC, Samurai also sponsor 6 National Division 1 sides, 4 National Division 2 sides, as well as the Netherlands, Croatia & the West Indies and are at the forefront of Grass Roots rugby throughout England, Scotland and Wales."

'On behalf of Samurai Sportswear I wish all associated with Dunstablians RFC the best of luck for this coming season'

Cameron Waghorn

Regional Sales Manager - Samurai Sportswear

Below is a picture of two junior members of the Dunstablians RUFC, they are Andre Nelson and Reece Marshall.

The two 13 year olds both attended trials at the “East Midlands School of Rugby”and have just been told
that they have secured a place in the “England Player Development Squad”

Congratulations to both lads from everyone at the club!

Dunstablians RUFC are delighted to announce the immediate appointment of Luton based Three Star Coaches as the official coach and travel partner of the Club. Their superb range of vehicles ranging from a Doubled Decked 75 seat Executive tourer right through to a 16 seater travel mini bus will be be able to cater for all of clubs variety of coaching needs that will cover everything from the 1st Team Travel right through to all of our junior teams.

Peter Davis Commercial Director said " This is a very important appointment for the club as through personal experience with their operation Three Star have always proved that they can provide an excellent service, first class vehicles and very good prices. This is vital to the club as it will allow us to plan and control costs,as well as being totally confident that are providing all areas of the club with quality service facility. In addition Colin Dudley Managing Director of Three Star is putting sponsorship money into the club, which will be of tremendous support and is a further reflection of the strength of this new commercial partnership".

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Old Northamptonians v Dunstablians RUFC

(played at Franklins Gardens Billing Road Northampton)

Last warm up friendly before the league programme starts on 8th September!

Photographs taken by John Chatterley

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Fundraising 12 hour Rugby Marathon in support of East Anglian Air Ambulance

Dunstablians Rugby Club are delighted to announce that their Fundraising 12 hour Rugby Marathon on Sunday 26th August was an unprecedented success attended throughout  the day by over 1000 people.

Designed specifically to raise funds for both the rugby club as a start of season curtain raiser and the East Anglian Air Ambulance, everybody who arrived were treated to a feast of touch rugby, covering all of Dunstablians Junior teams from the under 7’s thorough to under 15’s, as well as under 16’s, under 19’s Academy players, plus 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th team squads.

Wonderful weather certainly contributed towards the success of the day and an all day barbeque, pig roast, face painting, air ambulance memorabilia and a well stocked club house bar, side shows and a  vehicle display on behalf of one of the  clubs newest sponsors Camden Motor of Dunstable, ensured that everyone was kept busy and had  plenty to do.

Laurence White Dunstablians Director of Rugby said “This was a tremendous day for all concerned and I would like to thank all of the organisational team for their work and support, plus all of the volunteers who helped us on the day and of course everyone who joined us and contributed towards this great event”

It is estimated that in excess of £3000.00 will have been raised in support of  the East Anglian Air Ambulance

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The EMRU are pleased to report that the EMRU Senior Knock Out Cup has a new sponsor - Wells & Youngs.

This season also sees a new qualification rule, replacing the previous system of each sub-county providing two entrants.  The top eight clubs below Level 4 of the RFU League Structure will be placed in an open draw which was held on Monday 13th August at the Wells & Young Brewery, Bedford.

QUARTER FINALS - to be played on or before 31st December 2007

MATCH ONE - Old Northamptonians (h) v Kettering

MATCH TWO - Northampton Old Scouts (h) v Ampthill

MATCH THREE - Leighton Buzzard (h) v Dunstablians

MATCH FOUR - Bedford Athletic (h) v Peterborough

SEMI FINALS - to be played on or before 16th March 2008

Winner of MATCH TWO (h) v Winner of MATCH FOUR

Winner of MATCH ONE (h) v Winner of MATCH THREE

FINAL - to be played at Goldington Road, Bedford on Sunday 6th April 2008

The name Peter Davis may seem familiar to many of you as he was, until last week, Commercial Manager of Luton Town Football Club. He will commence his duties on Monday 13th August and be responsible for the maintenance and development of all income revenue streams. The Committee identified this post as the next step in the development of The Club and to have a person of Peters’ qualification and ability is no mean achievement.

Peter has worked in the commercial side of Rugby before so we can forgive him for the massive indiscretion of coming to The Dees, directly from a football club.

A number of informal social-style meetings are being arranged to ensure that Peter is given a true Dees welcome and to give all members the opportunity to meet with him, prior to the start of the season. Peter will be based at Bidwell Park, working together with Laurence and would welcome getting to know as many people as possible, so please introduce yourself and give him a red-hot welcome.

PLEASE NOTE THAT FUTURE 200 CLUB WINNERS WILL NOW ALWAYS BE LISTED ON THE 200 CLUB PAGE (HERE)!

200 Club Winners, May 07
First Prize £41.25 Adrian Tearle
Second Prize £24.75 Bill Thorburn
Third Prize £16.50 Sandra Bell

Dunstablians U12’s v Cobham U12’s - 11:25 England Saxons v Scotland A - 15:00 Dunstablians U12’s will be playing at Twickenham as the curtain raiser for the England Saxons v Scotland A game. This will be the final of the Nottingham Festival and will be a great finally for the Under 12’s as this will be their last game as mini rugby side, as they step up to 15 a side rugby next season. If you would like to go and watch the game the cost of tickets are:

Adults: £10.00/£20.00

Junior: £1.00

If you click on the link below this will take you to the website to purchase tickets.

TicketMaster Tickets Buy Here

The club would like to congratulate the team for their achievements to date and hopefully they can emulate the 1st team and bring back the cup.

Thank You.

This is just a short note to thank everybody involved with the Chairmans v Presidents match before Christmas.

Not only all the players that turned out but to all the backroom staff that made the day so successful once again.

I was going to write a full match report but as it is now January and I have forgotten most of it.

However one or two things stick out One being watching young Micky flying through the air to catch a pass that would have meant a certain try only to knock on sliding to a halt in the mud in front of a roaring crowd. He substituted himself shortly afterwards as he could smell burning burgers and could no longer trust Peter on his BBQ. The second was watching a new hopeful, James Ellershaw, go On one of his trademark walk in the parks knocking into many players, two of which were Peter Boyd and Gary Best. Much later in the bar Gary said he was still seeing stars, but he had just bought a round as with all these matches it is nice to see some old faces, and some really old faces playing again. To name a few that graced the pitch, John Jones, Sam Brookes, Steve Jenner.

I do hope everybody that watched or played enjoyed the day and we look forward to seeing you next year. Many thanks. Dave Coker (all my own work)

PS to all those no shows please stop making such bad excuses (shopping,washing ones hair etc etc etc)

Dunstablians Youth Development Scheme was launched last Thursday with a Year 8 schools tournament. There was 7 schools entered form Dunstable, Luton and Leighton Buzzard. All the teams enjoyed the experience and the eventual winners were Linslade Middle School who beat Cardinal Newman School in the final 25-0.

This development program has been made possible by three local sponsors Kitchens 2 Go, Panther Platform Rentals and Vessey sports. There contributions have been matched by the Government initiative called Sportsmatch. This will provide much needed resources in local schools for rugby coaching and provide a club school link so children have the opportunity to become more active.

The Scheme has provisional funding for three years and the aim is for the scheme to find other means of funding so it becomes an ongoing initiative. CLICK HERE for the Youth Development Page...

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