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Hong Kong rugby bosses to consult clubs ‘in coming weeks’ over tackle height
The move comes after the World Rugby Council unanimously backed a recommendation that unions take part in trials in community game
15 May 2023 - 8:15AM
Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong rugby refs send kit to Rwanda, to take part in exchange programme
22 Mar 2023 - 9:01AM
Tradition HKFC 10s
Samurai RFC Warriors add ex-Springbok Victor Matfield to squad for HKFC 1Os
4 Mar 2023 - 3:00PM
Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong rugby’s stars of future ready for 55th New Year’s Day tournament
Under-19 and under-16 matches will pit Hong Kong-based talent against overseas-based counterparts in a return to the event’s traditional format.
28 Dec 2022 - 1:00PM
Under-19 boys in action during the 2022 New Year’s Day Youth Rugby Tournament at Hong Kong Football Club. Photo: Ike Images
Hong Kong China Rugby
Football Club win Fat Boys 10s, as charity event raises more than HK$300,000
Valley Dinosaurs take women’s title while Valley Knackered Nags triumph in men’s vets competition.
12 Sep 2022 - 4:06PM
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Mental health
How Talking Mental is breaking city’s mental health barriers
Founder Aaron Stadlin-Robbie launches ‘Walk and Talk’ and ‘Talking Mental Hub’ to close gaps in resources and quality care – ‘anyone with a brain has mental health issues’.
26 Oct 2021 - 6:08PM
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Scheme capitalising on Hong Kong women’s Olympics success to empower youth
‘I was always really scared to go to a court or park because there are a lot of guys there’ says one student as WISE HK rolls out coaching sessions, company visits and gender role discussions for city’s young women.
31 Aug 2021 - 2:09PM
WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered Hong Kong) coach and footballer for MLFA, Cecily Radford, teaching students from the Integrated Brilliant Education Limited (IBEL) school in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP/ Dickson Lee
Hong Kong Sevens
Hong Kong Sevens cancelled again, to return in April 2022
‘We’re just not prepared to put the future of Hong Kong rugby in jeopardy,’ says Hong Kong Rugby Union chairman Patrick Donovan as the Covid-19 Delta variant and worldwide travel restrictions force their hand.
4 Aug 2021 - 10:59PM
Hong Kong China Rugby
Obituary
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‘Renaissance Man’ Rowark a mentor to 1992 ‘band of brothers’
Stuart Krohn and Gary Cross, who played under Rowark in the early 90s, pay tribute to the Englishman for his leadership, inspiration and humour
9 May 2021 - 8:00AM
Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong rugby mourns death of former coach Jim Rowark, 73
The Englishman who was arguably Hong Kong’s most successful sevens coach dies in the United Kingdom after a battle with cancer.
9 May 2021 - 11:57AM
Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong rugby player on 869km challenge for children’s charities
Hong Kong Football Club player John McCormick-Houston helps to double the club’s ‘HKFC Rugby to Hanoi’ virtual distance challenge, saying ‘it was a way to give back to the sport that has provided me with so much’.
15 Apr 2021 - 1:20PM
Hong Kong Football Club senior rugby player John McCormick-Houston with his bike on Magazine Gap, Mid-levels to raise money for the HKFC Rugby to Hanoi charity programme in April. Photo: SCMP / Dickson Lee
Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong rugby an outlet for courageous kids
Two 11-year-old Nepali students are thankful to be outside with friends after a difficult few months as IBEL school head and Rugby Union chief community officer lay out plans to bridge social gaps.
8 Apr 2021 - 6:41PM
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Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong rugby union leagues to resume in April – Union chief
Hong Kong Rugby Union CEO Robbie McRobbie is optimistic of an Easter weekend return for all domestic leagues and looks forward to return of rugby members in quarantine.
17 Mar 2021 - 3:38PM
Hong Kong China Rugby
HKRU axes men’s 15s elite programme as Covid-19 crushes budgets
The Elite Rugby Programme, comprising 30 professional athletes and five staff, will not have their contracts renewed after June, but men’s and women’s sevens and the women’s 15s escape cutbacks.
18 Jan 2021 - 3:37PM
Hong Kong China Rugby
‘Challenges unlike any in our 50 years’ – Hong Kong rugby chief
Patrick Donovan recalls city protests ‘literally days after’ his election in 2019, then being blindsided by the pandemic, but says domestic and international set-ups are trending in a ‘strong direction’.
2 Jan 2021 - 10:50PM
The Hong Kong men’s Premiership 2020-21 season launch at Hong Kong Football Club in November. Rugby, like all sport, is still playing the waiting game. Photo: Ike Images
World Rugby
Ada Milby elected Philippines Rugby’s first female president
The 37-year-old Asia Rugby and World Rugby senior member takes over from Rick Santos after a unanimous vote of approval from the board’s trustees.
19 Dec 2020 - 8:00AM
Hong Kong Sevens
Hong Kong Sevens ‘makes no commercial sense’ unless stadium half full
Hong Kong Rugby Union CEO Robbie McRobbie ‘disappointed but relieved’ after World Rugby agrees to postpone marquee event, but says competing teams were ‘desperate’ to travel to the city had event gone ahead in April.
17 Dec 2020 - 10:35PM
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Hong Kong Sevens
Hong Kong Sevens postponed again, this time to November 2021
Hong Kong Rugby Union and World Rugby mutually agree postponement from April to November, similar to this year’s Sevens, which was ultimately cancelled.
18 Dec 2020 - 8:53AM
The South Stand in full flow at the Hong Kong Sevens in 2019 – the last time the event was staged. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Hong Kong China Rugby
Rugby community rallies round Nepali children who lost father in Yau Ma Tei fire
A mother and two children, still grieving after November blaze, offered a HK$12,000 helping hand from learning centre and rugby fund raisers – ‘It was really heart-warming’.
6 Dec 2020 - 3:40PM
Wellness
Three Hong Kong cancer survivors on a mission to dispel men’s health stigma
Hong Kong rugby community’s Gareth Wilde, Terry Hart and James Swatton share their experiences of surviving cancer and the subsequent mental toil during Movember month.
30 Nov 2020 - 1:51PM
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Hong Kong China Rugby
Survey finds 54 per cent of Hong Kong’s rugby players are Chinese
Survey of over 12,500 community members reveals average player is male, Chinese and lives in New Territories, while women only make up 28 per cent of overall participation.
26 Nov 2020 - 10:42PM
Wellness
Movember’s cancer and suicide focus hits home for netball player Leung
Claudia Ling Leung outlines her staggering 360km charity row after a difficult few years which saw her father diagnosed with prostate cancer and her uncle take his own life.
19 Nov 2020 - 4:30PM
Claudia Leung with proud father Philip, who was diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer in 2015. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong China Rugby
Hong Kong mini rugby chief confident of ‘safe’ and ‘robust’ restart
Hong Kong mini rugby chairman Olly Stratton targets its first festival of the new season ‘at the end of November’ as it strictly follows HKRU’s ‘Return to Play’ programme.
28 Oct 2020 - 8:00AM
Hong Kong China Rugby
Ex-Hong Kong women’s rugby star Sittko: ‘I have so much FOMO right now’
Retired Hong Kong Premiership 2018-19 MVP Suzanne Sittko says her Valley Black teammates will come out stronger after the Covid-19 pandemic as the new season nears.
13 Oct 2020 - 11:04PM
Hong Kong China Rugby
HKRU announces 2020-21 season will kick off in November
Following the Hong Kong government’s loosening of Covid-19 measures for sports venues, HKRU chief Robbie McRobbie is relieved to ‘see light at the end of the tunnel’.
19 Sep 2020 - 3:15PM
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