Aspatria RUFC

Aspatria
Official website
Full name	Aspatria Rugby
Union	Rugby Football Union
Founded	1875 (1875)
Ground(s)	Bower Park
Chairman	John Heyworth
President	Bill Clark
League(s)	North Lancashire/Cumbria
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Aspatria Rugby Union Football Club is based in Aspatria, Cumbria (formerly Cumberland) in north west England, not far from the Scottish Border. They are nicknamed the "black reds", and have a red cockerel as their logo. They currently play in the RFU's North Lancashire/Cumbria League.

They are not to be confused with the Aspatria Hornets, the local rugby league team.

Club Honours

Aspatria has produced several international players:

Joseph Blacklock^[1]
James Davidson
Joseph Davidson
David Graham^[2]
Robert Jackson Hanvey
Steve Hanley^[3]
Rob Miller now plays for London Wasps. He is the top try scorer in the Aviva Premiership 2011/2012 season and was called up to the England Saxons 05/07/2012 by head coach Stuart Lancaster but subsequently lost his place before the 2013 Six Nations competition.
Thomas Holliday, seven England caps, 1924 British Lions tour to South Africa, and later rugby league player for Oldham Roughyeds and the England national rugby league team.^[4]

Goodwin, Terry The Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Blandford Press, England, 1987, ISBN 0-7137-1838-2)

Terry Carrick (1995). Aspatria: The History Of A Rugby Union Football Club. Nottingham: Adland Press.

Governing body

National teams

Men's	England England Saxons 7's U-20 U-21 U-19 U-18 Schoolboys British and Irish Lions England Counties XV

Women's	Women's 7's

International Competitions

Competition divisions

European competitions

National competitions

London and South East
competitions

Midland competitions

Northern competitions

South West competitions

County competitions

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