Ruthin started their pre-season warm-up matches with a match against Flint at Caeddol on Saturday. The match was played in good spirit with 22 players fielding for Ruthin and 14 for Flint.
The teams were evened up to 15 a side and broke every 20 minutes to allow everyone to have a game with some Ruthin players playing for Flint and vice versa.
Those in blue won the match with 9 tries and 7 conversions to nil. Tries came from Joe Mault, Steffan Parry, Gethin Hughes (2), Lewis Isaacs, Tudur Parry, Ben Taylor and Harri Morgan (2) with conversions by Deian Williams (2) and Lewis Isaacs (5).
This was the first of four pre-season friendlies all at Caeddol.
Other fixtures are:
Wednesday 15 August 19:30 Ruthin vs Denbigh
Saturday 18th August 14:30 Ruthin vs Abergele
Saturday 25th August 14:30 Ruthin vs Whitchurch
At the Whitchurch match there will be a BBQ to which all are welcome.
On Friday 24th August 20:00 RGC will play Caldy at Caeddol in a pre-season friendly before they start their campaign in Division 1 East.
On Sunday 2nd September the Junior Section will hold their registration day and this will be combined with the WRU’s ‘Join the Beat’ initiative to encourage communities to play a bigger part in Welsh rugby.
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