Army 7s

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards retained their Army Sevens title at Aldershot on 17th May. The Germany champions from Fallingbostel put on a fine display of adventurous and disciplined sevens to defeat the 2 R Welsh by 33pts—5. The final score might suggest one-way traffic but in the early stages only fine energy sapping defence kept the Welsh out of ... Read More »

Day 1 After a 9 hour flight the Army 7s team touched down in Denver around 7pm local time. The team settled in to the hotel before grabbing a bite to eat and then getting some well needed sleep ready for training in the morning. The Squad were given a tour of Infinity Park by one of their very helpful ... Read More »

Surrounded in a cauldron of beautiful Welsh Valleys the Army 7s team arrived in Swansea for their final competition of the domestic season before they depart to Denver, Colorado next weekend for the International Defence 7s Competition. A slightly later start than we have experienced so far on our summer tour of the UK premier 7s events afforded the team ... Read More »

Following an epic journey across the border to Scotland the Army 7s headed up Pool C on a grey and grizzly morning at Rugby Rocks Edinburgh. The season has been very successful for the team thus far and the focus was ensuring it stayed that way, tucked around the corner on the bottom pitches the team prepared for their first ... Read More »

Following the long journey down to Newquay the Army 7s team had an early start with their first pool match against the ‘Bootleggers’ kicking off the days proceedings at 930am sharp! It seemed some may have woken up a little better than others as the Bootleggers worked the Army defence hard retaining possession for most of the first half but ... Read More »

On a traditional British summer wet and windy west country day the Army 7s team headed to Keynsham Rugby Club just east of Bristol for the next stop of their sevens season. Although we are in the middle of the traditional summer sevens season the conditions owed themselves more to a full fifteens fixture in the depths of winter. The ... Read More »

Bournemouth 7s – Day 1 – Pool Stages Following success at Rugby Rocks, Richmond the Army 7s team returned to Bournemouth 7s Festival this weekend, the event is the biggest 7s competition in the United Kingdom attracting a crowd of 20,000 people to what has commonly become known as ’the party of the year’ however for the Army there was ... Read More »

Following a training and conditioning camp in Marchwood the Army 7s team headed to the Richmond Athletic ground to kick start their season at Rugby Rocks. Having finished runners up in the previous years tournament the Army had a clear focus, to win. The often unsung heroes of the team arrived early to pitch the team gazebo, nutritional drinks were ... Read More »

Army Inter Unit 7s Finals Day – Wed 16 May 12 The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards based in Fallingbostal Germany lifted the Army Inter Unit 7s Cup after 39 hard fought pulsating games of sevens, beating last years winners 17 Port & Maritime in a titanic final, flying Army winger LCpl Semesa Rokoduguni ran the show for the winners and ... Read More »

At the African Safaricom 7s, 2011 Due to other commitments, the British Army 7s team were unable to accept a generous invitation to play in the Safaricom 7s over the period 5th/6th November 2011. Notably, in 2001 and 2001 the British Army 7s team had previously won back to back titles and such was the generosity of the of the ... Read More »