Last Friday night the Senior Men’s squad travelled to play Chiswick RFC in their final pre-season game before their league campaign starts against Teddington at Home Park on Saturday 6th September 2025.
The match proved again to be very useful preparation before league action begins. The final score was Chiswick RFC 26, Windsor RFC 17.

The Senior Women have been busy in pre-season training and this week have had a joint training session with Phoenix RFC Women on Wednesday night. Their first pre-season friendly is away against Camberley Women this Saturday( 30th August 2025) Kick Off 1.30pm.

Next Saturday ( September 6th 2025) Windsor RFC have a double header with the Senior Women playing a friendly against Teddington RFC before the Men’s Home League Match against Teddington RFC.

HOME PARK UPDATE:

This week Pitch 1, Pitch 2 and the Training areas have been re-seeded as they were both in a very poor state due to the hot dry summer. This has meant that these areas have not recovered from the end of last season and then the Horse and Dog Shows.

The Club has had no option but to invest £9K to do these works as we could not secure any funding to help cover these costs. The Club will shortly be launching a ‘Club Fund Raising Campaign’ to recoup the costs , add a full sized pitch towards Datchet to take the pressure off Pitch 1 and Pitch 2 and purchase equipment to enhance the rugby experience for all sections of the club.

With the weather changing and as long as we can water the pitches if we do not get enough rain these areas should be playable at the beginning of October.

No rugby activities will be taking place on these areas until further notice.

This means the club has only one rugby pitch( Pitch 4 towards Datchet) to play matches during September.

Dates for your Diary:

Saturday 6th September 2025 – Double Header at Windsor RFC with both the Senior Men and Women in action.

• Pre – Match League Lunch – please contact Ian Potter if you wish to attend via his email ispathome@aol.com

• Windsor Dames vs Teddington RFC Kick Off 1.30pm
followed by
• Windsor Men’s 1st XV vs Teddington RFC ( Regional Thames 2) Kick Off 3.00pm
Followed by

• Women’s Rugby World Cup England vs Australia – Kick Off 5.00pm ( shown live in the clubhouse)

WOMEN’S RUGBY WORLD CUP – LETS GET BEHIND THE ENGLISH ROSES AND CHEER THEM ON IN THEIR QUEST TO WIN THE WORLD CUP ON HOME SOIL!

Many thanks to the Senior Women for organizing the first Women World’s Cup event at Windsor RFC when the English Roses played USA. Many thanks also to those that supported event in the clubhouse.

This Saturday the club will be showing the England vs Samoa match – Kick Off 5.00pm

WINDSOR RFC: NEXT UP FOR THE RED ROSES LIVE AT HOME PARK

Please come down to the club to support the U15s Fund Raising for their tour and watch the rugby

MEMBERSHIP CARDS 2025/2026 SEASON!!

New Membership Cards have arrived!

Please renew your membership asap.

Remember in addition to Social Membership we have a Card Only Membership which will enable Members to ONLY benefit from discounts and bar purchases as well as benefitting from discounts from a number of local businesses. ( Card Members will not have access to the International Ticket Draw or Voting Rights at the club).

The Cost of the this new membership category is £40.00 per annum.

Please see link below for all membership options.

https://gms.rfu.com/GMS/Windsor

Have a great weekend.

Mike Crawshaw
On Behalf of the General Management Committee