Warringah Rugby Club

Australian rugby union club, based in Sydney

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Rugby team

Warringah

Full name| Warringah Rugby Club
Nickname(s)| The Rats, Ratties
Founded| 1963; 61 years ago (1963)
Location| Narrabeen, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ground(s)| Pittwater Rugby Park
(Capacity: 10,000)
Coach(es)| Mike Ruthven
Captain(s)| Ben Marr
League(s)| Shute Shield

1st kit

2nd kit

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Official website
www.warringahrugby.com.au

Warringah Rugby Club is a rugby union club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales. Only located 25 km from the city centre, the club is close to many magnificent beaches, the Sydney Academy of Sport and Narrabeen Lake.[1] The club currently competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union competitions, the Shute Shield and Tooheys New Cup. Warringah Rugby has one of the largest numbers of registered junior players in Australia.

## Club history[edit]

The club was formed in 1963 due to a high demand of junior rugby players searching for clubs on the northern peninsula. Being one of the most rapidly developing areas in Sydney at the time this subsequently led to the establishment in the 1962/1963 season of the Warringah Junior Rugby Union.

The Senior Club was formed to supplement the already established Warringah Junior Rugby Union and commenced playing in the Sydney second division in 1964. Its aims were to provide rugby for juniors, colts and grade players and to eventually join the 1st Division Championship competition. In 1970 the Club won the 2nd Division 1st grade Premiership and was promoted to the 1st Division for the 1971 season.

More affectionately known as the Rats or Ratties, the club took on this tag after experiencing many difficult years with many humiliating defeats. The players were reminded by Doug Leslie Snr (Rats of Tobruk), that to give up in the face of adversity is never an option. The tradition of the Rats of Tobruk, of bonding together and making commitments in the true spirit of mateship should always be remembered and will prevail just in the same way as the Desert Rats of Tobruk prevailed. From that time on the Club became known as the Green Rats and their long held friendship with the ‘Rats of Tobruk Veterans Association’ and their legacy is honoured by a memorial on the hill at the southern end of ‘Rat Park’.

### Honours[edit]

* Shute Shield 2017

## International players[edit]

### Australia[edit]

* Hugh Pyle
* Brett Sheehan
* Mark Gerrard
* Rod Macqueen
* Dominic Vaughan
* Steve Lidbury
* Mark Bell
* Manuel Edmonds
* Lachlan MacKay
* Wycliff Palu
* Pat McCabe
* Pekahou Cowan
* Beau Robinson
* Sam Harris
* Scott Fardy

### Australia A[edit]

* Mark Catchpole
* George Websdale
* Andrew Apps
* Craig Coffey
* Ray Smith

### Female international players[edit]

* Bronnie Mackintosh
* Genevieve Delves
* Lisa Fiaola
* Jamie Blazejewski
* Cheryl Soon
* Jenny Williams
* Brownyn Calvert
* Helen Theunissen
* Chris Ross
* Alex Hargreaves
* Cobie-Jane Morgan
* Tui Ormsby

### Other international players[edit]

* Gregor Townsend
* Abdel Benazzi
* Michael Lipman
* Danny Cipriani
* Enrique Rodríguez
* Francis Bindschedler
* Michael Ehrentraut
* James Cunningham
* Sailosi Tagicakibau
* Mungo Mason (Sevens)
* Mark Jackson (Duel code international)

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## References[edit]

1. ^ "Club: Warringah Rugby Club | Sportlyzer". finder.sportlyzer.com. Retrieved 19 April 2023.

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## External links[edit]

* www.warringahrugby.com.au

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New South Wales Rugby Union

Member of Rugby Australia

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New South Wales Waratahs

Super W team|

Waratahs Women

NRC teams|

* NSW Country
* Sydney

Shute Shield|

* Eastern Suburbs
* Eastwood
* Gordon
* Hunter Wildfires
* Manly
* Northern Suburbs
* Parramatta
* Randwick
* Southern Districts
* Sydney University
* Warringah
* West Harbour

Regional bodies|

* New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union
* New South Wales Country Rugby Union

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Shute Shield

* Eastern Suburbs
* Eastwood
* Gordon
* Hunter
* Manly
* Northern Suburbs
* Parramatta
* Randwick
* Southern Districts
* Sydney University
* Warringah
* West Harbour

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