Match report Ellingham and Ringwood Rugby Club 14-41 Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV Saturday 11 October 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire League 2025-56 After their dominant victory on the previous weekend, Ventnor 1XV travelled with a degree of confidence tempered with the knowledge that Ellingham & Ringwood RFC 2XV posed a formidable challenge with their powerful, experienced
Match report Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV 64-12 Aldershot and Fleet Rugby Club 1XV Saturday 4 October 2025 With a very encouraging pre-season behind them, it was now time for Ventnor to find out whether their optimism was warranted as they took to the field against a powerful Aldershot and Fleet team at Watcombe. Image: James
Match report Ventnor Rugby Club President’s XV v Ventnor Rugby Club Chairman’s XV Sat 20 Sept 2025 Saturday 20 September 2025 This inter-club game represented the final warm up game for Ventnor before the leagues start on 4th October. In front of good crowd at Watcombe Bottom, the chairman’s team led by the ubiquitous Joe
Match report Ventnor Rugby Club Combined XV 55-7 Lymington Mariners Rugby Club Pre-Season Friendly Saturday 13 September 2025 Ventnor continued their pre-season warm up with a home friendly game against Lymington Mariners This was the performance that had been building throughout this pre-season when all the hard work from the coaches and players came together
Match report Lymington Mariners Rugby Club 26-5 Ventnor Rugby Club Combined XV Pre-Season Friendly Saturday 6 September 2025 Ventnor continued their pre-season warm up with a friendly game at Lymington Mariners where the Islanders continued to experiment with their new formations and style of play. At kick off it was obvious that Lymington’s game plan
Match report Pre-season Friendly Ventnor RFC Combined XV v Sandown and Shanklin RFC Combined Friday 22 August 2025 Ventnor shine in ‘Friday night lights’ Pre-season. The sea off Ventnor may have been calm, but at Watcombe Bottom it was anything but, as Ventnor and Sandown and Shanklin RFC Hurricanes served up a storm in a
Match Report Pre-season Friendly Romsey Rugby Club 36-12 v Ventnor Rugby Club Saturday 9 August 2025 Saturday 9 August 2025 A series of malevolent diversions and a cunningly positioned low bridge meant that Ventnor missed some valuable warm up time before this friendly pre-season game at Romsey RFC and it was the Division 2 team
Match report Aldershot & Fleet Rugby Club 2XV v Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV 5 April 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire Ventnor’s habit of letting games slip through their grasp was in evidence in this encounter at Aldershot & Fleet RFC. As this was their last game of the season, Ventnor travelled with a group of vocal
Match report Andover Rugby Club 2XV v Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV 22 March 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire In their penultimate league game of the 2024-25 season, Ventnor 1sts were away to Andover RFC in a tough assignment against the league leaders. On the Thursday evening before the match, Ventnor could only muster thirteen players so
Match report Ventnor Rugby Football Club 1XV 18-19 Eastleigh Rugby Football Club 2XV Saturday 8 March 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire league 2024-25 Another large crowd at Watcombe witnessed another terrific game of rugby which ended with a gut-wrenching loss for an unrelenting Ventnor 1st XV who deserved so much better. Eastleigh arrived early with a
Match report Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV v Southampton Rugby Club Saturday 1st March 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire A sunny day and a large, vocal crowd provided the perfect backdrop to a pulsating game of rugby where no quarter was asked for or given. Ventnor started strongly and sustained pressure from the forwards led to a
Match report Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV v Overton Rugby Club 1XV Friendly, Saturday 1st February 2025 Overton were not able to travel to with a full squad so – within Hampshire League protocols – the match was played as a thirteen versus thirteen friendly with uncontested scrums. Ventnor prevailed in a shortened match with tries
Match report Romsey RFC 1XV 53-7 Ventnor RFC 1XV Saturday 18 January 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire 2024-25 It was a tough day at the office for Ventnor RFC 1XV when they travelled across the water to play Romsey RFC including for the first time the father and son combination of Iain and Dylan Reeves. The
Match report Tottonians Rugby Club 2nd XV v Ventnor Rugby Club 1st XV Saturday 14 December 2024 Counties 3 Hampshire league 2024-25 Beset by the double blow of the sudden departure of their Director of Rugby and some late withdrawals, Ventnor could have been forgiven for throwing in the towel against a strong Tottonians side
Match report Ventnor RFC 1XV v Southampton RRFC Saturday 16 November 2024 Counties 3 Hampshire league 2024-25 With a few players unavailable through injury and work, Ventnor travelled to Southampton with Callum Martin as their only substitute, but this didn’t prevent the Islanders put up a sterling performance against a strong Southampton side in a
Match report Ventnor RFC 1XV 22-13 Portsmouth RFC 2XV 9 November 2024 The game didn’t start well for Ventnor when – once again – running the ball out of defence left the ball carrier unsupported and Portsmouth were able to kick the consequent penalty. This was followed by a second penalty to the visitors when
Overton RFC 1XV v Ventnor RFC 1XV Hampshire Counties 3 League 26th October 2024 Result: Overton 7 – 24 Ventnor After a stuttering performance against Romsey the previous Saturday, Director of Rugby Neil Evans rang the changes in his squad by bringing in three debutants in Henrik Brown, Jonah Lewin and Alec Bulpitt with Iain
Ventnor 1st XV v Romsey 1st XV Hampshire Counties 3 League Watcombe Bottom, 19th October 2024 Result: Ventnor 19 – 45 Romsey After the great performance the previous Saturday, this was a disappointing loss to a Romsey team who showed that they were up for the battle from the first whistle. Despite Ventnor’s set scrum
A convincing home win for Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV Match report Ventnor RFC 1XV 36-3 Christchurch RFC Counties 3 Hampshire League Saturday 21 October 2024 The old adage that “it’s the forwards who win matches whilst the backs decide by how many” was very apparent at Watcombe on Saturday where Ventnor turned on the style
Match Report Ventnor RFC 1XV 17-24 Aldershot and Fleet RFC Hampshire Premiership South League 2024-25 Saturday 21 September 2024 at Watcombe Bottom Sports Centre Match report: James Morton Ventnor Rugby Club’s 1XV kicked off the new season with a highly promising performance against a strong Aldershot and Fleet RFC side which was only undone by their
Match report Ellingham and Ringwood Rugby Club 14-41 Ventnor Rugby Club 1XV Saturday 11 October 2025 Counties 3 Hampshire League 2025-56 After their dominant victory on the previous weekend, Ventnor 1XV travelled with a degree of confidence tempered with the knowledge that Ellingham & Ringwood RFC 2XV posed a formidable challenge with their powerful, experienced
