| ----- SPRING/SUMMER SEASON 2008---- Our 2008 spring/summer season gets under way on Monday 28th April. Both the men's and mixed open leagues are sold out, but place remains in the mixed social league at 6.30pm. It all takes place at the Lady Bay Sports Ground, West Bridgford. We also have a spring touch festival on Saturday 17th May 2008, which is new for 2008 and will form part of a National Touch Series across 6 locations – so get the date in the diary! Please fill out the entry form and send it back to us at Perfect Motion along with your league entry fee.
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The Pink Ladies, playing in orange shirts with half a male team, claimed the 2008 Nottingham touch winter league title on 3rd March. They won the league with an exciting 7-6 victory over the defending champions The Black Eyed Bees.
The second winter league was a great success with 8 mixed teams each made up of 3 male and 3 female players, playing one another on the fantastic new rubber-crumb pitch at Gresham Sports Pavilion. Teams included newcomers Ratcliffe Staff, who’s captain, Martin Kaye said:
“We hadn’t played before, but have all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It’s great for new players as you get lots of coaching and help from the organisers Perfect Motion. We can’t wait until the summer league starts in April.”
Regular Scott Yarnell, who plays for Sport England team, Cr*p but Gorgeous believes the leagues are getting better each year as more players and teams get involved.
“This year was better than last year. The venue was great, and with more teams involved the quality of the games is continuing to improve. I thought the standards to be very high, if only the same could be said of my fitness!”
Despite the competitive nature of some of the teams, most touch players are attracted to the social aspects of the sport – male and females play in the same teams, mostly in the evenings after work. It also appeals to all sorts of ages, from 16 to 60+, with no previous rugby experience necessary, in fact it often helps if you don’t have any!
Whilst the winter league has now finished, the main touch season is yet to start. Perfect Motion Touch are running a series of taster sessions for the new spring/summer season with the first one taking place on Monday 31 March at 6.30pm at Lady Bay Sports Ground, home to Nottingham Rugby Club, before the leagues start at the end of April.
----- AUTUMN LEAGUE ----  Social team The Black Eyed Bees achieved an autumn double by winning both the Monday night league and festival. They held off a strong Leicester side in the festival to win by 3 touchdowns to 2, whilst they pipped Nottingham University to the league title, courtesy of a higher number of bonus points. The Uni gained some consolation by winning the plate tournament at the festival, beating Bedlam 2 touchdowns to 1. Nottingham Touch will return in the new year with a winter league. Watch this space for further details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- SUMMER LEAGUE ----- Congratulations to Marvellous Mallarkey in winning both the Open Mixed and Men's Nottingham Touch leagues in 2007. Also well done to Science in Sport for winning the Social Mixed league. We had 26 teams taking part in the leagues with two mixed divisions and one men's. On 4th June we also held our first women's fixtures and will be looking to grow this next season. Thanks to all teams, players and referees for making the 2007 summer season such a great success. Shape Up Notts! The Shape Up Notts! campaign, run by Sport Nottinghamshire is urging all Nottingham Touch players to sign up to www.sportnottinghamshire.co.uk. By registering your details for free on the website you can access a whole host of motivational exercise tools and be in with the chance of winning some great prizes! The website has been set up to enable all Touch players to join their respective team and log the exercise they do to compete in a league table of teams and other Shape Up Notts! members. Each time you exercise, whether it is Touch or running or yoga, you earn points. The points propel you up the league table. The Shape Up Notts! campaign is going to be offering the most active Touch team at the end of the season a fantastic prize so register today and start logging those points!   2006 Mixed Winners - Lufbra Exiles 2006 Men's Winners - Boots Athletic
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Ollerton Rugby Club hosted the first North Notts touch festival at the Village Hall ground on Saturday 14th July 2007, as part of the national Rugby Football Union (RFU) initiative to encourage more people to take up the sport.
The games were organised and refereed by members of the RFU regional
development squad, Steve Shaw, Pete Shaw and Calvin Beech. Teams came from all over North Nottinghamshire including Mansfield, Meden Vale, 2 from Newark and the hosts, Ollerton, also turned out two teams.
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