Men's touch
Men's touch rugby in Manchester
Quick, tactical, and hard enough work that you will feel it on Tuesday, without the bruises, the early starts or the twenty-two-man commitment of a contact club.
Who it suits
Three kinds of player end up here
Ex-rugby players
You miss the game, not the Sunday mornings and the physio bills. Touch gives you the reading of space, the offloads and the competition, minus the collisions.
People who have never played
Footballers, runners, five-a-side regulars and people who have not done a team sport since school. If you can jog and catch, one Monday is all it takes to get the idea.
Players chasing tournaments
We enter open competitions around the UK through the year, and some of our players have gone on to international touch. Train seriously and there is somewhere to take it.
What you get
Two hours that actually count as training
Every Monday at Hough End Leisure Centre: warm-up, skills, then rolling games with constant subs. It is more running than you expect and less standing about than any gym class.
Conditioning without the treadmill
Repeated sprints, sharp changes of direction and two hours that disappear.
Skills that transfer
Passing under pressure, decision-making at speed, defensive line discipline.
Competition when you want it
Tournament squads through the season, entered as a club rather than picked from trials.
No contact, no lost season
Nothing here is going to put your Saturday, your job or your knees at risk.
A group, not a team sheet
The pub afterwards, the group chat, the away weekends. That is most of the appeal.
Mixed too
Plenty of the men’s squad play mixed as well. It is the same session, same night.
Fancy a run around on Monday?
Message us, tell us you fancy a go, and turn up on Monday. First session is free and you will not be the only new face there.