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| Union | ACT & Sthn NSW Rugby Union | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1949 | |
| Ground(s) | Phillip Oval | |
| President | Jim Taylor | |
| Coach(es) | Adam Butt | |
| League(s) | ACTRU Premier Division | |
| 2020 | Premiers | |
| ||
| Official website | ||
| www | ||
The Canberra Royals Rugby Football Club is an Australian rugby union club, based in Canberra.
Canberra Royals has a proud tradition and identifies closely with the Royals Foundation Team of 1949. Our current Club Patron is life member, John Kelsey.
Royals has produced over 20 Australian representatives including 11 Wallabies, 14 Wallaroos, and more than two dozen representatives Australia wide.
The Club has featured in 70 percent of all grand finals since the establishment of rugby in Canberra, and has won 20 First Grade Premierships. The women's team has won 14 premierships contested to date and was undefeated in 2000 and 2001.
Royals is renowned for its rugby innovation and a number of its former players, coaches and managers have gone on to establish careers in the Brumbies (which is an acknowledged world class organisation) and with interstate and overseas rugby clubs.
Players include; Brumbies contract players, Connal McInerney, Andy Muirhead and Rory Scott. Former Bluebagger, Tom Staniforth, is currently playing pro rugby in France.
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The ACT Vets are a rugby union team based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), whose players must be 35 years of age or older. Portsea Oval, at the Royal Military College, Duntroon is the club's home ground.
Dan McKellar is an Australian professional rugby union coach. He currently works as head coach for Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby. He was previously the head coach of Super Rugby team the Brumbies, head coach of the University of Canberra Vikings in Australia's National Rugby Championship, and an assistant coach for the Australian national rugby union team.
Robbie Abel is an Australian rugby union coach and former professional rugby union player who currently coaches forwards for the Utah Warriors in Major League Rugby. He previously played at hooker for NSW, Melbourne Rebels and for the Brumbies in Super Rugby. The Māori All Blacks, and the Canberra Vikings and Perth Spirit, and also played for Northland and Auckland in the ITM Cup.
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