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Ayr RFC
Ayr Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club. It's the men's side play in the Scottish Premiership and the women's side play in the Scottish Womens West One. The team is based in Ayr in Scotland, and plays at Millbrae, Alloway.
Between the 2019-2020 and 2023–2024 seasons the club ran a men's professional side known as the Ayrshire Bulls which competed in the Super 6 league and Super Sprint competitions.
The Bulls were one of six franchises playing in the Super6 competition and had a 35-strong playing squad, which included loose-head prop Gordon Reid, who was in the Scotland squad at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. He had joined Ayr, his first club, from London Irish.
During that professional era, they also ran an amateur "Club XV" which competed in the Tennent's National League 1, a 2nd XV "Ayr-Millbrae", which plays in the SRU West Reserve League Division 1, and various age group teams, from age 4, up to age 18.
Millbrae is a rugby ground used by Ayr for both training and practice. It has two full-size rugby fields, one overlooked by a grandstand, and a clubhouse, which is used mainly for changing rooms, the function room, and the bar. Millbrae is adjacent to the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and can be accessed either by a road from Alloway or via a small gate beside the museum.
Millbrae became Ayr's home in 1964, the club having moved from the original ground at Newton Park to Dam Park, then to the Old Racecourse and King George V playing field before finally taking up residence in Alloway. Newton Park is now the venue of international bowls competitions, Dam Park is an athletics stadium, and King George V is given over to soccer. Although its claim to fame came from the time a full Scottish trial was staged there in 1958, every other ground in Scotland being frost bound.
In March 2022, South Ayrshire council announced they had sold Dam Park stadium in central Ayr to the club.
From its foundation in 1897, up until the 1960s, Ayr was a "junior" club, playing mainly in the Western Union. However, during the 1950s it gradually improved its fixture list in the old Unofficial Championship. Wartime "cap" Jock "Stiffy" McClure was a regular in Inter-City games, while Ayr regularly provided players to the combined Ayrshire-Renfrewshire side, which played Glasgow in trial games from which the Glasgow Inter-District squad was chosen.
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Ayr RFC
Ayr Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club. It's the men's side play in the Scottish Premiership and the women's side play in the Scottish Womens West One. The team is based in Ayr in Scotland, and plays at Millbrae, Alloway.
Between the 2019-2020 and 2023–2024 seasons the club ran a men's professional side known as the Ayrshire Bulls which competed in the Super 6 league and Super Sprint competitions.
The Bulls were one of six franchises playing in the Super6 competition and had a 35-strong playing squad, which included loose-head prop Gordon Reid, who was in the Scotland squad at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. He had joined Ayr, his first club, from London Irish.
During that professional era, they also ran an amateur "Club XV" which competed in the Tennent's National League 1, a 2nd XV "Ayr-Millbrae", which plays in the SRU West Reserve League Division 1, and various age group teams, from age 4, up to age 18.
Millbrae is a rugby ground used by Ayr for both training and practice. It has two full-size rugby fields, one overlooked by a grandstand, and a clubhouse, which is used mainly for changing rooms, the function room, and the bar. Millbrae is adjacent to the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and can be accessed either by a road from Alloway or via a small gate beside the museum.
Millbrae became Ayr's home in 1964, the club having moved from the original ground at Newton Park to Dam Park, then to the Old Racecourse and King George V playing field before finally taking up residence in Alloway. Newton Park is now the venue of international bowls competitions, Dam Park is an athletics stadium, and King George V is given over to soccer. Although its claim to fame came from the time a full Scottish trial was staged there in 1958, every other ground in Scotland being frost bound.
In March 2022, South Ayrshire council announced they had sold Dam Park stadium in central Ayr to the club.
From its foundation in 1897, up until the 1960s, Ayr was a "junior" club, playing mainly in the Western Union. However, during the 1950s it gradually improved its fixture list in the old Unofficial Championship. Wartime "cap" Jock "Stiffy" McClure was a regular in Inter-City games, while Ayr regularly provided players to the combined Ayrshire-Renfrewshire side, which played Glasgow in trial games from which the Glasgow Inter-District squad was chosen.