Touch training every Wednesday. Fixtures across North Wales and the borders. New players welcome, just bring trainers and a bit of energy.
We started with a handful of players, a borrowed pitch at Colwyn Bay RFC, and a WhatsApp group. We now field two mens teams, the Sharks and the Titans, in the North Wales Touch League. Touch is rugby with the contact taken out, so it suits anyone who wants to play, regardless of size, age or experience.
Mixed ability. Real games. Pints after. New faces always welcome.
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The talent is there. The engine is there. Once the basics become automatic, this group has the potential to become a genuine handful in North Wales touch.
Read report →A handful of ex-15s players, a borrowed pitch at Colwyn Bay RFC, and a stubborn refusal to give up rugby in your thirties. Here is how the club got going.
Read story →No kit, no experience, no problem. Touch training Wednesdays 6 to 7pm at Colwyn Bay RFC, open to anyone over 18. Drop us a line and we'll see you down there.
Get In TouchBuilt on Wednesday nights, fish and chips, and a stubborn refusal to accept that you have to give up rugby in your thirties.
Colwyn Bay Touch Rugby started in 2025 with a handful of ex-15-a-side players, a borrowed pitch at Colwyn Bay RFC, and a vague idea that the North Wales coast deserved a touch club of its own.
We are an independent touch club, not part of the RFC's 15s playing structure, but very much based at their grounds in Rhos-on-Sea. They have made us welcome and we are proud of where we train.
In 2026 we field two mens teams, the Sharks and the Titans, in the inaugural North Wales Touch League. We train together every Wednesday from 6 to 7pm and stay for a pint in the clubhouse after.
Touch is a six-a-side, no-contact version of rugby. Defenders touch ball-carriers with one hand instead of tackling. After six touches, possession changes over.
It is fast, social, mixed-ability, and forgiving on the body. You do not need to be young, fit, or experienced to play. You just need to turn up.
If you have played any code of rugby, you will pick it up in a session. If you have never played, you will pick it up in two.
Use the form on the contact page or message us on Instagram. We will let you know where to meet and what to bring.
Either is fine on the grass. Bring water, a darker shirt and a lighter shirt if you have them, so we can split into teams.
Light run, ball-handling, two-touch drills. Nothing intense. We want you on the pitch, not pulled up in week one.
Half-pitch, six-a-side, rolling subs. We mix abilities so you are not stranded with strangers, and we run plays slowly enough that you can ask questions mid-game.
Optional, strongly encouraged. The RFC clubhouse opens after training.
Show up, run hard, leave nothing on the pitch. We are not here to jog about.
Touch is a self-policing game. Call your own touches. Respect the ref. Walk back ten.
Pass the ball. Cheer your team. Stay for the pint. The rest sorts itself out.
Friendlies, tournaments and one-off games across North Wales and the borders. Updated weekly.
Posted weekly. Match reports usually within 24 hours of the final whistle.
The talent is there. The engine is there. Once the basics become automatic, this group has the potential to become a genuine handful in North Wales touch.
Read report →A handful of ex-15s players, a borrowed pitch at Colwyn Bay RFC, and a stubborn refusal to give up rugby in your thirties. Here is how the club got going.
Read story →More to come as the league season rolls on. Match reports usually within 24 hours of the final whistle.
The mens team got their first proper hit-out as a unit, and the noises out of both manager Dyl and coach Ewan have been the same: the talent is there, the engine is there, and once the boring stuff becomes automatic we are going to be a proper handful.
For a team with only a handful of sessions on grass together, this was a hugely encouraging performance. Resilience, creativity, and stretches of genuinely clinical play. Equally, when the fog of war set in, the fundamentals were the first things out the window. Fixing that is now the job.
Colwyn Bay produced a promising performance and showed flair, work ethic, and glimpses of clinical play. Despite the odd fog-of-war moment, the team showed resilience, creativity, and a clear foundation to build on as the season progresses. The talent is there, the engine is there. Once the fundamentals become automatic — straight lines, clean dumps, pod discipline, defensive width — this group has the potential to become a genuine powerhouse in touch rugby. A great start, and a brilliant platform to build from. — Dyl, manager
Coach Ewan's sideline notes, in short:
Three to six clean dumps off our own line buys us time and territory. Run straight. Deviating a metre left or right is a scenic tour of the pitch while the defence has a breather. The pods are not a suggestion, they are a law.
A few too many bowling-ball placements. Place the ball and step over. It is an extra metre of territory and gives the dummy half the space to do something creative. Watching the dummy half face-plant into someone's back because they had to reverse is funny from the sideline. It is a momentum killer in the play.
Outside voices. We are the eyes and ears for the player next to us, and it was too quiet out there. Mark the player opposite you. Wings, your enthusiasm to help is appreciated, but stay on your wing. We were conceding tries because the middle was sucking us in and leaving the edges wide open.
Eyes on the play when retreating five. Move as a unit to cover the gap left by the player who made the touch.
Do not act surprised when you get touched. You know it is coming. Embrace it, place properly, keep the momentum rolling.
We have the flair and the creativity. We just need to earn the right to use them. Nail the dumps, keep the lines straight, the space opens up. If it is not there, we go again. Stay connected to your pod and stay straight.
The hands. There were sequences where the ball movement was pure magic. Quick-fire transfers through the middle that showed exactly what we are capable of when we trust the skill set.
The finish. Some cracking tries. Watching support play come together to put someone over in the corner was the highlight of the day. The reward for the work in the pods.
The resilience. Even when the fog of war descended, nobody dropped their heads. The effort to scramble back, the willingness to take the hit for the team, 10 out of 10.
It was a great display, especially for a team that has only had a few training sessions together. Brilliant start to what can become a real powerhouse in touch rugby. Well done all.
Colwyn Bay Touch Rugby started in 2025 with a handful of ex-15s players, a borrowed pitch at Colwyn Bay RFC, and a stubborn refusal to accept that you have to give up rugby in your thirties.
A few of us had been talking about the same thing for ages. North Wales had clubs you could play 15s with if you were still up for the bumps and the rebooked physio appointments. It had walking rugby if you fancied a slow Sunday. There was nothing in the middle. Nothing that let you have a proper run, keep your conditioning honest, and still get to work on Thursday without limping.
Touch fits that gap. Six a side, no tackles, six touches and over. Fast, social, forgiving on the body. You can play a competitive game at thirty-five without writing off the rest of the week. And on the back end, you keep the things you actually liked about playing rugby — the support lines, the timing, the off-loads, the chat.
We went to Colwyn Bay RFC at Brookfield Drive and asked if we could borrow a corner of the pitch on a Wednesday evening. They said yes, kept saying yes, and then started lending us cones, kit, and a clubhouse to debrief in.
To be clear, the club is independent of the RFC's 15s playing structure but very much based at their ground. They have made us welcome from week one, and we are not going anywhere.
The first sessions were small. Drills, two-touch games, a handful of people who had never held a rugby ball. Within a couple of months we had enough numbers to field two sides. We named them the Sharks and the Titans, entered them both in the inaugural North Wales Touch League for 2026, and started training properly.
If you have played any code of rugby, you will pick it up in a session. If you have never played, two. Either way, come down on a Wednesday. The kettle is on after.
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Brookfield Drive, Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay LL28 4SW
Wednesdays · 6-7pm · Full-size grass pitch (50 × 70m)
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