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Doncaster Knights, the Glossary

Doncaster Rugby Football Club are a professional rugby union club representing the city of Doncaster, England. The first XV are known as the "Doncaster Knights", and play in the RFU Championship. Being the most promoted side in English history has led to huge changes at the Castle Park ground and within the team structure.^[1]

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Rugby clubs established in 1875
Rugby union in Yorkshire
Sport in Doncaster

Ben Murphy (rugby union, born 1996)

Ben Murphy (born 20 January 1996) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Doncaster Knights in the second row.

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Billy McBryde

Billy McBryde (born 24 October 1996) is a Welsh rugby union player.

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Blackheath F.C.

Blackheath Football Club is a rugby union club based in Well Hall, Eltham, in south-east London. Doncaster Knights and Blackheath F.C. are rugby union teams in England.

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British & Irish Lions

The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for the national teams of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

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British and Irish Cup

The British and Irish Cup was an annual rugby union competition for second tier, semi-professional clubs and the reserves or developing teams from professional clubs from Great Britain and Ireland.

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Castle Park rugby stadium

Castle Park is a sports stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Doncaster Knights and Castle Park rugby stadium are rugby union in Yorkshire.

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Charlie Beckett

Charlie Beckett (born 3 November 1995) is an English rugby union player for Ampthill in the RFU Championship.

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Clive Griffiths (rugby)

Clive Ronald Griffiths (born 2 April 1954), also known by the nickname of "Griff", is a Welsh former dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached rugby union and rugby league in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

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Connor Edwards

Connor Edwards (born 28 June 1997) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Dragons as a centre.

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Counties 1 Yorkshire

Counties 1 Yorkshire is an English rugby union division, the seventh tier of the domestic competition, and the top level for local rugby union in parts of Yorkshire.

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Coventry R.F.C.

Coventry Rugby Football Club is a professional rugby union club based in Coventry, England. Doncaster Knights and Coventry R.F.C. are rugby union teams in England.

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Darren Morris

Darren Morris (born 24 September 1974) is a former Wales international rugby union player who also represented the British & Irish Lions.

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a city in South Yorkshire, England.

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Edinburgh Rugby

Edinburgh Rugby (formerly Edinburgh Reivers, Edinburgh Gunners) is one of the two professional rugby union teams from Scotland.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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George Roberts (rugby union)

George Roberts (13 February 1914 – 2 August 1943) was a Scotland international rugby union player, who died working on the Burma-Siam Railway at Kanchanaburi in Thailand.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Harri Morris

Harri Morris is a Scottish rugby union player who currently plays for Doncaster Knights on loan.

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Harrison Courtney

Harrison Courtney is a New Zealand rugby union player who last played for Edinburgh Rugby in the United Rugby Championship.

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Henley Hawks

Henley Hawks is a rugby union club based in Henley-on-Thames and is one of the leading rugby clubs in the Thames Valley. Doncaster Knights and Henley Hawks are rugby union teams in England.

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Justin Bishop (rugby union)

Justin Patrick Bishop (born 8 November 1974 in Crawley, West Sussex) is a rugby union footballer who played at wing and full-back for London Irish until the end of the 2006/2007 season.

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Leeds Tykes

Leeds Tykes (formerly Leeds RUFC, Leeds Carnegie and Yorkshire Carnegie) is an English rugby union club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, playing in the National League 2 North. Doncaster Knights and Leeds Tykes are rugby union in Yorkshire and rugby union teams in England.

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London Irish

London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club, currently in administration, which competed in the Premiership, the top division of English rugby union. Doncaster Knights and London Irish are rugby union teams in England.

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London Welsh RFC

London Welsh Rugby Football Club (Clwb Rygbi Cymry Llundain) was a rugby union club formed in 1885.

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Lynn Howells

Lynn Howells (born 29 May 1950) is a Welsh rugby union coach, who until March 2018 was the head coach of the Romanian national team, having been the manager of the national side for 10 months prior to his appointment.

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National League 1

National One, up until 2023 known as National League 1 and previously known before September 2009 as National Division Two), is the third of three national leagues in the domestic rugby union competition of England. It was known as Courage League National Division Three when founded in 1987. Chinnor are the current champions.

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National League 2 North

National League 2 North is one of three level four leagues in the English rugby union system and provides semi-professional competition for teams in Northern England. The remainder of England is covered by the two counterpart leagues National League 2 East and National League 2 West. The champion club is promoted to National One.

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Newcastle Falcons

Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union. Doncaster Knights and Newcastle Falcons are rugby union teams in England.

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North 1 East

North 1 East is the sixth tier of the English rugby union domestic competition, formed in 1987 using the name North Division 2, involving clubs from the north of the country.

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North East 1

North East 1 was an English Rugby Union league which was at the 7th tier of the domestic competition and was available to teams in North East England.

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North East 2

North East 2 was an English Rugby Union league was at the eighth tier of the domestic competition when it was founded in 1987 and was available to teams in North East England.

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North Premier

North Premier was a level five league in the English rugby union system, with the fourteen teams drawn from across Northern England. The other leagues at this level were London & South East Premier, Midlands Premier and South West Premier. The RFU reorganised the level five leagues for season 2022–23, with an increase from four to six and reducing the teams in each from fourteen to twelve.

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Paul John Devlin (born 14 April 1972) is a former footballer who played as a midfielder or forward.

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RC Narbonne

Racing Club de Narbonne Méditerannée (also known as RCNM) is a French rugby union club that play in the third-level Nationale.

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RFU Championship

The RFU Championship is an English rugby union competition comprising eleven clubs.

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Rosslyn Park F.C.

Rosslyn Park Football Club is a rugby union club based in south west London. Doncaster Knights and Rosslyn Park F.C. are rugby union teams in England.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sale Sharks

Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England. Doncaster Knights and Sale Sharks are rugby union teams in England.

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Sam Graham (rugby union)

Sam Graham (born 6 July 1997) is an English rugby union player who plays as a back row forward for Northampton Saints.

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Sam Olver

Sam Olver (born 17 October 1994) is a professional rugby union player currently playing at Doncaster Knights in the RFU Championship.

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Seb Nagle-Taylor

Sebastian "Seb" Nagle-Taylor (born 16 September 1994) is an English professional rugby player who plays as a Number eight for Doncaster Knights.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Tristan Roberts

Tristan Roberts (born 23 March 1987 in Maidstone, England) is a rugby union player who currently plays for Esher in National League 1, having previously been at US Cognac (France's third division) and Ealing Trailfinders (RFU Championship).

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Wharfedale R.U.F.C.

Wharfedale RUFC is a rugby union team which takes part in the fourth tier of the English league system. Doncaster Knights and Wharfedale R.U.F.C. are rugby union in Yorkshire and rugby union teams in England.

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Yorkshire 6

Yorkshire 6 was an English Rugby Union league which existed for a short period in the 2000s and throughout its existence it was the basement league of club rugby in Yorkshire.

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Yorkshire Cup (rugby union)

The Yorkshire Cup is an English Rugby Football Union competition founded in 1878.

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The Yorkshire Rugby Football Union is the governing body responsible for rugby union in the historic county of Yorkshire, England. Doncaster Knights and Yorkshire Rugby Football Union are rugby union in Yorkshire.

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2001–02 National Division Three North

The 2001–02 National Division Three North was the second season (fifteenth overall) of the fourth division (north) of the English domestic rugby union competition using the name National Division Three North.

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2004–05 National Division Two

The 2004–05 National Division Two was the fifth version (eighteenth overall) of the third division of the English rugby union league system using the name National Division Two.

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2013–14 National League 1

The 2013–14 National League 1, known for sponsorship reasons as the SSE National League 1 is the fifth season of the third tier of the English domestic rugby union competitions, since the professionalised format of the second tier RFU Championship was introduced.

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2023–24 RFU Championship

The 2023–24 RFU Championship is the fifteen season of the RFU Championship, the professional second tier of rugby union in England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doncaster_Knights

Also known as Doncaster R F C, Doncaster R. F. C., Doncaster R.F.C., Doncaster RFC, Doncaster Rugby.

, 2023–24 RFU Championship.

Doncaster Knights, the Glossary

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See also

Rugby clubs established in 1875

Rugby union in Yorkshire

Sport in Doncaster

References