Up next, this Friday, 12th March for the Dubai Exiles Division 1 side is Barrelhouse Rugby Club. With the Exiles’ Premiership side having a break this weekend, we’ll be looking for the Exiles 2s team, brimming with young and exciting players, to keep their winning form which has already seen them dispatch Dubai Tigers RFC by…
There are many unanswered sports mysteries. What happened to one of the great thoroughbred racehorses, Shergar? How did Marvelous Marvin Hagler lose to Sugar Ray Leonard in the 1987 ‘Super Fight’, a fighter in his prime against Leonard who’d retired in 1982 and only had one fight in 5 years? What really happened in the…
Round 2 of the Northern Emirates Division 1 got underway this weekend. Both the Dubai Exiles and Dubai Hurricanes Division 1 sides had emphatic wins the previous weekend, the Exiles dispatching the Tigers 38 – 66 down in Dubai College and the Hurricanes making short work of the Knights-Eagles by 73 points to 12. Sebastian…
After the opening round of ‘friendlies’ in this season’s “Northern Emirates Premiership” – we think that’s what it’s called! Dubai Exiles RFC will be looking to repeat the form that saw them dismiss the Dubai Tigers by 76 points to zero in the Premiership match and the Exiles’ Young Guns steamroller their older opposition by…
A new season, a new format and a lot of new rules. The Dubai Exiles went into their season opener with Dubai Tigers Rugby Club not really knowing what it would look like. The reigning UAE Premiership Champions were of course quietly confident of a win, but probably didn’t expect to run in 12 tries…
The Dubai Exiles got their Covid disrupted rugby season started on Friday with a trip to Dubai College to play Dubai Tigers RFC. To sidestep Covid, the UAERF and Dubai Sports Council sanctioned a shortened format of the game which featured 3 x fifteen-minute periods, 10-a-side, no mauls, and no scrums. It might not be what…
A slimmed down rugby season with a UAE Premiership consisting of 5 teams, Dubai Exiles, Jebel Ali Dragons, Knights-Eagles, Dubai Hurricanes and Dubai Tigers gets underway this Friday 26th Feb. UAE Division 1 consists of Dubai Exiles 2, Barrelhouse, Kn’Eagles 2, Hurricanes 2, Dragons 2, Tigers 2, and Sharjah Wanderers. It’s rugby Jim – but…
It was a fabulous day at Arabian Ranches Golf Club last Thursday for the members of The Dubai Exiles. 76 socially distanced golfers (19 x 4-Balls, Shotgun start) enjoyed the hospitality of Arabian Ranches Golf Club and a round of golf in the half-term Dubai sunshine… International Sky Diving Champion, James Crossley, takes a day…
