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The Bendigo Rugby Club was founded in 1970 by its founding father Alan Newton. Its home ground is Shadforth Park, 5 minutes north from the centre of Bendigo. The clubs shares it facilities with a soccer and football club in the winter months and a cricket club in the summer. This enables the club to have modern change rooms and after match facilities, which were much better than the facilities available at its humble beginnings.

In recent years 2003-2006 the club has been the bench mark in Victorian Country Rugby winning 4 successive flags. The side recently introduced playing country games of rugby under lights, a first for Victorian Country Rugby. In late 2004 the club ran the 3rd highest attended Australian Rugby Union Try Rugby Program in Australian for that period beating out centres in Queensland and large parts of New South Wales for attendees. In 2009 the side claimed its 11th premiership from only 18 grand final visits. Since then there has been many club notables:

Ian "Noisy" Dyett - Club President for 30 years.

Glen Roff - Father of Wallaby Joe Roff.

Doug Ross - Club games record holder and brother of former Wallaby Bill Ross.

Bill Coulter - Club Stalwart, secretary/treasurer extraordinaire for many years.

Afu Uasi - Tongan Test player

Chistia Branum - Norwegian Test Player

Tvuita Asi - Tongan Test Player

Nigel Kennedy - Australian School boys second XV representive player.

Sione Uhi - Victorian Senior team Representative.

Charlie Ihaka - First Bendigo coach to claim 3 successive Victorian Country Titles.

Premiership years: 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009.

Club Records

Team                          Individual Most Caps 309 Doug Ross Most Games- Father & Son 81 Peter Clark & Nick Poingdestre Winning Grand Finals – Player 6 Rauna Murray - Captain 2 Gideon Tauelangi &

Torben Vedelsby - Coach                                              3 Charlie Ihaka Most Points in a Season 681 -1995 207 – Brendan Ward 2006 Most Tries in a Season 112 – 1995 25 Sione Uhi 2002 Most Points in a Match 140 v BARC 21/8/2010 45 Michael Critchon v BARC 21/8/2010 Most Tries in a Match 22 v BARC 21/8/2010 9 Michael Crichton v BARC 21/8/2010

Most Goals in a Match 16 v Echuca-Moama 10/8/2002 16 Kingi Uerata v E-M

10/8/2002 Most Goals in a Season 69 2002 65 Kingi Uerata 2002 Youngest Player to Play 100 Games 21yr 143 Days Nick Poingdestre Most Consecutive Games 96 Karim Khodja 2001-2006 Most Consecutive wins 16 1982/3