On Wednesday, January 3rd 2018, The Dorset Destroyers Wheelchair Rugby Club will be starting taster sessions for a new wheelchair basketball club run by the same management team. "The Dorset Devils" will be running alongside all our other clubs to compliment them. We've had so many people asking if...
An event like the sacking of another of the constituents that created Leicester City winning the Premiership title in 2015/16 is a gift to a sports journalist. The invective flies out yet again that said win was a fluke and that clubs like Leicester must never expect it to...
Last night (20th September) the Dorset Destroyers Wheelchair Rugby Club won the Everyone Active Team of the Year Award at Magna Academy in Poole and the committee were nominated for the Freddie Rowe Award, which although we did not win, it was against very tough competition against clubs which...
Sir Garfield Sobers, widely regarded as Crickets greatest all-rounder, has visited Ballard School in New Milton to inspire students. Sir Garry Sobers visited Ballard School to talk about his life and his philosophy on sport to an audience of boys and girls who play cricket. The school also invited...
The Dorset Destroyers Wheelchair Rugby Club are Dorset’s only team, but they are establishing themselves well into the Wheelchair Rugby world by finishing second in Division Three League in their first season. At Easter, the Destroyers were at an event for a new variation of wheelchair rugby, opening the...
After their first season in Wheelchair Rugby BT Division 3 for The Dorset Destroyers Wheelchair Rugby Club, they now have 1 more match to deal with. It’s a match that is a HUGE stepping stone for The Destroyers and for Wheelchair Rugby in Dorset. In the warm up to...
But who are Disability Sports Dorset? They are the same team who started up and run the highly successful Dorset Destroyers Wheelchair Rugby Club. “We started running a wheelchair rugby club and soon found that so many disabled people in Dorset wanted to have access to other sports. So...
This is the story (The quick version) of how The Dorset Destroyers first year in Division 3 went. (For those that don’t know, Div 3. Is the entry division in Wheelchair Rugby) The Dorset Destroyers Wheelchair Rugby Club were looking at getting into the League, but did not have...
A new start for the Dorset Disability Sports Forum, which stopped in October 2015, as Sue Coombs was invited to be the Chairwoman and duly accepted at the meeting held on February 23rd 2017 at Rossmore Leisure Centre, Poole. Sue Coombs has great credentials as she is one of...
What happens when Team GB the European Champions and 5th placed team in the World Rankings, are getting better and better each year??Well naturally, the answer is simple, STOP THE FUNDING!!!!????Yes, I kid ye not!!! Just imagine if England won Euro 2016 and came home as European Champions and then...
