Bahrain Football Club’s (RFC) teams have returned battered and weary from another exhaustive weekend of action at the Emirates Airlines Dubai Rugby Sevens.
The teams produced a series of impressive performances and plenty of entertainment for the ever-faithful traveling Bahrain supporters over the course of the three-day event.
For the second successive year, the club was represented on the netball courts but the scarcely-believable fixture schedule – which saw the team play eight group games over 11 hours on day one and a further two group games on day two – put paid to Bahrain’s chances of challenging the heavyweight UAE teams.
The Bahrain Golden Oldies found the going tough in the ultra-competitive Gulf Vets competition as they earned one win from three in the group stages, before falling to Amman Saracens Vets in a hard-fought plate quarter-final.
For the first time in more than ten years, the Golden Oldies played without club chairman Mehdi Honar, who instead formed his own team and made it all the way to the shield final in the International Vets competition.
In the Gulf Men’s League, Bahrain Firsts put on a good show as they got off to a flying start on day one with big wins over Abu Dhabi Saracens and Dubai Exiles I.
They maintained their winning run with a hard-fought victory over Jebel Ali Dragons II that saw them top the pool but they ultimately went down to Al Ain Amblers in the cup quarter-final.