Phuket Vagabonds Rugby

The Phuket Vagabonds came into being over a beer with some like minded people in 1993. Since then we have been the sole representative of rugby in Phuket.

After years of touch rugby in Phuket, the Sri Lankan Champions arrived with 12 Internationals to mark the birth of contact. Despite combining 9 Nations of talent we suffered an auspicious defeat - but the legend was born.

The club leapt (crawled) from strength to strength, began hosting games and even hosted an International 15's. After a year we were awarded with our first victory over the Thai Champions, Bangkok side The Corsairs.

A transient squad resulted in awesome victories and auspicious defeats (somewhat like Wales), but with tours to Hat Yai, Bangkok and Manila the club emerged as an entity (rather than a force) within the Thai Rugby Union.

The old Dulwich International College ( Now BIS) provided us with a regular pitch, as well as supplying us with new players. Then came sponsorship from the Phuket Gazette which provided a name change to the Phuket Gazettes. Thankfully they saw the error of their ways and withdrew sponsorship, allowing us to ditch the world's silliest name and revert to being the Phuket Vagabonds (the newspaper only ever reported games we lost........!)

Presently we are aiming to strengthen our pool of players by reducing reliance on rotational expats who are always pissed, bar owners who are always pissed and press ganged tourists who are also, always pissed.

We hope Phuket rugby will continue to develop (sobering up at least) and that the Vagabonds will be a permanent feature for both Thai and Asian teams to defeat...erm visit.

We still aim to excite both on and off the pitch and always field a team regardless of the opposition.

We have had a bit of a renascence this last 18 months with an influx of dedicated players who have taken Vagabonds rugby to new heights and putting the Phuket vagabonds name back firmly on the map