Tour protocol (plaques, ties)

[MiniRef]

Please can anyone advise me here? When on tour, or receiving a team on tour, we have a plaque/pennant for exchange. We also have a club tie for exchange with the captains.
What about when the two clubs meet again, in either the same age group or a different age group (where age group may be senior, or one of the junior ages) - do you still exchange another plaque / pennant, or just ties? Or something completely different?

 

[Dixie]

Nothing. The first time you meet, you do the pleasantries. Then you play. I imagine that Bath must have met Gloucester for the first time at some point, adn they probably exchanged plaques etc. I'd be amazed if they still do.

 

[TheBFG]

no, now they just kick the c**p out of each other

 

[crossref]

i dunno - at age group level - which I think the OP is asking about - each age group is like a club within a club. If the U14 visit Llanpwlli RFC on tour I don't think either team will hav the faintest idea that the current U17 played eachother five years ago when they were u12.... so give them a tie.

 

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

We've taken plaques and ties in the UK (U14 and U15). I don't think they'd seen a tie in Wigton!!! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: Our final "hosts" never received their plaque because the miserable b@stards all pissed off when they got beaten - all of them - only the lad behind the bar :bday: and the ladies who cooked the food stayed. It was re-desiganted as a man of the tour trophy instead. Picturesque club - rubbish hosts. (Not in Cumbria, Ciaran and Bill :wow: )

We took ties to Holland and Italy (U14 and U15 different son & different club)but the captains didn't look too impressed - it was a teenage thing rather than a lack of gratitude. "You mean I've got to wear it - what NOW?"

The Dutch gave us clogs (honest) and the Italians gave us all little pin badges. The kids also swapped their tour shirts with their conterparts.