The League Structure at levels 8 and 9 disintegrated in March 2020 leaving Ramsey confined to Isle of Man domestic rugby only.
Under the expert tutelage of Graham Atkinson and Peter Hooson-Owen, Rugby Union was introduced as a curriculum sport at Ramsey Grammar School in the mid-1970s.
Both Graham and Peter were playing for Douglas Rugby Club at that time and were keen to share their knowledge with an eager northern audience.
Rugby was a success in the school and as the first batches of pupils began to leave the education system, they found that there was nowhere to play in Ramsey and the north.
The early diehards had none of this however and good or bad, right or wrong, win or lose the club carried on and on 1 December 1982 was finally admitted to membership of the RFU.
Colours were needed; players insurance, subs had to be paid not just to Twickenham but also to Cheshire RFU and a whole host of other bits and pieces of admin work which crop up the minute a club becomes official.
It was during this period that the club appointed its first full time official in the rather large shape of Bryan “Doobie” Strickett.
He booked pitches, organised referees, helped out at training, collected subs, acted as touch judge and sponge man.
New club Southern Nomads won the first Manx Shield in 1987/88 and Ramsey bagged it in 1988/89 to show that the decision to carry on playing was a good one.
The noughties and beyond The Shield has become Ramsey property more or less and while a slight fall in playing numbers saw us drop the second team we formed an alliance with Southern Nomads and launched the Northern Spaniards.
This project was driven by Garry Vernon and Sally Mason and was funded by our own money raising, an interest free loan from the RFU and Sports Council & Lottery Grants.
Port Sunlight, Wallasey, Parkonians, Helsby and Runcorn all crashed out of the competition against non-league Ramsey at some stage and we have also given bigger clubs plenty of scares along the way.
For the record the squad that day was Simon Mason, Billy Kneale, Chris Melvin, Darren Ideson, Tynan Pritchard, Mike Caine, Will Moffatt, Mark Corkill, Geoff Quayle, Matt Moffatt, Aneurin Pritchard, Gareth Hinge MBE, Garry Vernon, Myles Ellis, Dave Harding, Mickey Melvin, Chris Penketh, Matt Livesey, Jason Walker, Andy Gale and Rupert Leaton.
The latter was dubbed "the miracle of Ballafletcher and is reported to be made into a Hollywood movie with Vin Diesel starring as skipper Gareth Hinge.
Ramsey played its first ever game in South Lancashire/Cheshire Division 4 of the English league system on 13 September 2008 away to Linley & Kidsgrove RUFC.
Ramsey topped the table for much of the season but successive losses to Holmes Chapel and Prenton left the club needing to win their last two games to be promoted.
After struggling all season in South Lancashire/Cheshire Division 2, the club went into the final match needing a bonus point win against championship contenders Bowdon to avoid relegation.
The second team ("The Mighty Blues") won the Shimmin Wilson Manx Bowl, beating Emerging Nomads 43–5 in the final.
A shock away defeat at Knutsford took the season to a nailbiting conclusion, but a 59–20 win away at Capenhurst was enough to clinch the second promotion spot.
The club decided to commit [4] and after beating Creighton and Liverpool University in the Pool stages they went to the quarter-finals and lost away to eventual winners Otliensians.
The club led pretty much from start to finish and eventually wrapped up its first league title on 6 April 2019 by beating Old Bedians 34–14 at Mooragh Park.
The Blues started slowly but improved rapidly, mainly due to an influx of 17 year olds from Ramsey's junior set up.
To make matters worse, the internal civil war which had been plaguing Northern Division reared its head and a large group of Lancashire clubs left ECC.
Then, to ice the cake, there was an internal central heating oil leak in the clubhouse which has left the bar and kitchen unusable since 25 March 2020.
As the IOM was locked down for covid, Gareth Hinge MBE and Dave Harding decided that they wanted to assist those people in the community who were shielding.
[7] The story of the Ramsey response to covid is set to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster with Bruce Willis lined up to play Hinge.
The Isle of Man emerged from the covid lockdown in the middle of June 2020 and for 6 months life returned to normal(ish).
With all ECC rugby cancelled due to either covid or the "Lancashire" problem, Ramsey entered into the IOM domestic comps.
To try to mix it up a little, a few weeks of regional friendlies were held on a north–south/East/West basis with the dividing line seeing skipper Eddie Lord and the Kneale brothers all playing for the West.
The Blues played in a similar comp and after losing their first match, strung together a nine-game unbeaten run and only just missed out when they lost the deciding game against Vagas 2.