Wednesbury Rugby Club is a rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 club based in Wednesbury

Wednesbury

Wednesbury is a market town in England's Black Country, part of the Sandwell metropolitan borough in West Midlands, near the source of the River Tame. Similarly to the word Wednesday, it is pronounced .-Pre-Medieval and Medieval times:...

, West Midlands

West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...

, UK, just off the M6 motorway

M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Preston, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction . Here, just short of the Scottish border it becomes the A74 which continues to...

J9. It was founded in 1921 and is the home of the world's tallest rugby posts.

Fabricated from steel tube by Irvon steel and galvanized by Joseph Ash, Wednesbury Rugby Club's world record breaking posts are 38.26m high above the ground, and needed a special crane brought in to help erect them. Not quite visible from space, the posts are still the tallest rugby posts on the planet.

The Wednesbury posts surpass the previous tallest of 110ft and 1/2in (33.54m) that can be found at the Roan Antelope club in Zambia, Africa.

The minimum required height of rugby posts under Law 1.4 (c) is just 11.2ft (3.4m) - technically a mere 1.3 ft (40cms) higher than the cross-bar.