Nottingham 17-29 Caldy (RFU Championship) 20.01.23 It’s been a tough few months for Nottingham Rugby Club who slip to ninth in the table after a home defeat against Caldy, the Archers ninth loss in a row since their last victory in October at home to Richmond. It hasn’t been all doom and gloom, some decent…
There’s been a couple of narrow, agonising defeats for Nottingham Rugby Club of late as the Championship side, currently in sixth place, fell to December defeats against Bedford Blues and Jersey Reds. That takes their losing streak to three straight at present as they, weather-permitting, travel to Ampthill on Saturday (17 December), before hosting Coventry…
Heading into the second third of the rugby union season, clubs in Nottinghamshire have been witnessing mixed fortunes. In the RFU Championship, Nottingham are presently fifth, with four wins from their seven outings, and are thirteen adrift of leaders Ealing Trailfinders. Having begun the season with a stunning, 31-10 win, away to London Scottish, Samuel…
Nottingham Rugby are third in the Greene King RFU Championship after six games played, the Archers latest victory, their fourth of the season, coming on Friday night at Lady Bay against second bottom Richmond. The home side continued their fine start to the season with an opening try of the evening on fourteen minutes produced…
After a twelve day layoff, Nottingham Rugby are back in action on Friday night under the lights at Lady Bay for a home game against Richmond and a winnable match against opposition from Yorkshire, who are tenth in the twelve team Greene King RFU Championship with just one win and four defeats from their five…
Two pre-season wins, on the road at Handsworth and Kesteven, have set last season’s demoted side, West Bridgford Ladies RFC, up nicely for the new campaign, which begins coincidentally, with another road trip, they heading to Shropshire, and Bridgnorth Ladies, in the 2 October season opener. A tough season last time around resulted in their…
Nottingham Rugby can go joint top of the table on Friday night should they beat Doncaster Knights at Lady Bay. The side have had a solid start to the RFU Championship season so far and a win could take them level on points with league leaders Jersey and second place Ealing who have a maximum…
London Scottish 10-31 Nottingham (RFU Championship) 10.09.22 Nottingham Rugby started their season with an opening day win at London Scottish to go top of the table in the Greene King Championship. It was the home side who started out of the blocks quickest in a match played at the Richmond Athletic Ground, an early penalty…
Nottingham Rugby Club and local software firm Ideagen are to front up a new partnership as the tech company becomes the team’s premium sponsor. As part of the deal, Ideagen will feature on the shirt of the championship side for the 2022/23 season. Ideagen will also appear on TV screens on matchdays, as well as…
Nottingham Rugby face their second and final friendly of pre-season tonight as they host Cambridge RUFC at the Bay in a 7:45pm kick off under the lights. The club start their Greene King IPA Championship campaign in a fortnight (Sat 10th Sep) at London Scottish and tonight’s match up against National League One (level 3)…
It’s been a minute, since we last talked about Rugby Union and since we last caught up with all-things Nottingham and the goings off at Lady Bay. Last season would be admission from within that things perhaps didn’t go quite to plan. A tough campaign following the covid blighted season before, the Archers not always…
South West Wales, to South West(ish) Nottingham, is a path travelled well by West Bridgford RFCs tight end prop, Owen Howells, and, although they say that, home is where the heart, his is firmly entrenched in the Nottinghamshire stronghold. Rugby though, it has been in Owen’s blood for a good fifteen years or so now,…
This Saturday could be the last outing of the season for Nottingham RFC who go into the second leg of their RFU Championship Knock Out Cup match against Bedford Blues this weekend already 24 points in the match down. The Green & Whites lost their first leg game at Lady Bay by 38-14 a fortnight…
Victory over Ashfield Rugby (27-12), in early April, where a bonus point success would see both promotion, and the Midlands 3 (East) title, made for an exciting end to a long season for Mellish Rugby Club. Having begun back in late September, with a 46-0 whitewash of hosts Belper, and embarking on a ten-game winning…
Behind the scenes, irrespective of where, there is always an unsung hero, sometimes there’s more than one in fact, and one of those, at West Bridgford Rugby Club, recently attaining second place, and with it promotion from the Midlands 1 (East) Division, is their club physiotherapist, Holly Calver. To be classed as an unsung hero,…
Promotion, and runners-up spot, achieved, now for the final game of the season, at home (Nottingham RFC) against champions Bedford Athletic, for West Bridgford RFC. Beginning the 2021-22 campaign with defeat to the eventual champions, one of only four losses suffered (prior to the last match on 23 April), West would embark upon a nine-game…
Having finished their league season in defeat at home to Doncaster last week, Nottingham Rugby’s attention now draws to the RFU Championship Cup and a two leg tie against Bedford Blues in the first round of the competition which starts tonight at Lady Bay (7:30pm). The club state, after a disappointing season, that “The cup…
Nottingham 5-26 Doncaster Knights (RFU Championship) 01.04.22 Nottingham were beaten by Doncaster at the Bay last night as the Archers end their disappointing RFU Championship season with a fifteenth defeat in twenty games. The away side took the lead in just seven minutes when Holden went over and doubled their advantage to two scores as…
A former Newcastle Falcons Academy starlet, tried, tested, and battle-hardened on the mud-soaked field of the North-East of England, West Bridgford’s coach, Gareth Kerr has battle wounds, from a thirty-plus year career, to know a thing or two about the oval game. Raised ‘up north,’ due to his father’s employment being in Hartlepool with the…
It was a tough trip to the Channel Islands for Nottingham over the weekend as the green & whites were well beaten in the RFU Championship by the Jersey Reds on Saturday afternoon. The home side ran in eight tries to two (from Brownlie and Poullet) as Nottingham were comprehensively stuffed 48-12 in what was…
