Nottingham Rugby have signed forward Suvwe Obano after the big number eight, impressive in summer training, joins the Green & Whites having last season played in the Championship for Ampthill. Brother of Bath prop Beno and the cousin of England lock Mario Itoje, Obano is a physical presence who will strengthen the Archers back row…
Head Coach Neil Fowkes will step down from his duties in charge of Nottingham Rugby at the end of the season tomorrow and will look to do so by beating Doncaster Knights in the Green & Whites final game of the campaign in South Yorkshire. Nottingham head to Donny off the back of two wins…
Nottingham travel to Jersey this weekend as tenth host eleventh in the RFU Championship table with Neil Fowkes side still looking to gain their first win of the season. A spirited performance last weekend against high flying Cornish Pirates ended in 22-33 defeat at the Bay with the Nottingham Head Coach stating he was “happy…
Nottingham Rugby head coach Neil Fowkes is to step down from his duties at the end of this season. The 40-year-old has green and white running through his veins having been a part of the club for over 20 years, enjoying making 210 appearances for the first team as well as Managing the side from…
It hasn’t been the best of starts to the delayed RFU Championship season for Nottingham Rugby with two heavy defeats leaving the Green and Whites stuck at the bottom of the table after two games, but a much-changed team is settling into life by Lady Bay and it is hoped that Neil Fowkes side can…
Just three days until Nottingham Rugby finally start their long awaited Greene King RFU Championship campaign as they open up proceedings against Ealing Trailfinders on Sunday and the side have added a whopping eight additions that will help bolster the squad over the coming months. The signings, all of dual-registration, include Shaun Evans, Harri O’Connor…
Nottingham Prop Oisin Heffernan has joined Gallagher Premiership outfit Northampton Saints in a move that sees the 25-year-old step up a level to the top tier of English rugby-union. The player made 44 appearances for the green and whites in a two year spell but like many at the club has been frustrated with the…
Nottingham and the county of Nottinghamshire is to stay in tier 3 as the government has announced post-lockdown plans for the country from Wednesday 2nd December and beyond. What this means for sport is that no fans will be allowed at venues in elite sport until the county is downgraded to at least tier two…
It’s incredible to think that prior to 1987, rugby union never had an ‘official’ national league competition in the UK for its major clubs. The likes of Leicester Tigers, Harlequin, Bath and Wasps, all formed back in the late 1800’s and with more than a hundred years of history and existence, would play over ten…
England Rugby Union have named a 32-man training squad ahead of Sunday’s fixture against the Barbarians at Twickenham and next weeks concluding six nations match in Rome with two players that have local connections involved. Joe Heyes who is yet to make his England debut is a 21-year-old Prop for Leicester Tigers who only started…
Nottingham Rugby Centre Harry Strong has joined Doncaster Knights ahead of the new season. The 23-year-old Exeter born back only signed from Exeter Chiefs in the summer of 2019 after graduating through his hometown teams Academy. Strong played 17 times for Nottingham last season scoring 3 tries and joins a Doncaster team who also recently…
Josh Buggea becomes the latest signing at Nottingham Rugby as the 26-year-old flanker joins the new look Lady Bay revolution from fellow Championship side Bedford Blues. A former England U18 international, Buggea joined Bedford from Worcester Warriors in 2014 and has since become a popular fixture in the sides back row ever-since. He joins Nottingham…
Winger Jack Spittle has left Nottingham Rugby to join Doncaster Knights after scoring ten tries in 14 appearances for the Green and Whites last season. A successful graduate of the Nottingham Trent University programme the exciting back will join fellow Championship opponents who finished ninth in the table last season, three places behind Nottingham before…
Former Ealing Trailfinder and Rotherham flanker Willie Ryan is the latest to have joined a whole host of new signings to put pen to paper at Nottingham Rugby for next season. The 6ft4in, 17stone Irish forward was most recently at Chinnor Rugby Club in Oxfordshire having started his career as a teenager back home at…
Will Simonds has signed for Wasps first team squad and will enjoy Premiership Rugby Union with them next season after being promoted from their under 18’s & A team following a short spell on loan at Nottingham earlier in the year. Simonds an academy graduate with the Coventry based outfit housed at the Ricoh Arena…
So it’s been a good few weeks (over five in fact) that sport in this country, this county even, has been last played in a competitive nature. The last (semi-competitive) game of football I played was on Wednesday 18th March 2020 when it already felt like we were playing the last match of an era….
Nottingham’s Canadian International Fly-Half Shane O’Leary is to leave Lady Bay as he heads back to France to play for Rouen Normandie Rugby. O’Leary joined the Green and Whites in 2018 scoring 294 points in his 38 appearances also representing Canada at the World Cup in Japan last Autumn and joins a team who played…
The Rugby Football Union has announced the end of the 2019/20 season following its previous suspension due to the outbreak of coronavirus. This means that all remaining games below the Gallagher Premiership will now be cancelled and the leagues and competitions that are incomplete this season, originally scheduled to finish in May, will be now…
Cornish Pirates 21-15 Nottingham (RFU Championship) 01.03.20 Nottingham travelled to Penzance yesterday to take on the Cornish Pirates but the Green and Whites could not make it five wins on the spin as they were edged in a tough contest by the home side. In truth it was a game of two halves as the…
Nottingham 15-0 Doncaster (RFU Championship Cup Quarter Final) 21.02.20 Nottingham Rugby are through to the last four of the Championship Cup after a shutout victory over Doncaster at Lady Bay last night. A cracking performance in tough conditions ensures that the Green and Whites will face a semi-final against either Ealing or Jersey who play…
