Richmond 17-34 Nottingham (RFU Championship) 15.05.21 It’s been a long time coming and at the eighth attempt after seven straight defeats in the league, Nottingham RFC have finally won a Championship game this season after beating Richmond who are now bottom of the table, leapfrogged by Neil Fowkes men after a win by 34 points…
Jersey Reds 55-12 Nottingham (RFU Championship) 24.04.21 Another defeat for Nottingham compounded more misery on a tough season so far as Jersey Reds scored a convincing win and imposed a sixth straight loss of the campaign on Neil Fowkes side. It only took the Channel Islanders five minutes to score when Macfarlane went over to…
Hartpury 15-13 Nottingham (RFU Championship) 10.04.21 It was agonising defeat for Nottingham Rugby who are noticeably getting closer to that first league win of the season but a super late try would snatch victory from the jaws of Hartpury defeat in a tight, tough and tense battle in Gloucestershire. It started so well too, an…
After the announcement earlier in the week that Head Coach Neil Fowkes will be stepping down at the end of the season, Nottingham Rugby will face Hartpury this weekend still looking for their first win of the campaign having at least picked up their first bonus point against Coventry last time out. Having had the…
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…
Nottingham 24-36 Coventry (RFU Championship) 27.03.21 It was a third straight defeat of the season for Nottingham Rugby but a third match of improvement for a new team built during tough times and progress being made Neil Fowkes who stated after “we were much happier with the second half performance”. Nottingham fell behind on 14…
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…
Ampthill 31-15 Nottingham (RFU Championship) 21.03.21 It was another display of lesson and learn as the new look Nottingham team put together over the course of the covid-hit delayed campaign were soundly beaten at Ampthill who provided a dominant second half performance to win easily at Dillingham Park. Things couldn’t have started much better for…
Nottingham 3-52 Ealing Trailfinders (RFU Championship) 07.03.21 Nottingham Rugby were comprehensively beaten in their first match of the new league campaign as a side featuring ten new debutants fell well short against Ealing. The visitors to Lady Bay had the luxury of several friendlies since the league’s restart programme and whilst Nottingham had only trained…
Nottingham Rugby host Ealing Trailfinders this Sunday in the opening match of the 2020/21 RFU Championship season and Coach Neil Fowkes has named his fifteen to take the field at Lady Bay as the Green and Whites look to get their new campaign off to a winning start. Ten debutants in all, a much-changed Nottingham…
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…
After Oisin Heffernan’s departure from Lady Bay, Nottingham have been quick to find a replacement prop ahead of the new season as Josh McNulty signs from National League 1 outfit Chinnor. The 26-year-old Coventry born forward has played for the likes of Worcester, Gloucester and Harlequins with some Premiership Rugby experience although he has also…
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 Rugby have loaned four players from Leicester Tigers as the green and whites look to bolster their squad ahead of a new Championship season which finally starts in March. Neil Fowkes side have signed Jordan Coghlan, Joe Browning, Osman Dimen and Emeka Ilione all from their neighbours down the A46 as the quartet will…
The much-shortened 2020/21 Rugby Championship season will get under way on the opening weekend of March with Nottingham RFU set to face Ealing Trailfinders in long awaited league action at the Bay. The fixtures have been announced for a campaign that will run until the end of May, with an eleven-team competition where each side…
Nottingham Rugby have confirmed their return to action will be soon as the Green & Whites will finally kick off a shortened Greene King IPA Championship from the weekend starting 6th March. The side haven’t played, since losing narrowly to Cornish Pirates on the 1st March last year but like many in the Championship, are…
Nottingham Rugby have issued a statement following the tragic loss of Tom Miller, a player who had recently signed his first professional contract with the Green & Whites having come through the Nottingham Trent University rugby programme. Tom, who was studying business management at NTU, died on the 7th December from a head injury due…
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…
The RFU issued a statement last week suggesting that ‘elite’ rugby (which includes the Aviva Premiership and Greene King IPA Championship) can go ahead under latest government restriction, but with hard up clubs in England’s second tier reluctant to play without allowing supporters in to venues, that is not likely to happen until the new…
