Nottingham - News, interviews, reports, analysis

Tag: Nottingham

‘I want to follow my brother to the top’ – David Opoku-Fordjour

12 January 2025 0 comments

By Ben Jaycock David Opoku-Fordjour feels he has what it takes to achieve his lifelong dream of lining up alongside his brother to play for […]

Play-off places all still up for grabs

12 January 2025 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFRIES The BUCS Christmas break will end next week, and with all eight playoff places still up for grabs, it’s all […]

Cancer charity keen to spread the word

12 January 2025 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK RUGBY Against Cancer offers support for those suffering from the disease and spent time over Christmas visiting hospitals to provide presents. The […]

Pressure growing for SGM changes

5 January 2025 0 comments

The heat around an SGM is building, with the motion for the removal of Bill Sweeney as chief executive, and changes to governance, accountability, financial […]

My office at home is like a shrine to rugby

5 January 2025 0 comments

MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER MET POLICE, WASPS AND SARACENS NO.8, WHO REPRESENTED MIDDLESEX, LONDON, BRITISH POLICE & THE BARBARIANS LEE ADAMSON Decent: Lee Adamson […]

Nottingham take their chances to silence Coventry

29 December 2024 0 comments

By Paul Smith Nottingham …………………..41pts Tries: Ferreira 17, Clayton 25, Olowofela 53, Christian-Goss 60, Setala 77, Williams 80 Conversions: Arden 17, 25, 53, 60 Penalty: […]

Big guns will be keen to start firing for Doncaster

29 December 2024 0 comments

PREVIEW… Doncaster v Hartpury Today. Kick-off 2.30pm, Castle Park ■By BEN JAYCOCK DONCASTER Knights haven’t made the start most expected considering their impressive star-studded signings […]

Trinder’s delight as he joins 100-club at Cov

29 December 2024 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA ■By PAUL SMITH FOR those of us who love sport but were never gifted, fit, smart or driven enough to make it a […]

Call to axe Sweeney ‘as soon as possible’

22 December 2024 0 comments

By NICK CAIN BILL Sweeney’s tenure as RFU chief executive is in a precarious position after Bill Beaumont’s announcement as an interim RFU Board Chairman […]

Iestyn Hopkins in right place to snatch it for Ospreys

22 December 2024 0 comments

By Roger Panting Ospreys………………………… 23pts Tries: Parry 36, Tipuric 47, Hopkins 80 Conversion: Edwards 47 Penalties: Edwards 10, 58 Scarlets……………………….. 22pts Try: Mee 40 Conversion: […]

Hopkins in right place to snatch it for Ospreys

22 December 2024 0 comments

By ROGER PANTING Ospreys………………………… 23pts Tries: Parry 36, Tipuric 47, Hopkins 80 Conversion: Edwards 47 Penalties: Edwards 10, 58 Scarlets……………………….. 22pts Try: Mee 40 Conversion: […]

Hopkins in right place to snatch it for Ospreys

22 December 2024 0 comments

Bazalgette pulls the strings for Hartpury

22 December 2024 0 comments

By ED HARTLEY Hartpury…………. 21pts Tries: R Smith 20, Austin 36 Conversion: Bazalgette 21 Penalties: Bazalgette 28, 53, 65 Nottingham…….. 7pts Try: R Olowofela 60 […]

Bazalgette pulls the strings for Hartpury

22 December 2024 0 comments

By ED HARTLEY Hartpury…………. 21pts Tries: R Smith 20, Austin 36 Conversion: Bazalgette 21 Penalties: Bazalgette 28, 53, 65 Nottingham…….. 7pts Try: R Olowofela 60 […]

Bazalgette pulls the strings for Hartpury

22 December 2024 0 comments

By ED HARTLEY Hartpury…………. 21pts Tries: R Smith 20, Austin 36 Conversion: Bazalgette 21 Penalties: Bazalgette 28, 53, 65 Nottingham…….. 7pts Try: R Olowofela 60 […]

Trewin looking to help Pirates finish with a top four spot

22 December 2024 0 comments

By DAN ROBERTSHAW CORNISH Pirates full-back Will Trewin brought up his half-century of appearances for the club in style with a strong away win against […]

Trewin looking to help Pirates finish with a top four spot

22 December 2024 0 comments

By DAN ROBERTSHAW CORNISH Pirates full-back Will Trewin brought up his half-century of appearances for the club in style with a strong away win against […]

Trewin looking to help Pirates finish with a top four spot

22 December 2024 0 comments

By DAN ROBERTSHAW CORNISH Pirates full-back Will Trewin brought up his half-century of appearances for the club in style with a strong away win against […]

Nottingham purple patch is too good for Chinnor

15 December 2024 0 comments

■ By ROB WILDMAN Nottingham …… 19pts Tries: Dickinson 42, Williams 52, Chessum 57 Conversions: Parks 42, 52 Chinnor ………….. 15pts Tries: Passman 64, Hughes […]

L’borough make it ten wins in a row

15 December 2024 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH have one hand on the BUCS Super Rugby league title after a statement 47-24 win against Bath. The reigning […]

Harrow through on away side rule

15 December 2024 0 comments

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS THE semi finals of the Continental Tyres National School Cup, Plate, Vase, and Bowl have all been decided over the […]

Calls for RFU chiefs to quit at fever pitch

8 December 2024 0 comments

Mounting calls for RFU chiefs to quit By Nick Cain Calls for Bill Sweeney, the RFU chief executive, and Tom Ilube, the RFU Board chairman, […]

Olowofela’s double steers Archers home

8 December 2024 0 comments

■By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge ……. 10pts Tries: Brownlie 10, Caven 19 Nottingham ….. 43pts Tries: Olowofela 16, 42; Dickinson 23, 32, Cherry 55, Parks 62, […]

Tuipulotu hat-trick has Bath on move

8 December 2024 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY ■ By TOM JEFFREYS KEPU Tuipulotu scored another hat-trick to help Bath move into second in the BUCS Super Rugby table. Tuipulotu arrived […]

Do simple things well is my mantra

8 December 2024 0 comments

Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Alex White, below, the head of rugby at Syston and Loughborough University backs and attack coach Why did […]

Tough for clubs to get permission for 10,001

1 December 2024 0 comments

I HAVE every sympathy with my old friend Simon Halliday, the outgoing Chairman of the Championship Board, and the Championship clubs having read his comments […]

We’ll be locked and loaded for Sale trip -Cheika

1 December 2024 0 comments

■By JON NEWCOMBE WITH wins over Exeter, Newcastle and Saracens, playing away from home in the Premiership currently holds no fears for Leicester. The Tigers […]

Doncaster get back to their best in fine style

1 December 2024 0 comments

By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster Knights……. 52pts Tries: Olowofela 68, 75; Jones 10, Smith 20, Edwards 26, Kerr 41, Dolly 53, Strong 56 Conversions: Bennett 10, […]

It’s back to business as usual for Bedford

1 December 2024 0 comments

By ROB WILDMAN Nottingham…… 10pts Tries: Myall 16, Dickinson 69 Bedford………….. 17pts Tries: Langdon 3, Adamson 20, James 62 Conversion: Maisey 62 A BREAK-AWAY interception […]

BUCS RUGBY

1 December 2024 0 comments

L’borough teach Exeter a lesson ■ By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH underlined their favourites status by thumping Exeter. The Loughborough-Exeter rivalry has been at the epicentre […]

Ten-try Leicester Tigers take charge to brush past Nottingham

24 November 2024 0 comments

By George Wellbelove Nottingham ……29pts Tries: Clayton 7, 21, 50; Green 62, Graham 78 Conversions: Arden 8, Johal 63 Leicester ………. 70pts Tries: Rogerson 24, […]

Pearson’s power is enough to carry Saints past Cov

24 November 2024 0 comments

■By PAUL SMITH Clincher: Curtis Langdon scores Saints’ third try PICTURES: Getty Images A BATTLING forward display in which flanker Tom Pearson produced a stand-out […]

Strachan confident Ampthill will be firing again soon

24 November 2024 0 comments

■By BEN JAYCOCK FRASER Strachan is determined to put Ampthill’s leaky defensive showings behind them and gain some much needed confidence in the run up […]

Exeter’s season is back on track

24 November 2024 0 comments

By TOM JEFFREYS EXETER bounced back from their shock defeat to Leeds Beckett to beat Cardiff 56-28, while Loughborough extended their lead at the summit […]

McParland keen to shine for England A

17 November 2024 0 comments

By DAN ROBERTSHAW Stepping up: Northampton’s Archie McParland on the attack PICTURES: Getty Images Class: Antoine Dupont NORTHAMPTON scrum-half Archie McParland feels he has returned […]

Dickinson hits the 50-mark for Archers

17 November 2024 0 comments

■By CHRIS COLLYER Proud: Nottingham’s Jack Dickinson PICTURE: Alamy JACK Dickinson brought up his half century of appearnces in style by scoring two tries last […]

Champs stunned by double defeats

17 November 2024 0 comments

By TOM JEFFERIES TWO enormous shocks in both the men’s and women’s Super BUCS leagues punctuate a thrilling start to the middle third of the […]

Young gun half-backs lead Northampton Saints fightback

10 November 2024 0 comments

By Tom Vickers Northampton … 31pts Tries: Scott-Young 8, Cousins 52, McParland 56, Brown 59, Wright 68 Conversions: Makepeace-Cubitt 52, 56, 59 Nottingham ……29pts Tries: […]

High-class Coventry turn back the clock

10 November 2024 0 comments

By ROB WILDMAN Leicester …………………….19pts Tries: Wand 6, Kata 54, van der Flier 65 Conversions: Threlfall 54, 65 Coventry ……………………. 33pts Tries: Hinkley 14, Poole […]

Mediocre Exeter have it all to do

10 November 2024 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFERIES WITH six rounds down, 12 to go, and Premiership Cup action draining university resources, men’s BUCS Super Rugby took a […]

Walker keen to drive Chinnor on

10 November 2024 0 comments

By CHRIS COLLYER CHAMPIONSHIP newsboys Chinnor made a promising start to their inaugural season in the second tier and despite being brought down to earth […]

Five Key Talking Points from the Autumn Internationals

4 November 2024 0 comments

By Charlie Elliott The Autumn Internationals began with a bang, with England narrowly losing to the All Blacks, and Scotland dominating Fiji. From these two games to […]

DREAM TEAM

3 November 2024 0 comments

SCOTT HALL, THE NOTTINGHAM AND FORMER NORTHS EAGLES AND LEICESTER BACK ROW, SELECTS THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen […]

New faces take the plaudits for Saints

3 November 2024 0 comments

■By ROB WILDMAN Northampton ……..31pts Tries: Pollock 15, Ramm 23, Litchfield 38, Hendy 53, Baker 59 Conversions: Makepeace-Cubitt 15, 23, 53 Leicester ……………12pts Tries: Satala […]

Opoku grabs his chance to make sure for Cov

3 November 2024 0 comments

■By PETE MURDOCK Nottingham …… 15pts Tries: Olowofela 44, Ecclesfield 70 Conversion: Arden 45 Penalty: Arden 13 Coventry ………. 34pts Tries: Robson 23, Johnson 28, […]

Exeter on top in battle of the big guns

3 November 2024 0 comments

■By HARRY SCOTT-MUNRO Exeter ……………………….. 29pts Tries: Doidge 8, F Robinson 38, Sinclair 56, Rogers 66 Conversions: Tessier 9, 39, 67 Penalty: Tessier 40 Saracens […]

Bristol have no answers as Callender leads romp

3 November 2024 0 comments

By STEWART McCULLOUGH Bristol ……………. 19pts Tries: David 7, Bonner 28, R Marston-Mulhearn 37 Conversions: Reed 7, 28 Harlequins …… 34pts Tries: Powell 13, Torley […]

Cheika has instilled fight and grit into Tigers -Smith

3 November 2024 0 comments

■ By GARY FITZGERALD Battle-hardened: Leicester coach Michael Cheika MICHAEL Cheika is a throwback to the old head coaching days at Welford Road when Tigers […]

I love it when I’m out in front of The Shed

3 November 2024 0 comments

Jon Newcombe hears from George Barton about his switch from No.10 to 15 and the propects for the Cherry & Whites this season IT’S still […]

Sylvester unhappy to be missing out on Prem Cup

3 November 2024 0 comments

■ By BEN JAYCOCK MOST Championship sides spent this week gearing up for the Premiership Cup but Cambridge and Chinnor were left twiddling their thumbs, […]

Tag: Nottingham

Recent Posts

Search