The year of Rugby World Cup 2015 is here and the world’s top 20 teams will now countdown to the six week Tournament, hosted in England and Cardiff in 2015, to compete for Rugby's greatest prize: the Webb Ellis Cup.
Tournament Organisers, England Rugby 2015, Tournament Owners, Rugby World Cup Limited (RWCL), VisitEngland, and Newcastle Council marked the turning of the year by unveiling...
Three members of staff from Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service have played for the UK Fire Service Women's Rugby team.
Kezia Lee (winger) is a retained firefighter at Crownhill, Caitlin Short (fly half) is Senior Technical Assets Admin Assistant at Service Headquarters, Exeter, and Bethan Ayling (centre) is a retained firefighter at Tavistock.
Although Plymouth Albion were beaten by high flying Rotherham Titans, they left Clifton Lane with their heads held high as well as the losing bonus point.
After disappointing defeats to Doncaster Knights and Nottingham, Albion produced a much better performance and very nearly came away with what would have been a superb win.
Twenty-five team members from Plymouth Albion RFC are to benefit from protected smiles, thanks to the Devonport Dental Education Facility (DEF), Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and run by the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise.
The DEF team has provided advice to team members, and created and fitted tailored mouth guards for each player.
Plymouth’s sports facilities will be front row next year as the city plays host to one of the competing nations in Rugby World Cup 2015 (RWC 2015).
England Rugby 2015 has announced that Plymouth is one of 41 official Team Bases that will host the 20 participating teams during the tournament, taking place in England and Cardiff between 18 September and 21 October 2015.
Henry Slade is expecting yet another exciting continental adventure when the new European Rugby Challenge Cup gets underway next season.
The Chiefs have been drawn alongside Bayonne, La Rochelle and Connacht in Pool 2, a group that provides plenty of challenges but also some intriguing away trips for the Aviva Premiership outfit.
This is the agonising injury suffered by rising Exeter Chiefs star Henry Slade in his first game wearing an England shirt.
The 21-year-old was one of five Chiefs players named in a large training squad preparing for the summer tour to New Zealand and the match against the Barbarians.
He did not make it onto the plane to New Zealand, with the likes of the much more experienced...
Expectation was high amongst Albion supporters before the game with the club on a bit of a roll having won their previous two Championship matches.
With next to bottom Jersey, a side Albion have already beaten twice this season, visiting Brickfields hopes were high for a home victory that would see Plymouth start to challenge the Cornish Pirates for sixth spot in the table.
Plymouth Albion continued building their squad for next season when 23 year Irish back Ben Woods put pen to paper on a new one year contract, with the option of a second season.
Woods, who joined Albion from Old Belvedere last summer, has played eleven Championship games this season as well as being a regular in the British and Irish Cup teams.
