Category Archives: Junior News

Last Sunday Jake Pope was playing for Preston Grasshoppers Senior Colts against Lymm, tomorrow he’s on the bench for England Under 18s vs. France at Doncaster. Good luck Jake from everyone at Preston Grasshoppers. A tremendous achievement. England Under 18s Team to play France (Sunday 22nd Feb, Kick Off 2:00pm, Streamed live on Englandrugby.com) 15 Owain […]

The Minis travelled to a cold and windy Kirkby Lonsdale this weekend. The Under 7s had four matches with a great turn out from both sides. The results were evenly balanced. The skills and game play is getting better each match that Hoppers play, with more and more individuals scoring tries and tagging well, despite […]

Most of the Minis were training this weekend with only the Under 12s in action in a re-arranged Minis Festival Cup qualifying round away at Tarleton. The Junior teams were in Cup action again this weekend, qualification for the various Cup quarter final places at stake. The Under 13s had a walk-over win against Littleborough […]

Congratulations to the four Hoppers Juniors who have been selected for the North of England U16s squad and begin thier training for the upcoming divisional games, which essentially forms the basis of the selection process for the England U16s team, this weekend. Under 16s Callum Owen and Arron Read are joined by Under 15s Kieran […]

On Friday night the 2014 Lancashire Sports Awards took place at the Hilton Hotel in Blackpool with 8 awards up for grabs. The club was nominated in the Community Club of the Year category after winning the same award at the Preston Sports Awards last year. John Powell had won the ‘Service to Sport’ award […]

Mini/Junior Sportsman’s Dinner Date: 13 February 2015 Time: 7:00pm Location: Clubhouse ONLY ONE TABLE LEFT  –  CONTACT HUGH DUCKWORTH FOR YOUR TICKETS ASAP   The annual Sportsmans dinner will be held on Friday 13th February this year.  This event is the main fund raising event for the Mini/Junior rugby section. The event also celebrates those […]

While the Minis were all training at Hoppers, it was another Blacksticks Blue Junior Challenge Cup weekend for the Junior teams. The Under 13s remain unbeaten after a narrow 21-19 victory away at Tyldesley and are still second in their pool with 2 games to play. It looks like it may come down to their […]

In October 2014 Cadley FC lost one of their players, Melissa Smith, as a result of an undiagnosed heart condition, you may recall reading about this in the media, Melissa was only 15 years old. Shockingly statistics show that 12 youngsters each week die from such conditions. As a result Cadley FC have been looking […]

Members of the Hoppers Under 15s squad have shown well in the recent County selection trials with eight of the squad being selected from the final the Lancashire 15 group development days, congratulations to Jack Dunn, Sam Walmsley, Harry Woods, Lewis Bretherton, Ryan Leach, Harvey Crookes-Bowers, Tom Walter and Tom Neaven. In addition, Will Montgomery […]

The Minis made the short journey to local rivals Fylde this weekend. The Under 10s rose to the challenge of this local derby producing their best performances of the year so far winning 3 games out of 4. Two of the Junior sides were in Cup action at the weekend, there were no games for […]