Category Archives: Rugby

The worlds best rugby competition starts this weekend when the Six Nations 2014 begins. As always there will be national bragging rights at stake and no doubt plenty of thrills and spills along the way. Our Director of Rugby Gareth Dyer will again be providing his take on each round of games along with his […]

Preston Grasshoppers vs. Luctonians – Kick Off 2.30pm Team News A couple of new faces appear amongst this weeks starting line up in the form of Lloyd Davies at stand off who has joined us from National 1 Wharfedale together with winger Conor Trueman. Sam Wallbank returns to his more familiar role in the second row and […]

With demise of the traditional Boxing Day fixture and this season no Lancashire Cup being run, both clubs have been working on the idea of an annual fixture to re-ignite this traditional derby. We are delighted to announce that agreement has been reached to put on an annual fixture at Easter on an alternating home […]

Join us and follow England in the Six Nations at Hoppers! For each England game in the tournament we are looking to provide something a bit extra in addition to having the game on the big screen. Have a look below at what we are offering for each game. Sat 1st Feb  France v England kick […]

The second team host Stockport at Lightfoot Green on Saturday in search of a morale boosting victory. A much needed win would not only get their Bateman Premier League campaign back on track but ease the frustration of last weekend’s cup reverse against Sedgley Tigers. Young makes a number of changes to the matchday squad, […]

After last weekends sterling performance Head Coach Michael Lough has named an almost unchanged squad for the trip to Otley, the only change being amongst the replacements. 1 Mo Mustafa, 2 Alan Holmes, 3 Pete Altham, 4 Ally Murray, 5 Joab Murphy, 6 Sam Wallbank, 7 Eddie Webster, 8 Dominic Moon (Captain), 9 Craig Aikman, […]

Pete Altham selected for England Deaf XV vs Wales Recent signing Pete Altham has again been selected at prop for the England Deaf XV for their match against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park this coming Sunday January 26th at Cardiff Arms Park (kick off 1.30pm). Pete has been a regular member of the squad for […]

Sean retains his England Counties Place PGRFC are delighted with the news that our full back and Rugby Community Coach Sean Taylor has been re-selected for the England Counties squad for their upcoming match with a France Federale XV on Friday 31st January at Nevers. Sean was previously capped by the Counties on last season’s […]

The second team commence their defence of the Raging Bull Cup on Saturday as they entertain old foes Sedgley Tigers at Lightfoot Green. The two sides clashed just before Christmas with the men from Prestwich just edging a high quality encounter. Hoppers will be looking to reassert their recent dominance over the Tigers and will […]

 Preston Grasshoppers vs. Stourbridge – Kick Off 2.30pm Hoppers squad for Saturday has just two inclusions from the twenty that travelled to Leicester Lions last Saturday in the shape of Cypriot International Zav Roebuck at stand off and Joab Murphy locking the scrum. The front row is shuffled as Mo Mustafa starts with Tom McGuinness […]