Category Archives: Rugby

The club can confirm that the 1st and 2nd XV’s will be playing pre-season friendlies against National One side Tynedale. Both fixtures will take place at Lightfoot Green on Saturday 25 August. The kick off times are as follows:- 1st XV kick off 2.30pm 2nd XV kick off 2pm.

On Friday, new Preston Grasshoppers Head Coach Michael Lough and Director of Rugby Gareth Dyer appeared on BBC Radio Lancashire to discuss amongst other things Brian Ashton, Sean Long and aspirations for the coming season. You can listen to them at the following link until it expires on Friday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00vmc9d?t=2205.884 Lough and Dyer can be heard on […]

Lancashire Rugby are putting on the following coaching courses throughout July, August and September. All details are on the poster below.

After a number of seasons of mid table mediocrity, the 2011/12 season was a much better campaign for the PGRFC senior squad ending in vastly improved showing for both the 1st and 2nd XV’s. Off the field the club had much to celebrate as well as it became the first Northern Club to host the […]

New 1st XV head coach Michael Lough and Director of Rugby Gareth Dyer are due to appear on BBC Radio Lancashire this Friday. The pair will be on air from 6-7pm as studio guests for the full hour discussing Lough’s appointment and the forthcoming season. You can tune in to the show on 95.5FM and […]

The 25th Annual General Meeting of the ‘1869’ Club (Hoppers Supporters Club) will be held on Thursday 9th Aug 2012 at 7.30pm in the Wiseman Room. The Committee hope all members will make a special effort to attend. If there are any nominations for the Committee or items for the agenda, please let the Secretary have them on […]

The appointment of Michael Lough as the new PGRFC Head Coach has left a vacancy within the coaching set up with Lough formerly being in charge of the clubs 2nd XV. Last season the 2nd XV had a very successful season ending with them being Champions of the Bateman Premier Division. To ensure that the […]

Preston Grasshoppers director of rugby Gareth Dyer took to the airwaves tonight to explain how and why the club came to appoint new head coach Michael Lough. Gareth was on BBC Radio Lancashire’s sports show this evening and you can listen to him  via the iplayer by following this link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00v8tfc The section of the show discussing Lough’s appointment […]

PGRFC  is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Lough as the club’s new Head Coach. Lough will replace former Head Coach Dave Baldwin who left the club in June to join Leeds Carnegie. Lough will be assisted by player coaches Karl Fitzpatrick, Alan Holmes and Strength and Conditioning coach James Eastham.

Thursday evening saw the second touch rugby session, aimed at both new and existing players, held on Moor Park. Despite the pouring rain the turnout matched the first week with 60 people taking part in three games of touch rugby. Picture of the session were hard to capture so they are not of the highest […]