Category Archives: Rugby

A quartet of Hoppers youngsters have been rewarded for their strong playing form with call ups to two representative  squads. Back rower Ally Murray, second row John Wells and hooker Chris Tribley are selected for the Lancashire Under 20 squad whilst centre Mike Haley has gained selection for the North Under 18 squad. Murray, Wells […]

Below is the first in a weekly blog which will run for the course of the Six Nations Championship. The blog contains the thoughts of assistant chairman of rugby Gareth Dyer. The view expressed are his own and are in no way affiliated to PGRFC. We hope you enjoy his blog and encourage you to comment […]

The Club is offering a range of publicity and promotional opportunities at this prestige event .

After an inspection this morning (Friday) the Harrogate pitch is frozen and with the weather forecast showing no improvement in the next 24 hours, the game has been postponed. The most probable date for it now to be played being the 17th of March. The Yorkshiremen are one of our more regular opponents since league […]

All fixtures and training for all min/junior teams whether home or away have been cancelled on Sunday.

The second team face another difficult away match against Stockport this Saturday as they look to put last week’s debacle firmly behind them. If Loughy’s men retain any hopes of winning the Conference A title then they must surely repeat their victorious performance of last Autumn. Given the freezing conditions that have gripped the country

Caldy 2s 50 Hoppers 2s 9 The second team endured a torrid afternoon at Paton Field as they lost their second consecutive Conference A fixture. Caldy fully deserved their eight try victory and clearly enjoyed the chance to exercise a degree of revenge for the two defeats that Hoppers dished out to them before Christmas.

This week it is the turn of our Hon. Fixture Secretary John Powell to pick his Ultimate XV of players he has played with and against. Here is his team in his own words. I played rugby for various teams at Hoppers from 1974 when I joined from College and after a number of seasons […]

Since the article highlighting First XV appearances was published for Graham Cox’s Match on Boxing Day, one or two of our ‘veterans’ have pulled me up on the statistics. As I ventured to point out, unfortunately it would appear playing records weren’t kept before past president Les Anson started taking note in the mid 1970’s, […]

Photo courtesy of Mike Craig Preston Grasshoppers 21 – Sheffield Tigers 31 Hoppers fell to a spirited Sheffield Tigers side as they failed to capitalize on a decent amount of possession and territory. This was a sloppy performance in poor conditions that was compounded by the visitors clinical finishing with three of their five tries […]