Category Archives: Rugby

Former Hoppers Mini/Junior Mike Haley capped off a fine season for Sale Sharks last week when he was crowned their young player of the season. The 20 year old who played his youth rugby at Hoppers before being snapped up by Sale has been a regular starter for the Sharks at full back this season […]

1st XV performance analyst Matthew Coleridge has called time on his 3 seasons at Lightfoot Green and will be moving to Cheshire outfit Macclesfield for the 2015-16 season. Coleridge lives in Manchester and has travelled up to Preston two or three times per week for the last three seasons so a move to Macclesfield is […]

Preston Grasshoppers is pleased to announce that 3 key payers from the current 1st XV squad have signed up for the 2015-16 season. Back row colleagues Andy Napier and Chris Taylor as well as wing/full back Scott Jordan have all put pen to paper and committed for the next year. Napier was crowned players’ player […]

Next Thursday, 21st May, sees Preston Grasshoppers RFC take rugby back into the community again with the return of O2 Touch Rugby to Moor Park. The evening will start at 7pm prompt so we would ask that you get their slightly earlier. This is the 4th consecutive year that the club has run touch rugby […]

Saturday evening saw the 7 senior rugby sides plus 2 Colts sides gather in the clubhouse for the end of season dinner. The evening, hosted by Chairman of Rugby Bill Bailey, was a celebration of all the teams and what they have achieved this season as well as offering a chance to recognise individual contributions […]

4 of the Hoppers Women’s team have been named in the Lancashire squad for the end of season programme with 2 of the girls selected for the first game with Cumbria this weekend. The section is also celebrating an international call up too! Women’s captain Danielle Nash is chosen to start at openside flanker for […]

Preston Grasshoppers RFC came into the May Bank Holiday weekend with a chance of some serious silverware but nobody at the club could have predicted quite how successful the weekend would turn out to be. On Saturday the 2nd and 3rd XV’s headed for Sandbach to play Vale of Lune and Leigh respectively in the […]

Saturday sees the 2nd and 3rd XV’s head to Sandbach for the climax to their season as they both take part in the BEST Finals Day being hosted by the Cheshire club. Both sides have had strong seasons with the 2nd XV finishing third in the Batemnan BMW Premier League whilst the 3rd XV managed […]

With the league campaign now completed and National League rugby confirmed for another season at Lightfoot Green, as has been known around the club for a while, Director of Rugby Gareth Dyer has decided to step down from the role after six seasons as part of the club’s Rugby Management. He will be succeeded by […]

The silverware was on its way to Lightfoot Green this weekend after two of our teams won their finals on Sunday. The Under 15s beat Eccles 50-19 in the Blacksticks Blue Lancashire Junior Challenge Cup final held at Southport, thats three years in a row now for this squad while the Junior Colts were in action […]