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By Jack Guthrie Plymouth Albion head coach James Scaysbrook has praised the major effort of his team, after thumping second-placed Rosslyn Park 41-22 in their National Division One game on Saturday, extending their perfect record to four out of four wins in 2020. He was particularly impressed by their consistency at both the offensive and defensive ends of the game saying: “there was just a huge amount of effort and you saw some of the defensive sets in the first half, and then particularly in the second half we showed that we fought for one another, and that was the...

This will be the team to take on Rosslyn Park at Brickfields for our 2pm kick-off! Head Coach James Scaysbrook spoke to us about his team’s great performance against Canterbury and what we can expect from the clash at Brickfields on Saturday. “I think the players were brilliant!” “Towards the end, I think we even saw us stick to the game process even though they had a lot of success throughout the game and it would have been easy to let the game become quite loose and to go away from what we planned to do and they certainly stuck...

The England and Exeter Chiefs star will be replacing Carl Rimmer as James Scaysbrook’s new scrum coach. In our exclusive welcome interview with the England front row, he talks about how the opportunity to work with Albion came to be, how he will be working with the squad and the coaches he’s work with that inspire him going forward! Williams even spoke about the last time he was at Brickfields. You can watch the full interview below!  

Carl Rimmer has announced he will be leaving his role as scrum coach. We would like to thank him for all of his hard work and expertise. Albion wishes him all the best for the future. News on a replacement soon.

By Kevin Westlake Plymouth Albion were making their second-longest trip of the season to National League One strugglers Canterbury this weekend. Canterbury have not been able to keep pace in the league since their promotion in April 2019 and sat bottom of the pile on 9 points. Head Coach James Scaysbrook made only one change to the side which beat Old Elthamians at Brickfields the week before, with Scott Makepeace replacing Lewis Pearson. With conditions perfect for rugby, Albion set about looking to make it 3 wins from 3 in 2020. Albion certainly started the stronger, with the forward pack...

Head Coach James Scaysbrook spoke to us about what he expects from his team on the weekend and Scott Makepeace being brought in to the starting line up. “I think we are defiantly seeing some improvements and some good transfer from what we have been doing in training”. “From the weekend there was defiantly a lot of positives coming out, we also saw some areas we need to work on as well. So in terms of keeping our foot on the pedal as it were, our own internal process and how we are doing things and the improvements we need...