Plymouth Albion RFC News

Croatian-born Filip Perica is thrilled to be signing for Plymouth Albion and the chance to play top level rugby – a sport he has loved since childhood. “Nobody in my family had played rugby before and then my older brother started playing and I did too. We’ve always been very competitive, like most families, and I fell in love with the sport from the very beginning,” says Filip, 22, from Zagreb. An injury put paid to his brother’s playing but a fractured ankle turned out to be a lucky break for Filip. “I was studying sports at university at home...

Plymouth Albion has strengthened the front row with the addition of Jack Higgins to the squad for the coming season. Jack is back in the UK from New Zealand which the 27-year-old has called home for the past ten years. He began playing rugby at school in Coventry. “I was a late starter really because I’d played football up to the age of 14, but I wasn’t doing very well,” he says. “I moved school where the sport was predominantly rugby and so I switched. “I went to New Zealand at the age of 17 on a sports scholarship. I...

Kingsbridge-born Tom Putt had a season at Plymouth Albion when he was just 17 and now returns to the team for the forthcoming season where he hopes to put his skills to good use. “I’m proud that I have had a high percentage of success as a goal kicker from a young age,” he says. “It’s very important and I take a great deal of pride in it.” Tom got into rugby at the age of ten at Kingsbridge Rugby Club and joined the Academy at Exeter Chiefs, while studying for a BTEC in sport at Bicton College. He stayed...

Plymouth Albion has signed Torquay-born Koree Britton. The hooker says he’s delighted to be joining Albion, particularly as one of his best friends, Dan Mugford is in the squad. “He’s half the reason why I’m putting my boots back on,” he says. “We’ve known each other since we were nine and we’ve kept in touch.” Koree was only four-years-old when he started at Dartmouth minis with his older brother. “I was running around like a headless chicken, tackling my brother and all his mates. He lost interest but I carried on,” he says. As a teenager, he joined the Exeter Chiefs Youth  and also represented Devon u15/u16 and the England Under 18/20s. He played for Gloucester,...

Plymouth Albion’s new head coach, Ben Gulliver, has made three crucial coaching appointments to help prepare the National One side for the forthcoming season. Exeter Chiefs player Gareth Steenson will continue as a player for the Devon team but take on a coaching role with the backs at Plymouth Albion. Gareth has a lot of experience to pass on as the Exeter club’s leading point scorer of all time. His former team mate, Carl Rimmer, will be in charge of scrums and forward play. Carl, who joined Exeter from the Cornish Pirates in 2012, was forced to retire suddenly last...