Plymouth Albion RFC News

Kieran Hallet, let’s us in on his aspirations for the forthcoming season at Plymouth Albion. Plymouth Albion Head Coach Kieran Hallett believes that a younger team invigorated by “fresh blood” could be the secret weapon that takes the side to promotion this season. Finishing third in the National League in 2017/18, for the second year running, has given Albion a sniff at success. They ended the year with an impressive 20 wins, two draws and eight losses and Kieran believes it could be third time lucky for the Devon side. Last season was challenging for the team – postponed games...

At the end of last season, Plymouth Albion prepared to say “au revoir” to fly half Dan Mugford who had decided to head for France, with the opportunity to play for a Rugby Pro D2 team. Dan was hit by injury towards the end of the 2017-18 season and was looking at moving on to a new challenge with the French side, despite not speaking the language. But fans of the 26-year-old former Exeter Academy player will be delighted to hear that he is back at the Brickfields ground in time for the pre-season friendlies in August and fully recovered...

We are pleased to announce that Dan Williams will take over the defence and forwards coaching duties from Julian Salvi who has retired from playing and moved to Exeter Chiefs as their defence coach. Unfortunately, Dan decided to not put himself forward for the 2018/19 season himself, after being told he would require further surgery to a shoulder injury which saw him out for the majority of last season. Head Coach, Kieran Hallet said: “I am delighted to say Dan has accepted our offer to fill the vacant defence and forwards coach role at Plymouth Albion. Dan was a very...

Australian winger Teegan Minkley joins Plymouth Albion. We are delighted to announce that young Australian, Teegan Minkley will be joining Plymouth Albion to play next season. Minkley, who’s just 21, was born in South Africa before moving to Australia when he was 12 years old. He spent 3 years in Wellington, New Zealand, playing rugby before joining Perth based Australian team, Southern Lions RUFC in the middle of last season, the Lions were recently promoted to the top division in their area. The Southern Lions club is where Albion players Dan Powell and Dan Swain went to visit during the...

Plymouth born Squire to stay at Plymouth Albion Plymouth Albion have confirmed that local boy Dean Squire has signed his contract to stay at the club next season. Centre Dean, 22, started playing rugby at around six years old as his mum, who is Welsh, and her family were all into it. He hit 50 caps for Plymouth Albion last season, and is currently at University in Plymouth studying to become a primary school teacher. Dean is looking forward to the year ahead: “I can see that the club is moving forward and I love the way things seem to...

This is the moment you’ve been waiting for…the 2018 / 2019 season fixtures have been released and with an exciting season ahead of us, we just can’t wait to get stuck in! See all our fixtures here. There’s only 12 weeks to go until the first league game of the new season, which will be at home against newly promoted Chinnor RFC, but if you can’t wait that long, then make sure you get along to our pre season games, which start on 10th August. Just in case you haven’t seen them, our pre season games are as follows: 10th August 2018...