NAVY RUGBY CAPTAIN SIGNS FOR ALBION Scott Makepeace brings a wealth of experience with him when he joins Plymouth Albion, including a stint as Captain of the Royal Navy’s Under 23s side. Scott didn’t really start playing rugby until his teens as football was the favourite sport at his school. His best friend’s dad was coach at Nuneaton and that’s where the young Scott started his rugby career, graduating to playing for both Warwickshire and the Midlands Under 16s sides. When he joined the Navy, he didn’t even think about the prospect of continuing to play rugby. “I’d never even...
Read more ›DEVON SIGNS FOR ALBION The first question to ask new Plymouth Albion signing Devon Jewsbury is obviously about his Christian name. Is it a name reflecting generations of the Jewsbury’s living in the county, or the romantic notion of newcomers with a dream of heading West? “None of the above,” laughs Devon. “I was actually born in Oxford and they stole the name from family friends! My parents had been down here a few times on holiday and after I was born they decided to move down here.” The family were sports mad and Devon took up rugby at the...
Read more ›These are the winning numbers from our 50/50 draw that took place at the game against Exeter University RFC on the 25th August. Keep an eye out every week here for the results during the upcoming season. 1st Prize 34013 £57. Unclaimed 2nd Prize 34741 £38. Unclaimed
Read more ›PLYMOUTH ALBION vs EXETER UNI – PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY Back at the Brickfields!! The lads can’t wait to get out on the field for the first time at home this season in our pre-season game against Exeter Uni. So above you can see the team line up that will get us underway at home. Here’s all the information you need: 📆 Sunday 25th August 2019 📍 The Brickfields, Plymouth, PL1 4NE 🕒 3pm kick off
Read more ›HERBIE’S BACK AS ALBION CAPTAIN Long-serving Plymouth Albion player Herbie Stupple has been appointed Captain again for the forthcoming season. Herbie, who plays Number 8, feels good about the appointment. “It’s quite a privilege,” he says. “I’ve been doing it for four years and I really enjoy it. Next year I’ll have been at the club for ten years and it will be my testimonial year. I still feel a real passion for the club and I think that’s an important part of my leadership role.” There have been a lot of changes at Albion recently with the arrival of...
Read more ›TAUNTON RFC vs PLYMOUTH ALBION – PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY And so it begins, the time has come for the boys to step out on the pitch for the first pre-season game of the 2019/2020 season. So above you can see the team line up that will get us underway. Here’s all the information you need, click on the address if you need a map: 📆 Saturday 17th August 2019 📍 Commsplus Stadium, TA2 8BU 🕒 3pm kick off
Read more ›Oakmount Control Systems back Albion for 2019/2020 season Plymouth Albion are pleased to announce that they have agreed a new sponsorship deal with Oakmount Control Systems Limited for the 2019/2020 season. Sponsorship for any sports team is vitally important to enabling the team to operate and is often the primary route of funding. This is no exception for Plymouth Albion and sponsorship support goes a long way to preserving Plymouth Albion’s future success. Oakmount Control Systems Limited is a Plymouth based engineering firm specialising in Bespoke Mechanical and Electrical Design, Build and Installation, Automation, Control Systems and Precision Engineering. The...
Read more ›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...
Read more ›Plymouth Albion to Support Armed Forces Charity Plymouth Albion are excited to have formed a new partnership up with services charity, Tickets For Troops. The partnership will see Plymouth Albion will be providing a number of free tickets to servicemen and women, alongside their families, for the 2019/2020 season. Plymouth Albion will be donating over 1000 free tickets to the charity, who will in turn give these to members & ex-members of the Armed Forces, for use at any of the home games played at the Brickfields this coming season. The aim of the Tickets for Troops charity is to...
Read more ›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...
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| TEAM | P | W | D | L | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosslyn Park | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Rams | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Sale FC | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Cinderford | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| Darlington Mowden Park | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Bishops Stortford | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| Plymouth Albion | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Taunton Titans | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Chinnor | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Leeds Tykes | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Birmingham Moseley | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Esher | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Hull | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
