Nottingham Rugby

Jake Farnworth has committed to Nottingham Rugby for a further season. He started his rugby career at Leicester Tigers aged 16. He was there for five years and made several appearances in the A-league, Premiership Sevens and his Premiership debut against London Welsh.  The 25-year-old is a product of the successful Nottingham Trent University Rugby…

Nottingham Corsairs have confirmed their Senior Coaching Team Nottingham Rugby’s Josh Poullet and Alex Dolly will take charge of Corsairs’ senior team for the 2020/21 season. Poullet has been involved as a coach with Corsairs for a number of years, and Alex Dolly has previous coaching experience with the Nottingham Rugby academy. Together, the coaching…

Nottingham Rugby has teamed up with The Harper Recruitment Group to support the Work • Train • Play programme ahead of next season. The Nottingham Rugby Work • Train • Play scheme is designed to allow Championship and Premiership level players the opportunity to play in the second tier of English rugby whilst also pursuing…

Tighthead Prop Oisin Heffernan has committed to Nottingham Rugby for a further season. The 25-year old progressed through the Leinster Rugby Academy, where he was selected to represent the Ireland U20s for two seasons in the U20 Six Nations and Junior World Cup making 20 caps over that period for his country. Since joining Nottingham…

Winger Jack Spittle has joined Doncaster Knights. Spittle made 14 appearances for the Green and Whites last season, scoring ten tries. Overall, during his time at The Bay, he has 36 appearances, scoring 18 tries along the way. The 25-year-old was a product of the successful Nottingham Trent University rugby union programme. He saw his…

David Williams will join Leicester Tigers on-loan. Williams, a Tigers Academy graduate, represented the club in the ‘A’ League and Premiership Rugby Sevens before spending a season in the Welsh Premiership with Ebbw Vale in 2015. The Leicester local joined Nottingham in 2016 and has scored more than 25 tries in more than 50 appearances…

Willie Ryan has joined the Green and Whites for the 2020/21 season. Ryan started his career at Cork Constitution and UCC (University College Cork) Rugby before making the move to Rotherham Titans. At the Clifton Lane outfit, Ryan made 30 appearances over two seasons, helping the side to consecutive fourth-placed Championship finishes. At the beginning…

Charlie Thacker and Matt Riddington have signed up ahead of the 2020/21 season. Centre, Thacker, joins after most-recently playing for Leicester Tigers where he made his debut back 2014. He scored his first try for the club on 4 November 2017 against Gloucester again in the Anglo-Welsh Cup and was named as the fans’ man…

Nottingham Rugby is saddened to learn of the passing of former-player Nick Asquith. Born in 1951, Beckenham, Kent, Asquith went on to play over 100 games for the Green and Whites from 1978. He made his debut against Bristol on 30th September 1978 at the Memorial Ground, then followed by his 101st appearance vs Rugby…

Toby Williams, Owen Hills and Aniseko Sio have all signed contracts for the 2020/2021 season with Nottingham Rugby. Toby Williams, a powerful ball carrying loosehead prop has joined from Rotherham Titans. He has previously played at Doncaster. Owen Hills joins from Leicester Tigers where he graduated from their academy. The loosehead prop made his first…