Richmond games – 8/9 March

Blackheath Rugby travels the short distance to the Athletic Ground this evening to play Richmond, under lights. KO 20:00. It’s the return game, in the season that we celebrate the 160th year of our two clubs meeting.  If you’re travelling to the game, don’t forget to have a look at Gary’s Guides for top tips (https://blackheathrugby.co.uk/garys-guides/).  The Club XV play …

Time to nominate!

All sports clubs survive thanks to the hard work of an army of volunteers, and Blackheath Rugby is no exception. Do you know someone who works hard to make sure rugby is played every week? Or is there a volunteer who goes that extra mile to help the Club outside of the playing? Nominate your volunteer of the year now …

6 weeks to go!

Just over six weeks to go until our ‘One Club One Day’ event, and this is the first of the weekly updates we’ll be giving you, each with some details of what’s being planned.  Starting at 14:00 (note the updated time), and going on until midnight, the day will start off downstairs, with a BBQ (children eat for free, adults …

This weekend’s rugby

Blackheath Rugby travels the short distance to Richmond for our two games this weekend. The first one is on Friday night, under lights, when our 1st XV play Richmond Men’s 1st XV at 20:00. Celebrating not only the 160th year of the two clubs coming together, but also International Women’s Day, which means that any woman can get in to …

Blackheath 34 Plymouth Albion 12

Jake Lloyd celebrated his 200th appearance in Club colours with his 107th try, as Blackheath claimed a third successive win for the first time in the current National League One campaign. It came at an important moment for the hosts too as, with 54 minutes played Albion, who started the day five places above Blackheath in the league table in …

Ffitch hits 25!

Tom Ffitch celebrates his 25th 1st XV game today, when he runs on to the pitch for the game against Plymouth Albion. Tom first put on Club colours in September 2022, when he notched up 19 points in the match against Rochford Hundred – a game we won 64-5. Congratulations on your quarter of a century, Tom! #blackheathrugby #blackheathfc #club …

Programme: 24 Feb 24 – Club v Plymouth Albion

Here’s the programme for this Saturday’s match against Plymouth Albion. https://www.zeeon.co.uk/gamehubplus/blackheath-rugby-v-plymouth-albion Along with the welcome from our President and Chairman, and standard match details, we are ‘In Conversation With…’ James Shanahan, there is the regular ‘Coxy’s Corner’ podcast, and an article about Plymouth from long term member and Times journalist, Patrick Kidd. It also, of course, celebrates Jake Lloyd’s 200th …

Lloyd – 200 not out!

Tomorrow we celebrate Jake Lloyd’s 200th appearance for the Blackheath 1st XV. He made his debut in February 2015 against Esher when he scored his first try for the Club and, in his 200 matches for Blackheath Rugby, Jake has scored 106 tries for the Club. In the curtailed season before lockdown, Jake notched up 19 tries and was the …

24 Feb 24: Club v Plymouth – Squad News

On to Round 20 of Nat1 and we welcome Plymouth Albion to The Utilita on Saturday, kicking off at 15:00. Entry is £15 (online tickets can be bought from Ticket Co) with under 16s FREE.  Here’s your squad: 15 HENNESSEY, Jake 14 LLOYD, Jake 13 BURCHAM, Markus (VC) 12 COOKE, Mark 11 DENHAM, Andrew 10 FFITCH, Tom 9 DALY, Jack …

Blackheath 22 Chinnor 17

An outstanding performance from Blackheath, halting a run which had seen four successive home defeats and, on top of the win at Cinderford the previous week, putting further daylight between the Club and the National League One drop zone. At the same time, the result ended a sequence of nine straight wins for league-leaders Chinnor, inflicting a significant blow to …