The men’s section is gearing up for a huge 2025/26 season. With two league teams taking the field, we asked section captain Kai Roper-Blackman for his thoughts on the competition coming up. How are you feeling about the 2025/26 season? “I’m incredibly excited for the season ahead. We have the largest squad we’ve had in many years, with a huge …
Looking forward to the new season? So are we! And we’re very happy that, in partnership with adidas and Tacklebag, we have worked to bring our members and supporters new kit and sportswear for 2025-26. We hope that the first few items available on the website will give you a few ideas of what’s to come (https://www.tacklebag.co.uk/blackheath-rugby) — more products and …
Pre-season begins for the Men’s Section on Wednesday 16th July. Foundations are to be laid for the season ahead where the section will field two league teams for the first time in a decade. Speaking on the aims of pre-season training, assistant coach Conor Mitchell says “First and foremost we want to get the boys back to match fitness. That …
Friday evening saw the men’s social section out at Blackheath Halls for a production of Grease. The unusual sight of 30 players and partners at a musical was in support of Alex Laurenti, theatre student and player for the section. Laurenti stars as Danny Zuccho in Grease Laurenti, a former Leicester Tigers academy player, won the newcomer of the year …
Bandits 35-51 England Deaf While much of the Club’s attention was on the games in Richmond on Saturday, England men’s and women’s Deaf teams visited Well Hall, where they had been scheduled to play against Wales’s corresponding teams. With Wales unable to fulfil the fixtures, Blackheath were invited to step in. A ‘Barbarians’ Women’s team built around the Club Women, …
It’s official! It has been confirmed that, after two years of rebuilding and coming together as a squad, the Blackheath Bandits will be playing in Kent Counties 5 next season. A huge thank you to everyone who’s pulled on a Club shirt these past two years to get us to this point, to all our friends and families who’ve put …
We would like to congratulate Alex Ringshall for making the England Universities Rugby League squad for the 2025 campaign. Alex is currently at Loughborough University, but is a Club man through and through, having played with Blackheath Minis, Juniors, Colts, Bandits and Club XV, as well as being part of the Kent U20s squad. We wish Alex the very best …
The expression Friday Night Lights usually evokes thoughts of running rugby on a dry, still night and an occasion to be remembered but this game will be long remembered for very different reasons. It was wet, windy and cold, and the well used pitch was significantly more mud than grass. What little grass that had been left on the pitch …
The Bandits league game was called off at the weekend as the opposition was unable to field a side, as the struggles of grassroots rugby but a home friendly was hastily arranged with Belsize Park. Belsize, like Club, seems to be one of the few clubs with strong adult playing numbers as it was their 5th XV, with a smattering …
Bandits Extra XV v Bromley 3s 1st February 2025 The men’s social section was able to field two sides for the first time in almost a decade, and the ‘Bandits Extra XV’ welcomed Bromley 3s to the Utilita. A new-look Bandits side featuring two debutants as well as a couple of old friends managed to string together a cohesive …
