No academy contract. No overnight success. Just years of graft, a love for the game and a journey from grassroots rugby to Blackheath’s Champ side. Professional rugby has its established pathways. Academies, age-grade internationals, elite schools and carefully mapped-out routes to the top. But not every player follows the script. Archie Holland didn’t. The Blackheath loosehead grew up in Bromley, …
The People Who Make The Club No 1: Frank Turner, groundsman. Years with Blackheath: a local since birth but doing this job for 13 years. Anyone who drove past the Utilita during the summer will have been struck by the difference between Pitch 1, which looked as lush as ever, and the ones next door, which had turned beige in …
Blackheath Rugby is delighted to be included in this latest Rugby Club Magazine. Issue 102 has just been published* (read here), and you can find the Blackheath Rugby section from page 98 onwards, with the following people chatting about their reasons for being part of the Club family Rory O’Sullivan, President James Fleming, Chairman Russell Ticehurst, MD Tom Stradwick, Head …
Two exciting opportunities have arisen to join Blackheath Rugby ahead of the club’s return to Level Two rugby for the 2026/27 season. Following promotion to the RFU Champ Rugby for the first time since 1999, the club is looking to expand and strengthen its medical provision to support the demands of professional and semi-professional rugby. We are looking for – …
Yesterday may have been mostly about our promotion to the Champ, and more of that in days to come. But we were also able to celebrate an enormous achievement by an absolute club legend: Desmond Brett. Des first ran out in Club colours in January 2004, playing Dings Crusaders, and his last 1st XV game was away to DMP on …
Blackheath Rugby MD, Russell Ticehurst, is interviewed by Jon Newcombe in the RugbyPass. https://www.rugbypass.com/news/worlds-oldest-rugby-club-ready-to-write-new-chapter-in-its-history/ #blackheathrugby #blackheathfc #club #champplayoff #rugbyinterview @rugbypass
“It’s not often that try-scoring records are broken, much less by a hooker – but Blackheath’s Billy Harding has set two in one season. “The first came with three games left of the regular National League 1 calendar, when the captain crossed for his 43rd score to claim the new record for the most tries in a season in the …
Will Davis was interviewed by The Rugby Paper this weekend, about his life in rugby. A Bristolian boy, whose rugby journey started at Cleve RFC, Will played 1st XV rugby for Bristol Bears before moving to Ealing Trailfinders and playing more than 130 games for them. He also spent a couple of seasons at Northampton Saints. Will joined Blackheath as …
Rugby is a bit of a thing in the Holland household. Blackheath folk will have fond memories of Harry putting his body where few dare in the Club back-row between 2021 and 2023, while youngest sibling Matthew is with Saracens Academy, and Martha is doing great things at Hartpury College. Even father, Paul, has claim to an England U20s appearance …
Club Captain, Billy Harding, was interviewed by National League Rugby this week: he talks about the upcoming Rotherham game, 2025-26 so far, and his extraordinary ability to score tries this season! The article starts “According to England Rugby’s stats, Blackheath hooker Billy Harding is the top try-scorer across the 12 levels of English club rugby this season…”. Yes, you read …
