Rugby 7’s Match Report

London Floodlit 7s  Almost normality!  The outside bar had run out of beer by 7 pm and the queue for inside stretched out of the door and mingled with those trying to get to the burger bar. Nevertheless, the weather kept fine, there was a decent-sized crowd, and all at Rosslyn Park deserve credit for gathering together twelve sides and …

2020 SEES THE BANDITS BACK ON TOP

2020 – What a year… The bandits won their second league title in 2 years at the end of a slightly shortened year – cheers COVID! Back to training a few weeks later than normal for preseason, for the season that looked like it would never come around. The link between bandits and the junior section of the club is …

Blackheath 19 Bishop’s Stortford 14

A match, the pattern of which, very much dictated by the filthy conditions that swept across south-east England on this miserable afternoon. For much of the contest Bishop’s Stortford held sway, while Blackheath’s discipline crumbled and, easing their way back from an early deficit, looked like they might make it a hat-trick of victories in only their third visit to …

Esher 7 Blackheath 36

Opening day bonus for Blackheath Not the most well-oiled performance but Blackheath will, nevertheless, be pleased with an opening day bonus point win from a venue where they’ve frequently come unstuck.   Indeed, prior to this game, Molesey Road had seen just two Blackheath wins in ten visits, and was the setting where the Club’s promising start to their 2017/18 …

Blackheath 13 Esher 6

Off the mark! A hard-fought victory for Blackheath to wipe away the memory of their dismal performance at Hartpury College a week ago, but perhaps more significantly in the long-run, to mark a new era for the Club in the surrounds of their Well Hall home. Starting with far greater purpose and intensity than they’d shown at any stage in …