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Brian Dick

Brian Dick

Aviva Premiership: Sale Sharks 15 Worcester Warriors 12

Cup ties are invariably settled by penalty shoot-outs and so it came to pass in Stockport where Worcester blinked first.Read

The best tries scored by Moseley, Worcester Warriors and Birmingham & Solihull Bees

Worcester return to the scene of the sublime at Sale tomorrow while Moseley must be salivating at the prospect of facing Bristol on Sunday, opponents against whom they have had considerable joy in recent seasons.Read

Worcester Warriors centre Dale Rasmussen looks forward to Premiership run-in

Worcester resume their Premiership campaign at Sale Sharks this weekend with an unusually high level of optimism.Read

Rugby Notes: Scotland v England Calcutta Cup clash highlights deficiencies

Stuart Lancaster celebrated the only try of last weekend’s Calcutta Cup match with such reckless abandon he smacked his hand straight into the booth ceiling and suffered a cut finger that required a couple of stitches.Read

LV= Cup: Worcester Warriors 24 Ospreys 14

Worcester Warriors braved Arctic conditions and a determined Ospreys side to close their LV= Cup campaign with a hard-fought victory.Read

LV= Cup: Worcester Warriors 24 Ospreys 14

For the most part the lot of the average professional rugby thoroughbred is an enviable one. Not on Saturday.Read

Stuart Lancaster's new England ready for RBS Six Nations opener at Murrayfield

There is not thought to be any truth in the rumour that the Leeds tourist board are considering suing England coach Stuart Lancaster for comments he made which damaged the city’s public image.Read

Kevin Maggs warns Declan Kidney not to lose Ireland's golden generation

Kevin Maggs has warned Declan Kidney not to dispose of Ireland’s older players for the RBS Six Nations.Read

Alex Grove tells Scotland to expect the unexpected in Calcutta Cup

Alex Grove believes Scotland will be taking a step into the unknown when they face England at Murrayfield on Saturday.Read

National League One: Stourbridge 19 Ealing 31

Anger in Blackheath, bemusement against Bees, belated pride at Fylde and just the empty feeling of disappointment at home to Ealing. Stourbridge’s emotional rollercoaster plumbed a familiar depth on Saturday.Read

RFU Championship: Moseley 9 Plymouth Albion 3

A triumph for style over substance can never be a bad thing, especially when Moseley are going where they are going in the coming months.Read

National League One: Birmingham & Solihull 15 Sedgley Tigers 32

Just as last week's victory over Stourbridge had not been an entirely positive experience, neither was Saturday's defeat to Sedgley Park wholly negative.Read

Player care in rugby spotlight after Selorm Kuadey tragedy

Just a few months after the death of former Wales football manager Gary Speed the recent and tragic case of Selorm Kuadey has brought back into focus the issue of mental health in sport.Read

Relegation looming large at Stourbridge

If last weekend’s West Midlands derby offered few answers for victors Birmingham & Solihull, it definitely provided some for Stourbridge, none of which were especially palatable.Read

North Midlands RFU stalwart Peter Grace to step down from RFU Council role

The oldest member of the RFU Council and a stalwart of North Midlands rugby Peter Grace, has announced he will not be seeking re-election as the council’s ‘Father of the House’.Read

Rugby Notes: Stuart Lancaster's England lacks a class centre

Given the unanimously positive reaction to the new England Elite Player Squad I can’t help feeling a little isolated in admitting Stuart Lancaster’s selections left me feeling under whelmed.Read

National League One: Stourbridge 17 Birmingham and Solihull Bees 18

This was a victory that sustains Birmingham & Solihull's hope and as their arch-positivist player-coach Russell Earnshaw will tell you 'Where there's hope, there's life'.Read

Rugby Notes: RFU clubs have to learn to live within their means

While the darker side of human nature might lead some in the Championship to view Plymouth Albion’s financial troubles as offering a potential reprieve from a tortuous relegation battle, it would take a pretty twisted individual to wish ill on such a proud oval-ball institution.Read

Worcester Warriors aiming to gatecrash the Premiership's top six

Ever since 2004, when Worcester stepped blinking into the sunlight that is the Premiership, the upper half of English rugby’s top flight has remained a party to which Warriors have not been invited. Read

Mark Woodrow back at Birmingham & Solihull Bees in time to face old club Stourbridge

The curious bounce of rugby’s ball of fate has not only brought Mark Woodrow back to Birmingham & Solihull for a fourth stint at the club, but this weekend also pits him against his previous employers.Read

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Brian has been Birmingham Post's rugby union correspondent for the last three years and also writes on a wide range of topics including tennis, athletics and football. In 2006 he was named Midlands Sports Journalist of the Year and he has also been recognised by the Warwickshire Lawn Tennis Association.