Updated 4:42am 24 May 2013

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Brian Dick

Brian Dick

Brian Dick selects his Birmingham Post XV of the season

The growing disparity in league status between the West Midlands’ leading rugby clubs has made setting the parameters for this year’s Birmingham Post Midlands XV a difficult exercise.Read

Moseley on the march in style thanks to Kevin Maggs

Only the passage of time will determine whether the 2011-12 Championship season turned out to be a pivotal one in club history or just the latest chapter in Moseley’s never-ending battle to retain their second tier status.Read

Michael Ellery enjoys going out at the top with Moseley

It wasn’t exactly one of his best, nor delivered in the happiest of circumstances but Michael Ellery still had cause to enjoy the try that saw him finish as Moseley’s leading scorer.Read

Sutton Coldfield, Bournville and Handsworth look to end season with silverware

Sutton Coldfield go in search of an unlikely double when they play rampant Rugby Lions in the final of the Warwickshire Cup on Saturday.Read

Kai Horstmann challenges Worcester Warriors to find consistency

Sixways stalwart Kai Horstmann, whose Worcester career ends with the final match of the season at Northampton next week, has challenged the men he leaves behind to become an established Premiership force.Read

RFU Championship Play-Offs: Plymouth Albion 54 Moseley 24

Moseley begged the indulgence of the supporters who made the 400-mile round trip to Brickfields by finishing their Championship programme in vaudevillian style.Read

Moseley's Michael Maltman prepares for new career in IRB Rugby Sevens

Michael Maltman’s teaching qualification will come in handy when he meets Moseley team-mate Mike Ellery on the IRB Sevens circuit.Read

Adam Caves reveals how 'video nasties' improved Moseley's game

Moseley Supporters’ Player of the Year Adam Caves has revealed how Kevin Maggs’s video nasties inspired the Red and Blacks to Championship safety.Read

Worcester Warriors lead training session at Upton-upon-Severn RFC

Worcester’s Alex Grove, Errie Claasens and Rob Wood were at Upton-upon-Severn Rugby Club last week to lead a specialist training session after the club was announced as a winner of the QBE Rugby Pro competition.Read

RFU Championship: Moseley 26 London Scottish 20

Moseley defeat London Scottish at the fourth time of askingRead

RFU Championship: Moseley 27 Esher 15

Three times now this season Moseley have run hard, straight and right over Esher, once more and the job will be done.Read

Aviva Premiership: Worcester Warriors 19 Newcastle Falcons 9

Worcester Warriors all but secure Aviva Premiership survival and must now look to be more adventurousRead

RFU Championship Play-Offs: London Scottish 23 Moseley 20

Battling Moseley take a point late on but lose a point even later.Read

National League One: Stourbridge 22 Rosslyn Park 25

It's a strange phenomenon, pressure. Too much of it and legs turn to jelly, hands to stone and brains disappear completely. Not enough and hearts forget to thump. Read

RFU Championship: Moseley 25 Plymouth Albion 17

The problem is when the wind doesn't blow down the Billesley Common pitch, it takes a while for the tactical mist to clear.Read

Survival crunchtime again as Moseley enter the relegation play-offs

The Rugby Football Union’s Darwinian policy of eradicating the weak reaches the beginning of the end for one unfortunate club this weekend as the Championship relegation play-offs kick-off.Read

Moseley RFC captain Andy Reay confident ahead of RFU Championship relegation battle

Moseley captain Andy Reay is calmness personified as his side face yet another relegation battle, starting at home to Plymouth tomorrow evening.Read

National League One: Birmingham & Solihull 16 Tynedale 14

IT says much about Birmingham & Solihull's parlous position that even a euphoric last-minute home win against higher-ranked opposition can be considered a set-back.Read

Worcester Warriors close to signing of Nikki Walker

Worcester Warriors are on the brink of making their most high profile signing of the season in the shape of Scotland wing Nikki Walker. Read

RFU Championship: Cornish Pirates 32 Moseley 17

FOR the third week running Moseley impressed against one of the Championship’s big hitters and for the third week running they went unrewarded.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.