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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

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

Glyn Hughes ready to help Moseley secure RFU Championship status

Young Moseley star Glyn Hughes hopes to be able to play at Billesley Common for the rest of the Championship campaign.Read

RFU Championship: Moseley 32 Leeds Carnegie 42

In boxing terms this was a bout that matched a powerful, bludgeoning heavyweight against an agile, dancing light-heavyweight. History tells us the smaller men don’t usually fare well.Read

Moseley RFC's perennial struggle to find consistency

As they basked in the surprisingly warm glow of Saturday’s victory over London Welsh, a warmth that had everything to do with the splendid result and little to do with the unseasonably benign December temperatures, both Kevin Maggs and Richard Stott cast an eye to the near future.Read

Rugby Notes: Worcester Warriors desperate for some bite

A few weeks ago Worcester’s defence coach, Phil Larder, told me rugby coaches are employed not so much in professional sport as the ‘improvement industry’Read

Stourbridge and Birmingham & Solihull Bees embroiled in battle for safety

Bees and Stourbridge face each other on Saturday week in a match that will see one set of New Year hopes severely dented and another given a timely impetus.Read

RFU Championship: London Welsh 7 Moseley 10

Just when you think it's safe to stop believing and start planning a few spring afternoons in south west regions of London and England, Kevin Maggs' Moseley go and do something splendid againRead

Review of 2011 for Worcester Warriors, Moseley and Birmingham & Solihull

The past twelve months have been pivotal ones in the history of rugby in the West Midlands. Post rugby correspondent Brian Dick looks at the days that shaped the past year and quite probably the ones to come, too.Read

RFU National League One: Cinderford 40 Birmingham & Solihull 0

When Russell Earnshaw sits down to write his Christmas list, an injury-free squad is surely going to be at the top. Read

British & Irish Cup: Moseley 0 Munster 29

For Moseley a match without points but not quite a match without point. Not quite.Read

Carter confident of Moseley's chances in play-offs

Moseley full-back Anthony Carter believes his side are better equipped to deal with the Championship run in and end-of-season play-offs than they were 12 months ago.Read

It's Mission Possible for Moseley RFC

Moseley’s comprehensive victory over Esher last weekend was important in many ways, not least because it was their first success away in the league this season but it was also the first time they have put together back-to-back wins.Read

Rugby Notes: Matt Long urges Birmingham & Solihull Bees to persevere

Matt Long came over all Curtis Mayfield when he urged his bee-leaguered team-mates to keep on keeping on.Read

RFU Championship: Esher 14 Moseley 29

MOSELEY’S march up the Championship table took two steps forward at Molesey Road with an impressive dismissal of beleaguered Esher.Read

Phil Larder slams England's Rugby World Cup campaign

Phil Larder, one of the few British coaches to have won a Rugby World Cup and the man who has turned Worcester Warriors into one of the Premiership’s toughest nuts, has lambasted the England shambles at the World Cup.Read

Position switch pays off for Moseley coach Kevin Maggs

What originally looked like a numerical anomaly might actually turn out to be a stroke of genius if Kevin Maggs’ decision to swap Chevvy Pennycook and Michael Ellery continues to pay dividends.Read