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RFU National League One: Barking 33 Birmingham & Solihull 29

Birmingham & Solihull were forced to settle for two bonus points at Barking despite matching their opponents for much of the match. Read

Comment: Martin Johnson is not English rugby's most pressing issue

Unfortunately the current crisis – don’t be drawn into thinking it’s anything else – engulfing the English national rugby team is likely to be simplified into a single, simplistic question of whether Martin Johnson should be sacked.Read

RFU Championship: Moseley 16 London Welsh 41

By the time he left Billesley Common on Saturday evening Kevin Maggs must have had enough Welsh triumphalism to last a lifetime.Read

Chevvy Pennycook impressed with the changes at Moseley

Moseley hope to have Chevvy Pennycook back leading by word and deed this weekend as they seek to bounce back from last Sunday’s disappointment at London Scottish.Read

Moseley working on solving the first half blues

Kevin Maggs hopes to have this week found an antidote to the syndrome that renders his Moseley side incapable and indomitable in equal measure.Read

Rugby Notes: Oval ball game not immune to Tevez-type sulks

If you excuse the drunken boorishness and excessive nudity, the conduct of rugby union players has always tended to compare well with that of their association footballing cousins.Read

Watch: Worcester Warriors' Richard Hill on Shaun Perry injury

Worcester Warriors scrum half Shaun Perry is facing six months out with cruciate ligament injury. We speak to Worcester Warriors head coach Richard Hill.Read

Moseley Rugby Round Up: The latest from Billesley Common as Maggs's men prepare for London Welsh

Rugby correspondent Brian Dick takes a look at where things went wrong against London Scottish last week and how Moseley have upped their training ahead of the London Wlesh fixture.Read

Tributes for former North Midlands referee John Burgum

North Midlands RFU president Paul Kaminski has led the tributes to retired referee John Burgum, one of the leading officials in the country in the 1960s, who died on October 1 aged 86.Read

RFU National League One: Sedgley Park 55 Birmingham & Solihull 34

RFU National League One: Sedgley Park 55 Birmingham & Solihull 34Read

RFU Championship: London Scottish 37 Moseley 21

Five games into their season Moseley now have all the evidence they need about the likely direction of their campaign.Read

Aviva Premiership: Worcester Warriors 12 Northampton Saints 3

What Worcester’s second win of the season lacked in beauty, which was an awful lot, more than made up for in significance as Richard Hill’s men edged a Premiership encounter that had all the tension of a penalty shoot-out.Read

Russell Earnshaw back in charge of Birmingham & Solihull

Bees director of rugby Russell Earnshaw must have had to go through serious negotiations to be allowed back in to Damson Park for last Saturday’s derby with Stourbridge.Read

Dudley Kingswinford won't give up on chase for National Three Midlands honours

The certainty Dudley Kingswinford have already been beaten to the National Three Midlands title has not diminished the optimism at Heathbrook.Read

Rugby notes: England rugby stars now in same public territory as footballers

Now the Famous Flying Dwarfs of Queenstown have regained their equilibrium, England’s players have returned to more sober pastimes and their campaign is finally about to finish with the sport’s minor nations, the time is right to reflect on the infamous events of Altitude Bar.Read

Moseley Rugby Round Up: Highlights from Esher victory and Mike Ellery's post-match verdict

Brian Dick and Paul Bradley bring you analysis and highlights of Moseley's 35 - 21 victory over Esher. Read

Moseley colleagues praise development of No.8 Michael Ellery

The Michael Ellery Appreciation Society swelled by two this week as Moseley colleagues Sam Brown and Craig West expressed their admiration for the youngster’s outstanding start to the season.Read

RFU Championship: Moseley 35 Esher 21

FOR all the noughts, crosses and lines of running daubed over your average encyclopaedic play-book, rugby remains a relatively simple game.Read

Cup shocks in rugby now a thing of the past

With the advent of the British & Irish Cup, which began at rugby grounds around the country this week and where the interest levels varied from none to mild curiosity, it is virtually impossible not to think back to a happier time.Read

Sam Brown happy with attacking role handed to him at Moseley

Despite his genial nature and undoubted prowess as a scrum-half, Sam Brown’s introduction to life at Billesley Common was far from welcoming.Read