It’s been a hellish month for stricken Beverley rugby star Craig Hancock – but the local lad is still smiling and full of optimism. Craig, 25, of Chestnut Drive, Beverley, suffered an horrific broken leg in the dying seconds of Beverley ARLFC’s Ray Speckman Cup Final victory over Cottingham Tigers last month. Two weeks spent in hospital, five operations, a skin graft and weeks of pain and discomfort have followed…
Plenty of good rugby but overall a strange game. For Beverley RUFC it was a curate’s egg performance – good and bad in about equal measure. For twenty five minutes they played some cracking stuff, were leading 17-5, and looked as though they would romp away with it. Then unaccountably it all went wrong and after that, apart from the last ten minutes, all the good rugby came from Darlington…
Beverley RUFC rounded off their club’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations with a fine win in the spring sunshine at Beaver Park. It was hard and physical but always an enjoyable game to watch. From the early stages a victory for Beverley RUFC always looked probable but for half an hour they made heavy weather of it and at the interval all they had to show for their domination was a single…
Beverley RUFC face West Hartlepool in what is their first home game since 6 February and will be hoping to return to winning ways. West have been plagued by relegation worries all season and have languished in the bottom three for most of the season. The Beavers won the fixture in Hartlepool by 39 points to 5 back in early December and will be keen to repeat that performance on…
Over zealous brandishing of yellow cards spoilt what would have been a cracking game at Rossendale. Ironically it was a match played throughout in a good spirit with both sides intent on fast open rugby. Almost certainly it would have been a tight contest between two sides which before the rash of the yellow carding looked to be evenly matched and both up for the win. Beverley RUFC took the…
This was another disappointing day for Beverley RUFC who were well beaten for the second week running by a side battling to avoid relegation. After a fine run in mid season they look for the moment to have rather lost their way; in fact an unknowing spectator today would scarcely have guessed that of the two sides it was Rochdale who were the relegation threatened side. They went into this…
This was a real thriller with the result in doubt until the very end. Fixtures between these two sides invariably produce fast enjoyable encounters and this was no exception. Their two games this season have yielded a total of 88 points with only a margin of two points difference between the sides. Today it was once again a nail-biting affair in which Penrith snatched victory with a penalty at the…
A thrilling game with the result in doubt until the dying minutes. With two evenly matched sides, lying third and fifth in the table, it was always going to be a tight encounter. On the day Beverley RUFC took their chances better and just about deserved the win. In the gloomy light and on a heavy pitch this might have been expected to be a forward slog in the mud. …
Beverley RUFC were back playing at their home ground Beaver Park after the long lay off, a good crowd turned out to see the match as Beverley hosted Middlesbrough RUFC in the league. Full Match Report – Beverley 14 Middlesbrough 13 Not a match that will linger long in anybody’s memory but in the end a satisfactory day for Beverley who ground out a narrow victory to move up to…
Looking anything but a side that had not played for six weeks Beverley RUFC cruised to a comfortable victory over a disappointing Sheffield Tigers to maintain their position in the upper half of League Three North. Sheffield were a pale shadow of the side that had played so impressively earlier in the season at Beaver Park and for much of the game Beverley RUFC needed merely to sit back and…
Beverley RUFC’s unbeaten run ended in disappointing fashion with a lacklustre defeat loosing 19 – 10 at Birkenhead Park who now move above them in the table. This was just one of those days for Beverley RUFC whose game was error-strewn from start to finish. After their recent good form they were probably due for an off-day and this was certainly it. They were under pressure from the start as…
West Hartlepool 5 Beverley RUFC 39 Beverley RUFC ended the first half of the league season in fine style with a comprehensive victory over bottom placed West Hartlepool. This fixture in the past has often proved to be something of a banana skin for Beverley RUFC. Not this time. They played some scintillating rugby and romped home to move up to sixth in the table. Some of their rugby here…
Action from the rugby match between Beverley RUFC and Stockport tha was played at Beaver Park in Beverley that Bevelrey won 24 points to 19. (full match report to Below) In a thrilling game, handled superbly by referee Karl Kirkpatrick, Beverley RUFC achieved their best result of the season in defeating second placed Stockport. The fact that the Beverley RUFC pack was heavily out-muscled all afternoon made the performance all…
Beverley RUFC got back to winning ways beating Rochdale RFC 21 – 18 at Beaver Park. Phil Duboulay was the hero of for Beverley RUFC with the last kick of the match converting a penalty. Match Report: Beverley RUFC snatched victory at the death after a closely fought game between two sides anxious to improve their league position. There was not much memorable rugby on view but both teams tried…
Penrith and Beverley RUFC battled out a 19 – 19 draw on Saturday in a thrilling match and a grandstand finish. Beverley looked to have won it with a try in the dying seconds but the conversion from in front of the posts went agonisingly wide leaving the game ending in a draw. Taking the afternoon as a whole it was probably a fair result. Both teams had contributed to…
This was more like it. Although they went down narrowly to high flying Middlesbrough Beverley RUFC were almost back to their best and were desperately unlucky not to win this match. Not many teams get any change out of a visit to Acklam Park but Beverley RUFC played enough good rugby here to have won this game comfortably. The home side were seldom in the Beverley RUFC 22 whereas Beverley…
A disappointing afternoon all round, for Beverley at any rate. It was a lovely autumn day with perfect playing conditions but sadly we got very little flowing rugby and for eighty minutes almost nothing but relentless grinding away by the Tigers’ forwards at the Beverley line. For the whole game the Beverley pack was heavily outgunned and pushed all over the place but they gave it everything in defence and…
Darlington Mowden Park 36 Beverley 21 – After a disastrous first twenty minutes which left them trailing 21-5 Beverley steadily clawed their way back to 21-all only to succumb to two late tries and go down to a convincing defeat. It was a strange game. There was plenty of good rugby on view but for Beverley also plenty of frustration. Time and again when they should have kept the ball…