Hartpury continued their very encouraging start to the new season with a hard-fought but deserved win, in front of another good crowd at the Alpas Arena. It was no try-fest, but it was always riveting viewing, particularly in the first half when both sides attacked with pace at every opportunity.…
Head Coach, Mark Cornwell, and his Hartpury squad might be forgiven for wondering which Coventry team will turn up at the Alpas Arena this Friday evening. Will it be the side that comfortably dispatched one of the pre-season favourites, Doncaster Knights, in their opening fixture? Or will it be the…
Hartpury fell short of the standards they had set themselves last week, in this disappointing defeat at Nottingham. A second-half recovery was not quite enough to undo the damage, frequently self-inflicted, in a below par first period. One bright spot was the performance of back row forward Harry Short. In…
Following a strong performance in last Saturday’s well-deserved win over the Cornish Pirates, Hartpury have the luxury of naming a relatively unchanged squad for tomorrow night’s trip to Nottingham Rugby. The exception is in the back row, where every single member of last week’s starting trio was forced off by…
