Ross Tucknott: Cornwall, Sport & All Sorts

Sedgley Park make their first trip to the Recreation Ground today still not mathematically safe from relegation, and will be looking to make Cornwall a happy hunting ground this season after stealing four points from Polson Bridge earlier in the season. After flirting with the drop in previous seasons, the Tigers finally descended from National [...]

Most teams gaining promotion to National One have a honeymoon season then struggle the second time around. Bucking that trend, Tynedale’s second season at this level has been every bit as successful as their first, with the northern outfit currently scrapping it out with Launceston for third place in the league after finishing fourth last [...]

Cinderford make their first visit across the Tamar this season knowing that a win over Redruth will push them tantalisingly close to safety in the battle to avoid the third relegation place. Victory could potentially lift them another another three places into 9th, possibly overtaking the Reds on games won with a game in hand [...]

Redruth ensured that they returned home from their northern double-header with five league points with a dominant second-half performance over a Manchester side still looking for their first league points of the season. Manchester were determined to play good rugby and demonstrate the huge improvements that their game has undergone from the darks days of [...]

Wharfedale return to the Recreation Ground today seeking to repeat their slender, last-gasp 14-15 victory here last season in a result which put the first nail into the Reds’ title hopes after Launceston had closed the coffin door the weekend before. Currently lying in fifth place in the table, a defeat today could see the [...]

Yo-yoing between leagues is something usually associated (and resented) between the Premiership and the Championship, but Nuneaton are establishing a great claim to be the first National League yo-yo team. First winning promotion to this league in 2004, they were relegated in 2006, promoted in 2007, relegated in 2008 only to win back promotion again [...]

In a season where the top three of Esher, Cambridge and London Scottish are involved in their own private promotion tussle, Launceston visit the Recreation Ground today as the best of the rest, wondering if they might be able to pick off a couple of the leaders before the end of April. Last season’s aim [...]

The history books at Blackheath are long, and so far the Club are having a season that they’ll hope will get lost within those books rather than stand out for all the wrong reasons. Last season many felt that they had underperformed by finishing sixth in rugby’s National Two; this season such a lofty position [...]

Newbury are the penultimate relegated side to visit the Recreation Ground this year, finally biting the bullet and coming down a level after dicing with relegation in previous seasons, and after a rocky start to the season currently lie in 6th place in the table. However, if results go against them both here and elsewhere [...]

London Scottish understand the modern landscape of rugby like no other team. After throwing themselves headlong into the professional era, a financial collapse saw them having to start from scratch at the bottom of the rugby food chain in 1999. Since then the club have methodically worked their way up the leagues again, growing in [...]