OF ALL the Birmingham & Solihull players making their final home appearances for the club against Blackheath tomorrow, Jack Preece’s swansong will be more noteworthy than most.Read
THE delicate sapling that is the green shoot of Bees’ recovery will be subjected to the blast furnace of a local derby tomorrow as Coventry arrive at Damson Park looking for the win that would effectively relegate their local rivals.Read
BEES remain on course for a remarkable great escape after two tries from winger Jon Lowden helped them secure a fourth successive victory in their seesaw defeat of Macclesfield.Read
WITH a minute to go in last Saturday’s incontinence-inducing clash with Tynedale, Birmingham & Solihull’s gallant rearguard action was nothing but a footnote to yet another season of disappointment.Read
NOBODY at Damson Park is talking about Great Escapes just yet but victory over Tynedale tomorrow might just have the marketing men, or man, looking for a pithy phrase with which to brand Bees’ unlikely rearguard action.Read
RUSSELL Earnshaw praised his young ’uns for their roles in Bees’ first victory in three matches, a result that keeps alive their faint chances of National One survival.Read
DESPITE their advancing years, in 43-year-old World Cup veteran Nglau Tau and 39-year-old former Newcastle Falcons star Matt Long, Birmingham & Solihull possess a pair of prop forwards as formidable as any outside the elite professional game.Read
RUSSELL Earnshaw admits his side take a step into the unknown tomorrow but also says he knows exactly what he wants out of the National One trip to Cambridge.Read
BEES captain Jack Preece believes there is more than five points resting on the outcome of his side’s crunch National One relegation battle with Barking.Read
