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Birmingham and Solihull endure agony at the death of Championship campaign

A LAST-minute penalty denied relegated Birmingham & Solihull a memorable finish to life in the Championship.Read

Birmingham and Solihull Bees set for test of character at Esher

IF THE adage of finding out most about people in adversity is true Russell Earnshaw is set for a very revealing afternoon in Surrey tomorrow.Read

Birmingham & Solihull Bees: Earnshaw wants to put things right

RUSSELL Earnshaw hopes to remain in charge at Damson Park despite the club’s relegation from the RFU Championship.Read

B'Ham & Solihull 14 Moseley 23

THE spectre of relegation that has stalked Bees for the past 18 months finally caught up with them yesterday as yet more self-inflicted wounds cost them their place in the Championship.Read

Comment: Relegated Birmingham and Solihull Bees down but not out

RELEGATED Bees find themselves back in National One just two seasons after they escaped what is one of the most difficult divisions in rugby.Read

Russell Earnshaw laments Birmingham and Solihull Bees' lack of consistency

RUSSELL Earnshaw’s insistence his side had the capability to be a good one might have been familiar, but that does not make it wrong.Read

Birmingham & Solihull Bees: Russell Earnshaw demands bonus points wins

RUSSELL Earnshaw has demanded maximum points from his relegation haunted side’s final two play-off matches.Read

RFU Championship play-offs: Birmingham & Solihull 10 Plymouth Albion 32

Another deflating defeat has left Bees needing a play-off comeback only slightly less remarkable than the one which brought Russell Earnshaw out of his five-day retirement. Read

Plymouth Albion 35 Birmingham & Solihull 24: Match report

BIRMINGHAM-SOLIHULL slipped to the bottom of their relegation play-off pool with defeat at Brickfields last night.Read

POSSESSION may have become nine points of the law in modern day rugby, but Russell Earnshaw knows ball control as an end in itself won’t lift his Bees side to what could be a pivotal victory in Plymouth tonight.

The director of rugby was away on Sevens duty when his side last visited Brickfields in early December and, despite stringing together phase after directionless phase, they could not break through the home defence and ended up losing 27-0.Read

Claims Moseley didn't plan for Bees game rejected

IAN Smith has rejected Simon Hunt’s assertion that Moseley did not do their homework before Saturday’s important relegation play-off.Read

Moseley v Bees: Realism hangs in the air

REALISM was the order of Saturday evening, both in Dublin where England lost their Grand Slam, and at Billesley Common where both victor and vanquished were left with plenty to ponder.Read

Mis-firing Mark Woodrow not to blame for defeat insists Birmingham & Solihull chief

RUSSELL Earnshaw has exonerated Mark Woodrow’s errant goal-kicking after Bees’ deflating play-off defeat to Esher.Read

Birmingham and Solihull Bees 22 Esher 30

WITH the new four-team relegation play-off structure in just its second season there is not yet a body of quantitative data, nor indeed any consensus, about how best to approach the Group of Death.Read

Rugby Round Up: The players to watch in the Championship play-offs

Brian Dick and Christina Savvas take a lok at the key players for Worcester Warriors, Moseley RFC and Birmingham & Solihull Bees as they prepare for the Championship play-offs.Read

Russell Earnshaw hails benefits of full time approach for Birmingham and Solihull Bees

OPTIMISM abounds at Damson Park as Bees finalise preparations for their first game in the relegation play-offs.Read

Russell Earnshaw brings in Birmingham and Solihull Bees mind coach

RUSSELL Earnshaw’s bid to prepare Bees for the ravages of the relegation play-offs have compelled him bring in a sports psycho-physiologist.Read

Birmingham and Solihull Bees 19 Rotherham Titans 5

IT WAS mission accomplished for Bees who not only won their final British & Irish Cup match of the season but did so without picking up any serious injuries.Read

Ben Barkley looks to make an impression in Birmingham and Solihull Bees' British and Irish Cup match with Rotherham Titans

WITH the relegation play-offs just a fortnight away Bees centre Ben Barkley gets a final chance to impress against Rotherham on Sunday.Read

Russell Earnshaw hopes Birmingham and Solihull Bees' injuries relent

RUSSELL Earnshaw hopes the injury crisis that has hampered – but not derailed – his team’s Championship run-in will begin to ease before the play-offs.Read