By the time that this week’s issue of the Friday Feeling is published Cornish Pirates and their supporters are likely to be well into the longest league journey in English rugby. All 375 miles of it. After 6 weeks of…
Tomorrow the Ravers will travel to Cambridge for round 16 of the Champ, buoyed by last week’s exhilarating 21-19 comeback win against Nottingham which pushed them up to eighth in the Champ table. The Ravers and the ‘Blood and Sand’…
After two successive wins against Ampthill and Doncaster Knights, last weekend the Ravers came off second best in their Champ fixture against Richmond. Caldy’s Head Coach Matt Cairns rued the dropped points. “The two-week break from the Champ didn’t do…
Tomorrow’s game away at Richmond’s famous Athletic Ground is the first of a crucial block of 3 games which could define the Ravers’ season. First up is the tricky away fixture at the RAG followed by a home match against…
With no 1st xv fixture tomorrow we again focus upon Caldy 2nd xv who will be travelling away to play Manchester 2nd xv in a Halbro Premier league fixture. Back in September Caldy 2nd xv won the home fixture 43-14.…
The halfway mark in this season’s Champ league competition provides a two-week break which may be enough recovery time to enable some of Caldy’s injured players to reappear for the second half of the season. The National League Rugby Discussion Forum more…
Images by Francesca Rowley The Caldy 1st xv squad travel to Doncaster for the first game of 2026 conscious that this may not be the ideal time to be playing the Knights. Caldy’s Head Coach Matt Cairns summed up the…
As the 2025 calendar comes to an end Caldy are looking to rekindle their start to the season. A run of losses has seen the Wirral side drift towards the bottom of the table and Head Coach Matt Cairns emphasized…
Caldy’s last Championship fixture before Christmas is tomorrow away against 6th placed Hartpury. The Wirral side are not expecting an early Christmas present to be gifted by the always athletic and well drilled side from Gloucester who remain the only…
Some two plus decades ago the last printed history of Caldy RFC was published by the venerable Roger Flashman. It was a brilliant read, with nearly 100 pages of anecdotes, photos and all the history of how this little village…