PLYMOUTH Albion’s new owners have sensationally shown the door to director of rugby Graham Dawe. The former England hooker has revealed they asked him to stand down yesterday with immediate effect. It means he won’t be in charge for Saturday’s final home match of a successful season on the field. Albion have won 20 of … Continue reading
NEARLY 5,000 runners completed the Plymouth Half Marathon on Sunday. On a glorious day, Taunton’s Phil Burdon was first home in a time of one hour and 11.17 minutes. Second was Sam Pictor in 11:11.32, with Wells’ Phil Bridge third in 1:11.37. Last year’s winner and city teacher Kairn Stone was fourth in 1:11.57, Exeter … Continue reading
IVYBRIDGE made it three wins in a row with a hard-earned 23-19 success over relegation-threatening Old Centralians at Cross-in-Hand on Saturday. The Gloucestershire-based side arrived in Devon really needing the win to keep them clear of Newton Abbot, who sit in the final relegation spot. Ivybridge’s victory has given their county rivals, Newton Abbot, renewed … Continue reading
GRAHAM DAWE once again praised Plymouth Albion’s team spirit after they managed to claim a 28-24 win at Loughborough Students on Saturday, despite finishing the match with 12 players. Albion had Nile Dacres, Matt Shepherd and Billy Seale sin-binned in the final 10 minutes as the home side turned on the pressure. But somehow Plymouth … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander star Ben Proud can look forward to this summer’s Olympic Games after retaining his British 50m freestyle title in Glasgow and setting a new national record on the way. Proud stormed to a new British record time of 21.65 seconds in the heats before winning the final in 21.73, which was under the … Continue reading
LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS 24 PLYMOUTH ALBION 28 PLYMOUTH Albion showed incredible character to somehow survive with 12 men in the final few minutes at Loughborough to claim an impressive 20th win of the season. Graham Dawe’s young side were 25-10 up early in the second half after Robin Wedlake (2) and Cameron Setter scored tries. But … Continue reading
TOM DALEY and Dan Goodfellow continued their promising synchro partnership with a silver medal at the FINA World Series event in Windsor, Canada. The duo have only been competing together a couple of months but have already won a World Cup medal and now claimed three World Series podium finishes. They also won a silver … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH DEVILS 41 RYE HOUSE 51 PLYMOUTH Devils returned to action in a keenly contested League Cup match against Rye House at the St Boniface Arena on Friday evening. Although the Devils were beaten 51-41, there were only six points separating the sides as they went into the final three heats. For some of the Plymouth … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Tonia Couch claimed a third successive FINA World Series synchro medal. Couch and her new synchro partner Lois Toulson, of Leeds, won bronze at the third leg of the series in Windsor, Canada. The pair had already claimed a silver in Beijing and bronze in Dubai. China’s Ruolin Chen and Huixia Liu won … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s butterfly specialists stole the show on the fourth day of the British Championships in Glasgow. Antony James looked like he was going to claim victory in the men’s open 100m butterfly final but was just touched out at the finish by James Guy. Guy touched in a new personal best time of 52.15 … Continue reading