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• Gloucestershire’s top scratch event is as exciting as ever

  By  Clifton-People at 07:00 on 01/09/10

  

  HENBURY’S honours board underlines both the quality of previous winners and the half-century of history associated with the City & County of Bristol Championship that is being staged on Sunday. And few can argue with the assertion of captain David Windebank and president Eric Innes that this is the premier scratch competition in Gloucestershire. Bristol & Clifton’s Peter Green won the first event in 1960 and...

• Bristol have to move on from play-off agony

  By  Clifton-People at 07:00 on 28/08/10

  

  IT doesn’t seem all that long since we were mourning Bristol’s play-off final defeat to Exeter – yet here we are about to start a new season. Those players who are still with Bristol after one of the busiest summers I can remember for the club have to move on, live with the disappointment and put things right. This is a fresh start for Bristol with a revamped coaching set-up – and to have finally agreed...

• I feel back to my old self, declares injury-ravaged Ed

  By  Clifton-People at 07:00 on 26/08/10

  

  ED Barnes is ready to put 16 months of injury misery behind him when he returns to competitive action with Bristol this weekend. The 29-year-old last started a league match for the club in April 2009, when he ruptured his Achilles in a heavy Premiership defeat at Leicester. Barnes was closing in on a return to first-team action last September when he suffered an identical injury – and missed the whole of last season. But after...

• Glaze stars again, but it’s advantage Gwent

  By  Clifton-People at 07:00 on 25/08/10

  

  DESPITE another superb display by former county champion Ollie Glaze (The Kendleshire), Gloucestershire suffered their first Channel League defeat, beaten 8.5-6.5 by Gwent at Long Ashton. The result means the Welsh county are favourites to take the title. Gloucestershire must beat Glamorgan at Wenvoe Castle on Sunday and their final match of the season against Cornwall at Cotswold Hills on September 12, while Gwent just need to beat...

• Hull keen to increase his back-row options

  By  Clifton-People at 07:00 on 23/08/10

  

  PAUL Hull may look to add a back-row player to Bristol’s ranks before their Championship campaign kicks off against Rotherham this week. Bristol have only four back-rowers – Iain Grieve, Jamie Miller, Dan Montagu and James Merriman – on their books ahead of Sunday’s opener at the Memorial Stadium. Head coach Hull has been linked with a dual-registration move for Clifton No 8 Ben Purcell and a swoop for a pair...

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