As we look forward to the new season, we invite our players (past and present), members and the community to come to our President’s Day! We are taking this opportunity to bring the whole club together and show how we have continued to grow since rising from the ashes in 2017. The day will…
The coaching and management team have the pleasure in announcing that Luke Badland has been appointed Erdington Rugby Club’s captain of the senior team for the forthcoming season. Luke has played for the club for a number of years and, whilst he is still only young in age, he brings an old and wise head…
My Erdington player career started around 1996 purely by accident. I hadn’t long left the army and was in the Bambury pub on a Saturday afternoon with a few Erdington players, Manny and Bostock (yeah drinking before a game!) They dragged me along to watch and then to my downfall I bumped into Phil Spencer.…
We are proud to announce that we have been selected as one of the satellite hubs of Coventry Bears Rugby League Club. The Bears are the biggest rugby league club in the Midlands, and are teaming up with us, the Gallagher Rugby Club of The Season, to form The Griffins Rugby League Club. …
Many people are described as legends at sports clubs but when critically examined, don’t quite fit the bill. However, Graham Rhodes fits the description perfectly and can truly be described as a legend at Erdington Rugby Football Club. Graham John Rhodes first joined Erdington RFC in 1969 whilst he was still at Grammar School…
The next in our series of posts, thanking our great sponsors, who help us provide free rugby for the kids of inner city North Birmingham! In a previous post we thanked Hennessey’s Bar & Grill for their kind support, they are part of the huge Irish community in Birmingham, which we are proud to say…
Hello, I’m Sean Brady, but was known as Frank Brady and I played for Erdington Rugby Club in the early 1960s. I can’t remember the precise start date but I left the club at the end of the season in 1965. Before that, I played for the Solihull Rugby Club. I moved to London in September 1965 to start…
My playing career at Erdington Rugby club started in the Railway pub Curzon St. Nechells in 1994. I was having a few beers with my brother-in-law, John Bennett, at the Railway when the landlord of the pub came over and introduced himself to me. His name was Phil Spencer. I didn’t know that my brother-in-law had mentioned to Phil…
I played for Erdington Rugby Football Club (ERFC) from the age of 14 (and a bit) to 40 years of age. During the years that ERFC was ‘asleep’, I coached with Old Salts and worked with Greater Birmingham RFU till 2019. I was invited to run a coaching session at Erin Go Bragh Holly Lane,…
I was a player for over 20 years with the club before it closed in 2003 and a member of the team responsible for its reformation, I believe rugby is special and can help change the course of people lives for the better! And this is the reason that Changing Lives Through Rugby was formed.…