For many seasons we have compiled a list of new and departing players from clubs in Fylde's division. This summer's version is below. This is very partial as it has been compiled from local media & websites. We would be very grateful if anyone from other clubs could correct mistakes and add new information by e-mailing to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

It is particularly likely that the 'OUTS' are very incomplete.

We only want confirmed, authoritative news, not speculation - and in mid August we suspect that there's more business still to be done.

Other clubs are welcome to use this list as long as they acknowledge the source as Fylde RFC. It might be better to link to this page rather than cut and paste from it as we will continue to update it.

Allan Foster (Media & Communications)

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Latest update: 26th Aug, 16.00

BLACKHEATH

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England Counties fly-half Rory Teague (Cinderford), winger Stephen Hihetah (Barking), winger Liam Gibson (London Welsh).

Returning players include: prop Nick Winwood (travelling), hooker Jack Knight (Tonbridge Juddians), lock Ralf Cook (year in Afghanistan), lock Chris Speeing (finished university).

OUT
Winger James Stephenson (Bedford Blues), lock Neil Dewale (Kowloon HK), fly-half Sam Windsor (Queanbeyan, Au.), hooker Charlie Woodall (Old Elthamians), Marcus Burchum (Thurrock).
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BLAYDON

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Flanker  Nicola Nyemba (Harrogate), wing Tommy Banks (Westoe), wings/centres Nathan Bailey and Jamie Guy (also joining Newcastle Academy), backrower Jamie Hamilton. Newcastle Falcons DR players will include England U'18s Zach Kibirige, whilst Durham University student James Hallam and trialist Ollie Richards will also be at Crow Trees.

OUT:

John Embelton (Fylde), Marcus Broad (Sandbach), Niell Rowark (HK).

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CAMBRIDGE

IN
Returning: prop Tom Fidler (Ealing T), centre Mike Bellamy (Luton), hooker James Palmer (Northampton Saints).

New faces: utility back Michael Gillick (Moseley), prop Chris Cutts (Saint Nazaire), lock Ollie Marriott (Taunton), England U'18s wing Chris Lord (Northampton Saints Academy), England Counties U'20s scrum-half Ross Kevan (Old Northamptonians), prop Curtis Weaver (Northampton Saints Academy), backrow Joe Cousens (Leicester Tigers academy), lock Rob Conquest (Loughborough Students); on dual registration from Northampton Saints, winger Alex Wootton and backrow Jack Allcock.

OUT: Tom Jubb (Saracens). Lock Ian Ashcroft-Leigh & centre Toby Berridge on trial at Plymouth Albion in August.

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CINDERFORD

IN
Centre/wing Jack Adams (Moseley), fly-half Mark Davies (Bristol), hooker Stuart Bailey (Old Albanian), prop Leigh Green (Lydney), lock Dale Critchley (Pontypool), utility back Sheldon Stevens (Dings Crusaders), winger Sam Caven (Dings Crusaders),  winger Josh Hannam (Lydney), scrum-half Joe Hoyle (Matson), winger Dan Hewitt (Cheltenham North).

OUT
Fly-half Rory Teague (Blackheath), hooker Sam Wilkes (Moseley) & centre Simeon James. 
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COVENTRY

IN
Props Bronson Ross (Guernica Spain), Rob Dugard (Plymouth A.), Nico Steenkamp (Bedford Blues) & Danny Herriott (DR from Northampton Academy), hooker Greg Sammons (Mogliano, Italy), locks Danny Wright (Rugby Lions), Rob Walton (Coventry Nighthawks), Tom Poole (Northampton Old Scouts), Welsh international flanker Scott Morgan (Newport Gwent Dragons), flankers Liam Munro (Ampthill) & David McGregor (Plymouth), South African-born Portuguese international no 8 Jacques Le Roux, flanker Darrell Dyer & lock Alex Woolford (both DR from Northampton Saints).
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Centre Greg Evans (London Welsh), wingers Paul Jarvis (Hartpury College), Aaron Takarangi (Nuneaton) & Tom Harris (Otley), scrum-half Nathan Jones (Nottingham), fly-halves Cliffie Hodgson (Rotherham) & Lee Chapman (Nuneaton), full-back/wing Ben Toft (Doncaster).

OUT: Prop Adam Parkins (Moseley), fullback Mark O'Connor (Rainey Old Boys), Alex Nash (Sweden), Benj Deschartres (France).

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EALING TRAILFINDERS

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Prop Tim Tunnicliff (Old Colfeians); England Students & Canada U'20s hooker Richard Townsend (Hartpury College); England - Counties, Students, Universities, Colleges & U'18s lock Steve Pape (London Scottish); England U'20s lock Ben Thomas (London Scottish); lock Adam Soutar (Richmond); England Counties no 8 Sam Shires (Tynedale).

England U'20s Scrum-half Tom Parker (Barking); England Counties centre Andrew Henderson (Barking); centre Jake Hobbs (Luton); fly-half Jack Dever (University of Kent).

OUT

Prop Dinos Alexopolous (retired), prop Tom Fidler (Cambridge).

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ESHER

IN
New Head Coach is former British & Irish Lion Ollie Smith with his predecessor Mike Schmid becoming Chief Executive. Smith, the 29-year-old former British & Irish Lion, is battling back from a severe knee injury suffered in 2010 and still has hopes to resume his playing career with Harlequins. Smith will be assisted by former Saracens and Toulon lock Kris Chesney who joins as player-coach.

Props Cameron Zeiss (Leeds Carnegie) & Stewart Maguire (Connacht), flanker Ben Pritchard (London Irish), fly-half/centre Gareth Morgan (Carmarthen Quins).

OUT

Winger Phil Mackenzie (London Welsh), fly-half Mark Atkinson (Bedford Blues), lock Perry-John Parker (Edinburgh), back row Matt Symons (High School Old Boys NZ), Kevin Corrigan, Ignacio Elosu, Shawn Renwick, centre Geoff Griffiths (Blackheath), Jamie Mackenzie (Canada).
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FYLDE

IN
England Counties fly-half Chris Johnson (Huddersfield), Roger Banks (Fleetwood), Dan Birchall (Sedgley Park), England Counties U'20s Ben Vernon (Tarleton), Scott Barrow (Leeds Carnegie), Italian international Warren Spragg (Padova), Nathan Fowles (DR from Sale Sharks), Ryan de la Harpe (Moseley).

OUT
Fly-half Steve Collins (Sedgley Park), scrum-half Callum McShane (Sedgley Park), lock Grant Ferguson (retired), flanker Mark Stephenson (Fleetwood), centre Mike Waywell (Kowloon, HK), scrum-half Steve Depledge (Otley), fullback Gavin Cartmel (Penrith).

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS

IN
Locks Llyr Griffiths (Nuneaton) & Jack Collister (Caldy), James Ingle, scrum-half Jordan Brookes (Dudley K.).

OUT
Fly-half Sam Katz (Rosslyn Park), backrow Fred Silcock (Jersey), flanker Ollie Robinson (Moseley), centre Will Simpson (Doncaster Knights) & winger/fullback Dante Mama (Doncaster Knights), Last season's skipper & scrum-half Russell Weir has signed a full-time deal with Scotland Sevens.

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MACCLESFIELD

IN
Hooker Tom Cruse (Stockport & Sale Jets), Cheshire skipper & English Counties lock Dave Marwick (Stockport & Blaydon), backrowers Joe Clowes (Leicester Tigers Academy) & Kirk Robinson (Sandbach).

Scrum-halves Matthew Rhodes (Rotherham & Bradford/Bingley) & Andy Walker (Wilmslow), wing/fullbacks and goalkickers Matt King and Sam Marwick (Sale Jets & Myerscough College), centre Elliott Brierley (Rotherham) & winger David Hague (Durham University).

OUT
Fly-half Ross Winney (Burnage), centre Richard Hughes, scrum-half Charlie Mulchrone (Rotherham), fullback Fergus Mulchrone (Rotherham).
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OLD ALBANIAN

IN
Backrow Billy Johnson (Bedford Blues), Aaron MacDougall, Brett McNamee & Rob Schillaci (all Hertford), scrum-half Stefan Liebenberg (Bedford Blues).

OUT
Stuart Bailey (Cinderford), Jean-Baptiste Bruzulier (Aix-en_Provence)
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RICHMOND

IN

Hooker Tom Cobb (Barking), prop Anthony Kent (London Scottish); locks Charlie Lenygon (Taunton), Tom Burns (Barking) & Nick Blount (Chichester); backrowers Steve Wood (Barking), Gareth Bansor (Caldy), Julian Poff (Sidcup), Gareth Williams (Randwick, Au), Phil Davies (Barking), JP Attlee (Sale) & England Students skipper Tom Sargeant (Exeter Univ).

Scrum-half Jamie Gibbs (Ealing T); fly-half/fullback Will Nelson (Barking), fly-half Ryan de Franck (Galwegians); centres Martin Freeman (Southend), Toby Quarendon (Leeds Carnegie), Jamie Butler (Old Patesians); winger Ryan Brand (Hartpury), full-back Adam Gadsby (Leeds Univ.)

OUT

James Brooks (retired), Toby Henry (Barnes), lock Adam Soutar (Ealing T.), centre Greg Sullivan (Worthing), George Merrick (Harlequins DR to Esher), Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins DR to Esher).

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ROSSLYN PARK

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Forwards: Prop/hooker Will Bigley (Henley Hawks), from France, hooker Joe Clark (Plymouth), hooker Craig Fillier (Army), prop Josh Gilmartin (St Mary's College), England Counties lock Richard Boyle (Newcastle Falcons & Tynedale), lock Will Bowley (Toyota Shokki), lock Will Spencer (Bath), England U'20s No 8 Will Skuse (Bath), back row Tom Baldwin (Bath), flanker Darren Ball (Army), former England U'20s backrow Hugo Ellis (Gwent Dragons), flanker Matt Foulds (Christchurch NZ).

Backs: scrum-halves Matt Heeks (London Scottish), Jack Gash (Barking) & Callum Grant (Ealing T.), fly-half Sam Katz (Loughborough S.), centre Paul Mackey (London Welsh), centre/winger Ant Hitchcock (Exeter Univ.), centre/wing Charlie Broughton (Barking), full-back Tom O'Toole (Cambridge Univ.) 

OUT
Rob Anderson (Jersey), no 8 Mark Lock (retired), Miles Mantella & Joe Trayfoot (both to London Scottish)
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SEDGLEY PARK

IN:
Clive Griffiths, former Welsh international fullback and respected RU & RL coach, joins as consultant alongside established coaches Richard Senior and Dave Peet.

Flanker Jonny Bishop (Altrincham Kersal & Tyldesley), Lancashire fly-half Steve Collins (Fylde), Lancashire scrum-half Callum McShane (Fylde), fullback/wing Joe Knowles (Lymm)

OUT:
Prop Danny Birchall (Fylde), scrum-half Will Runciman.
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TYNEDALE

IN:
Wingers Peter Moralee (Bath) & Ollie Foster (Wasps Academy), full-back Peter Weightman, half-back Jonny Burn (DR Newcastle Falcons); forwards - Sam Reynolds (Barking), Ollie Steadman (Leeds Academy), Ben Frankland (Westoe), backrower Matt Charters (Preston G), hooker George McGuigan, prop Scott Wilson & backrower Joe Robinson (all DRs from Newcastle Falcons).

OUT:
Lock Richard Boyle (Rosslyn Park), Sam Shires (Ealing T.)

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WHARFEDALE

IN
Formerly player-coach at Sheffield Tigers, Jon Feeley, has joined as backs coach to assist Tommy McGee.

Wing Curtis Wilson, prop Mark Tampin, fullback Christian Georgiou and no 8 James Tyson (all Leeds Carnegie), Yorkshire U'20s prop Michael Bradshaw (Beverley), wing Joe Donkin (Hull RUFC), hooker Ian Larkin (Australia).

OUT
Centre Joel Gill (Rotherham), centre/wing James Tincknell (Doncaster), hooker Ben Sowrey (Doncaster), fly-half Tom Barrett (Doncaster), backrow Alex Reider (Rotherham), lock Joe Quinn (Nottingham).

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