[05 JUL 00] COVENTRY SIGN HALF-BACKS

[23 FEB 00] COVENTRY MEET THE BARBARIANS

[04 OCT 99] COVENTRY SWOOP FOR BEDFORD

Coventry rugby club has taken over Bedford to leapfrog into the Allied Dunbar Premiership One division.  MORE

Match win bonuses of £200 a man are being offered to Coventry rugby club’s first team players to help drive the club to the top of the Second Division.  MORE

Coventry Rugby Club chairman Keith Fairbrother has said he is extremely confident" that the Coundon Road club will secure a £100,000 grant next month.  MORE

[24 APR 99] COVENTRY 26 WORCESTER 17

[17 APR 99] WATERLOO 24 COVENTRY 25

[03 APR 99] COVENTRY (14) 20  EXETER (8) 13

[27 MAR 99] FYLDE 27  COVENTRY 22

[25 MAR 99] RUGBY CLUB'S NEW FIGHT

The receiver responsible for winding up Coventry rugby club’s affairs today answered criticisms levelled by the club’s chairman Keith Fairbrother. Fairbrother is refusing to hand over £10,500 owed from the purchase of the club claiming the receiver owes £25,000 to the club.  MORE

[24 MAR 99] COVENTRY RFC READY TO GO ALL THE WAY

Coventry Rugby Club chairman Keith Fairbrother is prepared to go to court over a financial battle with the club’s receivers. Fairbrother and Coventry Ventures Limited, who bought the club in August, claim receivers Brian Ralley and John Kelly of Buchler Philips owe them money from England Rugby Partnership and for fixtures and fittings.  MORE

[15 MAR 99] COVENTRY 19 RUGBY LIONS 21

[11 MAR 99] COVENTRY RUGBY CLUBS' NEW STADIUM UNVEILED

Coventry’s third new arena was revealed today as evidence that the city is facing boom times again. Coventry rugby club, which called in the receivers last Summer, but is now under new management, today unveiled a model showing its new 10,000 capacity stadium at The Butts.  MORE

[27 FEB 99] LONDON WELSH 42 COVENTRY 34

[24 FEB 99] EVES JOINS BRISTOL RUGBY CLUB

Derek Eves, Coventry’s former director of rugby, has played his last game for the club. He is expected to rejoin his old club Bristol in the next 48 hours.  MORE

[22 FEB 99] EVES PLAY LAST GAME FOR COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB

Derek Eves, Coventry’s former director of rugby, has played his last game for the club. He is expected to rejoin his old club Bristol in the next 48 hours.  MORE

[13 FEB 99] COVENTRY 35  BLACKHEATH 8

[09 FEB 99] COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB SACK EVES

Derek Eves, Coventry RFC’s director of rugby, has been sacked. He stays with the club purely as a player. Yesterday he was the supremo with the power to hire and fire, today he does not even know whether he will be in Saturday’s side to play Blackheath at Coundon Road.  MORE

[01 FEB 99] UNION AND LEAGUE LINK AT COVENTRY

It will be all year round rugby at Coundon Road if a bright new idea works out. Coventry Football Club, a rugby union stronghold, proposes to run a rugby league team during the summer to keep the club afloat financially.  MORE

[22 DEC 98] COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB TO MOVE TO NEW STADIUM

Coventry rugby football club will move to a new £3.5 million stadium, two years after going into receivership. The new regime is trading profitably after just three months and with the aid of increased sponsorship from Peugeot is on course to break even at the end of the playing season. MORE

[20 DEC 98] COVENTRY 21  MOSELEY 46

As disasters go it was nowhere near Titanic proportions, but it felt like it to the Coventry supporters, who watched incredulously as their side crumbled to their biggest defeat by their old rivals. MORE

[17 DEC 98] BEDFORD 39  COVENTRY 12

Coventry’s hopes of a money-spinning cup run were snuffed out at Premiership One side Bedford last night.  Cov went into the game with a one-point lead and were still ahead overall at half time when the score stood at 5-5 but Bedford dominated the second period to run out convincing winners.  MORE

[12 DEC 98] WAKEFIELD 10  COVENTRY 18

Coventry had to win to keep on the tails of the championship leaders and they achieved that, but the performance was short on inspiration. In a match liberally punctuated by the referee's whistle. It took Coventry 20 minutes to get into the match and they took the lead with virtually their first attack.  MORE

[11 DEC 98] GOUGH BACK TO KICK WAKEFIELD INTO TOUCH

Coventry Rugby Club were given a lift to day when high-scoring fly-half Steve Gough declared himself fit for the trip to lowly Wakefield.   MORE

[10 DEC 98] NEIL HUMPHRIES TO JOIN COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB

Coventry Rugby Club have their eye on Oxford University winger Neil Humphries who scored in the Varsity match at Twickenham. Humphries, a 23-year-old from Sydney, has already visited the Coundon Road club and pledged to join them in the new year.  MORE

[04 DEC 98] BEDFORD v COVENTRY - PREVIEW

New signings Mateiki Mafi and Jason Hewlett will get their first view of their new team from the subs bench in Sunday’s crunch cup tie at First Division Bedford.  MORE

[29 NOV 98] COVENTRY 13  BEDFORD 12

Coventry gained some satisfaction in beating a First Division side, but the slenderest of margins will not be enough to see them through the second leg of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Cup at Bedford next Sunday.  MORE

[27 NOV 98] COVENTRY v BEDFORD - PREVIEW

Boxing heavyweight promoters Frank Warren and Don King will clash in spirit if not in person when Coventry take on Bedford in the C&G Cup. King has sponsored the game because his fierce rival Warren is a major backer of Premiership One opponents Bedford and has issued a typically flamboyant rallying call in his programme notes.  MORE

[27 NOV 98] DEVELOPERS APPLY TO BUILD ON RUGBY GROUND

Coventry rugby club's departure from their famous old stadium moved a step closer today with the news that property developers have made application to build houses on the site. Bryant Homes West Midlands Ltd agreed earlier this year to buy the Coundon Road stadium at a price believed to be in the region of £1.2 million.  MORE

[25 NOV 98] NEW FACES FOR COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB

Coventry Rugby Club are set to bring in new faces in a bid to kick start their flagging season. Coventry were on the receiving end of a 36-12 mauling at Leeds on Sunday which prompted boss Keith Fairbrother to describe his side as a "disgrace".  MORE

[24 NOV 98] MIXED RESULT IN RUGBY TRIBUNAL

A ruling at an industrial tribunal has opened the door for creditors to sue the former members of Coventry Rugby Club to recover outstanding debts. A group of workers who were axed by the club when financial difficulties arose last year, yesterday took their claims of unfair dismissal to a Birmingham tribunal.  MORE

[23 NOV 98] COVENTRY v NEW ZEALAND 'WEXAS' XV

Coventry Rugby Football Club have announced a new fixture for Coventry on 27 December, Kick off 12.00:- Coventry V New Zealand ‘Wexas’ XV.  MORE

[22 NOV 98] LEEDS 36  COVENTRY 12

Coventry rugby club chairman Keith Fairbrother blasted his players after Sunday's defeat at Leeds. He branded the first half performance a 'disgrace' and said he would come down heavily on players not prepared to give 100 per cent commitment to the cause.  MORE

[14 NOV 98] COVENTRY 26 WORCESTER 36

Coventry went into the match with high hopes of avenging their league defeat at Worcester on the opening day of the season, but they had to give best to a thoroughly professional outfit. They paid the penalty for unforced errors in the first half and though they got to within two points of their opponents in the second period, they slipped further behind in the last quarter.  MORE

[13 NOV 98] COVENTRY RUGBY v WORCESTER - PREVIEW

Coventry will be relying on tried and trusted ingredients when they bid to overturn rivals Worcester in the Tetley Bitter Cup tomorrow. A big crowd is expected at Coundon Road as the Allied Dunbar Premiership Two rivals clash in the cup. MORE

[07 NOV 98] COVENTRY 22  ROTHERHAM 12

Coventry came through one of their severest tests of the season, but it was a close call against a team which recently inflicted the first defeat of the season on the league leaders Bristol. MATCH SUMMARY

[30 OCT 98] BRISTOL 14  COVENTRY 12

Coventry came within seven minutes of a famous victory over the league leaders which would have taken them to joint top of the table. It needed a penalty goal seven minutes from time for Bristol to beat their old foes, but they know they came within an ace of losing. MORE

[30 OCT 98] COVENTRY v BRISTOL - PREVIEW

Coventry make one change for their biggest test of the rugby season to date. They have left out the Argentinian three quarter Criscuolo and brought in Richie Robinson to partner Mick Curtis in the centre for tonight's match at top table Bristol. MORE

[24 OCT 98] COVENTRY 26  ORRELL 14

Coventry ran up their fifth victory in succession to consolidate their league position and the Second Division of the Allied Dunbar Premiership is becoming a three-horse race. MATCH SUMMARY

[23 OCT 98] COVENTRY v ORRELL - PREVIEW

Coventry face the toughest test of their Premiership Two season tomorrow when they entertain Orrell. The Lancashire side have won on their last two visits to Coundon Road and have chalked up three wins on the trot over Cov. MORE

[17 OCT 98] BLACKHEATH 18  COVENTRY 30

There was only one point between the teams at half-time but Coventry were in unyielding mood and stormed through for their fourth successive victory to move into third place in the league.
MATCH SUMMARY

[16 OCT 98] SIMON KERR - A NEW PLAYER FROM AUSTRALIA

It's enough to make Coventry's chairman Keith Fairbrother tear his hair out. In his day no prop-forward would have welcomed the club's all-action style of running rugby. But Simon Kerr, one of two Australians who joined the club from Sydney last week, expressed delight at what he saw when the club beat London Welsh by 63 points to 19.
INTERVIEW BY MIKE DALE

[16 OCT 98] COVENTRY v BLACKHEATH - PREVIEW

Coventry's Australian 'scout' John Gray will be at their match at Blackheath and he has promised to buy the players' beer if they win.  But chairman Keith Fairbrother and former Coventry clubmate and lifelong friend of Gray's said: "It won't cost him as much as in the old days. MORE

[15 OCT 98] COV IN UNIQUE RUGBY ALLIANCE

Coventry Rugby Club has formed a groundbreaking alliance with local junior outfit Barkers Butts to bring weekly league rugby to the Premiership club's Coundon Road ground.   The deal, which starts next week, was the brainchild of Coventry's new rugby administrator Ian Carvell, but negotiations have been masterminded by chairman Keith Fairbrother. MORE

[10 OCT 98] COVENTRY 63  LONDON WELSH 19

Coventry rattled up sixty points in the second successive home match and fly half Steve Gough finished with a personal total of 34 points as they edged one place up the league to fifth. MATCH SUMMARY

[09 OCT 98] COVENTRY V LONDON WELSH - PREVIEW

Australian prop forward Simon Kerr could make his debut in English rugby for Coventry in their Allied Dunbar Division Two match against London Welsh at Coundon Road. He is named among the replacements less than a week after arriving in this country from Down Under. MORE

[06 OCT 98] COVENTRY SIGN TWO AUSTRALIANS

Coventry Rugby Club have signed two Australian forwards – and one could make his debut against London Welsh this Saturday. Former Cov favourite John Gray in 1960s has been scouting for the Coundon Road club down under and has sent over loose head prop Simon Kerr and lock Brent Dale. MORE

[04 OCT 98] RUGBY LIONS 17  COVENTRY 20

[02 OCT 98] RUGBY LIONS v COVENTRY - PREVIEW

[29 SEP 98] TOUGH CUP DRAWS FOR COVENTRY AND LIONS

[19 SEP 98] EXETER 31  COVENTRY 25

[12 SEP 98] COVENTRY 21  WATERLOO 15

[11 SEP 98] COVENTRY SET FOR FIRST HOME TEST

[10 SEP 98] THREE MORE JOIN COVENTRY BOARD

[05 SEP 98] WORCESTER 22  COVENTRY 7

[04 SEP 98] NEW COVENTRY, NEW SEASON

[28 AUG 98] TWO MORE SIGNINGS FOR COVENTRY

[28 AUG 98] LITTLE LEFT FOR COVENTRY CREDITORS

[26 AUG 98] NEW SIGNINGS AT COVENTRY

[18 AUG 98] ANOTHER OLD BOY HELPS OUT

[14 AUG 98] KEITH FAIRBROTHER - COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB CHAIRMAN

[06 AUG 98] CRUSADERS AND RUGBY CLUB LOOK TO THE BUTTS

[05 AUG 98] FAIRBROTHER CONFIDENT OF START

[04 AUG 98] CONSORTIUM BUYS RUGBY CLUB

[30 JUL 98] RUGBY CLUB COULD BE SAVED - BUT NOT BY THE SKY BLUES

[28 JUL 98] COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB CALLS IN THE RECEIVERS

[23 JUL 98] GERRY SUGRUE RESIGNS FROM TROUBLED COVENTRY

[15 JUL 98] THREE MORE LEAVE COVENTRY RUGBY CLUB