Check out our previews and predictions ahead of this weekends matches.
Bracknell v Nuneaton
One point from six has seen Bracknell’s good start to the season flounder of late and they will be seeing Saturday as the match to bounce back to winning ways in. Nuneaton after a mini revival with back-to-back wins a few weeks ago have slipped to successive defeats and dropped to 11th place in the league table.
Both sides have scored tries this season with Bracknell third highest in the division with 21 whilst Nuneaton are not to far behind on 17. Bracknell have been a first half side with12 of their 21 coming in the first 40 whilst Nuneaton have scored 12 in the second half and just five in the first so Nuneaton will need to defend well early on.
This will be the first ever match between the two in league history.
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Prediction: Home win by 10 points
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Doncaster v Rosslyn Park
After a shaky start to the season Doncaster seem to have found some form and have put together a three match winning run after losing their opening three matches of the league campaign.
Park had had a mixed season as they readjust to life in National Two after last season where in Three South they were scoring tries for fun and running up big scores each week. This time round they are up against better quality sides and with the players lost in the summer may not be quite as strong as last season. Last week they got they need and with a good points difference moved up to ninth spot as they recorded their second win of the season against Rugby Lions.
These two sides are meeting for the first time in league rugby as they missed each other last season with Doncaster coming up and Park going down.
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Prediction: Home win by 10 points.
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Harrogate v Lydney
Harrogate return to Claro Road after two away wins to come back from a home defeat at home to Doncaster three weeks ago. The win at Bracknell was impressive whilst last week they left it late before snatching the win with a late Jamie Barker try as he completed his first ever hat trick for the club.
Not the place Lydney want to go with them still looking for that first win of the season and end a six match losing run on their return to National Two rugby.
Harrogate are going for a fourth straight win in this fixture and they have won the last three at Claro Road.
Team news:
Prediction: Home win by 25 points.
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Rugby v Newbury
Rugby will fancy their chances in this one as Newbury have slipped to four straight defeats after winning their opening two matches. Rugby were losses at Rosslyn Park last week but the week before they were 32-10 winners at home to bottom of the table Lydney.
Newbury brought a number of new faces at the start of the season and got the three win start to the season but that has fell away of late and they are slightly off the track but believe they can return to winning ways.
The sides met in the 2000/01 season and the matches were split with home advantage counting on each occasion and Rugby 24-3 victors in this fixture.
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Prediction: Close one here Lions by less than five points.
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Sedgley Park v Nottingham
League leaders Park will be looking for a good home win against a Nottingham side that lie in fifth place.
Last season even though Nottingham were at the wrong end of the table most of the season they managed to do the double over Sedgley with a two and a four point wins.
The previous season when the clubs met for the first time it was Park who did the double over Nottingham including a comprehensive 48-8 win at Beeston.
Team news:
Prediction: Home win by 20 points.
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Stourbridge v Esher
Form would go with Stourbridge on this one as they have put together a three match winning run, which continued last Saturday with a win at Newbury.
Esher have made a disappointing start to the season and find themselves down in 13th place with three points out of 12.
These two sides have met four times over the last two seasons and you cannot separate them with both having won their home fixtures. Last season in this fixture we had an amazing match, which in the end went to the home side 55-43, and in the four matches there has never been less 50 points in a match.
Team news:
Prediction: Home win by less than seven points.
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Wharfedale v Moseley
Wharfedale suffered their first loss of the season last week at Nottingham and will be keen to get straight back to winning ways with a home fixture against Moseley.
Moseley have drawn their last two matches at home but away from home they have lost both “road trips” at Esher and Rosslyn Park, neither of whom are setting the league alight at this early stage of the season.
Wharfedale had won five out of five before the trip to Nottingham but without Pears and Hodgson they went down to a narrow loss with the boot of Jonathan Davies, six penalty goals, keeping them in the match but it was Nottingham who triumphed.
Moseley are good defensively and have the third best record in the division but they are struggling to score points and only two sides have scored fewer.
These two sides will be meeting for the first time in league rugby.
Team news:
Prediction: Wharfedale by 15 points.
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