National League 2 North

Sale FC’s unbeaten start to the National Two North season came to an end in Round Four as South Leicester defeated them at Welford Road.

Leicester Lions suffered their first defeat of the new season last weekend which meant now only three sides remain without a loss to their name in National Two North heading into Round Four.

Wharfedale, South Leicester and Chester picked up their first wins of the new season in Round Three of National Two North.

After two rounds of National Two North action, four teams are yet to experience that losing feeling and all four clubs will be hoping it stays that way in their home fixtures this weekend.

Four teams in National Two North maintained their 100 per cent starts to the season on Saturday with all of the clubs level on points in this early stage of the new campaign.

Like any sport, getting off to a great start is key to how your season pans out. Last year we saw Macclesfield and Sedgley Park string a good run of form together and that led to them challenging for promotion.

National Two North returned this weekend and it did so in style as Round One of this season’s competition delivered some cracking rugby and some interesting results.

Opening fixtures of National League Rugby and here's the match winning try from Sedgley Park Tigers versus Caldy. Having lost to Caldy twice last season, Sedgley Park were looking to put that record behind them.

Sale FC kicked off the National League Two season with a comfortable win over Otley at Heywood Road.

The big kick-off in National Two is nearly upon us once again, but what will it serve up this season?

Disappointment of relegation spurred on Macclesfield to bounce straight back into National One and a squad full of desire and commitment helped Cambridge to glory.

At the end of WW2 the US set about delivering The Marshall Plan to assist in rebuilding Europe. Old Albanian’s clearly had their very own plan to take them out of National 2 South and back to National 1. At the head of the plan, Head Coach, James Shannahan.

Eight months on from the start of the 2015/16 campaign and it comes down to this in National Two; Which side will be joining Cambridge and Macclesfield in National One next season?

Sandal became the third and final team to be relegated from National Two North as their defeat to the Luctonians sees them drop back into National Three after just one season at this level.

In the final rounds of the National League season, the attention was well and truly on National Two with relegation still looming for sides in the North while the title was yet to be decided in the South.

All eyes will be on the bottom half of National Two North this weekend as five teams are all in danger of relegation from the fourth tier of English rugby, but only one can fall through the trapdoor.

Like last season in National Two North, the relegation battle has gone to the final day of the campaign and arguably it is even closer than 12 months ago.

After Macclesfield clinched the National Two North title last Saturday, the spotlight is now firmly on the relegation battle with five teams still in danger of being relegated to National Three.

This season couldn’t have gone much better for Macclesfield. Following relegation from National One, they had to dust themselves down and go again and they have gone about that in the best way possible by gaining promotion at the first time of asking.

Macclesfield fought back from a slow start against Chester to clinch the National Two North title after a 40-12 victory at Priory Park.