Bournville Forwards Coach CJ Osazuwa hopes that a run of four consecutive Regional One Midlands matches will help his side find some consistency and fluency after a frustrating start to 2026.
Last Saturday’s 62-26 win over Dudley Kingswinford at Avery Fields was only Bourns’ third match since Christmas but it took them back to the top of the league on superior points difference to Newport who were beaten at home by Banbury.
A three-times postponed away game at Drybrook largely explains the stop-start fixture list but, weather permitting, it will be fourth time lucky when Bournville head to the Forest of Dean this Saturday followed by a trip to Lichfield on February 28 and a home game against Lutterworth on March 7.
Although four matches in as many weeks will place demands on the squad, Bourns produced their best rugby of the season during a run of five successive wins in November and December.
“Some teams probably like the breaks but if you think of our best performances they probably came on our five-match run before Christmas,” Osazuwa said.
“Hopefully we are going to get a three or four match run now – who know what the weather says – which is when we are at our best.
“The DK game was a good first game for us. It reminds us of the things that we need to improve on and it reminds us of what we can really do, especially with ball in hand.
“If we can build week on week, a better performance next week and a better performance the week after then we end up having control of where we want to be in the league.”
Bournville hope that Nathan Decalmer will be fit for the first-ever trip to Drybrook’s Mannings Ground after the wing departed midway through the first-half against DK with a knee injury.
“We think it’s just a bang on the knee so he came off as a precaution more than anything else. We expect him to be fit for Drybrook,” Osazuwa said.
But centre Josh Bloomfield has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a dislocated shoulder which he sustained against Banbury in November and which has required a second operation in a year.
