Fylde RFC players get their pre-season work underway ahead of the National Two North campaign
Fylde RFC players were out in force as the club began pre-season training last week.
Forty players were in action last Tuesday as Fylde RFC began their pre-season training programme ahead of the 2026/27 campaign.
AKS hosted the Fylde squad given that the pitches at the Woodlands are currently receiving attention.
Alex Loney and Chris Briers remain in place as the Fylde joint-head coaches - and will be joined the coaching group by player-coach Matt Garrod.
The vast majority of the squad have either re-signed or are under contract, with announcements regarding new additions due to be made over the next few weeks.
Among those players back at AKS were some of last season’s long-term injury absentees.
One of those was centre Danny Cassidy, the club’s leading points scorer before he suffered injury in February.
However, he has made a quick recovery and cannot wait to make his return to action during the new season.
Fylde’s chairman of rugby, Mark Nelson, said: “There has been a great deal of detailed work gone on over the summer and we believe we have a really exciting group of players and coaches to take us into the new season.
“There was an excellent turnout of players for Tuesday’s session. All the coaches and management were delighted with the numbers and this is due to increase as we get further into the summer programme.
“It is extremely encouraging for the senior squad to have such a high turnout and the levels of fitness showed the lads had been working hard themselves to prepare for the sessions.
“National Two North will be a competitive league and we are looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead.
“More importantly we are really looking forward to watching this squad perform and hope that members and fans will come down to watch the lads in action and enjoy the atmosphere and hospitality at the Woodlands.”
Nelson had previously said that Fylde would be playing a friendly against Borders club Kelso as part of their build-up to the new N2N season.
That has now been confirmed as taking place at the Woodlands on Saturday, August 15.