ANYONE wishing to travel en masse with Rams Supporters’ Club are advised they will be catching the 12.10pm train from Earley for the National One game at Esher on Saturday.

The train originally leaves Reading station at 12.05pm, with changes at Virginia Water and Weybridge.

Matchday ticket prices at Molesey Road are £17 for adults, £12 concessions (NHS or Armed Forces), £5 students and free for Under 18s.

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The History of Esher

Esher rugby club were formed in 1923, and when the league system was introduced in 1987, they were placed in London One.

However, they were relegated immediately and failed to regain that status until 1993.

The club, who play at Molesey Road, Hersham, were eventually promoted to the National League system for the 1997-8 campaign, finishing fourth in National Two South after leading for most of the season.

They were runners-up the following year, but won promotion in 2000.

The club won National League Two in 2007, and went up to the Championship two years later to continue their mercurial rise.

During that season they broke the world record by scoring 22 tries in a 148-0 crushing of Manchester.

But their fortunes went into reverse, and they dropped down to National Two South.

Last term they finished champions, though, and Rams met Esher for the first time in the 2022/23 campaign – other than when the Berkshire men (then Old Redingensians) played Esher Cardinals (2nd XV) on a regular basis in the 1960s.

The hosts triumphed 38-21 at Old Bath Road on the opening day, before a 33-19 victory away win in the final game consigned the Eees to an immediate relegation.

However, Peter Winterbottom’s side bounced back straight away, winning 22 of their 26 games to take the National Two East title after a hard-fought battle with Barnes and Dorking.