West Hartlepool RFC

West Hartlepool Rugby Football Club was formed in 1881. Before the game turned professional, the club enjoyed several seasons in the Courage League and Allied Dunbar premiership during the 1990s before finally being relegated in the 1998–99 season. There followed a drop through the divisions over the next three years that took them out of the national leagues and into the regional leagues. In the 1990s, when the club was at its peak positions they played at Brierton Lane. In 1990 Brierton Lane was estimated by a club official to have a ground capacity of around 4,950–450 seated and 4,500 standing. This was likely a conservative estimate as West Hartlepool achieved a crowd of 7,000 against…