1986–87 John Player Cup

Rugby cup 1986–87 John Player Cup 1985–86 1987–88 The 1986–87 John Player Special Cup was the 16th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time. Bath won the competition for the fourth consecutive year defeating Wasps in a repeat of the previous year's final.Jones Stephen Rothmans Rugby Yearbook 1990 Rothmans Publications Ltd 0-356-19162-1 The event was sponsored by John Player cigarettes and the final was held at Twickenham Stadium.https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/reference-online Times Archives Oxfordshire Libraries Draw and results First round Team one Team two ScoreAskeans Sudbury 6-12Berry Hill Lydney 3-8Birkenhead Park Fylde 22-27Birmingham Leighton Buzzard 11-20Durham Preston Grasshoppers 14-3Lichfield Tynedale 19-9London Welsh Metropolitan Police 18-6Maidstone Havant 18-4Old Reigatians KCSOB 10-9Oxford Exeter 9-28Paviors Syston 25-16Rugby Dixonians 21-9St Ives Marlow 16-6Saffron Walden Blackheath 9-14Solihull Stourbridge 10-9Swindon Camborne 7-23Taunton Reading 3-15Wigton Liverpool St Helens 6-18West Hartlepool Morley 22-6Worthing Hartford 20-6 Second round Team one Team two ScoreFylde Liverpool St Helens 4-4*Leighton Buzzard Lichfield 12-43Lydney Camborne 11-9Maidstone London Welsh 3-25Old Reigatians Exeter 12-3Paviors Durham 12-10Reading Sudbury 9-6Rugby Blackheath 12-9West Hartlepool Solihull 17-10Worthing St Ives 15-4 Away team progress* Third round Team one Team two ScoreBath Plymouth Albion 32-10Bristol Bedford 33-3Coventry Reading 26-12Gosforth Waterloo 10-9Lydney Nottingham 3-32Liverpool St Helens Lichfield 12-7London Irish Richmond 3-9London Scottish Worthing 29-12London Welsh Paviors 12-6Moseley Vale of Lune 22-10Old Reigatians Saracens 12-10Rosslyn Park Leicester 15-18Rugby Wasps 3-41Sale Orrell 12-22Wakefield Harlequins 3-3*West Hartlepool Gloucester 12-16 Away team progress* Fourth round Team one Team two ScoreBath London Welsh 30-4Coventry Liverpool St Helens 29-22Gloucester Old Reigatians 18-6Leicester Gosforth 19-6Moseley London Scottish 31-6Orrell Harlequins 12-10Richmond Bristol 3-18Wasps Nottingham 25-10 Quarter-finals Team one Team two Score Bath Moseley 12-3Bristol Leicester 7-17Orrell Gloucester 16-10Wasps Coventry 19-7 Semi-finals Team one Team two ScoreOrrell Bath 7-31Wasps Leicester 13-6 Final 2 May 1987 Bath 19–12 Wasps Redman 2Halliday Barnes 2 Barnes Davies Andrew Davies Andrew Twickenham Stadium, London 35,500 Fred Howard (Liverpool) _collar _hoops black blue ffffff ffffff ffffff 000080 ffffff Bath _collarwhite _2 white stripes 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 Wasps 16 Chris Martin 15 Tony Swift 14 John Palmer 12 Simon Halliday 11 Barry Trevaskis 10 Stuart Barnes 9 Richard Hill (c) 8 Dave Egerton 7 Andy Robinson 6 Nigel Redman 5 John Morrison 4 Jon Hall 3 Gareth Chilcott 2 Graham Dawe 1 David SoleReplacements: 16 Phil Cue 17 Jeremy Guscott 18 Steve Knight 19 Greg Bess for Dawes 20 Maurice 'Richard' Lee 21 Paul SimpsonCoach: Jack Rowell 15 Huw Davies 14 Simon Smith 13 Kevin Simms 12 Rob Lozowski 11 Mark Bailey 10 Rob Andrew 9 Steve Bates 8 Mark Rose 7 David Pegler (c) 6 John Bonner 5 Mike Pinnegar 4 Mark Rigby 3 Jeff Probyn 2 Alan Simmons 1 Paul RendallReplacements: 16 Andy Barnard 17 Roger Pellow 18 Nick Pratt 19 Keith Bartholomew 20 Martin Brooks 21 Sean O'LearyCoach: References Category:1986–87 rugby union tournaments for clubs Category:1986–87 in English rugby union Category:RFU Knockout Cup