THIS week's theme for the latest in the Worcester News' Sports Replay series is local rugby and we go back to the 1980s with Worcester RFC.

In the team photo, you can see the first team from the 80-81 season, the side that held the unwanted record of the most points ever scored against a Worcester team throughout a single season.

However, it was a mammoth campaign of a whopping 45 games, over double what the current Worcester 1XV face.

In that year, Worcester won 19 matches, drew two and lost 24, shipping 638 points and scoring 484.

The other photo shows a number of the Worcester players from the club's colt section at their end of season award evening.

In the photo you can see the guest speaker that night, the ex-Wales and British & Irish Lion scrum-half, Gareth Edwards.

From back, left to right: Nick Hales, Carl Arntzen, Tim Wells, Andrew Searle, Dave Taylor.

Front, left to right: Mike Wilkes, Edward Jay, Gareth Edwards, Don Everton, Dick Cumming, Bob Orledge, Bill Whiteman, Bernard Flower.