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Esher set to bounce back to third tier
The Rugby Paper
|March 31, 2024
AS the National Leagues take a pause over Easter, Peter Winterbottom’s Esher are looking on course to earn promotion back to the third tier.
Last time out Esher blew away Wimbledon 62-19 and are four points clear at the top of National Two East with a game in hand on their title rivals.
The Surrey side were relegated from National One at the end of last season having won promotion to the third tier in 2022, and look set to continue yo-yoing between the two divisions as they require three more wins from their final four games to secure the title.
Winterbottom is satisfied with how his troops have bounced back from relegation last season as they’ve tasted defeat just twice since their opening day loss to Barnes.
He told
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