On the plus side ex-England International Graham Robbins made a welcome return to his home club around the early 90's, taking a senior coaching role and playing the occasional game. This obviously lifted the team and it was good to see him wearing the green of Sutton again. Unfortunately Sutton saw a dip in their playing fortunes despite this talismanic figure around this time and they only survived the one season in Midlands 1, before dropping down two leagues to Midlands 3 in successive seasons. With the appointment of Nic Sporcic as head coach and Andy Beeton as club captain (3 seasons 1992 to 1995), Sutton stopped the rot and held their place before they won promotion in their second season pipping Bromsgrove at the post in a close fought campaign promoting Sutton back to Midlands 2 West in 1993. Sutton consolidated this promotion in their first season and were then joined by Bromsgrove, who gained promotion a season later than Sutton.

Sutton became trend setters in another way in the 1990 season by establishing the first ever Women's team in the City. Coached by Bob Champion and later joined by Graham Robbins, Paul Smith and Phil Proctor the team made an impressive start, progressing to League Champions in the 1993/4 season. Similar to the first Men's fixture, the first Women's fixture is well remembered as an away trip to St Albans where players like Benny  McFadzean and Jackie Robbins led the embryonic team. Unfortunately, the club couldn't maintain the player base at this point and the team faultered but returned early in the next millennium with the next pack of sporting Suttonians.

In 1991, ever looking to the future, the Trust and rugby club undertook a major extension to the building. They created a new structure complementing the existing one, housing a fitness room, a referee's room and a sports hall with a soft fibre sand floor to provide an all weather training facility, the latter was one of the first of its kind in the country and attracted a lot of interest from visiting teams including those in the top flight.

This time the driving seat was occupied by Eric Rankin, who was involved in the original negotiations and planning which secured the deal on the site and then key benefactors like Bob Greswell and Peter Maxwell Jones, who not only played for the club but had deep pockets when it came to financing new projects. The newly developed upstairs lounge bar was named the Greswell Room which opened in October 1988 and the new Fitness Centre opened in February 1993 was named after Peter Maxwell Jones in respect of their significant contributions.

Sutton 1st team finished mid-table in successive seasons 1994, '95 and '96 but the highlight of the 1996 season was the victory at Barkers Butts in the semi-final of the Warwickshire Cup followed by victory over Leamington RFC in the final at the old Coventry RFC ground. Having reached the final in 1977 and 1979 respectively but after suffering disappointment each time, 1996 saw Sutton lift the Prestigious County Trophy for the first time in their 75 year history. At the time, Leamington were hot favourites as they played a league above Sutton in Midlands 1 but under club captain Steve Farrell and orchestrated by Sutton's young and gifted fly half Dan Lockley, Sutton gave a masterclass in game management as they ran their opponents ragged, dominating the lineout with second row partners Mark Boothright and Chris Meakin claiming the ball after astute and accurate ball placement by Sutton's 18 year old fly half Lockley, who was straight out of the Sutton Colts Development team and he was joined in the starting XV by at least 7 other home grown players from the Sutton stable of young players - a huge credit to Sutton to win the Warwickshire Cup for the first time with such a large contingent of home grown talent in their ranks. In the opposition that day were future Sutton players John Swannell and Michael 'Nobby' Styles who joined Sutton once they relocated to the area, so inspired by the style of rugby they saw that day. Nobby went on to captain the 1st XV and John has returned full circle to coach in the Mini and Juniors

Sutton's first success in the Warwickshire Cup Final coincided with the RFU accepting payment of players; after enforcing the principle of no-payment to players of rugby union at any level, including Internationals since its inception. In 1995, the RFU removed all restrictions and the game opened up at all levels from the top National teams through the regional levels to the very lowest tiers, all open to the exploitation or rapid development by clubs with ambitious officials who favoured an enterprising approach to growth and development, a policy which did not work for all.

After serious reflection Sutton decided to stay as an amateur club knowing the risk of losing players to local clubs prepared to pay players on a weekly basis but it certainly proved to be the right decision and although clubs like Lichfield sold their land for housing and used the proceeds to invest heavily in players at their new facilities on the Tamworth Road, none of the Sutton players were tempted by the lucrative offers available. The gifted and most notable players stayed true to Sutton duly paying their weekly match subs and the club went from strength to strength through to the end of the 90's and into the new Millennium.

Sutton celebrated their 75th Anniversary in 1996 as Warwickshire County Champions and Sutton's talented centre Manning Butts took on the mantle of club captain to lead Sutton through the Celebration Year of 1996/97. Manning was one of many talented rugby players, who stayed true to Sutton and was not lured away by talk of money and he served the club loyally until his body told him it was time to retire. Manning was succeeded as club captain by Peter Benson, another highly rated player, who again stayed true to Sutton and served as captain leading the team from scrum half over 3 seasons, covering 1997/98, 1998/99 and 1999/20, with great success. When he stepped down from the 1st XV level Peter went on to run the Vets and he became chairman of the very successful mini & junior section of the club.

Having been one of the first clubs in the area to establish a mini & junior section it follows that Sutton were one of the leading clubs when it came to establishing a thriving youth wing represented by the Sutton Colts side, so much so that the Colts XV shared the Coventry Standard Cup after a 25-25 draw against Barker Butts in 1987 and they went on to win the Junior version of the Warwickshire Cup in 1995, under the then Colts manager Ben Smoldon, field manager Tom Jones and coach Paul Smith.