This Easter Weekend the Bicentenary Celebrations at Rugby School continue with three big 7s Festivals to whet the appetite.

As throughout this celebration of 200 years of the game of Rugby Football, NextGenXV will again be at Rugby School to live stream all of the weekend’s action – which will be available on the NextGenXV YouTube Channel, and embedded further below in this article.

The action takes place on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, with Friday seeing the U9s Festival take place, Saturday the U11s Festival, and Monday the Vets Charity 7s Festival, raising funds for the Rugby School 1823 Bursary and the Wooden Spoon Charity, who fund life-changing projects supporting vulnerable children and young people in the UK.

To find out more about the two, visit:

https://woodenspoon.org.uk/fundraise-for-us/rugby-school/

and:

https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/200-anniversary/1823-bursary/

The Vets Charity 7s Festival will be previewed later in the week, here we focus in on the U9s and U11s Festivals on Friday and Saturday.

U9s Festival – Friday 7^th April

Eleven clubs are participating in the U9s Festival, with Oundle RFC and Old Laurentians RFC entering two teams to bring the number of participants up to thirteen.

Those thirteen teams will be split into two pools, one of 7 and one of 6, and each side will play their counterparts from the other pool before each plays a cross pool game to round the day off.

Pools (Final Games of the Day will be Cross Pool Games):

Pool 1: Barnstaple RFC, Oundle RFC 2, Guildford RFC, Old Laurentians RFC 1, St Andrews, Stamford RFC, Stonygate RFC

Pool 2: Old Laurentians 2, Coalville RFC, Oundle RFC 1, Luton RGS, Lutterworth, Shipston on Stour RFC

It will be a tremendous occasion, and a great opportunity for these young players to play at the birthplace and home of the game, The Close. The two famous pitches on The Close, Old Bigside and Pontines, will be split in two to create appropriate pitch sizes and NextGenXV will be live streaming all of the action on both of the Old Bigside pitches, see below.

Old Bigside 1 Live Stream:

Old Bigside 2 Live Stream:

Schedule

The action kicks off at 10am and final games are set to take place at 1.50pm, though some sides may see their games moved from one pitch to another in the coming days to ensure that every team gets an opportunity to play on Old Bigside and to feature on the live streams.

Pitch 1 (Old Bigside 1) – Live Streamed

10am Oundle 2 v Stamford RFC

10.20am Oundle 2 v Stoneygate RFC

10.40am Oundle 2 v Old Laurentians RFC 1

11am Guildford RFC v Stoneygate RFC

11.20am Stoneygate RFC v Stamford RFC

11.40am Oundle 2 v Guildford RFC

12.30pm Stoneygate RFC v St Andrews

12.50pm Old Laurentians 1 v Stoneygate RFC

1.10pm Oundle 2 v Barnstaple

1.30pm Pool 1 (A) v Pool 2 (A)

1.50pm Pool 1 (E) v Pool 2 (E)

Pitch 2 (Old Bigside 2) – Live Streamed

10am Guildford RFC v Old Laurentians RFC 1

10.20am St Andrews v Barnstaple RFC

10.40am Stamford RFC v St Andrews

11am Lutterworth v Shipston on Stour RFC

11.20am St Andrews v Old Laurentians RFC 1

11.40am Barnstaple v Old Laurentians RFC 1

12.30pm Old Laurentians 2 v Lutterworth

12.50pm Oundle 2 v St Andrews

1.10pm St Andrews v Guildford RFC

1.30pm Pool 1 (B) v Pool 2 (B)

1.50pm Pool 1 (F) v Pool 2 (F)

Pitch 3 (Pontines 1)

10am Barnstaple RFC v Stoneygate RFC

10.20am Stamford RFC v Guildford RFC

10.40am Barnstaple v Guildford RFC

11am Oundle 1 v Luton RFC

11.20am Luton RFC v Lutterworth

11.40am Shipston on Stour RFC v Coalville RFC

12.30pm Stamford RFC v Barnstaple RFC

12.50pm Luton RFC v Shipston on Stour RFC

1.10pm Old Laurentians RFC 1 v Stamford RFC

1.30pm Pool 1 (C) v Pool 2 (C)

Pitch 4 (Pontines 2)

10am Coalville RFC v Luton RFC

10.20am Lutterworth v Oundle 1

10.40am Old Laurentians 2 v Shipston on Stour

11am Old Laurentians 2 v Coalville

11.20am Old Laurentians 2 v Oundle

11.40am Old Laurentians 2 v Luton

12.30pm Shipston on Stour v Oundle

12.50pm Coalville v Lutterworth

1.10pm Oundle v Coalville

1.30pm Pool 1 (D) v Pool 2 (D)

U11s Festival – Saturday 8^th April

On Saturday the focus turns to the U11s Festival, where eleven teams will participate, four of which also have sides in the U9s on Friday, Lutterworth, St Andrews, Old Laurntians, and Guildford RFC.

The sides are split into two pools, one of six and one of five, and each team will play the other teams from their pools in the morning session. In the afternoon session they will then be redrawn into a second pool stage, which will see three pools of three and a one off game for the remaining two teams.

Initial Pools (Teams reallocated to second round pools after lunch)

Pool 1: Broadstreet RFC, Braintree RFC, Pentyrch RFC, Vipers RFC, Southwell RFC, Lutterworth

Pool 2: St Andrews, St Joseph’s College, Market Bosworth RFC, Old Laurentians, Guildford RFC

As in the U9s, the two famous pitches on The Close, Old Bigside and Pontines, will be split in two to create appropriate pitch sizes and NextGenXV will be live streaming all of the action on both of the Old Bigside pitches, see below.

Old Bigside 1 Live Stream:

Old Bigside 2 Live Stream:

Schedule

The Festival kicks off at 10am and the final initial pool games will take place at 11.40am, before the second pool stages begin at 12.40pm, with final games kicking off at 1.20pm. As in the U9s, though some sides may see their games moved from one pitch to another in the coming days to ensure that every team gets an opportunity to play on Old Bigside and to feature on the live streams.

Pitch 1 (Old Bigside 1) – Live Streamed

10am Lutterworth v Braintree

10.20am Lutterworth v Vipers

10.40am Lutterworth v Broadstreet

11am Lutterworth v Pentyrch

11.20am Lutterworth v Southwell

11.40am Southwell v Broadstreet

12.40pm Pool W (W3 v W1)

1pm Pool W (W2 v W3)

1.20pm Pool W (W1 v W2)

Pitch 2 (Old Bigside 2) – Live Streamed

10am Pentyrch v Southwell

10.20am St Joseph’s College v St Andrews

10.40am Old Lauretians v St Joseph’s College

11am Vipers v Pentyrch

11.20am Broadstreet v Braintree

11.40am Braintree v Vipers

12.40pm Pool X (X1 v X3)

1pm Pool X (X3 v X2)

1.20pm Pool X (X2 v X1)

Pitch 3 (Pontines 3)

10am Broadstreet v Vipers

10.20am Old Laurentians v Guildford

10.40am Braintree v Pentyrch

11am Southwell v Braintree

11.20am Vipers v Southwell

11.40am Pentyrch v Broadstreet

12.40pm Group Y (Y3 v Y1)

1pm Group Y (Y2 v Y3)

1.20pm Group Y (Y1 v Y2)

Pitch 4 (Pontines 4)

10am St Andrews v Market Bosworth

10.20am Market Bosworth v Old Laurentians

10.40am Guildford v St Andrews

11am Market Bosworth v St Joseph’s College

11.20am Guildford v Market Bosworth

11.40am St Joseph’s College v Guildford

12pm St Andrews v Old Laurentians

1pm Group Z (Z1 v Z2)