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Future Stars: Gallagher Premiership Senior Academy Intakes (Part 2)

Part 2 of our Gallagher Premiership Senior Academy Intake takes a look at the next 3 clubs on the list, Gloucester, Harlequins, and Leicester Tigers. We are looking exclusively at school leavers progressing to the professional ranks, so examples such as 20-year-old form Oakham and Leicester Tigers second row Cameron Jordan moving to Gloucester are […]

U18 Academy League: Round 4 Preview and Team News

The U18 Academy League moves into round four this weekend, the midpoint of the U18 Academy League season.   There are just three rounds of action left following the completion of this weekend’s games, after which the top three sides from each conference will meet their counterparts at the U18 Academy League Finals on Sunday […]

England U18: 40-man Development Squad named for October camp

England have named a 40-man U18 Development row their October half term training camp.   Taking place at Bisham Abbey National Sports centre, the group will come together from the 28th to the 31st October as they prepare for the U18 Internationals and U18 Six Nations Festival after Christmas.   Officially now the England U18 […]

U18 International Series: 5 to watch in the England U18 squad

The 26-man England squad to head to the U18 International Series in South Africa was named earlier this week. All 26 have already shown great promise, but here we pick out five whose schoolboy performances have us particularly looking forward to their future potential.   Of course the other 21 players are outstanding too, and […]

Youth Springs Eternal at Portugal Youth Rugby Festival

Over the weekend of 12-14 April, Lisbon played host to over 3000 young players from all five continents as Europe’s largest and most prestigious youth Rugby Festival moved into full swing.   The Portugal Rugby Youth Festival is also widely considered the best organised and its popularity is clear from the growing number of teams […]

U18 6 Nations Festival: Familiar names in France & Italy squads

France and Italy have both named their squad for the U18 Six Nations Festival, which begins this Saturday.   Hartpury College host the tournament and the first matchday will be held at their Gillman’s Ground on Saturday. On Wednesday Worcester Warriors’ Sixways Stadium hosts the three games, while on Sunday 21st April the Festival closes […]

England U18: England name squad to take on Scotland this Sunday

England U18 have named their side to take on Scotland at Billingham RUFC this Sunday, 2pm kick off.   Jim Mallinder’s squad is largely as announced a week ago, when two U18 squads were named, one for Sunday’s game against Scotland and another for next weekend’s game against France, with ten players set to play […]

U18 Academy League: Tigers make is back to back titles at Allianz Park

Leicester Tigers made it back to back U18 Academy League triumphs as they claimed the title at Allianz Park with a 34-31 victory over Gloucester.   It was a repeat of last year’s final, which Leicester won 43-21, and while this year was close it looked at one point as though Leicester might run away […]