U18 Academy League

[Epaminondas Pules]

This weeks squads

U18 Academy League Round 1 Fixtures:



Northern Conference



Newcastle Falcons v Leicester Tigers – Saturday, 2pm, Kingston Park

Sale Sharks v Wasps – Sunday, 2pm, Manchester Met University

Yorkshire Carnegie v Worcester Warriors – Saturday, 10.30am, Headlingley

Bye Week – Northampton Saints



Southern Conference



Gloucester v Saracens – Friday, 7pm, Hartpury College

Harlequins v Bristol Bears – Saturday, 1.30pm, Surrey Sports Park

London Irish v Exeter Chiefs – Saturday, 1pm, Hazelwood

Bye Week – Bath



Team News:



Newcastle Falcons:

15 Alex Brundage, 14 Will Panday, 13 Chidera Obonna, 12 Will Haydon-Wood, 11 Seamus Hutton, 10 Michael Cooke, 9 Max Pepper, 1 Will Elliott, 2 Toby Peach, 3 Oscar Caudle, 4 Ben Robson, 5 Henry Schmid, 6 Freddie Lockwood, 7 Will Pettifer, 8 Mason Lewthwaite.

Replacements: 16 Adam Hay, 17 Walid Kurdi, 18 Drew Thompson, 19 Owen Vassallo, 20 Paddy Cooper, 21 Callum Pascoe, 22 Will Roberts, 23 George Barber.



Leicester Tigers:

15 Freddie Steward, 14 Leo Gilliland, 13 Ronnie Du Rant, 12 Matt Potts, 11 Joe Browning, 10 Harry Glynn, 9 Jack Van Poortvliet, 1 Alex Maxwell, 2 Shaun Allsopp, 3 James Whitcombe, 4 Tom Manz, 5 George Martin, 6 Kit Smith, 7 Samuel Eveleigh (c), 8 Oliver Ashworth.

Replacements: 16 Archie Vanes, 17 Bob Singer, 18 Jack Rowntree, 19 Will Backhouse, 20 Emeka Ilione, 21 Sam Edwards, 22 Sam Costelow, 23 Ben Dickinson.



Sale Sharks:
15 Cal Grieve, 14 Evan Powell, 13 Dan Kelly, 12 Tom Curtis, 11 Tom Roebuck, 10 Will Davies, 9 Raffi Quirke (c), 1 Harry Harding, 2 Ben Patchett, 3 James Harper, 4 Sam Higginson, 5 Ewan Murphy, 6 Ollie Leatherbarrow, 7 Joe Johnson, 8 Ethan Caine.

Replacements: Wilkinson, Clarke, Bishop, Fishwick, Hadland, Ainscough Gourlay, O Melville, Thomas, C Melville.



Wasps:

15 Baker, 14 Baldwin, 13 Ma’asi, 12 Dunn, 11 Williams, 10 Mitchell, 9 Mortimer, 1 Coombs, 2 Nearchou, 3 Sabin, 4 Ademuwagun, 5 Mawdsley, 6 Tunney (c), 7 Eckersley, 8 Jakobsen.

Replacements: 16 Watkins, 17 Beckett, 18 Munro, 19 Kenyon, 20 Pichardie, 21 Monye, 22 Hughes, 23 Edeh.



Yorkshire Carnegie:

15 Joe Carpenter (Woodhouse Grove), 14 Ollie Williams (Ripon GS), 13 Luke Fairbank (Woodhouse Grove), 12 Jack Metcalfe (Bishop Burton College), 11 Jack Cherry (QEGS Wakefield), 10 Dan Lancaster (Bishop Burton College, vc), 9 Theo Smerdon (Ampleforth College), 1 Conner Hancock (Bishop Burton College), 2 Madison Hunting (Myerscough College), 3 Billy Addy (Bishop Burton College), 4 Angus Haswell (Hymers College), 5 Steele Barker (Durham), 6 Ben Sugars (Grammar School at Leeds), 7 Archie Smeaton (Hymers College, c), 8 Will Smith Queen Elizabeth 6th form College).

Replacements: 16 Lawrence Mason (Sedbergh), 17 Sam Ives (Crossley Heath), 18 Will Prichard (St John Fisher), 19 Ted Wainwright (Ripon GS), 20 Harry Cartwright (Bishop Burton College), 21 Ben Taylor (Bishop Burton College), 22 Ben MacNamara (Pocklington), 23 Harry Matthews (Pocklington).

Travelling Reserves: James Malcolmson & Oren Loftus (both Queen Ethelburga’s).



Worcester Warriors:

15 Finn Morgan (Bromsgrove), 14 Tom Matthews (RGS Worcester), 13 Paul Wells (Stourport HS), 12 Sebastien Atkinson (Bromsgrove), 11 Tom O’Hanlon (Solihull), 10 Finn Smith (Warwick), 9 Harry Mitcham (Stourport HS), 1 Lewis Holsey (Solihull), 2 Jon Lilly (Stourport HS), 3 Lewis Ballinger (Stourport HS), 4 Jack Goodwin (Hartpury College), 5 Jack Forsythe (Warwick), 6 Finn Thomas (Oldbury Wells), 7 Will Higgins (Idsall), 8 Morgan Monks (Stourport HS).

Replacements: 16 Ben Turner (Bromsgrove), 17 Monty Royston (Hartpury College), 18 Jaime Constantine (Hartpury College), 19 Owen McDougall (Solihull), 20 Ewen Guy (Bromsgrove), 21 TBC, 22 Peter Olley (Bromsgrove), 23 Lewis Maddox (Bromsgrove).



Gloucester:

15 Brooke Turner, 14 Oli Parmar, 13 Louis Hilman-Cooper, 12 Isaac Marsh, 11 Max Fletcher, 10 George Barton, 9 Matty Jones, 1 Harry Fry, 2 Ethan Hunt, 3 Jenson Boughton, 4 Archie Benson, 5 Freddie Thomas, 6 Joe Howard (c), 7 Josh Gray, 8 Jack Clement.

Replacements: 16 Leyton Chambers, 17 Rowan Mullis, 18 Harry Daynes, 19 Archie Tarbuck, 20 Harry Taylor, 2. Harry Gipson, 22 Tommy Mathews, 23 Brad Morgan.

Travelling Reserves: Reading, Lerwell, Howells.



Saracens:

15 Max Bliss (Dulwich College), 14 Daniel James (Townsend C of E), 13 Cameron Furley (St Albans), 12 Josh Hallett (New Hall), 11 Jake Morris (Bishop Stortford College), 10 Josh Barton (Berkhamsted), 9 Sam Bryan (Felsted), 1 Jevaughn Warren (Oaklands College), 2 Theodore Dan (Alleyn’s), 3 Harvey Beaton (Sutton Valence), 4 Alex Wardell (Felsted), 5 George Whalley (Felsted), 6 Ethan Benson (Hayes), 7 Toby Knight (Berkhamsted), 8 Oliver Stonham (Felsted, c)

Replacements: 16 Edward Holroyd (Haileybury), 17 Tom Brearley (Dulich College), 18 Harry Sturge (Felsted), 19 Toby Ponsford (Skinners), 20 Matt Mahoney (Mill Hill), 21 Jacob Buckley (Eltham College), 22 Brandon Jackson (Sutton Valence), 23 Harrison Obatoyinbo (Harrow).



Harlequins (from):

Forwards:

S Riley (St George’s College), J Salomon (Caterham), A Salomon (Whitgift), F Baxter (Wellington College), D. Thomas (Hurstpierpoint College), P Green (Seaford College), S Davies (Cranleigh), E Powell (Brighton College), E Croy (Dulwich College), H Dugmore (Whitgift), T Scalabrini (Wellington College), J Reid (Wellington College), W Trenholm (Cranleigh).

Backs:

M Davies (Dulwich College), L Smith (Brighton College), J Williams (Harrodian), L Anyanwu (Christ’s Hospital), J Haynes (Epsom College), L Lynagh (Hampton), H Hyde (Cranleigh), O Beard (Cranleigh), A Clayton (Brighton College), A Barry (Hampton).



Bristol Bears:

15 Tom Wilstead, 14 Chay Mullins, 13 Tom Jones (c), 12 Harry Ascherl, 11 Jack Bates, 10 Ioan Lloyd, 9 Blake Boyland, 1 Sean Ihegie, 2 Joel Coughlin, 3 Jay Burley, 4 Charlie Rice, 5 Andrew Watson, 6 Harry Chase, 7 Ben Tothill, 8 Fergus Dick.

Replacements: 16 Charlie Squier, 17 Aaron Thompson, 18 Harry Samuel, 19 Spencer Power, 20 Andrew Hewitt, 21 Tom Stephens, 22 Tom Quinlan, 23 Freddie Wooler.



London Irish: TBA



Exeter Chiefs: TBA

[Tigersman]

Current results
Gloucester rugby 28 - 12 Saracens
Yorkshire 31 - 12 Worcester
Harlequins 48 - 0 Bristol
Newcastle 14 - 66 Leicester Tigers (66 points in 70 minutes is a pretty good result)
Can't find the irish exeter

[Epaminondas Pules]

Current results
Gloucester rugby 28 - 12 Saracens
Yorkshire 31 - 12 Worcester
Harlequins 48 - 0 Bristol
Newcastle 14 - 66 Leicester Tigers (66 points in 70 minutes is a pretty good result)
Can't find the irish exeter

Againts Newcastle who are quite fancied this year. They have a very good backline and we pulverised them.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Oh and Wasps playing Nearchou at hooker is very interesting. Had an enormous season for Radley playing tighthead!

He’s not hard to spot.......

[Tigersman]

Sale beat wasps 43-17

[fivepointer]

Irish beat Exeter 36-20

They had a Cokanasiga and a Joseph turning out for them.

[Tigersman]

Tigers highlights.

[Tigersman]

Tigers beat Saints
53 - 12 at Bedford.

[Which Tyler]

Bath 64 - 7 Exeter

[Tigersman]

Bath 64 - 7 Exeter

very good win.
Will be tough for Exeter U18's with the amount of players that moved up and are incoming.

[Which Tyler]

Twas another match with an old, familiar club name (Ojomo Jr got on the score card)

[fivepointer]

Other results -
Quins 43 L Irish 26
Bristol 14 Glos 50
Sale 19 Yorkshire 19
Wasps 42 Wuss 31

Quins and Tigers shaping up to be the teams to watch.

[Which Tyler]

Tigs and Glos the only teams to win away from home so far.
Glos, Bath, Tigs and Tigs have all put 50+ on their oponents.
I would expect home advatnage and runs of confidence to be even bigger factors in U18 than they are in seniors.

[Tigersman]

Twas another match with an old, familiar club name (Ojomo Jr got on the score card)

More and more coming through.
Tigers yeseterday had
A Whitecombe
A Rowntree
A Hardwick
3 sons of former International props all playing prop.

[Mellsblue]

Twas another match with an old, familiar club name (Ojomo Jr got on the score card)

More and more coming through.
Tigers yeseterday had
A Whitecombe
A Rowntree
A Hardwick
3 sons of former International props all playing prop.

All with a first initial of A, as well. Weird.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Twas another match with an old, familiar club name (Ojomo Jr got on the score card)

Young Max is a very handy centre!! We do have a plethora of centres with real talent in this age group.

[Which Tyler]

If only there was a Bracken Jr kicking about somewhere

[Epaminondas Pules]

If only there was a Bracken Jr kicking about somewhere

There is, but he’s U12’s at the moment.

[Doorzetbornandbred]

Bath 64 - 7 Exeter

very good win.
Will be tough for Exeter U18's with the amount of players that moved up and are incoming.

Ive been watching the video of that game and the Bath side were outstanding. Knowing players on both sides in the game the Exeter boys have had all notions of expressing themselves coached out of them, the Bath boys on the other hand...
Exeter have not picked several lads around Devon and Kernow who are better than some of those lads picked in the Academy squad.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Tigers beat Wasps today 34 v 7, with 5 tries. That’s full possible points from the first three games for Tigers!

[fivepointer]

Weekends results
Glos 23 Bath 22
Leicester 34 Wasps 7
Bristol 17 Exeter 21
Newcastle 22 Yorkshire 14
Saracens 12 Quins 26
Worcester 19 Saints 24

Glos, Leicester and Quins are 3 wins from 3

[Tigersman]

Really pleased with how the Tigers team is doing, some serious talent (Despite what England selectors might think)
Will be very disappointed if we don't keep at least
Whitecombe
Martin
Eveleigh
Law
Costelow
Du Randt
Browning
Phoneix
Steward

[Epaminondas Pules]

Really pleased with how the Tigers team is doing, some serious talent (Despite what England selectors might think)
Will be very disappointed if we don't keep at least
Whitecombe
Martin
Eveleigh
Law
Costelow
Du Randt
Browning
Phoneix
Steward

Martin and Steward look really handy. Got a soft spot for Ronnie Du Randt. He went to school with my boys and his mom was my youngest’s favourite teacher. He’s a lovely lad. Even if he is a saffer

[Which Tyler]

Bath 77 - 17 Bristol

[fivepointer]

Glos 27 Quins 26 - Glos score 3 tries in last 5 minutes to win.
Tigers 27 Sale 24
Saints 10 Newcastle 41
Yorkshire 5 Wasps 50