 Lancashire’s Under 11s & 12s
BARCLAYS Mini Festival Cup
The Under 11s and Under 12s County Competition begins with the publication of the 2008/09 entry form. Following a regional knock-out based on three local ‘conference’ areas it concludes with an end-of-season Festival, on Sunday 30th March.
Club fixture secretaries are to agree between themselves an appropriate date to hold the triangular series of matches. For obvious reasons, these dates should be arranged earlier, rather than later, avoiding deteriorating weather.
The structure and rules are intended to be very simple: an extension of the Under 12s’ & Under 11s’ calendar, playing the normal Continuum rules (i.e. now at Under 12s with 6 forwards, refer to the Lancashire or RFU websites). Other than for the Festival itself, team sheets will not be required, but Youth Registration cards should be shown and agreed by the respective clubs before the match commences. Squads for the triangular stages will not be limited, but a selection will have to be made for the Festival, probably to a maximum of 18.
Depending on the numbers applying, (1) there may sides drawn with a BYE or a Preliminary Round, worked on either a one-off game or on a round-robin basis, to determine the places for Round One in the respective ‘conference’ areas. The winners (to be played by Sunday, 25th November) will progress to Round Two (to be played by Sunday, 16th March) whilst the runners up will progress to the alternate, secondary element of the Festival on the same day.
Alternatively, depending on numbers, (2) the matches on the two dates may be combined to provide the necessary sides to progress to the Festival.
Applications to date are acknowledged on the website (above), as will the competition’s progress through the season. Success in this event will be reflected in the seeding for the Junior Challenge Under 13s’ draw for 2009/10.
All Coaches, Managers and other supervising adults involved are expected to have been CRB cleared, and all participating players must be registered under the club’s name with the Youth Registrar and cleared to allow photographs to be taken during the competitions, celebrating the performances of the players involved (by signing the necessary clearance).
|
RFU.com 
Clubs Near Me
