Northampton Saints - News : Academy coaches select two teams ahead of Loughborough and Leeds fixtures

14 October 2005, 9:55 am

Academy coaches select two teams ahead of Loughborough and Leeds fixtures

The youngsters will travel to Loughborough tomorrow

Northampton Saints RFU Academy coaches have selected two teams for two upcoming games against Loughborough University and Leeds second team. An Academy team will play Loughborough at the unversity at noon tomorrow and the Wanderers will play Leeds at Franklin's Gardens on Monday - KO 7.30pm. A number of other Wanderers and Academy team friendly fixtures have been added to the season ahead.

Tomorrow's team is made up for members of the senior and junior Academy and the starting XV is as follows:

ACADEMY:

15 Tom Elliott
14 Will Harries
13 Ashley Maggs
12 Adam Barnard
11 Paul Diggin
10 Ben Patston
9 Julian Bishop
1 Basil Heliasmenos
2 Mike Wernham
3 Max Malkin
4 Tom Powell
5 Alex Rae
6 Mark Easter
7 Jamie Supple
8 Clayton Kelly

The Wanderers team for Monday (and I promise when many more team sheets will be produced to cope with extra demand!) includes 11 first team squad members, including Ben Lewitt who wil be making his return from a knee injury.

WANDERERS:

15 Paul Diggin
14 Andy Vilk
13 Seamus Mallon
12 Rhodri Davies
11 John Rudd
10 Luke Myring
9 Johnny Howard
1 Luke Harbut
2 Dylan Hartley
3 Brett Sturgess
4 Matt Lord
5 Grant Seely (capt)
6 Alex Rae
7 Ben Lewitt
8 Mark Hopley

Monday's game against Leeds is part of the Guinness A League, but the Academy have added some friendly fixtures to give the younger players more game-time.

Academy v Rotherham U21s (A) - Saturday, October 29 - KO noon - Herringthorpe

Wanderers v Saracens (H) - Monday, November 7 - KO 7.30pm - Franklin's Gardens

Wanderers v Saracens (A) - Monday, November 21 - KO 7.30pm - St Albans RFC

Academy v Leicester (A) - Monday, November 28 - KO 7pm - Welford Road

Your support, as always, would be appreciated at all of these fixtures.