U 18s League Fixtures released

Tigers Academy Under 18s will open the defence of their Northern Conference Title  with a trip to the north west to face their Sale counter parts on Saturday October 26th.

Last season Tigers' cubs romped to a 100% record of 6 bonus point wins from 6 and this year's age group will look to emulate the 2012/13 team and go one better as Leicester Tigers UltraSubMarines understands that there will be a final with the Southern Conference Champions to crown inaugural national U 18s champions.

After the trip to Sale Tigers welcome Worcester and Northampton to Oval Park in consecutive weekends in December before traveling to Gloucester then Leeds in January.  They round off the league by playing Newcastle in February.

Unfortunately last year's double header of the Gloucester U-18 game with the Wasps LV Cup game can not be repeated as there are away games on the 21 December and the 8 February, whilst Montpellier has already been confirmed for Sunday 15 December.

To be eligible for the league games players must be born no earlier than September 1995; 3 "over age" players are also allowed so long as they are still 18 years old.

26 October Sale (A)
14 December Worcester (H)
21 December Northampton (H)
4 January Gloucester (A)
18 January Leeds (A)
8 February Newcastle (H)

Academy League Games confirmed

Tigers have confirmed their schedule for the forthcoming Academy League.  As revealed here Tigers have home games against Leeds on December 15th and Sale on February 9th. The other home game is against Gloucester on January 19th.  Venues are yet to be confirmed.

All games:
December 15 Leeds Home
December 22 Worcester Away
January 13 Newcastle Away
January 19 Gloucester Home
February 9 Sale Home
February 16 Northampton Away

It will be interesting to compare these scores to our games against Moseley and Bedford two sides whose academies have not been invited to take part.

Further academy games confirmed

The drip feed of fixtures for the new academy league continues as Leeds have announced they are playing away to Leicester on December 15th, though the venue has yet to be confirmed.

The league mirrors the A league with a Northern and Southern Conferences, though to balance out Saracens are apparently Northern! The league is for Under 18s (those born in 1994 or later) with three U-19 players allowed provided they have not reached their 19th birthday.

Fixtures so far:
Home to Leeds, December 15th
Home to Sale February 9th

Other weekends are confirmed as 

22 December
12 January
19 January
2 February
16 February