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Daily Mail RBS 2009/10


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Daily Mail Schools’ becomes Daily Mail RBS Schools’

 

The Daily Mail, sponsors of the Daily Mail Schools Knock Out Competitions have the perfect new sponsor and partner in RBS who have signed up to support this successful Schoolboy contest.

 

The England Rugby Football Schools Union Knock Out Competitions will now become the Daily Mail RBS Schools’ Knock Out Competitions.

 

RBS who have backed the Six Nations tournament for the past six years commented, 'RBS are excited to be involved in these great tournaments,' (said David Webb, Head of Group Sponsorship). 'They have an impressive heritage and a proven track record of helping to produce top class players, as well as providing so many benefits to everyone involved at all levels’. 'We hope to make them even better and look forward to helping rugby reach more young people than ever.'

 

The ERFSU and RFU are looking forward to working along side RBS with the Knock Out Competitions and envisages a relationship that is prosperous for Schoolboy Rugby at all levels of the game.

DAILY MAIL RBS SCHOOLS COMPETITION INFORMATION

We would like to draw everyone’s attention to Regulation 4 of the Daily Mail RBS Schools Competition Regulations 2009/2010, Eligibility of Players.

 Please note the following;

 Under 15 Competition – players must be Under 15 years of age at midnight on the 31st August/1st September 2009, therefore if their birthday is before 31st August 1994 they are too old to compete in this Under 15 Competition.

 

Under 18 Competition – players must be Under 18 years of age at midnight on the 31st August/1st September 2009, therefore if their birthday is before 31st August 1991 they are too old to compete in this Under 18 Competition.  

 

Welcome to the 2009/2010 Daily Mail RBS Schools' Competition. As before all draws will be available first here on the Daily Mail RBS Schools section on the RFU website, please see the link below available in due course.



In line with the RFU communication policy introduced this season, we will keep postal send outs to a minimum (which given the postal strikes last autumn is probably a good thing). Therefore please ensure that any email address supplied is operational and will be checked on a regular basis.

Please see the below table which details the round dates for the 2009/2010 seasons Daily Mail RBS Schools Competition.

Participating schools are reminded that these dates must be adhered to, you have from the Monday through to the Sunday of the regulated week to play the fixture and only in exceptional circumstances will the Organising Committee allow a match to be played outside the regulated week. Please build these round dates into your fixtures for the 2009/2010 season.

Scheduling matches outside the regulated week can be detrimental not only to the competition but also to other fixtures in the structured season (e.g. county matches). 

DAILY MAIL RBS SCHOOLS COMPETITION ROUND DATESFOR 2009/2010

DATE

U18 CUP

U18 VASE

U15 CUP

U15 VASE

Wed 16 Sept 09

Round 1

 

 

Round 1

 

Wed 30 Sept 09

Round 2

Round 1

Round 2

Round 1

Wed 14 Oct 09

Round 3

Round 2

Round 3

Round 2

Wed 11 Nov 09

Round 4

Round 3

Round 4

Round 3

Wed 25 Nov 09

Round 5

Round 4

Round 5

Round 4

Wed 9 Dec 09

Round 6

Round 5

Round 6

Round 5

Wed 13 Jan  10

 

Round 6

 

Round 6

Wed 20 Jan 10

Round 7

Round 7

Round 7

Round 7

Wed 10 Feb 10

Quarter Finals

Quarter Finals

Quarter Finals

Quarter Finals

Sat 27 Feb 10

Semi Finals 

 

 

Sun 28 Feb 10

 

Semi Finals 

 

Sat 06 Mar 10

 

 

Semi Finals 

 

Sun 07 Mar 10

 

 

 

Semi Finals 

Wed 31 March 10

Final

Final

Final

Final


a)                    All rounds to be played in specified weeks.
b)                    Flexibility within week as stated but not beyond week ending (Sunday).
c)                    Semi-Finals & Finals subject to change.


Changes for 2009/2010

As you can no doubt imagine England Rugby Football Schools Union (ERFSU) takes the management of the Daily Mail RBS cup competitions very seriously and is continuously considering ways in which to improve the experiencefor all our key stakeholders – player, teachers, coaches, supporters and sponsor. Please see the Daily Mail RBS Schools Competition Regulations 2009 2010, available in due course on the link at the end of the webpage.


The Ethos of Rugby

Last Season we were compelled to write about the spectator behaviour during the Daily Mail RBS Schools Semi Finals and Finals. Although the level of behaviour at these events improved this season I must urge everyone involved with Rugby to stay vigilant against all behaviour that detracts from the ethos of Rugby. For those with any association in the sport or rugby football, two of the key values we treasure are mutual respect and self-discipline. Regrettably there's a growing tendency among the supporters from schools to disregard these values by jeering and whistling during attempts at goal. Whilst this may seem a somewhat petty point on which to focus, if we allow this trend to continue unchecked we will quickly lose the very sporting ethos that marks the game out from other sports. Therefore we again would like to make this plea to all schools that you do your utmost to instil into your pupils the essence of mutual respect and self-discipline that for so long has been associated with the game so that those who feel the urge to put their opponents by whistling and jeering are ostracised by their colleagues.
Please see the links below for the latest Daily Mail RBS Schools Competition info.

 


 

Daily Mail RBS Latest News

U15 Competition Application Form 2009/10 season

U18 Competition Application Form 2009/10 season

Collegiate School Status Application Form 2009/10 season

Post-16 Catchment Area Application Form 2009/10 season

Jim Hooleys latest reports (please note that the RFU  has no control over other websites content).