Regional Pathway Teams in action this weekend

U18 Pro-Alignment (Boys) 

Following last week’s Pro-Alignment fixtures, Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors’ U18 sides travel away to face Coventry and Ealing Trailfinders respectively this Saturday 21 February.  

Edinburgh Rugby U18 & Glasgow Warriors U18 boys team sheets are available here:

• Edinburgh Rugby U18 Boys
• Glasgow Warriors U18 Boys 

U17 Pro-Alignment (Boys) 

Having competed in the first U17 Pro-Alignment festival last weekend against Coventry U17, Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors U17 teams face each other on Sunday (4:30pm kick-off).  

Team sheets are available here.

U16 Inter-District (Boys) 

The Boys’ U16 Inter-District programme gets underway on Sunday with a festival involving two teams from each of the four districts – Caledonia, Edinburgh, South and Glasgow. The teams from each district have been selected using modified bio-banding approach, which looks at the physical maturation of players. 

Similar to systems implemented in football by the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal and Southampton, the continued pilot of bio-banding will see the use of physical maturation data to help group players into a less and more physically mature team within their districts, allowing coaches to see their players in a different set of parameters. Please read more about Scottish Rugby’s approach in this area here. 

191 players, representing 74 unique clubs and schools are represented across the four districts. 

Team sheets are available here.

Jamie Dempsey, Regional Pathway & Game Development Lead Manager said “The modified bio-banding approach at the U16 boys festival gives coaches a new lens on talent by grouping players according to physical maturation, helping ensure late and on-time developers get seen and challenged appropriately, not just those who are currently biggest or strongest.” 

U16 fixtures:

Glasgow #1 v South #1 (10am kick-off)

Edinburgh #1 v Caledonia #1 (10:30am kick-off)

Glasgow #1 v Edinburgh #1 (11am kick-off)

South #1 v Caledonia #1 (11:30am kick-off)

Glasgow #1 v Caledonia #1 (12pm kick-off)

South #1 v Edinburgh #1 (12:30pm kick-off)

Glasgow #2 v South #2 (1pm kick-off)

Edinburgh #2 v Caledonia #2 (1:30pm kick-off)

Glasgow #2 v Edinburgh #2 (2pm kick-off)

South #2 v Caledonia #2 (2:30pm kick-off)

Glasgow #2 v Caledonia #2 (3pm kick-off)

South #2 v Edinburgh #2 (3:30pm kick-off)

Photos by Mark Scates / SNS Group.