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Elite Welsh outfit announced as seventh side to take part in World Schools Festival

Cardiff and Vale

Cardiff and Vale College (CAVC) are the latest elite side to be announced as a part of the World Schools Festival in Thailand from December 11-18.

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Despite only setting their rugby programme up in 2016 as a partnership and development programme with Cardiff Rugby, CAVC have vast experience in the world of the highly-competitive Welsh schoolboy scene.

A notable 28 alumni have put on the Three Feathers to represent the Welsh U18s or the Welsh Senior 7s and over 100 have represented Cardiff Rugby in on an academy or professional level, including Welsh cap Ben Thomas. The facilities on offer are second-to-none, with the chance to play on the iconic Cardiff Arms Park just a regular occurrence for the boys in Blue and Black. Head Coach Martyn Fowler has a wealth of knowledge and experience, from coaching in the Principality Premiership to BUCS Super Rugby League and Cardiff RFC.

The squad from South Wales will fly to Thailand off the back of being winners of the Welsh Schools and Colleges Cup in December 2021. They emerged victorious in their final at the Principality Stadium in a tight affair, taking the spoils against a battle-hardened Llandovery College team. A number of these players now are in their final year at CAVC, and will get the opportunity to show what they can do on an even bigger stage at the World Schools Festival.

This season it has been more of the same, as CAVC have built a formidable reputation, and the hope is that they dish out a few metaphorical bloody noses to their esteemed opponents.

The side beat Llandovery College for the Welsh Championship
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They face familiar foes in the form of Millfield, Sedbergh and Trinity, and from St Michael’s from Dublin. From further afield, they will face Springbok production-line Grey College and Hamilton Boys’ High School, New Zealand.

With just one more Cup team to be announced, the task of winning the festival became that much harder, with the introduction of Cardiff and Vale College.

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JW 1 hour ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Where? I remember saying "unders"? The LNR was formed by the FFR, if I said that in a way that meant the 'pro' side of the game didn't have an equal representation/say as the 'amateur' side (FFR remit) that was not my intent.


But also, as it is the governing body, it also has more responsibility. As long as WR looks at FFR as the running body for rugby in France, that 'power' will remain. If the LNR refuses to govern their clubs use of players to enable a request by FFR (from WR) to ensure it's players are able to compete in International rugby takes place they will simply remove their participation. If the players complain to the France's body, either of their health and safety concerns (through playing too many 'minutes' etc) or that they are not allowed to be part in matches of national interest, my understanding is action can be taken against the LNR like it could be any other body/business. I see where you're coming from now re EPCR and the shake up they gave it, yes, that wasn't meant to be a separate statement to say that FFR can threaten them with EPCR expulsion by itself, simply that it would be a strong repercussion for those teams to be removed (no one would want them after the above).


You keep bringing up these other things I cannot understand why. Again, do you think if the LNR were not acting responsibly they would be able to get away with whatever they want (the attitude of these posters saying "they pay the players")? You may deem what theyre doing currently as being irresponsible but most do not. Countries like New Zealand have not even complained about it because they've never had it different, never got things like windfall TV contracts from France, so they can't complain because theyre not missing out on anything. Sure, if the French kept doing things like withholding million dollar game payments, or causing millions of dollars of devaluation in rights, they these things I'm outlining would be taking place. That's not the case currently however, no one here really cares what the French do. It's upto them to sort themselves out if they're not happy. Now, that said, if they did make it obvious to World Rugby that they were never going to send the French side away (like they possibly did stating their intent to exclude 20 targeted players) in July, well then they would simply be given XV fixtures against tier 2 sides during that window and the FFR would need to do things like the 50/50 revenue split to get big teams visiting in Nov.

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