Just two games stand between The Skinners’ School and the glamour of a Twickenham cup final.
If there was ever a time to make home advantage tell, Tuesday’s Daily Mail under-18 Cup quarter-final is surely it, as RGS Newcastle make the 624-mile round-trip to Royal Tunbridge Wells to fight for a place in the last four.
Since crushing St Roger Manwood’s School 55-0 back in September, Skinners’ have battled their way through five rounds to reach this stage, most recently on January 20 when they edged out Hampton School 15-12 at their Southfields ground.
Nick Oldham, head of PE and sport at Skinners’, admitted the excitement around the school was intense.
He said: “This is a massive game for the boys. Home advantage is crucial for us because they’ll have travelled all the way down from Newcastle. That will knock them out of their stride a bit and we’ve got to make it all count for us.”
Either Warwick School or Buckingham’s Stowe School await the winners of Tuesday’s game.
Kick-off on Tuesday is at 2pm.
POSTED: 07/02/2010 09:00:00
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