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Rovers step into Fairfax Cup breach

Posted on Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:55PM by Webmaster
FEATHERSTONE Rovers will compete for the front line Fairfax Cup in Saturday’s York Nines Festival after the National League Two side were promoted in the wake of Espagne Origine’s withdrawal from the competition. Origine, winners of the 2006 Lézignan-Corbières Nines, had been highly fancied to make an impact on their debut at the York Festival. However, with several of their leading players drawn from the French Elite competition sidelined with injury, Origine have declined to send an under strength team to the Festival and instead opened up space for Featherstone to move into the top competition. Rovers, who were knocked out in the group stage of last year’s Festival, had originally been placed in the Archbishop Dolben Cup competition. They will now take Espagne Origine’s place in Group 1 of the Fairfax Cup alongside holders York City Knights, French Elite club Lyon-Villeurbanne-Rhone and York Ironsides. They will now compete for the £2000 prize awarded to the Fairfax Cup winners, who will have their trophy presented to them by Wakefield Trinity’s international duo Jamie Rooney and Olivier Elima. The resulting vacancy in the Archbishop Dolben Cup has been filled by 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, known more commonly as “1 SCOTS”. 1 SCOTS are the current Army Inter-Unit Nines champions, beating 3rd Batallion the Yorkshire Regiment – “3 YORKS” in last week’s final. 1 SCOTS have a fine track record in Army rugby, as Army rugby union Sevens champions between 2001 and 2006 and champions of the rugby league Scottish Summer Conference in 2004, which qualified them to play in the preliminary round of the 2005 Challenge Cup only for the Battalion to be forced to pull out after being deployed to Iraq.
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