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Performance Centes
Venues
There will be 7 Performance Centres which will be accessible from the home address for players in the South. Those at boarding school may request any centre nationally.
The prime venues for these sites are, though there will be some sessions away from the base location:
| Guildford | Charterhouse School |
Charterhouse Road, Godalming, GU7 2RS | |
| Northwood | Merchant Taylors' School | Moor Park, Northwood, HA6 2HT | operated by the East |
| Reading | Reading HC |
Sonning Lane, Sonning, RG4 6ST | |
| South Midlands | Warwick School | Banbury Road, Warwick, CV34 6PP | operated by the Midlands |
| Southampton | Wellington Sports Groud (KES) | Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh SO50 9HT | |
| Tonbridge | Tonbridge School | London Road, Tonbridge, TN10 3AD | |
| Weybridge | St George's College | Weybridge Road, Addlestone, KT15 2QS | Evenings: No admittance on-site before 18:30 |
2019-20 Dates
The PC programme for 2019-20 has been stopped due to the Covid-19 pandemic, though there may be an event in the Futures' Cup slot for selected players.
2020-21 Dates
All sessions in the South were suspended to allow additional Covid precautions to be put in place. We are hoping to run U17 sessions at Guildford (Boys 09:30, Girls 13:30) and Tonbridge (both 12:30). We are working towards restarting other centres from 28 September. Though due to the size of the squads the under 17s will need the whole pitch and there will be changes to the schedule below.
A draft schedule was produced before the pandemic, It is liable to change and in addition some of the early sessions may become orientated towrds selection.
| Monday Evenings | Boys | 05 Oct | 19 Oct |
09 Nov |
16 Nov |
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| 18 Jan | 01 Feb | 22 Feb | 15 Mar | ||||
| Girls | 28 Sep |
12 Oct |
02 Nov |
23 Nov |
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| 25 Jan |
08 Feb |
08 Mar |
22 Mar |
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| All Day Training | All | 13 Sep |
20 Sep |
02 May |
03 Jul |
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| Match Practice | All | 03 Jan | 28 Feb |
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| Cluster Competition | All | 18 Apr |
20 Jun |
10 Jul |
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| U15 Selection Day | U14** |
13 Jun | |||||
| U17 Selection Day | AC *** | various |
| ** | for all existing PC players and nominees from AC eligible for the U15 in 2021-22 (ie those born 2007 and 2008) |
| *** | these sessions are for nominees from AC only, the main sessions are likely to be on 27 Jun, there may be others |
| Futures' Cup is at St Albans from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 August (Bank Holiday weekend), the prep day is Sunday 22 August at a centre relevant to your cluster. |
Replacement Sessions
These sessions replace sessions that were cancelled due to the weather:
- none
Session Times
Monday Evenings
Other than those listed below, all Monday sessions at base location. Session times are:
| Reading | 19:15-21:15 | |
| Southampton | 18:30-20:30 | |
| Others | 19:00-21:00 |
Weekend Training
All sessions are at the centre's base location unless indicated.
Downloadable versions by cohort for 2020-21 are available, please click as appropriate:
| Boys | Guildford |
Reading |
Southampton |
Tonbridge |
Weybridge | ||
| Girls | Guildford | Reading | Southampton | Tonbridge | Weybridge | ||
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| Cluster | Leopards | Lynx | Tigers |
Match Venues
Match venues not in the either list of centres above are:
| Bath University | Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY |
| Clifton College | Abbots' Leigh, Bristol BS8 3QD |
| Cokethorpe | Hardwick, Witney, OX29 7PU |
| Haberashers' Askes | Butterfly Lane, Elstree, WD6 3AF |
| King's School, Taunton | South Road, Taunton TA1 3LA |
| Oaklands College | Smallford, Hatfield Road, Oaklands, St Albans AL4 0JA |
| Old Loughtonians | Roding SC, Luxborough Lane, Chigwell IG7 5AB |
| Leeds | Weetwood Sports Park Ring Road, Weetwood LS16 5AU |
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Futures' Cup 2020
Futures' Cup in its usual format will not run. EH are investigating whether it is possibe to run an event, maybe more of a training camp, at St Albans dates from Wednesday 26 to Saturday 29 August (Bank Holiday weekend), the prep day is Sunday 23 August. Prep day venues:
| Wessex Leopards | tba |
| Mercia Lynx | tba |
| Pennine Pumas | tba |
| Saxon Tigers | tba |
Selection for Futures' Cup will be announced: tba.
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