... London Skolars Away (Northern Rail Cup)

Former York player and London Skolars assistant coach Callum Irving became the youngest coach in the 'professional' game when he was appointed head coach of the Skolars for the start of the 2009 season.

Many of the players available to Irving will not be the most familiar of names to the Dons supporters but one who certainly is would be Austin Aggrey, a former Academy Player of the Season at Doncaster who made a handful of first team fixtures in the St John Ellis era before relocating to London. Aggrey is likely to start in his favoured position on the wing.

Other wingers available are Olu Iwenofu and Corey Simms. Simms joined from South London Storm having been a product of Oxford Cavaliers in the RL Conference, being named RLC Young Player of the Year in 2002. Simms can also operate at full back as can New Zealander Frank Reid.

The likely centre partnership is that of Ollie Fountain and Ollie Bloom, the latter who is a recent acquisition from Harlequins.

The choice of half backs would seem to be between Paul Thorman, the younger brother of SL-star Chris, Danny Burke and Australian utility Chad Isles. Jermaine Coleman being unavailable due to a knee injury.

Starting prop forwards could well be Dave Ellison and Paul Hyder with Graeme Spencer and Tony Williams (another ex Harlequin) being other options. Spencers fellow Tongan Glen Osbourne is still a few weeks away from a return.

The hooker is likely to be Gareth Honor with the other option being Tongan understudy Orrieso Agbareh.

Options for second row and loose forward include Matt Thomas, Dene Miller, Ben Joyce, Andre Vine and another couple of Tongans Jaymes Chapman and Bobby Wallis.

Other players who could be involved include Keir Bell, Australian Leigh Tyler-Nissen and Fijian forward Jaraslaw Obuchowski.

Sorry to brust the bubble however the following players are not Tongan at all:

Graeme Spencer
Glen Osbourne
Orrieso Agbareh
Fijian forward Jaraslaw Obuchowski (Jerry is actually Polish)
Jaymes Chapman and Bobby Wallis (as english as you can get)

It would be great if we did have a couple of tongan or fijian players in the squad however this is not the case.

The club has gone with english homegrown players and not relying on the overseas imports, backpacker type players that usually come to the club.
The team is young and willing but lack the experience an guile of a couple of players in key positions. They should give a good account for themsleves and provide a good test for your boys.
Hope you guys enjoy the day tomorrow.

In truth, I've never struggled for info about a Club and it's players (plus matchday info such as Admission Prices) as much I have with the Skolars but thanks for setting the record straight. Perhaps someone could ideally get some info on the Club website or even update Wikipedia Skolars. Note to self - Do not trust Wikipedia. Apologies for using misinformation. Talking of Websites and Wikipedia perhaps someone could get our data updated.

In truth, I've never struggled for info about a Club and it's players (plus matchday info such as Admission Prices) as much I have with the Skolars but thanks for setting the record straight. Perhaps someone could ideally get some info on the Club website or even update Wikipedia Skolars. Note to self - Do not trust Wikipedia. Apologies for using misinformation. Talking of Websites and Wikipedia perhaps someone could get our data updated.

Done.

no sweat....i have been seeing on here other people have been having the same trouble about getting info from Skolars.
Its a shame about that though as we all should be trying to promote the game together weather we come from North or South.
Just PM me if you need any info about the club, and I will try my best to get the info for you.
Good luck today...hope its a good game.

Cheers.

Thanks - we were obviously happy with our result. Good luck for the remainder of the season.