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Adam Warren in action(Image: Stuart Ladd)<\/p>\nThe centre is 34, still playing and has a hectic few days aheadAdam Warren in action(Image: Stuart Ladd)<\/p>\n
This is a very big week of rugby for Llandovery, and for former Wales international Adam Warren it will be a particularly busy one.<\/p>\n
On Thursday night he lines up against Ebbw Vale<\/a> in a top of the table SRC clash and on Saturday he will be on schoolmaster duty as backs coach to Llandovery College who face Christ College up in Brecon<\/a>. The once capped international centre will be assisting Director of Rugby Nathan Thomas in team preparations for the 128th match between the two old schools, which is one of Wales’ most famous and historic fixtures.<\/p>\n The 34 year old Warren has been in outstanding midfield form for the Drovers and will be a key figure in the game at Eugene Cross Park between the two remaining unbeaten sides in the SRC.<\/p>\n \u201cAs always against Ebbw, it\u2019s going to be one heck of a game\u201d predicted Warren.<\/p>\n Less than 48 hours later, he will be supervising the College\u2019s backs attack and defence in the annual clash with Christ College and is relishing the challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been a little lethargic in our build up but no motivation will be needed for such a famous game on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole school<\/a> buzzes with anticipation through the week and we hope the boys can do justice to the occasion when so many old boys of both schools return to see how their \u201calma mater\u201d is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Because of the Ebbw Vale – Llandovery game being switched to mid week, local rugby fans will have a Saturday free to attend the big schoolboy clash in Brecon.<\/p>\n In the SRC, Ebbw Vale have the better record so far, having won their first three games with maximum bonus points, including an astonishing 60-20 win over Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n Llandovery – top of the table having won all four of their games – travel in the knowledge that only their very best will be enough to take the spoils.<\/p>\n Ebbw will be defending the Challenge Shield that they took off Llandovery last year.<\/p>\n Similar to New Zealand\u2019s Ranfurly Shield, the \u201cholder\u2019\u201d puts up the Shield for competition in every home game in the regular league season and it will be an almighty task for anyone to snatch it from Jason Strange\u2019s men.<\/p>\n Llandovery will know that the key to any success against the Steelmen lies in not giving away penalties.<\/p>\n To surrender ground and position in their own half invites a close range lineout that will – more often than not \u2013 end up with a thunderous charge into the in-goal area at the cost of five or seven points.<\/p>\n Euros Evans has bravely given opportunities to a batch of promising young players in the games against Newport<\/a>, Swansea<\/a> and RGC but on Thursday he will need all the knowhow of his experienced players in the face of the Vale onslaught.<\/p>\n Although injuries to back rowers Stuart Worrall and Osian Davies will not help his cause, the match promises to be a tight affair with bookmakers Dragon Bet making the Gwent side narrow favourites to win.<\/p>\n Attention will switch to Saturday afternoon, to Brecon, where Llandovery College face Christ College in a fixture first played in 1879 at Builth Wells, two years before the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union.<\/p>\n Christ College may have won just 29 of the matches and drawn 10 but that hides the ferocity and quality of their challenge over the years.<\/p>\n The ferocity remains, respect too, as was shown in last year\u2019s recent reunion of the two teams that played in the centenary match in 1979 when – 45 years later – old boys flew back from the corners of the earth to meet up with team mates and opponents alike at the Cardiff and County Club.<\/p>\n Old Breconian and British Lion Rob Ackerman flew in from Australia and Llandoverian wing Bleddyn Rees from the USA for a night of rugby tales and reminiscences that carried on long into the morning.<\/p>\n Llandovery, as Welsh Schools and Colleges Conference A champions, will be favourites to beat opponents who play in the lower Conference B league.<\/p>\n Last year the Carmarthenshire<\/a> independent school won 29-12 after the Brecon underdogs had posed them a lot of problems up front.<\/p>\n Llandovery went down 34-22 to Cardiff\u2019s Ysgol Glantaf some weeks ago, whilst Christ\u2019s lost 31-24 to the same opponents in an early season friendly.<\/p>\n This seems to suggest that the gap between the two old adversaries may not be that much but much will depend on team selection.<\/p>\n The Llandovery squad is full of Scarlets<\/a> Academy players and in Carwyn Leggatt- Jones they possess a Welsh U18 international fly half of huge promise.<\/p>\n That said, they are not all certain to play, given academy and representative constraints, and the Lilywhites will not relish the trip up the A40 to face an in form pack under joint captains hooker Ioan Jones and prop Lloyd Conquer.<\/p>\n Newly appointed Coach of Elite Performance, ex-Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies, is slowly exerting his influence on Christ College rugby and has much to look forward to in his first taste of what the late and great JBG Thomas described as Wales\u2019s own \u201cVarsity Match.\u201d<\/p>\n * Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. 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