This weekend

Reminder - 7.45am meet for an 8am, departure on Sunday - details here. With seven teams in it they may follow the format of the southern qualifier, which would mean six games so be prepared for a long day.

Also remember this - if there are six games you could be looking at 7-minute halves. Frankly, the first team to score in such games invariably win. Stay awake.

Joe has also announced the 12-player squad for the Herts Sevens. I've forgotten who is in the team so rather hope Joe will add the details on here, but suffice to say that anyone not in the Herts 7s squad will be in the National 7s squad, though we will delay the final announcement of the latter for a while in case we get injuries.

If you are not in a 12 you are asked to still come along if possible as both events will involve significant opposition in hard ground, so 12 may not be enough (it certainly wasn't in 2005!).

Good luck - and I will be thinking about you while I am looking after (hopefully) the next generation at Youth Games.