The Inter-Insular gives players from all the junior teams on both islands the opportunity to play their version of the Siam Cup, as regular Jersey or Guernsey RFC 1st team players are not permitted to play.
Over the last few years Jersey has had the upper hand and they will be looking to repeat their success this year at ‘Fortress Grainville’, having beaten Guernsey 22-10 at Foote’s Lane last year.
Said coach Mark White, who is looking after the Jersey side along with Gareth Davies: ‘We are pleased with the final squad selected; we have had 28 players attend the training sessions leading up to the game which didn’t make selection easy and unfortunately a number of players will be missing out.
‘But we feel that we have achieved a good balance of players from all the clubs and if the squad gels early in the game and performs as we know it can then we are confident that Jersey will come away with the win.’
The match, sponsored by Jersey Promail, usually draws a good crowd and kicks of at 1 pm at Grainville tomorrow.
Jersey: Nathan Rault, Wayne Andrieux, Steve Carter (all Les Quennevais Sharks), Ivan Murphy (vice-captain, United Banks), Ian Burrell (MITIE Beeches), Russell Holland, Bruno Pirouet (both Jersey), Ryan Barrett (Beeches), Andrew Blake, Pat Dean (captain, Les Quennevais Sharks), Matthew Leech (Jersey), Dan Ireland (Beeches), Harry Trower (United Banks), Luke Le Sueur, Mark Le Mott?e (both Jersey).
Replacements: Shawn Qu?ripel, Henry Goatcher (United Banks), Myles Landick, Wayne Boschat, Rob Allen (Jersey), Josh Farrow and Phil Lane (both Les Quennevais Sharks).
Coaches: Mark White and Gareth Davies.
