The Youth Team's complete pre-season fixture list has now been decided, with some great quality games lined up, including Premiership opponents in Chelsea and a fixture against a Diamonds Legends XI.
Paul Driver explained "There are 3 different types of fixture for us really:
-Some games will feature mainly our younger lads - Centre of Excellence Under 16/17s and the youngest of our Youth Team scholars
-Some fixtures will feature the full Youth Team
-The Diamonds XI games will feature our older youth team players, along with some first team players if required"
The full pre-season fixture list for the youth team is:
Tuesday 14th July 2009
Bradford City Youth 1 v 0 Rushden & Diamonds Youth
Wednesday 15th July 2009
Cambridge United Youth 3 v 1 Rushden & Diamonds Youth
Friday 17th July 2009
Nottingham Forest Youth 1 v 1 Rushden & Diamonds Youth
Tuesday 21st July - 7:45pm
Brentwood Town 2 v 0 Rushden & Diamonds XI
Saturday 25th July - 3:00pm
Loughborough Dynamo v Rushden & Diamonds XI
Tuesday 28th July 2009 - 1:00pm
Leyton Orient Youth v Rushden & Diamonds Youth
Friday 31st July 2009 - 7:00pm
Rushden & Diamonds Youth v Chelsea Youth
Sunday 2nd August - 2:00pm
Rushden & Diamonds Youth v Rushden & Diamonds Legends (see here for more detail)
Wednesday 5th August - 7:45pm
Raunds Town v Rushden & Diamonds XI
Saturday 8th August - 11:00am
Rushden & Diamonds Youth v Walsall Youth
Wednesday 12th August - 7:00pm
Newport Pagnell v Rushden & Diamonds Youth
