There may be on Premiership action at Church Bank, Carmarthen Park or Parc Y Strade this week but rugby fans have a chance to see two of the best schoolboy teams in England and Wales clash at Llandovery, writes Huw S Thomas.

Llandovery College take on ever excellent Sedbergh School from Cumbria at Tredegar Close (KO 2.30pm) in what has become one of the annual highlights of the schools rugby calendar.

Both schools have produced countless internationals over the last 140 years or so and continue to do so with Sedbergh achieving the phenomenal record of seeing 40 age-group internationals going through the school in the last 10 years.

Alun Wyn Jones, George North, Emyr Phillips and Rhodri Jones all played against Sedbergh when at Llandovery while the Cumbrian school has produced wonderful players over the years.

Grand Slam captain Will Carling, World Cup winning centre Will Greenwood, back row Phil Dowson and the brilliant wing James Simpson-Daniel were all pupils before shining on the world stage.

This year Llandovery and Sedbergh are strong in most areas of the game with seven of the Lilywhites called up to the provisional Wales U18 squad and a number of Sedberghians pencilled in already for England U18 places.

England lock Max Davies is a huge presence in the Sedbergh pack alongside Alex Moon and in Jonny McPhillips they have a full-back who has been in brilliant running and kicking form, recently putting over a penalty from the half-way line to beat Wellington College 37-34.

Llandovery’s best performances have been in the Welsh Colleges Elite League where they are in second position behind Coleg Sir Gar who pipped them 21-20 in Llanelli.

In Ammanford's former Wales U16 scrum half Harry Randall they have an electric eel of a player, an all action flanker in skipper Stephen Leonard and two powerful locks in Colin Markham and James Ratti.

With wins over powerful Wellington, Scottish Cup winners George Watson’s 41-29 and Warwick 17-12 the English side will be favourites to take the Llandovery scalp this Saturday.

Since the first fixture in 2002 Llandovery have won just three times, lost seven with two games cancelled because of bad weather, and it will take a mighty effort to turn over the classy Cumbrians.

College Warden Guy Ayling was second master at Sedbergh until moving to Llandovery three years ago and predicted the tightest of matches between “two great rugby schools”.