We are conscious that (particularly in the autumn term), some players will have not only club rugby but also schools rugby, and that players need to recover. Typically mid-week will be a light contact session to focus on other skills. We’ve tried pretty hard to avoid fixture conflicts, in planning out the schedule for the academy we have already considered the fixture schedule from local schools. The RFU also publish a season calendar with some weekends designated for club-competitions and other for school-competition, we have respected this in our scheduling (schools do not always do so). Where conflicts do occur - we will take it on a case by case basis, and only encourage players to prioritise club above school when it's a club weekend, and the match is material to the competition we entered. We recognize that asking this puts the players in an awkward position.