Last year’s Colts Ollie Ireland and Gabe Bowers, now at Imperial College and Bournemouth Universities respectively, are joined as front row options by hooker Harry Bicknell – the summer signing from Windsor who is currently joint top try-scorer for the Development side.

Among the three-quarters, scrum-half Louis Roumignac and the versatile Theo Pett-Ridge have also represented the Dev XV regularly throughout this campaign.

Further Rams connections come in a trio of Reading University students – back row Harry Judd and centre Isaac Tokura most recently in action against the Army on Wednesday night – while another midfield man, George Tomlinson, was joined by impressive Newbury second row, Seb Burgess, at Oxford University last month.

The game takes place at Maidenhead RFC, with kick-off at 4pm.