Three fixtures will be played at Premier League or international football stadiums on the final weekend of March (27-29).<\/p>\n
Gloucester face Leicester Tigers in The Slater Cup – named after Ed Slater, former captain of both teams, who retired in 2022 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease – at Aston Villa’s Villa Park on Saturday, 28 March.<\/p>\n
Bristol Bears – who faced Bath at Principality Stadium last season in the club’s Big Day Out – will return to the Welsh capital to play Harlequins, while Saracens take on Northampton Saints at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n
“Marquee fixtures remain a key pillar of our strategy to broaden rugby’s reach,” Massie-Taylor added.<\/p>\n
“We’re thrilled to see Villa Park host The Slater Cup for the first time and to witness the continued growth of Bristol Bears’ Big Day Out in its second year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three fixtures will be played at Premier League or international football stadiums on the final weekend of March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}