Excluded from this season's Premiership Rugby Cup, Chinnor and Cambridge play the first game in their two-leg Not The Prem Cup on Friday evening.
"Appalling" and "not really fair" were the verdicts of Chinnor and Cambridge following their exclusion from this season's Premiership Rugby Cup.
"There'll be a little bit of added spice as we're still hurting from that first league fixture when they came to us and embarrassed us."Only 10 Championship sides were invited to take part in the PRC, with Cambridge, who finished bottom of the second tier in 2023-24, and Chinnor, newly promoted from National League, the two excluded.
Cambridge won promotion from the third tier two seasons ago on the back of a run of 10 successive wins and have shown signs that they are coming to terms with the step up following a tough debut campaign. "We are faced with two significant void spells, which has taken the steam out of our momentum. It leaves our squad twiddling their thumbs and makes it difficult to maintain our match-ready status," he told BBC Sport.
Club chair Nick Stainton said Chinnor were on a "voyage of discovery" in the Championship, and the games with Cambridge would help fill extended gaps of five and seven weeks in the fixture schedule, though they need more.
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