Jed Holman-Jones will lead from the front when Longlevens look to complete what would be a remarkable cup double this weekend.

The Counties 1 Western North club head for the StoneX Stadium, home of Premiership high-fliers Saracens, on Saturday for the final of the Papa John’s Counties 1 South Plate final, and then just 24 hours later will challenge Matson for the North Gloucestershire Combination Senior Cup at Kingsholm.

Their opponents tomorrow in the RFU’s new end-of-season cup competition are Twickenham, who finished fourth in Counties 1 Surrey/Sussex in the London and South East Division, and although winning back-to-back trophies is a huge challenge, long-time Longlevens captain Holman-Jones declared: “We’re going to try to win both cup finals, we’re not prioritising either competition.”

And Longlevens, who finished third in the league campaign just finished, have certainly got plenty of form when it comes to the big occasions because they won the RFU Junior Vase at Twickenham back in 2014.

Holman-Jones, now 30, was skipper that day when they beat Rugby Lions 23-12. That was a great achievement at the home of English rugby, of course, but to win two finals in two days would arguably be just as great an achievement for Longlevens, who tried to get Sunday’s final pushed back to a later date.

“We’re going to put out our two strongest teams possible, but we’ll be using a bigger squad,” said Holman-Jones, an openside flanker. “Whoever comes out unscathed on Saturday will play on Sunday.”

Both games kick off at 5pm and Holman-Jones, who has been playing rugby since he was six or seven, admitted that it was a long time since he had played two games in two days.

“I used to play for the 1sts on a Saturday and then the Colts on a Sunday, but I was 18 then,” he said. “Fortunately, Monday is a bank holiday!”

It’s certainly going to be a huge weekend for Longlevens Rugby Club because their 3^rd XV have reached the final of the North Gloucestershire Combination’s Glanville Cup, the game that kicks off finals day on Sunday at 11am.

They take on Gordon League 3rds while the Martin Slatter Junior Cup final sees Matson 2nds lock horns with Old Centralians 2nds at 2pm.

Longlevens 2nds won the Junior Cup last season – they beat Matson 2nds 22-19 – while their flagship team won the Senior Cup back in 1960/61, the only time they have won it in their 69-year history.

Unbeaten Regional 2 Severn champions Matson, who beat Chosen Hill 36-23 in last season’s Senior Cup final, have won the North Gloucestershire Combination’s showpiece trophy on more than 30 occasions.