Make sure you get down to Headingley Carnegie this Saturday for a great day out and a chance to celebrate top flight rugby union in Yorkshire.
Leeds Carnegie may be heading back to National Division One but what a way to go out, against the reigning European Champions with a team packed full of superstars plus a host of activities for all the family to enjoy. Plus you have the chance to say thank you and farewell to a host of people who have helped rebuild the club over the past few years.
As well as Pablo Bouza, Mark Lock, John Holtby and Darren Edwards, who will all be making their final appearances for the club, our skipper Stuart Hooper will also be saying goodbye on Saturday afternoon. Hoops has been a terrific servant to the Leeds club after the last five seasons including helping us win the Powergen Cup at Twickenham and gain promotion to the Guinness Premiership last season. Stuart Lancaster will also be bringing down the curtain on his 16 year association with the club. A man who is respected by all who know him will leave Headingley Carnegie for the last time on Saturday evening so make sure you are here to bid him farewell.

Matchday programme
Get your hands on the limited edition matchday programme which includes articles with both Stuarts plus a feature with John Bentley reflecting on the career of his former Lions team mate Lawrence Dallaglio, There is also a feature on new signings Henry Paul and Phil Murphy along with a full profile on our opposition and all the latest news from the Academy and around the club. The programme is available from sellers around the ground priced £3 but get yours early to avoid disappointment.

Carnegie Carnival
Under the Western Terrace, you will find an arena of fun games and activities for all the family which includes an Army Wall, bouncy castle, pole jousting, pitch and putt, air hockey, table football, virtual racing, face painters, street entertainers and live music as we transform Headingley Carnegie Stadium into a Carnegie Carnival. Make sure you have a go on all the different games, why not it's all free. If climbing the army wall is not for you then you can always challenge your friends on the virtual racing cars or test your soccer skills on the table football. We even have giant games to keep the youngest of our fans busy like Jenga, Connect 4 and Giant Skittles.
Come and enjoy the energetic and delightful Carnival music, supplied by the Foxwood Steel Bandits, directed by Victoria Jaquiss Leeds College of Music's Gospel Choir, directed by Nicki Allan.
 
Foxwood Steel Bandits
Victoria Jaquiss heads up the Foxwood Steel Bandits, founded in 1983 when the headteacher, Bob Spooner, decided to use Section 11 money to buy a set of steel pans for Foxwood school. Seacroft was a (nearly) all white inner-city area and the headteacher wanted to promote a positive experience of black culture. Foxwood Steel Bandits began performing in school assemblies and over the next decade got better, moving from assemblies to local primary schools, local community events. Today Foxwood Steel Bandits  play over 25 concerts a year, sometimes joining forces with the Leeds Silver Steel Sparrows and East Steel East Steel  especially for the big events such as Otley Carnival, Leeds West Indian Carnival and May Day Celebration-Potternewton Par.
For more information about this, or other Leeds steelbands, see www.panpodium.com and www.foxwoodsteelbandits.com

On pitch entertainment
Irish Opera Singer Martin Toal and accompanying Fiddler Player Richard Sanderson
Manchester operatic tenor Martin Toal is one of the UK's leading operatic tenors. Martin is a classically trained operatic tenor who trained part-time between 1991 and 2004, firstly with Mezzo Soprano Jane Irwin and then latterly with Wagnerian tenor and former Head of Opera Studies at Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music, Jeffrrey Lawton. Martin has grown into a top class entertainer with a "phenomenal" tenor voice who has taken the sporting arena by storm. On the 8th September 2007 performed Martin performed the national anthem at Wembley in front of 90000 people and a worldwide TV audience of millions for England's Euro 2008 qualifier against Israel - the first competitive England international at the new stadium. Martin is no stranger to Headingley Carnegie having performed many times here in past years for Leeds Rugby and we are delighted to have him back here once again.