For many years GRFC club members have recognised the importance of a 'rugby academy' to develop talent from the earliest of years with a vibrant, thriving and technically qualified mini & junior section. GRFC 'Scoop' was sent to report on what goes on at Rectory Field each Sunday morning. Click here for the results of his visit as it appeared in the NewsShopper online.

It’s some time since I last wrote and quite a bit has happened. If you don’t know by now, we are still holding our place at the top of the league by three points but with Dover still biting at our ankles and with one game in hand. In the last three matches we have re-gained our pre-Christmas form, having got rid of that season’s excesses and following a slight hiccup against Sidcup we gave a good account of ourselves against Chichester away and then on the Sunday before last in the Kent Cup, we put Maidstone to bed with a 41-5 victory at Mote Park where nobody was in doubt as to who was in charge. We were unfortunate to lose a couple of players injured in that match, more of which I will refer to later on.