Working away behind the scenes

Nothing may be happening on the field other than the grass growing, but behind the scenes things are ticking along.

First - there is a slight chance (and at this stage it is slight, but not impossible) that you could all be cinema stars - at the Broadway at least. On the off chance I wrote to them to see if The Film could be shown there (or at least a cut down version) in the advert bit before the main feature. And - to my slight surprise actually - they said, in principle, yes it could. It would have to get a certificate from the British Board of Film Classification (anyone care to guess what it might be, considering the high body count?) and converted to actual film first - two not insignificant hurdles - but time to practice those autographs and invest in some dark glasses, maybe?

Also Heather is working away at the fixtures. Some way to go yet, but to give you an idea she has already arranged are games with...

• Kettering (Home - November 11th, Away- February 24th)
• Basford(Home [with Paviors & Swaffham]- November 25th, Away April 13th)
• Westcliff (Home - December 9th, Away - January 27th)
• Saracens (Home - January 13th)
• Reading (Away - March 2nd)
• Dorking (Home - April 6th)

...with more to come - plus potentially a good clutch of tournaments that could well include Regional 10s (October 7th), Rochford 10s (October 14th), National 10s (October 28th); National Cup (February 24th); Worthing 10s (May 4th); Dorking 7s/10s (May 11th); Herts 7s (May 18th); and National 7s (May 25th).

Throw in half a dozen county weekends, about eight regional weekend, plus a tour and its already looking like a season to rival last year for the u18s (certainly a much better balance of home and away), and something rather better than last year for the U15s.

And the final thing is that Katie says that trainng may start earlier as Simon may have a prior engagement on the 19th August - so watch this space. Admittedly there is nothing to stop training that Sunday anyway even if Simon is away - Joe will still be around (and Nim too...).

Oh - and speaking of Katie - can she do the double on the try and tackle of the year (below)? She's leading both at the minute (just) - but have you voted yet? Only one week to go!