Under 10

Folkestone travelled the short journey to Dover for matches this Sunday. The session started with both squads training together. This was followed by two matches. In the past the squads have been fairly evenly matched and today was no different. Dover took the edge in the first match winning it 3 - 2 and the second was a 1-1 draw.
 
Todays squad: Barney, Nick, Finley, Alex, David, Richard, Ben, Josh W, Josh M, Josh H, Sam, William and Mason

Under 8

This week the under 8s travelled just along the rosd to Dover to play friendly matches and to learn some different drills. First up the Dover coach had the teams, and i hasten to add the coaches, running around throwing and catching the ball.  All the children had to try and intercept the ball as it was being thrown by one of the coaches, by about 2 minutes the coaches had definitely warmed up, what a way to start a Sunday morning. A few  more running and passing skills then straight into a game.  We played 9 a side so all had a good game of playing ten minutes each way. The young stones played really well, they played more like a team by passing the ball more, looking where they were positioned and just going for it. The final score for this game was 9 tries to each team, they also  played as a mixed team just to finish off the morning activities. 

Team this week was,
Freddie,James,Dylan,Ciaran,Joshua P,Joshua Mc,Callan,William,Abbey,Oliver,Sam,Thomas and Finlay

Under 7

After weeks of frustration because of the weather the U7 squad was finally looking forward to getting to grips with some opposition. The opposition was in the form of Dover RFC and eighteen youngsters turned out for this occasion. The squad were as follows :
  
Whilst a little cold the rain stayed away but the ground was nice and sticky. We joined in with Dover for some warm up exercises and basic handling skills and then cracked on with some games.
 
Without preference, I just split the group into two teams and we were able to have three games against Dover. Whilst coach Tony Jones refereed, Jonny Morton was able to look after one team whilst Ricky Reina was able to manage the other Folkestone team.
 
Following some good running and handling from both Folkestone and Dover, Folkestone managed to come out ahead in all three games with everybody thoroughly enjoying themselves.
 
The first game was 7 - 6 to Folkestone in a thrilling encounter with Folkestone at one point trailing 5 - 1.
 
In a second game Folkestone ran out winners 10 - 5 and in the third encounter Folkestone managed to scrape through 5 -4.
 
Try scorers on the day were : Oscar Hughes with 8 tries; Joseph Faiers with 4 tries; George James with 3 tries; Tristan Parmenter with 2 tries; and Archie Green, Alfie Dove, Jensen Hemming, Lewis Hammerton and Jos Marnham with 1 try apiece. Well done to everybody.

Under 7 Stones 

 Back row left to right Jos Marnham,Joseph Faiers,Oscar Hughes,Tristan Parmenter,Jensen Hemmings,Hadley Pilcher,Alfie Dove,Lewis Hammerton and Ryan Morton.
Front row left to right Sebastian McDonnell,newcomer Bill,Archie Green, Thomas Reina,George James,Leon Gurr,Jaden Lucken,Aidan Lowry and Toby Walton.