GRASS ROOTS

KITTED OUT A set of Southwold shirts, along with last season’s colts captain Henry Ewart, have winged their way to Nairobi, where they were welcomed by community coach John Mudashi. The jerseys have now become the Kamula team’s first playing kit.

Ewart, who played for the London Two North-East runners-up last season, opted to spend two months of his gap year coaching schools and clubs in Kenya, although some ‘local’ pitches are more than a three-hour bus ride away.

MAKING HIS MARKI Hungary prop Roland Marki also inputted an international flavour when receiving the Old Crossleyans’ Player of the Year award this autumn, with wing Billy Hammond as runner-up. They helped Crocs, as they are known, to climb into fourth in Yorkshire One last season after a final flourish of eight wins in nine matches. Their only defeat this year was 45-42 at Old Brodleians in February.

Yorkshire Four team , another of the six rugby union clubs in the West Yorkshire town, have formed a partnership with Sale Sharks to provide free ‘walking rugby’ on a weekly