Gravesend made hay in front of a large and vocal crowd to deliver arguable their best performance of the season and run out 57-15 winners against Battersea Ironsides. Having been on the receiving end in recent encounters between the sides Gravesend knew they had to put in a performance to get the win to keep them at the right end of the table. What unfurled was an entertaining affair despite the heavy conditions and blustery wind.   After an early score from a sniping run by

Good afternoon everyone and a warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Battersea Ironsides.   Who can forget the last memorable encounter against the Ironsides when we came within a whisker and an ill placed referee from snatching victory in a high scoring and thoroughly enjoyable encounter.   Hopefully we are in for another cracker today.  Today is Captain’s Day and in time honoured fashion we welcome Tom Bird and his guests.  We have a bumper crowd in the ha

Gravesend secured back to back wins after a scrappy affair just up the road at Dartfordians.  After starting off brightly and having a try disallowed it was something against the run of play when the home side opened the scoring on 15 minutes.  Quick ball from a line out allowed Darts to pass the ball down the line until a precision kick allowed the winger to collect the ball and scamper home.  Gravesend responded quickly and on 20mins disrupted the Darts line with Les Falefa

After a weekend off the Gs return to action this weekend with a short trip up the Road to Dartfordians. Some strange results last time out leave the table all quite close and despite holding a mid table position we are a similar number of points away from the top four as we are relegation.  The 2s who are already not far short of their season total last year entertain Whitstable who themselves have proven to be much stronger this time round. With availability reflecting the k

Gravesend produced a scintillating display of rugby either side of half time to blow away Beckenham at Rectory Field on Saturday.   In doing so they blew away any hangover from four successive defeats and leaves them comfortably in mid-table.