With their pre-Christmas trip to Rosslyn Park postponed due to Covid in the Rosslyn Park camp, TJs have been narrowly edged out at home to Taunton Titans (24-21) and at Leeds Tykes (21-19) in their past two games.

Prior to that, they battled to a hard-fought 12-10 home success against Plymouth Albion, and bagged a losing bonus-point against visitors Darlington Mowden Park.

Disappointing defeats to Cambridge (45-14) and Chinnor (34-15) followed an amazing final-quarter rally at Caldy, which helped TJs rally from 47-5 down to snatch both try and losing bonus-points in a 47-40 loss.

The Kent men had been squeezed out 23-21 at home to Blackheath the week before, and Birmingham Moseley (34-21) and Cinderford (21-12) before that.

On paper TJs’ stand-out display to date was the excellent 30-21 home victory against Sale, which came after a battling 24-13 defeat to Rams and an opening-day 18-18 draw at home to Bishop’s Stortford.

Players to Watch:

Truman Sullivan – Open-side flanker has started all bar on of TJs games so far this season, and has more than 100 National League caps having switched from Old Elthamians at the start of the 2018/19 campaign.

Was picked in the 2019/20 National Two South team of the season and has scored three tries to date in the third tier.

Tom White – Fly-half made almost 100 appearances for Old Elthamians before crossing to Tonbridge in January 2020, and he has proved to be a shrewd addition.

Tops the points’ chart for his side with 79, his reliable goal-kicking helped seal Juddians’ key win against Plymouth with four penalties .

Murray Galbraith-Lowe – TJs’ second top try-scorer with four to date – one behind last season’s National Two South trailblazer Hugo Watson (22 in 2019/20) – Galbraith-Lowe is equally happy anywhere in the back three.

A strike rate of more than one in two games (36 in 57) – including at Old Bath Road earlier this season and in TJs’ home win in February 2019 – is impressive since he joined in 2017.