I FEEL I must offer my heartiest congratulations to Mike Legg and Tony Wood for their coverage and extensive display of photographs of our under-12s rugby tournament at Brighton Rugby Club. This appeared in Youth In Action, in The Argus on Wednesday, March 9.

We are delighted you sanctioned so much space for this event. The lads certainly deserve the praise generated by the publicity and the realistic array of photographs will inspire the boys – no matter whether they won or lost the matches in which they played.

These young people are obviously the most important thing in such an event. However, this sort of coverage will hopefully help parents, sports teachers and headteachers to encourage young people to play sports – especially rugby.

I feel also it is my duty to emphasise that events such as this would never be possible without the skills and devotion of the Hon Secretary and Treasurer John Tolhurst. He deserves a national honour in both my opinion and that of many others.

R L Metcalfe, President, Brighton and Hove Schools’ Rugby Association, Rottingdean