Coventry winger Kurt Johnson achieved one career landmark last Saturday when he scored his 100th league try and he has now set his sights on another, making his first appearance at Twickenham.


The Barbados international became only the fourth player in National League history to make the ton, when he crossed two minutes after coming on as a tenth minute blood replacement in the National League One defeat by Bedford Blues.


Johnson, who was given a standing ovation by the Coventry faithful, followed Nick Baxter (Worcester, Pertemps Bees and Stourbridge), Eddie Saunders (Rugby Lions) and Dave Scully, Doncaster's former Wakefield, Rotherham and Otley scrum-half, into the record books.

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Johnson's next targets are to score the three tries he needs to complete 100 for Coventry in all rugby and to overcome Plymouth Albion at the Brickfields on Saturday March 3 to reach the semi-finals of the EDF Energy National Trophy and put himself within one game of playing at Twickenham for the first time.

"I have never played at Twickenham before and it remains an ambition of mine," Johnson said. "It would be Roy of the Rovers stuff if we were to get there and I was to score my 100th try for Coventry at Twickenham.
"But I would hope to have scored that by the time the final comes around. I'm a very positive character and I am aiming to get back into the starting Xv as quickly as possible and hopefully I can score those three tries in helping Coventry to get to the final."

Coventry twice won what is now the EDF Energy Cup in 1973 and 1974, when they defeated Bristol then London Scottish, but it is a long time since their supporters enjoyed a trip to Twickenham.

"The Plymouth game is a massive game for the club," Johnson said. "We have not reached this stage of the competition for a long time.
"But we have a new coach at the helm in Murray Henderson and we will go there knowing that we beat them at home the last time we met.
"We probably didn't do ourselves justice down there earlier in the season, but we came back very strongly in the second half and were only beaten 27-19.
"We can take a lot of encouragement from those performances and we are confident that we can progress to the semis."

Coventry's cause might be helped by the absence of their former lock Ben Gulliver. The former England Under-21 international, whose father Tony is Coventry's team manager, joined Plymouth last summer but a mid-season training ground injury has cut short his campaign.

"It's unfortunate for Ben but Plymouth have missed him because he is so dynamic in the line-out,"

Johnson said.


Source: RFU Official Website