St.Neots Mini Rugby Under 9's Match Report 25th January 2009

Two matches this week to report on you lucky devils. Both games were played at Home at the St.Neots ground. Firstly we had Elvis' Huntingdon side and secondly Ely who surprisingly didn't bring their rain with them!!

As always we were looking for improvements in passing, tackling and feeding the ball out to the backs, but were not to see any of this until the latter stages of the tournament. To add to the pressure we were also down on the speedsters this week with Callum, Alex and Adam all off for various reasons. However this was also a chance for the others to prove themselves and could the likes of Frankie and the twins show the boss that we had plenty of fuel in the reserve tanks!!!

Both first matches showed us very little of the improvements we all hoped for, with the boys running up blind alleys with no understanding of team play. Furthermore the mature ground work we saw last week was not repeating itself this week with St.Neots losing pocession and giving away needless penalties too regularly. However the gaps in the squad were filled as hoped for with Jaydon,Frankie and the twins soon showing confidence and pushing forward with the ball at the right times.

All games were probably the most physical we have seen for a while and most of the boys got knocks and bumps along the way and it wasnt long before the management were left with no subs to bring on. However I think this was the turning piont in the games and by the third game we were seeing the forwards linking up nicely, driving over the ball and presenting opportunities for Matthew to feed out to the backs.

Of course if you start to do the basics right the opportunities will appear and it wasnt long before we saw a vintage performance from Liam, pounding his way through everybody to make several first class tries and showing everybody that behind the mouth lurks a raw talent. This in turn woke up team and again it wasn't long before we all heard ourselves saying 'If you had played that that in the first few games...etc etc.'

During Bryan and Ian's summary it was reiterated that we need to use the team and it cant be done on your own. Everybody got a mention and without exception it was agreed that the whole team showed improvement during the course of the morning. Daniel was picked out as a forward doing what he should do ie. making the opponents game a misery during the mauls whilst Matthew started so show some good imagination behind the scrum. Bryan awarded man of the match to Liam. No trophy though as Bryan again left it on the sideboard. Rumours are rampant now that in actual fact Bryan has smelted it down and bought Gabby a new ring!!!

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Monday, 25 January 2010

St.Neots Mini Rugby Under 9's Match Report 25th January 2009

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