Sunday 19 April - Surrey A festival

The sun shone for the festival today. There were 24 teams competing, spread across 8 pools of three teams. Our first game was against Richmond who we played at Effingham and Leatherhead. We kept them in their own half for much of the first part of the game and were competitive ending the half with the score 2-2. However in the second half we didn't maintain this pressure and, unfortunately went behind and lost. Our second game was much better, we won! Passing and tagging was good and we looked much more switched on. This placed us second in our group and put us through into the plate competition. We had a 1.5 hour wait until our quarter final. In this game, due to errors and the resulting turnover ball, we lost by one try, but it was a really close game and one we could and should have won. As in many of our festivals, we receive compliments about our passing ability, but due to simple errors we then lose this advantage. Some of these errors included dropped passes (ambitious passing) and too many steps after a tag - next season having to count steps, count seconds or not hearing the referee shout 'Tag' will not be a problem, as a tackle will be a tackle and the player will be on the floor.

It's not just the players who are looking forward to tackling next season to avoid these frustrations.


Next week is the Fun day. Hopefully everyone can make it. There will be food, drink and games. Parents wear your trainers (sorry a late warning by the time I got this published).

Sunday 12 April - Easter Sunday

No rugby today. I predict that lots of chocalate has been eaten instead.

Sunday 5 April 2009 - training

Well, this was the last full training session of the season. Drills were followed that concentrated on passing, communication and maintaining position. These were even obvious to the parents as being good all round drills. Also, albeit we are at the end of the Season nearly, we had a new player turn up to join us.

With the forthcoming Surrey A festival, we played some tag rugby to help in preparation. This will be the last competitive tag festival we play in, after that it will be full contact. Not that the players seem to be looking forward to this in any way!

Next week is Easter Sunday - everyone can have a weekend off.