The Warm Winter

Joe is ready for kick off!

Warm weather! Saturday was another great day of rugby. The 6-8 year olds started at 10 and we had enough to run a proper scrimmage. Lots of kids came out today.  The young ones are hard to control and keep focused.  At first we split them up to work on basic drills.  Then we played ball tag and that got them all running and passing.  I think Max was the champion there.  Then scrimmage!

The older boys started trickling in around 10:45. Coach Paul and I split up, he staying with the scrimmage and me running the 10-ups.  This is the drill they love:  The split into teams of four.  On "go" they run down to the try line, place the ball down as if they were scoring a try.  Then they pick up the ball and kick it back to their team, to the next person in line.  This is a really great drill.  It gets them running and gets them focusing on kicking the ball.

Brian and Harry run in support while Karl tries
to out-flank Sebastian.

News!  Stickers should be here soon!  UPS messed up the delivery so I had to reorder them.  We are also going to try to order t-shirts this week.  We have contacted Phoenix rugby club in Alpharetta and are working on getting some matches with them.  Fingers crossed!