Quote: jonh "What a very odd post.
I do not see anyone at any stage of this taking that stance.
I do wonder if people just read what they want to read on these forums despite what is actually there.
For what it's worth another great performance from Stanley U9's at the weekend. Kids are really coming on and their defense has been outstanding so far this season, but what is especially pleasing to see is some of the less confident players, of which my oldest son is one, are really improving and growing in confidence. Dare I say it we also won.
Most satisfying for me though was I left the field for the final few sets and let the players run things themselves and they did a great job doing this without any guidance.
The main "issue" I have at the moment is numbers, we have 16 signed on players as I refuse to turn kids away, but it is difficult ensuring all the kids get the same game time when you regularly play clubs with much smaller squads. It's a nice problem to have though as all the kids are great lads and are forming a sense of togetherness.'"
We have the same issue with numbers, and it's a nice problem to have but a problem non the less. We basically end up swapping the team completely at half time, the obvious problem is the lads get no sort of continuity. Luckily everybody has been understanding and the parents appear to be happy and it gives us plenty of cover when the summer comes and holidays kick in.
We played West Leeds this weekend, and they gave us a good game - they had 2 really big lads who ran very hard and our lads struggled to get to grips with them early on. We let a few of our smaller boys play just about all of the game and they should come on for the game time. West Leeds gave us a good game and it was close all the way, just the way we like it.
Individually we tackled very well for most of the game when we got used to them - but we struggled to defend as a line. Does anybody have any games that can be used to try prevent the lads from all sucking towards the ball carrier? I am thinking of simply cutting the field in half and splitting the defenders to half on the left and half on the right and not letting them cross the line, anybody any suggestions?
We have Heworth away this weekend so hopefully another close competitive game.
there's been some good players come from the All Blacks... 
in the past.
