another good win today 8-44 to Normy u17s put up a very good first half organised and disciplined pushing the score to 4-34 but the game plan went astray in the second half, not bad to say they had three main players out

not bad played two stints one as prop other as , seems to be holding up, tackled well nothing got past him and drove hard but showed lack of match fitness nothing too much to worry about though. pleased to see him on the field

you want to change your mind now?

congrats to panthers hard working coach!!

Don't shake the cage Rob ,

Another bad day at the office with some positives for Crigg 14s , we had the game but loosing can be a habit.

Am i wrong to be alarmed here ?

I heard this today from a "un named" 12s coach

Its all about winning and nothing else is important.

after the team he was playing scored"you are making me look like a doylum in front of everybody who i have got out here to watch you"

saying he had the Wakefield scouting team watching them and they were failing ( No one from JHs team was there)

playing his son at 13 and 9

telling the 9 he is hooker but has no responsibility

also not recognising school as worthwile and saying it ammounts to absolutely nothing.

This is a head coach and im naming clubs or names but most of you know me and how sensitive i can be not that its my business i have just in the last 15 plus years seen men tarred and feathered for far less.

would you send your kid here or am i reading to much into it?

No you're not reading too much into it and you're not wrong to be alarmed. You need to contact the club and league involved and report him. Entirely the wrong attitude whatsoever for an amateur coach at any level.
We sometimes wonder why RL doesn't attract more fans, things like this are a big part of the reason why.
The guy involved shouldn't be coaching.

jeez that wants reporting if not to be monitored
paramount to bullying

This what i think snowie but what if its unwanted by others. Me personally think its bang out line and its the tip of the iceberg with say sos but its like MY TEAM !! .

I thought id seen it all when a coach and his entire bench almost replicated the riots of the other year when Stanley 11s came back to beat them with parents baying for for blood by shirt number. But this..

Junior Rugby league at times really does let it self down. Like i said i wont name club etc but i must think long n hard about it.

I do 100% advocate the importance of winning. I think it is very important for the kids to see the hard work that they put in rewarded with a win and a good performance on the weekend.
My philosophy though would never cross the line to the limits this “coach” seems to have. Without sounding dramatic I think the role of the junior coach is not only one of getting the best out of the kids on a rugby field but building their confidence and helping to shape them as a person. I know I had a massive amount of respect and for nearly all my junior coaches and I believe they had an influence on my development both on and off the field.
It is a massive responsibility being a junior coach and this behaviour needs reporting. The unfortunate fact is very few are going to make it as professional players and even if they do they need an education to fall back on regardless of their on field success. Were I a parent involved with this team I would not allow my son to continue playing in the team.
I personally thought that I would not enjoy the coaching that I am doing, and sometimes it can be massively frustrating, especially when your own son in my case is the one who disrupts training the most, but it is vital to remember they are kids they have short attention spans and even within my 9’s they are at massive stages of development both mentally and physically.
We are playing again prior to the Castleford game this week at Belle Vue. Last time there was a lack of teams turning up and trouble with numbers so I understand we had to play against our own team. Kids still loved it and they are really looking forward to this Friday too.

We, Oulton Under 8's have had 4 games since the last update - against a very good East Leeds side for the 2nd time in 3 games when we played probably the best half of rugby we have ever played only for the wheels to fall off in the second half and the lads to completely fall apart - strange how it changed so quickly in the space of a game.

Since then we have played a really young Heworth side who were just starting out, and both Hunslet Parkside and Dewsbury Celtic with a couple of decent players in each side but still not enough to really trouble our boys.

Apparently the league split the teams into divisions over Easter so after the break we should be playing more evenly matched sides, although hopefully we will be playing against sides that let us develop more rather than get suckered into trying to compete in games - I know we shouldn't go down that route but we find it very, very hard not to play in a different manner when playing against the better teams in order to try and compete with them, whereas when we play against teams of lesser ability we try and develop things by letting the lads offload and/or pass a little, but as previous posters have said plenty of teams even at this early stage coach their lads simply to do whatever is needed to score tries and/or win a game.

For example, in a recent game we have seen coaches teaching their players to scoot on the last tackle - now our lads are coached properly not to move off their mark in defense until the ball is passed as is the rule, but obviously when the half back scoots the pass never comes so our lads just stood watching the half back - we conceded 6 tries last week and 4 of them from the half back scooting. A side was clearly coached just to score tries in this way, what benefit there is for that side doing this I do not know, maybe we should challenge them to play by the correct rules but it's probably not worth the hassle so we let them do it.

I'm led to believe if the acting half moves of his mark the defence line may proceed

Scooting is not allowed in the Under 9's as far as I am aware so confused as to why it is going done in the 8's.