Redingensians Festival Sunday 22nd February 2009
Saturday was a bright sunny day. Are we finally passed the winter weather that has hampered rugby training over the past few months. Sunday morning certainly looked fine and promising for a great day of rugby.
Today was the Redingensians Festival for our u10s squad. Congratulations to those players chosen to represent our squad at this festival.
Daniel C, Henry, Jake, James C, James H, Matthew J, Matthew W, Max, Myles, Sebastian, Stuart, Thomas, Tim and Tristan.
Most have played together throughout the season and are developing well as a team.
On arriving at Redingensians RFC the pitches looked dry and firm ‘they weren’t like that two weeks ago’ said one of the Redingensians parents – probably under a foot of water like our pitches!.
This festival was not designated as an A, B or C festival and on arrival the teams who had entered this festival were
Abbey ‘A’ team
Bracknell ‘A’ team
Camberley ‘B’ team
Redingensians ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams.
The format for each game was 6 minutes each way.
Tim and Tim (helping out, the one with the shades!) started to warm up the players with a team talk to all the players ready for the first game against Redingensians ‘A’.
This game started well with Camberley working very hard in the contact zone, Myles put in a cracking tackle to stop a certain try, surprisingly this Redingensians player didn’t run at Myles again during the match. Camberley were trying their hardest with great amount of effort over the pitch, but the pressure of the opposition started to tell as they were always quickly onto us when we were in possession of the ball. The game was soon over, the players have performed very well, it was certainly a hard game out there against Redingensians ‘A’ team.
The next two matches were against Bracknell ‘A’ and Abbey ‘A’ teams. Hard going wasn’t it?
The spirit of the players was great throughout the first three matches and a credit to all the players especially those in the scrum.
The final match was against Redingensians ‘B’ and the players were still raring to go. Tim and Sebastian had both picked up injuries in earlier matches and called it a day – well done for all their effort.
This was certainly a more evenly matched game, with Camberley pressing forward and passing very well, Max was in the thick of it passing and running towards the Redingensians line. Matthew G, Jake, Max, Myles and Tristan were passing the ball well along the line and moving forward. All the pressure and effort paid off with Thomas driving over for a try. Well done.
Camberley had their tails up and were playing well, even thought they must have been tired from the earlier games. Camberley continued to pressure Redingensians in their own half. A quick break from the scrum on the half way line, a good run from Redingensians lead to a try in the far corner – not expected as this was against the run of play. End of the first half 1-1.
Team talk from Tim (which one you may ask?). The second half started well with Camberley applying the pressure again in the Redingensians half. Max with a great run along the touch line towards the try line, with the others giving chase, tackled and out into touch. Camberley looking good, Redingensians in possession in their own half and a good run along the touch line, leading to a try
1 - 2. The game started and again the same Redingensians player along the same touchline with a darting run at first, another try to Redingensians 3-1. This was certainly against the run of play with all Redingensians tries coming from long solo runs starting deep in their own half.
Camberley were still playing well. Again the pressure was on Redingensians to defend. Good drives from James C, Max and Thomas. Stuart was always in the thick of things with good tackles and moving forward. Good runs along the line by Matthew G and Jake, but still no way through. Redingensians were defending well. Will we get the try we deserve? Again another pass to Matthew G as he darted forward and over the try line 2-3. This was more like it a try from all the pressure put on the Redingensians defence. Could we get back to 3 –3. Re-start Camberley tackling well, not letting Redingensians push forward. Camberley now in possession and holding onto the ball, passing well. Into the Redingensians half yet again. Was it all too late, Matthew W with the ball, hard run towards the right corner, shrugging off tackles and over by the corner flag 3 –3 (what could have been with the pace of Tim and Sebastian?). Game over 3-3. This certainly shows the improvements of the team and the hard work they all gave. Very well done and a great performance to end our festival.
Thank very much to the hosts Redingensians RFC and their u10s squad for this very ‘laid back’ and enjoyable festival. Looking forward to the Surrey Development Festival.
Home Training
Thanks to Richard and the coaches who stayed at Camberley to give the other players a run out to blow a few cobwebs away.
Saturday was a bright sunny day. Are we finally passed the winter weather that has hampered rugby training over the past few months. Sunday morning certainly looked fine and promising for a great day of rugby.
Today was the Redingensians Festival for our u10s squad. Congratulations to those players chosen to represent our squad at this festival.
Daniel C, Henry, Jake, James C, James H, Matthew J, Matthew W, Max, Myles, Sebastian, Stuart, Thomas, Tim and Tristan.
Most have played together throughout the season and are developing well as a team.
On arriving at Redingensians RFC the pitches looked dry and firm ‘they weren’t like that two weeks ago’ said one of the Redingensians parents – probably under a foot of water like our pitches!.
This festival was not designated as an A, B or C festival and on arrival the teams who had entered this festival were
Abbey ‘A’ team
Bracknell ‘A’ team
Camberley ‘B’ team
Redingensians ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams.
The format for each game was 6 minutes each way.
Tim and Tim (helping out, the one with the shades!) started to warm up the players with a team talk to all the players ready for the first game against Redingensians ‘A’.
This game started well with Camberley working very hard in the contact zone, Myles put in a cracking tackle to stop a certain try, surprisingly this Redingensians player didn’t run at Myles again during the match. Camberley were trying their hardest with great amount of effort over the pitch, but the pressure of the opposition started to tell as they were always quickly onto us when we were in possession of the ball. The game was soon over, the players have performed very well, it was certainly a hard game out there against Redingensians ‘A’ team.
The next two matches were against Bracknell ‘A’ and Abbey ‘A’ teams. Hard going wasn’t it?
The spirit of the players was great throughout the first three matches and a credit to all the players especially those in the scrum.
The final match was against Redingensians ‘B’ and the players were still raring to go. Tim and Sebastian had both picked up injuries in earlier matches and called it a day – well done for all their effort.
This was certainly a more evenly matched game, with Camberley pressing forward and passing very well, Max was in the thick of it passing and running towards the Redingensians line. Matthew G, Jake, Max, Myles and Tristan were passing the ball well along the line and moving forward. All the pressure and effort paid off with Thomas driving over for a try. Well done.
Camberley had their tails up and were playing well, even thought they must have been tired from the earlier games. Camberley continued to pressure Redingensians in their own half. A quick break from the scrum on the half way line, a good run from Redingensians lead to a try in the far corner – not expected as this was against the run of play. End of the first half 1-1.
Team talk from Tim (which one you may ask?). The second half started well with Camberley applying the pressure again in the Redingensians half. Max with a great run along the touch line towards the try line, with the others giving chase, tackled and out into touch. Camberley looking good, Redingensians in possession in their own half and a good run along the touch line, leading to a try
1 - 2. The game started and again the same Redingensians player along the same touchline with a darting run at first, another try to Redingensians 3-1. This was certainly against the run of play with all Redingensians tries coming from long solo runs starting deep in their own half.
Camberley were still playing well. Again the pressure was on Redingensians to defend. Good drives from James C, Max and Thomas. Stuart was always in the thick of things with good tackles and moving forward. Good runs along the line by Matthew G and Jake, but still no way through. Redingensians were defending well. Will we get the try we deserve? Again another pass to Matthew G as he darted forward and over the try line 2-3. This was more like it a try from all the pressure put on the Redingensians defence. Could we get back to 3 –3. Re-start Camberley tackling well, not letting Redingensians push forward. Camberley now in possession and holding onto the ball, passing well. Into the Redingensians half yet again. Was it all too late, Matthew W with the ball, hard run towards the right corner, shrugging off tackles and over by the corner flag 3 –3 (what could have been with the pace of Tim and Sebastian?). Game over 3-3. This certainly shows the improvements of the team and the hard work they all gave. Very well done and a great performance to end our festival.
Thank very much to the hosts Redingensians RFC and their u10s squad for this very ‘laid back’ and enjoyable festival. Looking forward to the Surrey Development Festival.
Home Training
Thanks to Richard and the coaches who stayed at Camberley to give the other players a run out to blow a few cobwebs away.
