First Try of the 2008/09 Season

Dan & I left home this morning in glorious sunshine and made our way to Caldy Rugby Club on the Wirral Peninsula, we arrived at the club just after 10am and the sky was a lovely blue colour however it was very windy. Auntie Beverly had called us the previous evening and told us that we would need our hair nets at Caldy as it is very exposed – she wasn’t kidding.

Although it was sunshiny it was very cold and the wind really didn’t help, but the squad were soon warm once they got running around the pitch, unfortuantely after about 10 minutes of pre-match training the weather took a signifcant turn for the worse and the boys were then training in wind and torrential rain! Not to be deterred the boys continued to train even though they couldn’t feel their fingers!

Shortly before 11am the boys gathered together and then stood in silence for 2 minutes, with the wind and rain howling around them, to remember the war heroes!

Then it was time for the matches to start, both squads are large so there were enough players for 2 matches.

Dan made a very good start he really seems to have found some good form early on this season – he is not scared of taking on boys that are much bigger than him as he knows that the skill in tackling is mainly down to technique and no matter how big youa re you can’t run if someone has their arms locked around your legs!

Barely 5 minutes into the match and Dan managed to retreive the ball from a Caldy player at their try line and proceeded to run down the wing streaking ahead of all the players, including his team mates, ending with him placing the ball over the line for his first try of the season!

When the match finished Daniel was staright on the phone to tell Uncle Michael that he had scored and that they were now all square in this seasons try competition!

Well done Dan – keep on scoring!