Black and White rag 2016
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UNDER EIGHT WHITE<br />
Thank you to the Sharks Under 8’s <strong>White</strong> boys <strong>and</strong> their families for an<br />
awesome year of Rugby League. We started the season by modifying<br />
our training sessions into two parts the 1st 30mins practicing pass <strong>and</strong><br />
tackle drills <strong>and</strong> the last 30 mins playing a game against Jas/Kate Mac’s<br />
U8 Maroons, special thanks to them this proved most beneficial to<br />
increase our skill-set <strong>and</strong> overall sharpening of the team’s toughness.<br />
This showed with 10 wins out of 13 games.<br />
With only one new addition to our squad we welcomed #4 Terrell to<br />
the team who added extra strike power to our 2nd or 3rd hit up he<br />
was consistent at breaking tackles <strong>and</strong> showed good line speed in<br />
defense. Our big boppers with strength <strong>and</strong> cou<strong>rag</strong>e was #7 Kane <strong>and</strong><br />
#10 Brayden thanks boys for aiming straight down the middle of the<br />
field, true hard forward running was the key <strong>and</strong> a big fend got rid of<br />
any unwanted tacklers. We spoke to the boys about running good lines<br />
#2 Cooper <strong>and</strong> #3 Angus showed us how to do it, Coops running at<br />
holes not the player discovered the try line numerous times <strong>and</strong> Angus<br />
would change the angle of attack catching apposing defenders sliding<br />
to far allowing him to hit the try line untouched.<br />
Our defense was relentless thanks to our bone crushers #1 Kobi <strong>and</strong><br />
#5 Coby earned the nick name Pity ( Pit bull) after levelling out the<br />
biggest players on the field they would stop running his way <strong>and</strong><br />
Williams would decimate anyone in front of him with a great squared<br />
up tackle technique locking his head to the player using them to<br />
cushion his fall <strong>and</strong> then both boys repeating the effort in attack with<br />
a hop step <strong>and</strong> dummy pass they would launch over the try line Fiji<br />
sevens style, NRL written all over these boys.<br />
Lightning speed was our secret weapon we had it in trumps with #8<br />
Benji, # 6 Jack #9 Max Taylor. Benji nicknamed (the Diesel), he was<br />
hard to tackle with a powerful leg drive <strong>and</strong> a Maori side-step he<br />
would create his own gaps, hit top gear then it was a full sprint to<br />
the try line scoring loads of points for his team.
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