Club Magazine Issue 05, 2018
Monthly Club Magazine of Hong Kong Football Club
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MINI RUGBY<br />
U10 F2<br />
U10 F3<br />
U10 F1<br />
simply not run. As always a big thank you to the<br />
U10 coaches. The final thank you goes to Rich<br />
Lingard the organiser of the whole day. Great<br />
job.<br />
We really mixed things up for our festival,<br />
instead of our usual six teams, two each from<br />
the Panthers, Jaguars and Cheetahs, we gave<br />
our two Singapore bound teams a chance to<br />
play together. Hence we collapsed the groups<br />
and created six new ones, two Sing, two Lions<br />
and two Tigers. As you can imagine most teams<br />
were a little unsure during their first game,<br />
but they all grew into every match as the day<br />
developed. A true sign of increased maturity<br />
from our players. Some great performances<br />
were witnessed, one in particular from FC4 one<br />
of our Singapore teams, the passing and team<br />
work was amazing considering they’d really just<br />
been thrown together on the day.<br />
Well we are nearly at the end of the mini rugby<br />
season, sometimes they feel long, this U10<br />
one feels the shortest ever, time has flown this<br />
year. Rather than fill the rest of our page with<br />
more rugby chat, I’ve decided to fill it with team<br />
photos. Please ask your child to see if they can<br />
spot themselves.<br />
Chris Hattam<br />
U9<br />
U10 F4<br />
Under 9<br />
Another year passed and another fantastic day<br />
for Rugby. The weather started to be a little dull<br />
in the morning but that soon changed once the<br />
teams had warmed up.<br />
We started the day with the B Teams for once<br />
and this was a show stopper. Football <strong>Club</strong> FC4<br />
Leopards produced some of the best rugby I<br />
have seen for a B Team in all the festivals. With<br />
three games in front of them they played as if<br />
their lives were on the line.<br />
Players to mention for this tournament and<br />
team: Elliot Munt, Ryan Kar, Adrian Ng all<br />
outshone the opposition with their drive and<br />
passion and tackling. Elliot was the principle try<br />
scorer for this team and this was all through the<br />
hard work of the pack passing the ball out wide<br />
to him.<br />
Also, special mention to Jayden Ong and<br />
Marcus Norris who drove deep to gain the<br />
momentum to push each team back and<br />
eventually getting the ball out to the wing and<br />
young Elliot. The games were all intense and full<br />
of passion which capped a great day for the B<br />
U9<br />
U10 F6<br />
Teams, three great wins and some happy faces<br />
at the end.<br />
Next up we saw the A Teams come into<br />
play. For this there was one young lad in the<br />
Buzzards that shone like a light. A true rugby<br />
player in the making, Leon Delespierre. Wow!<br />
can this boy play or what, running from the<br />
wing to make some crucial tackles just before<br />
the try line to stop the opposition from scoring.<br />
Running the full length of the pitch to score<br />
some beautiful tries and getting stuck into the<br />
rucks, great to watch.<br />
Worthy mentions must also go to, Jastin Lu,<br />
Silas Torka and Jonathan Law, all played with<br />
eminence passion and drive for their team. This<br />
team had the lucky day with four games and all<br />
with tough opposition, three wins and one draw<br />
saw there day finish well and to watch was a<br />
great enjoyment.<br />
Over all the rugby standard has improved<br />
100% since the first festival, referee standards<br />
commanded by chief Referee Paul Murphy<br />
was outstanding and very well run. Consistency<br />
across the games was well kept and I thought<br />
the whole standard was amazing.<br />
A huge thank you to all the U9 coaches for the<br />
help in setting up the show and running it like<br />
clockwork.<br />
Also, to those parents that helped through the<br />
day especially the hotter queen Elise, and no<br />
she doesn’t work in a bar…….<br />
To Richard and Evan for their set up of the<br />
event and to Chairman Denis for the support for<br />
the Mini Rugby section.<br />
Thanks to all,<br />
Robin Zavou aka CHEF<br />
26 May <strong>2018</strong>