On Saturday 11th the P.O.B under 9 Blue team played the final game of the season against Woodlands. Coach John Butler was concerned how his team would go against one of the top teams in the competition. This Woodlands team had clocked up some big scores against other teams including scoring 1oo points against the other Woodlands team. Taking how well Reagan John’s Senior Div 2 team finished off their season with some ‘champagne’ footy to dismantle a very good Marist team Coach Butler decided the Blue team {Smurfs] should apply some what we would say how about Rasberry & Coke rugby instead.{Not the cheap stuff but the real thing} A really good training run on Thursday night & with the guys switched on had us thinking we might be in for something special for our last game. We wouldn’t have our prop Sean Dockerty for the game as Seano was away chasing birds for the weekend {Quail shooting} so we grabbed Ben Jennings & Connor Douglas for the day. As a back-up we had Connor’s brother Carter to play if needed. We thought a change of positions might help our cause so we swapped our regular halfback Flynn Jackson & fullback Jake Kura around. Young Flynn isn’t the biggest player around so was getting bashed around by some bigger blokes in the other teams. One thing Jake is good at is communicating with the other guys & can read a game pretty good so we thought we would have a crack. On game day with our game the only one on CPT5 the Woodlands coach thought it would be a good idea to extend the ground to a full half.{An extra 10 metres} This worried us as Woodlands like to use the ball wide with their gas on the outside; but we agreed as we have a bit of gas as well. Our game plan was simple; to pressure the opposition with rushing defence & to attack the ball when Woody had procession. And when we had the pill to play at pace. I thought there might have been a bit of over confidence in the Woodlands team & it proved right as we scored in the 1st couple of minutes. In a see-saw 1st half saw P.O.B leading Woodlands 20-10 at halftime. Our game plan was working with the pressure the guys put on Woody had them trying to make play behind the advantage line. Halftime message was simple; don’t take the foot off the pedal & not to let them back into the game. | |
Player of the day Jacob ‘Roy Asotasi’ Mika
The team was well led by Jake Kura l