Away to Stanford

SWF RFC U10's at Stanford

7 of the Woodham squad turned up for an away game against Stanford. They had their 13 players available, so gave us three players. We played 9 –a-side.

The Woodham squad was Brad, Ellis, Keith, Luca, Luke, Noah and Tom. Tom was making his first appearance for the team and did very well.
We played two games, and managed to run in some short and long distance tries. Our commitment at the breakdown was good, but our work ons for future training and games remains first up tackling, as it was often a little high, and limited to some of the team.

As we had tried to do the previous week, move the ball out of the contact area and use the width as all of our players are comfortable on the ball and have good hands – this seemed to go out of the window this week as we boldly went forward as individual runners. With nine men on the pitch it was tight, and we narrowed the game even more.

There was plenty of effort and some good turnovers. Ellis was key in much of this. Luca broke a number of tackles to go through and score a few times. Luke again was fearless in running hard at the opposition with the ball.

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