The Under 8's were in a league with seven other teams.
On the day the squad was Alfie, Brad, Katie, Keith, Logan, Luca, Mikey, Ollie, Reighly, and Thea. 10 players for six a side. We changed at half time each game.
We kicked off against Romford and were uncharacteristically poor in passing and going forward. Defensively better, but not quite into our stride. Maybe a bit of nerves, or our long warm up. Romford came away as the better try scorers.
On asking the Team for their views on the game, we got great feedback from the Team on their own performance. Everyone was disappointed with what we had done and changes for the coming games were agreed. We didn't look back, and didn't come up short again when playing Woodford, Upminster, Burnham, Thurrock, Old Brentwoods and finally Braintree.
The Team consistently pushed forward in defence and made the opposition cough up the ball to give us turnovers and more opportunity to run at them. Our open play running in attack was great to watch and got a few positive remarks from other teams and referees.
A good day all round. Plenty of improvement still to be worked on, but every player should be proud of their achievements at the Festival.
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