NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 69 - Nice

Milchcow wrote:

My daughter is in U11s now, and they are starting to play something that looks like football. They are no superstars, but they can generally keep position, and can attempt to pass to a team mate.
Next year they have to play with the offside rule though, which is going to hurt a couple of the goal-hangers in her team.


U8s is the first year with a keeper in our leagues here. Years before that they just play 4-a-side with no goals so it is a bit of rolling maul around the ball, converting to positional play is taking some time to adjust to.
Heaps of times we'll get a throw in on half way, and a forward will go to take the throw-in, with absolutely everyone else on the team behind him
Or we'll win a corner with 1 person taking the corner, another about 2m away next to him, and everyone else back on half way. And if you tell a defender they are allowed to go up for a corner then you'll never see them again.

Pain wrote:

I'm coaching u7 Rugby Union so would also like to join the support network if possible

robelgordo wrote:

Oh I can’t even imagine that

I do remember in u8s RL being in the As and yet it literally took us a whole season to be able up successfully do a drill where you run and pass along the full backline without someone dropping it

And it was redundant anyway because in games we just passed the mandatory two times where the most recent receiver would then run from a standing start.

So I guess nothing changes, it’s all the long game of establishing the physical skills for many years later when they have the mental capability to use them.

Aardvark wrote:

Getting their heads around throw ins was fun...we have a strict 'down the line only' policy

My favourite play is when they take a goal kick across the box to someone on the other side of the field they have no hope of reaching.....goal

A variation on this is when the opposition figure out a goalkeeper can't kick for shit so they crowd them out at the goal kicks waiting for the chances that invariably come (refs are usually 12 so they don't police it)

We have a few younger girls in their first year of football so I regularly have to tell one of the more competent players to keep reminding them which way we are going or that they have to stop when the whistle goes.

Milchcow wrote:

In theory for U8s here, opposition have to wait behind halfway until a defender has touched the ball before they can move to tackle them
As most refs are just dads, it is enforced with varying degrees of strictness.

I'd say our biggest contributor to conceding goals is keeper passing wide to a team mate from a goal kick (as instructed) who then just boots the ball back into the middle of the pitch into the path of the oncoming opposition who get to shoot 1on1 with the keeper.

Just getting a kid to take a throw in of any sort can be a win. Most of them get paralyzed by the options and if you let them they will stand their for 30 seconds or more trying to decide who to throw to. (3 - 2 - 1 - Throw! is a magical set of instructions)

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Game of sheep answers submitted

Have kind of tailored my answers to the degenerates that hang around here in a bye week

rectangle wrote:

What about us who normally lurk and are now just sitting here hitting refresh and not seeing any new comments :silent: :silent:

multiple.scoregasms wrote:Game of sheep answers submitted

Have kind of tailored my answers to the degenerates that hang around here in a bye week

Pain wrote:

The previous couple of pages of high intellect providing inspiration?

Khany wrote:Gold Coast Marathon is the weekend following SOO 2,  event organisers are already reminding interstate entrants of the refund policies due to covid regulations.

WT2K wrote:Chad "the hair" Townsend has joined the warriors for remainder of this season.
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