U9 - Sandringham Dolphins

Man, I'm gutted we did not win that game. The boys came out hard and played their positions well and went into half-time with a 2-0 lead. Everything was looking great until the 2nd half where we fell-apart. Players seemed to forget how to play and confusion reigned. It just shows how important it is to practise Wednesday night and to go through the drills. As a manager, and more so as a coach, it's hard to sacrifice a win but we need to ensure we rotate players but its getting more and more evident that we need to be tactical and play to our strengths. Bring on the training next week as we need a good home win on the 25th.

Congratulations to "The Team" for last weeks all-round effort. Putt-Putt vouchers for all.

Coaches' Corner : In the first half we played really well with some good moves and good goals, in the second half we lost our way bit and let Sandy back in to the game, we lifted again toward the end but we ran out of time. We will be back training this  week and i think we can get back next week if we focus on midfield coming back to help the defence which means a lot of running for midfield, the rest of the basics are there with the defence and attack going ok. Also thanks to Alex and Jackson for the goalkeeping today, if there are any volunteers for keeping next week let me or Jason know at training. With about 4 round to go overall we have been going really well with everybody improving there skills so bring on next week.

The score ended up 4-3 to the Sandringham
Scorers: James Billings (2), Harry Parker (1)