Ravens away to Portsmouth

Many thanks to our hosts Portsmouth and good training session followed by a couple of matches.

We played 2 games (using all 12 players timewise fairly).

1st game we were hammered 4 - 1 Typical eh - we need to break that tradition. Being brutal the first half was dreadful play from us what was that all about team? we didn't seem to want to tackle, Portsmouth flew past us with speed and good passing. By half time we were 3-1 down, a few team changes and managed to recover our play and only concede 1 try.

2nd game - so much better some impressive tackling, good use of the pitch and most importantly a win of 7-1 to us. Well done.

Player of the week had to go to Finlay for his consistent tackling.

Tries in total went to Kye 2, Finlay 2, Ethan 1, Harry 3.

Training next week 9.45 for 10am.

Observations from today - we need to practise passing the ball before being tackled, we lost the ball 2/3 times to 7 tackle rule, really shouldnt happen by now.

We need to practise speed work and keeping up as a line. A couple of opportunities were missed as our player was left as an island in the middle of Portsmouth players, where were the other 6 was the look of panic of the players face?
This is again pretty much a basic use the ball and space of pitch don't just run at the opposition.
Use that voice, need to practise shouting with a mouthguard in.

Finally we did a bit last week about mentally intimidating the opposition, walking backwards looking them in the eye etc. Frankly today you all skipped back to your line come on really that's not scary is it?