Please cross fingers for my DS
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:02 pm
Hi all
Please cross fingers for my DS who will be attending his regional rugby final selection trial this evening!
Send him your good vibes because I think he is feeling a bit down at the moment. He has only managed to participate in 2 of the 4 weekly sessions due to having an injured knee and then the following week a painful outbreak of ring worm on the other knee. He stood on the touchline instead, tears of frustration running down his cheeks and muttering 'let me go on' when he clearly couldn't. The selection coaches have told him that he has nothing to worry about but he feels that he needs to put in a really noticeable performance tonight.
To add to this school rugby is not ideal at the moment. He is being played up in the U13s where he has to deal with much larger and more mature opposition, which he does admirably but ends up having to put in the lions share of the hits due to some of the team not yet being up to standard. There are very few U12s matches arranged but in the one they have had the opposition could only raise 12 players and DS sent 3 of them off the field crying after legitimate tackles. His coaches took him off after 10 minutes telling him he was too physical and dangerous for this match. So, he can't win - it's ok for him to be nearly the smallest on a pitch of U13s and feel battered afterwards but not ok for him to play in his own age group and batter someone else! Actually I do feel they probably did the right thing in that particular match in terms of player safety but I do feel sorry for my DS. It's not as if he's big for his age, just average really.
Hopefully if he makes it into the regional side then he will be able to enjoy a high standard of rugby with his proper age group and boys of similar / better ability.
Please cross fingers for my DS who will be attending his regional rugby final selection trial this evening!
Send him your good vibes because I think he is feeling a bit down at the moment. He has only managed to participate in 2 of the 4 weekly sessions due to having an injured knee and then the following week a painful outbreak of ring worm on the other knee. He stood on the touchline instead, tears of frustration running down his cheeks and muttering 'let me go on' when he clearly couldn't. The selection coaches have told him that he has nothing to worry about but he feels that he needs to put in a really noticeable performance tonight.
To add to this school rugby is not ideal at the moment. He is being played up in the U13s where he has to deal with much larger and more mature opposition, which he does admirably but ends up having to put in the lions share of the hits due to some of the team not yet being up to standard. There are very few U12s matches arranged but in the one they have had the opposition could only raise 12 players and DS sent 3 of them off the field crying after legitimate tackles. His coaches took him off after 10 minutes telling him he was too physical and dangerous for this match. So, he can't win - it's ok for him to be nearly the smallest on a pitch of U13s and feel battered afterwards but not ok for him to play in his own age group and batter someone else! Actually I do feel they probably did the right thing in that particular match in terms of player safety but I do feel sorry for my DS. It's not as if he's big for his age, just average really.
Hopefully if he makes it into the regional side then he will be able to enjoy a high standard of rugby with his proper age group and boys of similar / better ability.
