Some of the current under 7's
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NEWS
Mini Rugby Section Awards
Sunday 13th May 2007
Awards were as follows:
Under 6's
Top Try Scorer and Best Team Contribution : Zachary Parkinson
Most Improved Player: Ben Brear
Under 7's
Top Try Scorer: Cobie Chapman
Most Improved Player: Felix Iles
Coaches Award for Greatest Contribution to the Team: Tommy Warn
Players Player Award: Mason Dowd
All the players who attended the awards with their medals
OLNEY RFC Under 7's win the Plate Competition at the Bedford Blues Tournament, April 2007
OLNEY RFC Under 7's win the Bedfordshire County Tournament, March 2007
The Squad with their Trophy
The team played four outstanding games against some strong opposition and won a thrilling final against Dunstablians.
Thank you to all the team for a great effort.
SUPER SUNDAY
On Sunday 29th Aprl 2007 Olney RFU Under 7's represented the club at three tournaments across the region.
At St Neots the team narrowly missed out on appearing in the final
At Wellingborough the team were one win away from the final and at
Northampton Old Scouts the teams performed very well and showed great character against the strongest teams from across the Midlands
Thanks to all the players and parents for their efforts and enthusiasm over the season.
Heres looking forward to the 2007-8 season.
Have a good summer!
RECORD TURNOUT
4th February 07
The coaches would like to thank the players this week for a record turnout.
We had a total of 34 players this week which is a record and considering the frosty morning is a great effort by all.
Many thanks
Simon, Fraser, Aiden, Claire and Steve.
See you all next week!
SUPERB PERFORMANCE AT OLD NORTHAMPTONIANS RFC
4th February 2007
The team that travelled away to Old Northamptonian's to play ON's and Buckingham played superbly well in winning both their games. In addition several coaches and parents from the opposing teams commented that the players were exemplary in their behaviour and attidude before, during and after the games and were great ambassadors for Olney RFC.
All the coaches and the club would like to thank them for the efforts.
Simon
Photo's
On Sunday 10th December the clubs official photographer attended and took a number of pictures of individual players. If you didn't see these on the day you can view them and buy any if you are interested at
http://www.dephoto.co.uk/. Go to the bottom of the front page and click on the rugby icon and then on the browse button.
Group Organisation and Structure
Main Coaches: Simon Christian, Aiden Chapman, Fraser Bull and Linda Rance
Admin, Fixer & Bacon Roll Stall Hero: Claire Chapman
Coaches targets for the group
Our priority for all the children in the under 7's is that they enjoy themselves and have fun. We do this by trying to mix up our sessions with a combination of matches, skills practice and games.
We want all the players to develop their skills to prepare them for moving up the age groups as well as to give them a sense of achievement that they are improving.
We all believe that for the players, winning matches is important and so for some tournaments we intend to pick and field the strongest teams that we can. For most matches and practices however, we mix up the teams as the less experienced players gain most from playing along side the more experienced ones.
To encourage all players each week we award the Johnny Wilkinson cup to the two players who have specifically made most effort or improvement that week or the previous weeks. We tell the group why they have particularly deserved the cup and they must go through the ritual of "Kiss it! Kiss it!, where they must kiss the cup and hold it aloft in front of their team mates. In this way we feel it is clear to all the players that it is effort that is rewarded and not scoring the most tries.
Practices and Matches
We are very lucky at Olney with the large amount of space that the Under 7's have to play in, although it is a brisk walk from the club house. This enables us to accomodate the large group of players that we have in the under 7's. Unfortunately, most of the teams that we play are not so well off for space and numbers. To counteract this we try to have home games with two other teams but it is inevitable that there are very few occassions during the season where all the players can travel away en-mass. When one or two teams are travelling away we are fortunate that we have sufficient players and coaches to be able to provide meaningful and productive sessions at Olney for those who happen to be not selected that week.
Please see the link above to the fixtures list
We aim to start all matches and practices at 10.30am when playing at home.
New players
We are always happy to welcome new players. If anyone is interested in playing then all you need to do is email schristian@talktalk.net to check when we are playing or practicing at home next and come along. For any parents who are not sure whether their child will enjoy it we are happy for them to come along for a couple of weeks before they comit to becoming members of the club. All players must become members of the club which costs £20 and the parents must become social members of ORFC to enable them to use the facilities available which costs £5.
Players are only eligable to play in matches after they have reached their 6th birthday, we do have players that are under 6 and would be happy to have more. These under 6's have a designated coach and we focus more on their skills and having fun.
