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6月9日 TABLELANDS RD 0May 31st, 2008
Southern Garages U18s bounce back
against Queanbeyan Whites
The Southern Garages U18s bounced back into the winners circle with a hearty 42 to 14 win over the Queanbeyan Whites. Coming off a loss the previous week, the U18s were anxious for a win to stay in touch with the top of the table in the ACT Junior Rugby competition. Also, the Queanbeyan side contained a few Goulburn players in their squad, so the local lads were keen to do well, even if only just to prove a tribal point.
It was good to have a few of the side's ‘play makers’ back like, Jacob Kara and James Smith. Jacob, in the first few minutes, set the stage for the rest of the match, by extracting a large hole from the oppositions defence. This was achieved through a set move and allowed Simon McDonald to score next to the posts.
The forwards played their best game to date, with some very solid defence and excellent work at the breakdown turning over a lot of Queanbeyan’s ball. They were well serviced from the scrum base and rucks allowing the backs to have quality ball. This showed out in the final result with all tries coming from the back line.
The only poor point to come out of the game, from Goulburn's point of view, was the lopsided penalty count. Goulburn was at the wrong end of the penalty count due to their own fault through silly infringements at the breakdown, something they we can’t afford to do against a stronger opposition.
On a brighter note Aaron Williams had a great day with the boot by kicking five conversions from six attempts. The Player's Player was Jacob Kara while the Coach's award went to Reece O'Neil.
Goulburn 42 (James Smith 3 tries, Simon McDonald, Jacob Kara, Wade Elford tries; Aaron Williams 5 conversions) bt Queanbeyan 14.
5月26日 U18s & U16s figure in rep honoursSaturday, 24 May 2008
Goulburn U18s stand out Over 50 ACT schoolboys played in the annual selection trials at Jamison Oval yesterday, under a new format. Traditionally the selection trials Involved a match between Associated Southern Colleges and Combined Secondary Colleges but this year the ASC team was split in two. The new format provided selection headaches for ACT coach Paul Mead who had to sift through the abundance of talent to finalise his squad said the new selection process gave more players a chance to shine and state their claims for a place on the ACT representative team. The nationals will be held in Canberra in the first week of the upcoming school Holidays, from July8-11 at Viking Park Tuggeranong. Goulburn’ was strongly represented in both the Associated Southern colleges’ side (ASC) and Combined Southern colleges (CSC). In the CSC side, Goulburn supplied 6 players for the side that had students from as far away as Albury, Pambula and Vincentia. The 6 players were John Cottrell, Sam White, Craig Gordon, Jacob Karra, Corey Withers and Giles Cunningham. For the ASC side Trinity had 5 players invited to play in the side Josh Charley, Michael Campton Smith, Josh Hewitt, Reece Cranston and Jack Brimms who was attempting to make the side for the 2nd time in 2 years. All players tried their hardest and gave a great account of themselves with Michael Campton Smith setting himself up as the possible bolter to make the side. Unfortunately Michael was not fortunate enough to make the squad but Giles Cunningham and Jack Brimms Both made the ACT open School Boys side as well as the ACT under 18 squad, who will play games against Victoria, South Australia and NSW Country under 18s in Melbourne over the long weekend in June. Goulburn's best U16s shine in trial On Sunday the 18th 17 young under 16 players from Goulburn traveled to Braidwood to trial for the Far South Coast, Monaro under 16 representative trials. The trials drew players from as far a field as Pambula, Cooma and Vincentia. The squad will travel to Melbourne and play 2 Victorian side a side from south Australia, The ACT under 16s team and a team from the Southern Inland over the long weekend in June. This will be the first time that a team from the Far South Coast and the Monaro have gone away to play in this tournament and it is real comment on how strong Rugby is growing in this largely Rugby league and Australian Rules dominated area. Goulburn had some real success on the day, geting 11 players out of the 22 man squad selected they are Corey Whithers, Tom White, Mark Kennedy and Hugo Cunningham from the Tablelands team, while Trinity had Toby Wilson, Dom McCarthy, Matt Bird, Tom Richie, Mitch McGeechan, Brendan McKavanagh and Dom Chalker. Tim O'Brien the coach was really pleased with the commitment all the boys showed on the day and feels that this side really has some depth and that we will suprise a lot of sides down at the Melbourne tournament. 5月19日 Mixed Results for Tablelands TeamsRound 03 - May 17th 2008
Tablelands Top Guns topple Soldiers
Coming off a loss against Royals in Round 2, the Southern Garages U18’s bounced back with a 24 to 10 win against ADFA in Round 3 of the ACT junior Rugby Competition.
The previous loss had been largely due to the lack of any real pre-season competition, so the team was really still finding its feet and just starting to Gel as a unit.
The day was blustery and cold and we started the game with a strong breeze in our face, therefore the first half was played fairly tightly, with a lot of good gutsy forward work, thanks to players like Giles Cunningham, James Cabale and Reece O’Neill. This was good, as the longer the lads could hold the opposition out, the stronger they became as a unit.
Half time came and ADFA held an ominous 10 – 0 lead. But it was to be a different game in the second half, as we utilised the strong breeze to our advantage through the boot of Jacob Kara and Aaron Williams.
There is nothing like territorial advantage to inspire players to lift to another level and instil confidence into the side. This was immediately evident as the backs started to through the ball around cutting holes in ADFA’s defensive line.
We had many opportunities to score in the second half with consistent pressure being applied by our halves and loose forwards causing the opposition to spill a lot of ball within there quarter. Goulburns backline played their best football for some time, sticking to the game plan and attacking, through set moves, always testing ADFA’s defences.
We managed to cross the line four times in the second half, twice through the forwards and twice through the back line. Justifications for the amount of work both forwards and backs put in on the day.
Goulburn 24 (Giles Cunningham 2 tries; Andrew Price try; Jacob Kara try. Aaron Williams 2 conversions) def ADFA 10.
The players player award went to Giles Cunningham while Sam McNeilly picked up the Coaches Award.
It would be remiss of me not to mention the loss for the season of Ben Rabjohns. Ben was injured in a training run with the ACT U/18 side. Ben will be greatly missed this season, as he was an integral part of the team as well as team captain. Get well soon Ben.
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On Saturday the Tablelands Under 16’s Rugby Union team travelled to Cooma for their third game of the season.
Still on a high from their previous win against St Edmunds, the boys were very optimistic about this game. However during the first half their hopes were dashed with injuries to two key players, Adam Brook and Hugo Cunningham. This left the team fielding only 14 players for the remainder the game.
During the second half there were glimpses of brilliance with the perseverance of Tom White and Bradley Redman almost resulting in a try each.
The continued defence and determination of Henry Reeves and Sean Lawler didn’t go unnoticed, nor did the exceptional efforts of Walter Foreman, which saw him rewarded with the player’s player for the game.
Congratulations must be given to all the team on a game well played in atrocious conditions even though the end result wasn’t in their favour.
The team now looks forward to making amends for the loss to Cooma with the return of Mark Kennedy and Adam Stevens from injury for the next game. |
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