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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:07 pm 
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Just stumbled acrosss a match report from an Under 8's game and was stunned by both the tome and content of it and wondered what other people think.

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/hullwykea ... _id=690370

Is this right for a team of 8 year old to be obsessed with winning and putting derrogatary comments about the opposition on a publically accessible forum.

Incidentally putting the score on site like this is in direct contravention of the RFL's Child protection guidlines as well.

My thougts are that kids rugby at this age should be about fun and developing skills and team work not simply about creating a win at all costs mentally. The match report talks about " focussing on the job in hand" and describes the opposition as "looking all washed out".

Am I overreacting or is this part of where we go wrong in this country?
Just stumbled acrosss a match report from an Under 8's game and was stunned by both the tome and content of it and wondered what other people think.

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/hullwykea ... _id=690370

Is this right for a team of 8 year old to be obsessed with winning and putting derrogatary comments about the opposition on a publically accessible forum.

Incidentally putting the score on site like this is in direct contravention of the RFL's Child protection guidlines as well.

My thougts are that kids rugby at this age should be about fun and developing skills and team work not simply about creating a win at all costs mentally. The match report talks about " focussing on the job in hand" and describes the opposition as "looking all washed out".

Am I overreacting or is this part of where we go wrong in this country?

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 Post subject: Re: Kids Rugby
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:09 pm 
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Although not Rovers related, having read the report i think that the OP makes some good points.
Feel free to discuss.






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 Post subject: Re: Kids Rugby
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:22 pm 
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Sounds to me like the guy has some issues, cant imaging the young lads having to much fun playing under that pressure. Surely at that age enjoying the game takes priority over what the scoreline is, what happens if they lose heavily, extra training sessions?

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 Post subject: Re: Kids Rugby
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:28 pm 
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I'd like to think the report was written by a (slightly) older brother or sister with journalistic aspirations, rather than the coach.

Don't want to be too negative towards a volunteer, but if it is the coach he should be a bit gentler IMHuO.






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 Post subject: Re: Kids Rugby
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:31 pm 
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Dont forget that kids are very IT literate in this day and age and even at 8 years old are able to access these types of sites and probably do to see their names in "print" and to see how many tries they are on for the season. This sort of thing can very easily result in playground bullying if some of these kids go to the same schools.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:38 pm 
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ML RED wrote:Dont forget that kids are very IT literate in this day and age and even at 8 years old are able to access these types of sites and probably do to see their names in "print" and to see how many tries they are on for the season. This sort of thing can very easily result in playground bullying if some of these kids go to the same schools.




Thats definately something to be considered but the bigger concern to me is that there are people involved in under 8s rugby who see winning games as the major aim.






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 Post subject: Re: Kids Rugby
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:48 pm 
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I've previously made similar points on a thread on the VT.

There are no checks and balances on coaches at this level once they are registered as coaches. they simply do the course get CRB checked and are then let to go off and coach as they see fit. Its become like passing your driving test, you do what you need to do to pass and then it seems some coaches completely forget everything they've been taught and do as they wish... and this is the result

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"Man OR the Match". Says it all really.

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The reports for there U10's are far better and more to your liking






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 Post subject: Re: Kids Rugby
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:51 pm 
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I personally don't see the problem with giving kids a winning mentality. In this country we're told that its the taking part that counts too often. Which imo is why we're truthfully not really that good at any sport.

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