U15 Boys Match Report

Round 1

Today we played Wantirna South at their ground for Round One of the season. Hoping we would get off to a good start.
The first quarter wasn't great at all. Our effort at the ball, our talk and the want to pick up players wasn't good enough so the other team controlled the first quarter. We had a good chat at quarter time to try and change a few things. We were better in the second quarter but the other team was still playing better than us. The third quarter was a bit the same but things were starting to change and we were getting a lot closer to the other teams level. They only out scored us by a goal in this quarter.
The last quarter was really good. We put pressure on the opposition, when we got the ball we kicked it long and players up the field put themselves in the right spots to give us the best chance to win the ball. We ended out scoring them in the last quarter which was very pleasing to see that we never gave up. We did some things pretty well by the end of the game and there are some things we will work on to improve next week.
We lost 99-53.
Goals. Cooper Lancaster 2, Cooper Leach 2, Charlie 2, Mason Reid, Riley Wigney.
Best. Cooper Lancaster, Max, Jackson Mead. Seth, Maison Murphy, Mason De Young, Riley Wigney

Round 2

Today was Anzac round. A game where everyone wants to show their fighting spirit.
It was very warm for the game today. We wanted to have a good first quarter and set the tone for the game. Montrose had more of the ball but the boys kept working hard. Unluckily for us, Montrose were able to get a few late goals to give them a good lead at quarter time. The next three quarters were pretty even. We outscored them in 1 of the quarters but we struggled to get back the lead they got in the first quarter. We worked pretty hard which was good and we had our opportunities but our accuracy let us down. We had the same amount of scoring shots for the game but we kicked way too many points.

We have a few small things we want to improve on to make games more competitive and get the results we are after. Definitely something we can do with a bit or hard work.

Goals. Charlie, Max, Jaxon B, Mason De Young
Best. Marley, Cooper Lancaster, Seth, Yom, Finlay, Max, Maison Murphy, Mason De Young, Riley Wigney

Round 3

Today we played Ringwood North at their ground.
The forecast was for lots of rain but lucky for everyone, we only got a little rain during the game.
We started the game ok today but we were a little down in a few areas which kept the game very close. Our skills and effort needed to improve to play the footy we were trying to play.
At half time it was very close but things started to improve for us in the second half which had us playing better footy in the third quarter. We had a lot more of the ball than the opposition in the second half but our skills were letting us down a bit keeping the game closer than we wanted it to. 
We had a really good last quarter and were able to kick away and win by 38 points. The score was 75-37.

Goals. Charlie 2, Mason De Young 2, Jaxon, Jakob, Riley W, Ollie, Maison Murphy, Cooper Lancaster.

Best. Mason De Young, Max, Darcy, Riley W, Phoenix, Manson Reid, Jakob

Round 4

Lilydale had been playing some good footy so it was going to be a tough game today.
In the first quarter, we were beaten in the middle of the ground quite easily which put our backline under a lot of pressure. We were well behind at quarter time. We tried to turn around in the second quarter but Lilydale was playing much better footy than us so we were well down at half time.

We have been playing pretty well in our second halves so we tried to work on things to turn things around. Although Lilydale scored a lot of goals in the third quarter, we got the ball in our forward line a lot more creating scoring opportunities and we got some score on the board. We definitely had some moments where we were playing some good footy. 
We wanted to finish the game well and our last quarter was definitely our best. We were better in the middle of the ground which stopped them getting easy possessions and made the contest a lot closer. We had some opportunities but couldn't quite kick goals from them.

We lost 180-10

Goals. Finlay

Best. Tom, Mason De Young, Marley, Jackson Mead, Max, Phoenix, Mason Reid, Riley W, Seth, Maison Murphy.

Round 5

Today we played The Basin at Home.

It was a wet day but we managed to miss most of the rain. 
We started very well and took control of the game from the start. With a bit less pressure than previous weeks, our skills, talk and manning up were where we needed them to be to play good footy. We had a big lead at quarter time so we changed the boys positions each quarter to give them a chance to play other positions and they all did really well. We didn't let up or have any flat spots during the game so we were able to kick away every quarter. We definitely improved on some things we have been working on and showed by the way we played.

We won 195-4

Best. Seth, Cooper Lancaster, Mason De Young, Maison Murphy, Tom, Phoenix, Ollie, Jaxon, Max, Mason Reid, Jack

Goals. Jaxon 4, Cooper Lancaster 4, Phoenix 3, Riley Wigney 3, Marley 2, Maison Murphy 2, Riley Herbert 2, Xane, Charlie, Max, Finlay, Ben, Tom, Ollie, Seth, Cooper Leach

Round 6

Today we played Norwood at their home ground.

After seeing their past results, we were confident we could win if we played good footy.

Norwood didn’t have enough numbers which meant we had to play 16 on the field for each team. This wasn’t great for us as we now had 8 starting on the bench.

We hoped to get off to a good start but we were a bit flat and our effort level was a little down. Although we did have the lead at quarter time, we definitely had some areas we wanted to improve on. We had the scoring end in the second quarter and we played much better to extend our lead by a fair bit. We mixed things up in the third quarter and played some of the boys in different positions to give other boys opportunity to play up forward. Unfortunately we didn’t want the ball enough and were a little to lose on our players which had Norwood just outscore us in the third quarter but to the boys credit, we had a really good last quarter which had us win comfortably in the end. Very happy with parts of the game and we will work on a couple of areas to play a more consistent game next week.

We won 118-30.

Goals, Charlie 4, Cooper Lancaster 3, Jack 2, Seth 2, Finlay, Max, Pheonix, Mason Reid, Jakob, Darcy, Riley Wigney.

Best. Jack, Mason De Young, Cooper Lancaster, Jackson, Max, Darcy, Jakob, Finlay, Marley, maison Murphy, Charlie

Round 7

We had a home game against Lysterfield this week.

We had a good week on the track this week so we were keen to see what we could do game day.

Really wanted to focus on our talk and skills to play how we wanted to play.

We started off ok and we were winning a fair bit of the ball but we weren’t able to make the opposition pay as much as we wanted as our skills were a little inaccurate.

We finished the first quarter in front but really wanted to improve in a few areas to start controlling the game.

The second quarter was pretty much the same so we went in at half time in front but wanted to tidy up on a few things to put some real scoreboard pressure on the opposition.

Our second half was much better and we put a big second half score on the board to win comfortably.

We have some tough matches coming up so we will work on a few areas to improve and keep doing the good things we do week in and week out.

Pleasing to see that the boys always try all the way to the end, no matter the result.

We won 123-28.

Goals. Max 3, Cooper Lancaster 3, Ollie 2, Mason Reid 2, Finly, Jaxon, Jackson, Mason De Young, Cooper Leach, Maison Murphy, Riley Wigney

Best. Max, Cooper Lancaster, Jackson, Ollie Pheonix, Tyler, Marley, Tom, Darcy, Mason Reid, Mason De Young

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