Toronto Nomads 38 Toronto Saracens 0. Onto the Provincial Finals on September 6th/7th. Report to follow.

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The Nomads U16 Boys closed out the regular season with a 56-0 win over Ajax 2nds to finish the regular season with a perfect 8 and 0 record. While no-one would claim that this was our toughest game of the season, not least because some of the Ajax boys were double shifting after a tough eastern division play off against the Barbs, it was a deeply ( Read more... )

I couldn't find a ref for my U16 game today so i figured I'd have to do it which did not fill me with joy. Fortunately the Barbs were in pretty much the same boat so we traded and I reffed their U16 play off game against Brock and Khalil from the Barbs reffed my boys. I'm not sure who got the better deal. We were missing a number of key players ( Read more... )

It was a long day. Again. 1030 saw my U16s play Brampton. Brampton were much better than we expected and we had to work really hard to grind out a win by two tries. It was a challenge to give some of my less talented players some game time but everybody played so FTW. If I haven't said it before (and I suspect I have) they are a fantastic ( Read more... )

The boys done good. My U16s played Balmy Beach this morning. The beach, as expected, were a skillful and well drilled team. My boys played out of their skins. The forwards were particularly awesome but everyone played well. We put six tries on them and ran out 34-0 winners. On that kind of form there isn't a team in the province we couldn't ( Read more... )

I was at Fletchers from 0930 to 1730. The Ui6s beat the Yeomen comfortably despite a misunderstanding about what the Yeomen had agreed to in terms of substitutions which meant that I couldn't balance up the playing time the way I wanted. It also wasn't an especially good tempered game but that perhaps was inevitable ( Read more... )

I have a busy Saturday coming up. At 1030 my U16s play the York Yeomen. There were thirty kids at practice last night so we should be good for numbers. The July curse has arrived but not fatally by the look of it ( Read more... )

The U16 played the Mississauga Blues last night at Fletchers. Again the turnout was good, especially for a mid week game. We had 31 boys dressed though we were a bit thin in some departments, notably the second row. We played well. We ended up 32-12 winners and everybody got some playing time ( Read more... )

It was a long day. My U16 boys played their first game of the season at Crusaders. We had more than thirty boys dressed so managing the substitution flow was quite a challenge. I managed to get everybody some playing time while starting with my strongest XV and finishing up with my best XV, bar a couple of injuries. It was a good game. Both ( Read more... )