Dragons V Knights

We met our friends from the beach today at Bishopston. The under 6 tag team, the Knights, joined us for a game.

Lisa and Dylan have done a great job with their team. The boys were fantastic with some real stars in the making. Well done to you all.

We have a new Dragon. Joe joined our team today and played really well.

See you all next week.

Mark.

Joint training and game with Mumbles Knights

Penclawydd don't have an under 7 team so we have booked a pitch at Bishopston. We are planning to train and play games against our friends from the beach. Dylan's under 6 tag team, Mumbles Knights, will be joining us.

Nigel has finalised the our new shirt design. We will be doing a fitting this Sunday so we can place an order next week.

Please arrive at 10:45 for the fitting. We will play and train until 11am.

See you tomorrow,

Mark.

Training

We took a break from games against other teams this week and practised our skills.

During our training we focused on tagging, running onto the ball, picking up a ball from the ground and passing. We also had a quiz on tag rugby rules.

The Dragons did really well. I was pleased to see the skills being used in our tag game at the end. Well done boys.

We have another away game against Penclawydd next Sunday. I will post details as soon as I receive them.

See you next week,

Mark.

Waunarlwydd Away. Sunday 20 Nov.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry and sorry!

Thank you for all arriving early and waiting for so long in the cold.

We tried to do our best with the Dragons while we were waiting for our game to start. Thank you Grant for your help. We played bulldogs, practised passing, ran relay races and played Grants tag and evasion game.

My non game highlight was catching one of the Dragons sitting on the water bottle caps just before his team-mate took a long refreshing drink...Yuk!

When our game eventually started the Dragons were fantastic. The boys were on fire this week! I lost count of the number of great individual tries from the team. There were some great tags as well.

Thank you for your support and patience today. See you next week,

Mark.

Who are we!

Bulldog in today's pre match training

Super swerving! We have a potential Shane Williams in the making I think!

Photos from our games against Banwen and Neath

Thank you Lucio for sharing your photos with us again. Mark.

Dragons V Neath and Banwen (away)

The Dragons were fantastic last weekend!

We played Banwen then Neath. Our team played so well in both games. I lost count of those who scored tries!

Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera so I don't have any photos. Lucio did have his so I hope to put some photos on the blog soon.

My highlight of the day was an off the pitch moment when I saw Jess jumping up and down after Morgan scored a great try!

We have a game next weekend against Loughor (away....again!). Hope you can join us then.

Well done Dragons.

Mark.

Halloween Tag

We had a spooky, halloween, themed training session today.

Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We started with a modified warm-up game of North, South, East and West where the boys ran between Rat, hat, broom and bat!

Next up was Zombie tag. I don't know how the un-dead do it! Running without bending your knees is hard work.

My favourite bit was next. The Dragons split into 2 groups and ran relay races which finished by turning 2 of the Mummy's into Mummies! This was accomplished by wrapping them in 8 rolls of the cheapest toilet paper! I thought they looked great.

After a short break the boys played a game of tag rugby. Thanks to Mal and Jess for helping the teams. Everyone played really well.

Finally we had a quiz where correct answers won the boys their sweets.

Well done everyone. See you next week.

Mark.

Halloween Tag!

It's Halloween so we will be having spooky themed tag training session. We will start at 10:30am on Sunday 30 October at Bishopston. Dress in your Halloween costumes (if you don't mind them getting a bit dirty!)

Please join us for severed fingers in blood (hotdogs) at the club after training.

Mark.

New Jersey

Nigel has been working on a new jersey for the Dragons. I think it looks fantastic but we would really like to know what you think. Post your comments below.

Training Underhill Park - Sunday 23 October

We had a good training session today in Underhill Park. We played in the afternoon to accommodate the rugby world cup final. We will retun to our usual pre lunch time next week.

We started our training with our usual warm-up (I now need to keep an eye open for Gavin Henson and James Hook!). We then had a couple of games of bulldog with Grant and Nigel tagging.

I started to worry that the Dragons don't have that killer instinct when the boys suggested we play "kissy bears" not huggy bears (which we do to get the boys into groups)! Next up we practised collecting a lose ball from the floor and passing. The final drill was a 1 on 1 game that Grant ran. I liked this game and will play that again.

We finished with a long game of tag rugby. I am really impressed with the Dragons. There was some great running, swerving, passing and tries. The new Dragons Dylan and Jack played some great rugby. Well done boys!

As the All Blacks won the world cup today I though it the right time to teach the Dragons the Welsh Haka. The words can be found on a post lower down the blog.

Next week will be Halloween themed!

Mark.

All Blacks Skills - Part 1 - Tricks at Training

All Blacks Skills - Part 2 - Summer Edition

Sunday 21 October - Training 3pm

Because of the Rugby World Cup final we will be training in Underhill Park at 3pm. Please meet us near the swings! See you on Sunday,

Mark.

Pontarddulais Away. Sunday 16 October 10:30am.

We are playing an away game against Pontarddulais RFC on Sunday 16 October. Our game will be played at the Pontarddulais Comprehensive school, Caecerrig Road, Pontarddulais, Swansea SA4 1PD.

Games start at 11am. Please arrive by 10:30 so we can get the Dragons ready.

See you on Sunday,

Mark.

Pictures of the Dragons in action taken by Lucio / 3

Pictures of the Dragons in action taken by Lucio / 2

Pictures of the Dragons in action taken by Lucio

Dragons V Gowerton at Bishopston

We played Gowerton at the weekend. It was another good game for the Dragons.

Before the kick-off we practised picking up a rolling ball from the ground, running and passing. The boys are really doing well. Their skills are improving all the time. Ben really impressed me with his passing skills.

In the game itself the dragons boys defended really well. I watched David launch himself through the air to grab a tag and stop Gowerton from scoring! Aedan scored some fantastic tries.

I find it really hard to remember who did what. On the pitch it all happens so quickly with small children everywhere!

Nigel, Rhian and I were impressed with how well the dragons played. They outperformed their coaches! I noticed half way though the game that I had set up the pitch like a square and Nigel made some dubious calls as the referee; which invited heckling from our own parents!

See you next week for more of the same against Pontardulais(on a bigger pitch!).

Mark.