Cavan RFC v Monaghan RFC U9’s @ Swellan Park, Cavan Saturday 3rd October 2015
Coaches: Paddy Hughes & David Moore
Our first match of the season and it wasn’t an easy day. The entire Cavan team looked bigger, older and better schooled. No excuses though we didn’t do a lot right on the day. Some valuable lessons learned by the coaches and players. The game was played over 3 x 10 minute thirds, on a ½ pitch and was 10 a side leaving a lot of space which Cavan exploited very well, with 2 scores coming as a result of good running down both wings in the opening 10. It was Monaghan’s rucking in the second third though that was most disappointing. We had been working on this in training in the first couple of weeks of this season but Cavan seemed much more dominant in this area. To be fair the final third saw some great work from a number of Monaghan players in trying to focus on making the tackle and holding on. This resulted in our joint player of the day award going to James McCaffrey and Aaron Treanor. A disappointing day though for a team that will only get better. On the positive side we had 21 players who made the trip and a lot of the new faces are already starting to blend in. Plenty to work on this Saturday at training – 10am at home.
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David Moore BA(Hons)
Leisure Facility Manager & Personal Trainer
Coral Leisure Ltd
Monaghan Leisure Complex
Clones Road
Monaghan
Co. Monaghan
Ireland
H18 A384
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