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Toowoomba displayed very little compassion toward the game with a wintery spell that had the Show Grounds covered in a thick fog for most of the game. There are numerous stories of one of the umpires rushing over near the coach's boxes and advising the teacher/coaches to head over to the far wing where a player had been down injured for most of the quarter.
The fog was so thick that no one could see the injured player. He was seriously injured. But he does have a great story to tell his grandchildren.
To umpire such a game was indeed not the easiest of chores. On that first night, the two umpires were able to control the game with great difficulty until the lights went out. But the weather deteriorated even further!
This fog was followed by a violent, windy rain storm that lashed the showgrounds. The light towers of the showgrounds were connected by long, dipping power lines. While lightning and thunder abounded during the storm, the wind grew stronger and stronger to gale like proportions. This caused the electric lights wires between the posts to sway haphazardly about. Sparks began to fly as the wire touched. Eventually, when they became really tangled they fused out the whole system. The showgrounds went into total darkness. The remaining games programmed to be played that night were postponed, as it was not possible to repair the lighting system until the storm abated.
The drama was not finished there. The nominated bus driver had to transport his and the Gold Coast team to their hostel after the games were abandoned. Driving the bus through a violent storm on a narrow winding unfamiliar mountain road proved a major feat of human endeavour. He was forced to drive very slowly and carefully given his responsibility of ensuring that both teams of teenage boys arrived safely. At times, the visibility was so poor; he had to get out of the bus to see if he was on the road! On one occasion, he had to negotiate a fallen tree. Whenever that Toowoomba championship is mentioned he reminds his audience that his experience on that night was one of the most traumatic experiences in his life time.
Despite that night and the necessity of some teams playing two games on the next day, the championships went on to be a great success. The championship finished on a great note for the Darling Downs supporters when their team won its very first championship game ever on the final day of the championship.
Our Author, Richard (Rick) Boyce, began playing Australian Football at school as a nine year old. For the next fifty years, he played, umpired and coached local junior club teams and high school teams at school, district, regional and state level. He coached the Queensland State Secondary Schoolboys in the National Championships five times. He was always looking for ways to educate his players in our national game. With the resources on coaching he has gathered and based on 50 years of experience, he has written a book on coaching for teachers and junior coaches. It is called "Flying High for the Footy and Kicking Goals" and is available by emailing
It is not the best of times for the reigning English Premier League Champions Manchester City. They are currently trailing runaway league leader Liverpool by a whopping 25 points and to add salt to injury, they were recently suspended for two seasons by UEFA from UCL competition for breaching the Financial Fair play rules.
Against the backdrop of uncertainties surrounding the suspension and the noise it has generated, comes the rearranged premier league fixture against West Ham United which was initially fixed for Sunday last week. The game has been rescheduled to take place today on the 19th of February 2020 at the Etihad stadium by 7:30 PM.
What to expect from Manchester City Players
The mood from the player has been positive, with a lot of the players not getting distracted by the recent happening surrounding the club. Leroy Sane, Benjamin Mendy, and Aymeric Laporte are all back training with the main squad, with just Raheem Sterling out injured. The players would be itching to make a positive start to their premier league campaign that has seen some negative results over the past few months.
Manchester City got humbled by Tottenham 2-0 away in their last match and it was a bitter pill to swallow for the EPL reigning Champions. Recent results have not been too bad, with Aston Villa getting hammered 6-1 at Villa Park, drawing 2-2 at home to Crystal Palace and winning 1-0 against Sheffield United at home. Expect a very hungry and passionate City side tonight!
What to expect from West Ham United
It is so difficult to see West Ham avoiding a defeat against a wounded team like Manchester City. West Ham has been on the down slide in the past four premier league games. Drawing 1-1 at home to Everton, losing 4-1 against a very good Leicester City side, losing 2-0 at home to runaway leaders Liverpool and drawing 3-3 at home against Brighton in a game they were expected to win. They currently have some key players down with injuries.
Felipe Anderson is a doubt for tonight's encounter, having just recovered from a back injury. Jack Wilshere has a Groin injury while their Russian Star Andril Yarmolenko has a tear in his abductor's muscle. It will no doubt be an herculean task to grab a point from the game considering their poor run of form lately. They can however still spring a surprise as their manager David Moyes is an experienced tactician.
How the team may Line up
Predicting Pep Guardiola's line up can be very difficult, as he has been known to spring to surprises lately. Ederson is however expected to keep his position between the stick, with Fernandinho, Otamendi, Walker, and Mendy making up the back line. Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, and David Silva will occupy the midfield, with Mahrez and Bernardo Silva operating the flanks. Sergio Aguero can be trusted to lead City's attack. Pep can call on Jesus, Joao Cancelo, Laporte, and Phil Foden if needed.
For West Ham United, Lukasz Fabianski is the favorite in goal, with Angelo Ogbonna, Issa Diop, Aaron Cresswell, and Ryan Fredericks holding forth in defense. Veteran Mark Noble, Balbuena, Declan Rice will hold the midfield, while Michail Antonio, Tomas Soucek, Sebastien Haller, and Robert Snodgrass will lead West Ham attack. This game is remarkable in the sense that it may be the last homecoming for former City star, Pablo Zabaleta, who is adored by City fans and family.
Result Prediction
It is hard to see West ham escaping a defeat away to Manchester City. I see City grabbing all 3 points with a 4-0 victory. Kun Aguero most likely going to be on the score sheet to add to his 16 goals tally. It will be an exciting game to watch as City are known for their entertaining pattern of play.
Clement Sadjere is an inspirational writer, peak performer and a seasoned content curator. An avid reader and publisher who has won several awards as a Platinum expert author with over 12 years experience under his belt. His unique mix of knowledge, curiosity, interest in diverse cultures and excellent research skills empowers him to write on a wide range of topics.
Clement has successfully created a platform for helping individuals and organizations achieve maximum success. He has successfully delivered quality projects to clients globally with 0% plagiarism. A skillful writer, proofreader and researcher; He is a professional who adhere strictly to the principle of optimum client satisfaction. He can be reached
Any training regime in junior sport needs to include practice games as "part and parcel" of each session. Each training session should have, at least, one to help the players understand the game and develop their game skills in a game situation.
Below I discuss three different practice game scenarios that I have used with players from age 6 years through to senior high school students. I first used Football Hockey when preparing the 1980 Queensland state secondary schoolboys team for the National Schoolboys Championships in Darwin in an effort to get the players bending down further for the football. The game all the players of different ages liked the best was the Hitting the Post game. Below is an explanation of three of the games I have used.
Football hockey:
Boys from the northern parts of Australia play on hard grounds where the football tends to bounce higher meaning the players often don't have great skills when picking up the football rolling along the ground. In the game of football hockey, the arms and hands of the player become the "hockey" stick.
The game is played in a small rectangle. The object of the game is to push or punch the football along the ground to your team mate and eventually get it through the goals. The goals are set up at each end of the rectangle by two witches hats about three metres apart. A player may bump or shepherd but not tackle and the football cannot be picked up. After a goal or an out of bounds situation, a ball-up occurs to restart the game at the centre or near the boundary line.
Thus Football Hockey provides players with practice at getting down to the football, calling, shepherding and practicing knocking the football on to a player in a better position. It allows players to get use to close contact of defending players and it is physically demanding helping improve fitness.
Hitting the Goal Post Games:
There are two versions of this game. They are:
• Handball aiming at goal post;
• Drop punting at post;
These drills work on the competitive nature of the boys, even at a young age. Here is how the games are staged.
Put markers a few metres in front of each of the goal and behind post.
Have the players line up about 5 metres from these markers. Begin with set handballs first and then kicks.
Then, have the players run towards the marker and the post to handball or kick to see if they can hit the post.
The aim of the exercise is to develop accuracy in each skill.
Create a competition between two or more teams to see which team scores more hits.
The players, even at high school level, love this exercise.
Handball games:
The game can be played in the centre square using normal rules except there is no kicking. (Adjust the field size to the age level and the number of players).
You decide how goals are scored and how and where the game is restarted.
You might put restrictions on what players can do. e.g. you might make it a non-preferred handball game.
There needs to be a restriction on how far the player may run with the ball. You may allow one bounce. It would depend on how much of the centre square you would use.
A tackle might be simply a touch.
A long handball might be awarded a mark.
The game might just be a "Keeping off" one.
The variations you can make to these games are in your imagination. Remember to stop the game to give advice on how to improve. I often would add a new rule to add "spice" to the game and test their concentration skills.
Our author began playing Australian Football at age ten. His coaching career began at age 20 continuing into his 60's. He coached teams at school, regional, state and national championships. During his coaching career, he gain both a level One and level Two coaching certificate under the National Coaching Accreditation scheme. He has written a coaching manual for teachers and junior coaches call "Flying High for the Footy and Kicking Goals" which is available
If your coach decides you will be a fullback, it means he believes you are a good defender; you have the ability to kick long, accurately and consistently. Apart from playing defensively, you will be expected to kick the ball back into play when the opposing team scores a behind.
This article seeks to give you advice how best to do that.
The first thing to remember when kicking out after a behind has been scores is, until the umpire calls "play on", you are in a protected zone including the goal square and a ten metre area outside the goal square. No opposition player may enter this area until the umpire makes his "play on" call.
Therefore, you have time to settle yourself and decide where you will kick the football. There are two kick off scenarios that you have.
The first is:
1. kicking off from inside the goal square: and
2. playing on by running out of the goal square before you deliver the ball.
Kicking out inside the goal square:
Begin your kick-in from the centre of the goal line. This enables you to kick to either side of the field as well as straight done the centre of the field. Having decided where you will kick the football, use the whole goal square as you run up to kick the football to gain the maximum distance from the goals with your kick.
Playing on outside the goal square:
If you plan to play on outside the goal square, begin your run close to the behind post. This gives you a big start on the opposition player guarding the mark in front of the goal square.
Wherever possible, run your full distance (15 metres) before you kick the football. Stay close to the boundary line to give yourself a greater distance from the opposition players chasing you.
If you have the space to run further, always bounce the ball after 15 metres. This means you can run another 15 metres, before you need to kick the football. This also means a long kick will fly over the defenders allowing your team mates to turn run after the ball and force the ball forward towards your goals. This also means that your opposition has to get the ball and turn around in order to attack, making it easier for your players to tackle. At the same time, it allows your defenders near the goals to take up defensive positions ready to repel the next attack.
Where and when to kick out:
Most times you must kick out towards the boundary.
Aim to kick to space between your ruckman or tall defender and the boundary line.
With windy weather, there are several situations to cope with.
If you are kicking into a wind coming straight down the ground, you need still to kick the football towards the boundary. Try to kick a low kick to lesse
2. Playing on and handballing to a team mate is a low percentage play in junior football.
3. Practise kicking out from the square often as well as practising playing on, bouncing and then kicking to space or to a player running into space.
4. Never kick to a player leading towards the middle of the ground who is leading from the boundary. Any mistake here could lead to an easy score for the opposition.
5. Have your tall players lead from different positions towards the boundary only when they see you settled on the goal line ready to kick out.
As a new fullback begin your kick out procedure with the simple kick out from the goal square. Set yourself to do your best kick each time. As you get more comfortable kicking out gradually introduce some of the other ideas suggested here. But do it sparing until you are totally confident and your team is fully aware of what you can do.
Our author began playing Australian Football at age ten. His coaching career began at age 20 continuing into his 60's. He coached teams at school, regional, state and national championships. He has written a coaching manual for teachers and junior coaches call "Flying High for the Footy and Kicking Goals" which is available
The fog was so thick that no one could see the injured player. He was seriously injured. But he does have a great story to tell his grandchildren.
To umpire such a game was indeed not the easiest of chores. On that first night, the two umpires were able to control the game with great difficulty until the lights went out. But the weather deteriorated even further!
This fog was followed by a violent, windy rain storm that lashed the showgrounds. The light towers of the showgrounds were connected by long, dipping power lines. While lightning and thunder abounded during the storm, the wind grew stronger and stronger to gale like proportions. This caused the electric lights wires between the posts to sway haphazardly about. Sparks began to fly as the wire touched. Eventually, when they became really tangled they fused out the whole system. The showgrounds went into total darkness. The remaining games programmed to be played that night were postponed, as it was not possible to repair the lighting system until the storm abated.
The drama was not finished there. The nominated bus driver had to transport his and the Gold Coast team to their hostel after the games were abandoned. Driving the bus through a violent storm on a narrow winding unfamiliar mountain road proved a major feat of human endeavour. He was forced to drive very slowly and carefully given his responsibility of ensuring that both teams of teenage boys arrived safely. At times, the visibility was so poor; he had to get out of the bus to see if he was on the road! On one occasion, he had to negotiate a fallen tree. Whenever that Toowoomba championship is mentioned he reminds his audience that his experience on that night was one of the most traumatic experiences in his life time.
Despite that night and the necessity of some teams playing two games on the next day, the championships went on to be a great success. The championship finished on a great note for the Darling Downs supporters when their team won its very first championship game ever on the final day of the championship.
Our Author, Richard (Rick) Boyce, began playing Australian Football at school as a nine year old. For the next fifty years, he played, umpired and coached local junior club teams and high school teams at school, district, regional and state level. He coached the Queensland State Secondary Schoolboys in the National Championships five times. He was always looking for ways to educate his players in our national game. With the resources on coaching he has gathered and based on 50 years of experience, he has written a book on coaching for teachers and junior coaches. It is called "Flying High for the Footy and Kicking Goals" and is available by emailing
It is not the best of times for the reigning English Premier League Champions Manchester City. They are currently trailing runaway league leader Liverpool by a whopping 25 points and to add salt to injury, they were recently suspended for two seasons by UEFA from UCL competition for breaching the Financial Fair play rules.
Against the backdrop of uncertainties surrounding the suspension and the noise it has generated, comes the rearranged premier league fixture against West Ham United which was initially fixed for Sunday last week. The game has been rescheduled to take place today on the 19th of February 2020 at the Etihad stadium by 7:30 PM.
What to expect from Manchester City Players
The mood from the player has been positive, with a lot of the players not getting distracted by the recent happening surrounding the club. Leroy Sane, Benjamin Mendy, and Aymeric Laporte are all back training with the main squad, with just Raheem Sterling out injured. The players would be itching to make a positive start to their premier league campaign that has seen some negative results over the past few months.
Manchester City got humbled by Tottenham 2-0 away in their last match and it was a bitter pill to swallow for the EPL reigning Champions. Recent results have not been too bad, with Aston Villa getting hammered 6-1 at Villa Park, drawing 2-2 at home to Crystal Palace and winning 1-0 against Sheffield United at home. Expect a very hungry and passionate City side tonight!
What to expect from West Ham United
It is so difficult to see West Ham avoiding a defeat against a wounded team like Manchester City. West Ham has been on the down slide in the past four premier league games. Drawing 1-1 at home to Everton, losing 4-1 against a very good Leicester City side, losing 2-0 at home to runaway leaders Liverpool and drawing 3-3 at home against Brighton in a game they were expected to win. They currently have some key players down with injuries.
Felipe Anderson is a doubt for tonight's encounter, having just recovered from a back injury. Jack Wilshere has a Groin injury while their Russian Star Andril Yarmolenko has a tear in his abductor's muscle. It will no doubt be an herculean task to grab a point from the game considering their poor run of form lately. They can however still spring a surprise as their manager David Moyes is an experienced tactician.
How the team may Line up
Predicting Pep Guardiola's line up can be very difficult, as he has been known to spring to surprises lately. Ederson is however expected to keep his position between the stick, with Fernandinho, Otamendi, Walker, and Mendy making up the back line. Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, and David Silva will occupy the midfield, with Mahrez and Bernardo Silva operating the flanks. Sergio Aguero can be trusted to lead City's attack. Pep can call on Jesus, Joao Cancelo, Laporte, and Phil Foden if needed.
For West Ham United, Lukasz Fabianski is the favorite in goal, with Angelo Ogbonna, Issa Diop, Aaron Cresswell, and Ryan Fredericks holding forth in defense. Veteran Mark Noble, Balbuena, Declan Rice will hold the midfield, while Michail Antonio, Tomas Soucek, Sebastien Haller, and Robert Snodgrass will lead West Ham attack. This game is remarkable in the sense that it may be the last homecoming for former City star, Pablo Zabaleta, who is adored by City fans and family.
Result Prediction
It is hard to see West ham escaping a defeat away to Manchester City. I see City grabbing all 3 points with a 4-0 victory. Kun Aguero most likely going to be on the score sheet to add to his 16 goals tally. It will be an exciting game to watch as City are known for their entertaining pattern of play.
Clement Sadjere is an inspirational writer, peak performer and a seasoned content curator. An avid reader and publisher who has won several awards as a Platinum expert author with over 12 years experience under his belt. His unique mix of knowledge, curiosity, interest in diverse cultures and excellent research skills empowers him to write on a wide range of topics.
Clement has successfully created a platform for helping individuals and organizations achieve maximum success. He has successfully delivered quality projects to clients globally with 0% plagiarism. A skillful writer, proofreader and researcher; He is a professional who adhere strictly to the principle of optimum client satisfaction. He can be reached
Any training regime in junior sport needs to include practice games as "part and parcel" of each session. Each training session should have, at least, one to help the players understand the game and develop their game skills in a game situation.
Below I discuss three different practice game scenarios that I have used with players from age 6 years through to senior high school students. I first used Football Hockey when preparing the 1980 Queensland state secondary schoolboys team for the National Schoolboys Championships in Darwin in an effort to get the players bending down further for the football. The game all the players of different ages liked the best was the Hitting the Post game. Below is an explanation of three of the games I have used.
Football hockey:
Boys from the northern parts of Australia play on hard grounds where the football tends to bounce higher meaning the players often don't have great skills when picking up the football rolling along the ground. In the game of football hockey, the arms and hands of the player become the "hockey" stick.
The game is played in a small rectangle. The object of the game is to push or punch the football along the ground to your team mate and eventually get it through the goals. The goals are set up at each end of the rectangle by two witches hats about three metres apart. A player may bump or shepherd but not tackle and the football cannot be picked up. After a goal or an out of bounds situation, a ball-up occurs to restart the game at the centre or near the boundary line.
Thus Football Hockey provides players with practice at getting down to the football, calling, shepherding and practicing knocking the football on to a player in a better position. It allows players to get use to close contact of defending players and it is physically demanding helping improve fitness.
Hitting the Goal Post Games:
There are two versions of this game. They are:
• Handball aiming at goal post;
• Drop punting at post;
These drills work on the competitive nature of the boys, even at a young age. Here is how the games are staged.
Put markers a few metres in front of each of the goal and behind post.
Have the players line up about 5 metres from these markers. Begin with set handballs first and then kicks.
Then, have the players run towards the marker and the post to handball or kick to see if they can hit the post.
The aim of the exercise is to develop accuracy in each skill.
Create a competition between two or more teams to see which team scores more hits.
The players, even at high school level, love this exercise.
Handball games:
The game can be played in the centre square using normal rules except there is no kicking. (Adjust the field size to the age level and the number of players).
You decide how goals are scored and how and where the game is restarted.
You might put restrictions on what players can do. e.g. you might make it a non-preferred handball game.
There needs to be a restriction on how far the player may run with the ball. You may allow one bounce. It would depend on how much of the centre square you would use.
A tackle might be simply a touch.
A long handball might be awarded a mark.
The game might just be a "Keeping off" one.
The variations you can make to these games are in your imagination. Remember to stop the game to give advice on how to improve. I often would add a new rule to add "spice" to the game and test their concentration skills.
Our author began playing Australian Football at age ten. His coaching career began at age 20 continuing into his 60's. He coached teams at school, regional, state and national championships. During his coaching career, he gain both a level One and level Two coaching certificate under the National Coaching Accreditation scheme. He has written a coaching manual for teachers and junior coaches call "Flying High for the Footy and Kicking Goals" which is available
If your coach decides you will be a fullback, it means he believes you are a good defender; you have the ability to kick long, accurately and consistently. Apart from playing defensively, you will be expected to kick the ball back into play when the opposing team scores a behind.
This article seeks to give you advice how best to do that.
The first thing to remember when kicking out after a behind has been scores is, until the umpire calls "play on", you are in a protected zone including the goal square and a ten metre area outside the goal square. No opposition player may enter this area until the umpire makes his "play on" call.
Therefore, you have time to settle yourself and decide where you will kick the football. There are two kick off scenarios that you have.
The first is:
1. kicking off from inside the goal square: and
2. playing on by running out of the goal square before you deliver the ball.
Kicking out inside the goal square:
Begin your kick-in from the centre of the goal line. This enables you to kick to either side of the field as well as straight done the centre of the field. Having decided where you will kick the football, use the whole goal square as you run up to kick the football to gain the maximum distance from the goals with your kick.
Playing on outside the goal square:
If you plan to play on outside the goal square, begin your run close to the behind post. This gives you a big start on the opposition player guarding the mark in front of the goal square.
Wherever possible, run your full distance (15 metres) before you kick the football. Stay close to the boundary line to give yourself a greater distance from the opposition players chasing you.
If you have the space to run further, always bounce the ball after 15 metres. This means you can run another 15 metres, before you need to kick the football. This also means a long kick will fly over the defenders allowing your team mates to turn run after the ball and force the ball forward towards your goals. This also means that your opposition has to get the ball and turn around in order to attack, making it easier for your players to tackle. At the same time, it allows your defenders near the goals to take up defensive positions ready to repel the next attack.
Where and when to kick out:
Most times you must kick out towards the boundary.
Aim to kick to space between your ruckman or tall defender and the boundary line.
With windy weather, there are several situations to cope with.
If you are kicking into a wind coming straight down the ground, you need still to kick the football towards the boundary. Try to kick a low kick to lesse
2. Playing on and handballing to a team mate is a low percentage play in junior football.
3. Practise kicking out from the square often as well as practising playing on, bouncing and then kicking to space or to a player running into space.
4. Never kick to a player leading towards the middle of the ground who is leading from the boundary. Any mistake here could lead to an easy score for the opposition.
5. Have your tall players lead from different positions towards the boundary only when they see you settled on the goal line ready to kick out.
As a new fullback begin your kick out procedure with the simple kick out from the goal square. Set yourself to do your best kick each time. As you get more comfortable kicking out gradually introduce some of the other ideas suggested here. But do it sparing until you are totally confident and your team is fully aware of what you can do.
Our author began playing Australian Football at age ten. His coaching career began at age 20 continuing into his 60's. He coached teams at school, regional, state and national championships. He has written a coaching manual for teachers and junior coaches call "Flying High for the Footy and Kicking Goals" which is available
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