ISFA U13 South Central Provisional Squad
We are delighted to pass on the news that Gabriel and James have progressed to the provisional squad who will play a fixture against Brentford on 3 December. From this, the final squad will be selected for the Shrewsbury festival next spring. Congratulation to Gabriel and James.
ISFA U13 Round 4 – the last 16
We are aiming for Tuesday 30 November, KO 1415 for this ISFA fixture to be played – to be confirmed. We have been drawn at home.
Rugby INSET
The staff undertook some rugby staff training last Wednesday afternoon. Mark Burley, Director of Sport at Winchester College, took us through some exercises in the RFU Activate programme, which is designed to improve general movement control, muscle pre-activation, functional conditioning to enhance athleticism and injury prevention. Then we worked through some developmental touch games, played the RFU’s new ‘Touch Union’ non-contact version of the game and progressed these through to contact.
Mike Marchant (whose son Joe had a pretty good game against the Springboks on Saturday) will be working on some tackling with groups this week.
The staff in action at the Winchester College Sports Hall
Inter-Set Touch Union Competition
This Saturday, all pupils in Years 6, 7 and 8 will be taking part in Inter-set touch union along the same lines of our football competition. There will be a Year 6 (Colts) competition and Years 7 and 8 will be divided across two competitions. Collection remains 1530. We have used the ‘Aussie’ touch rules in recent years, but this year will be adopting the RFU version of the game.
Andrew Short