Meeting Coach Phil The first district level game of yet another and hopefully the last re-start is upon us. The all-important first hard-fought battle of the day commences. The winners of the battle to be the one parent per child are revealed as they arri...
Smiler Thursday Thursday morning and the sporting lockdown is finally over. We have a two-hour ‘reunion’ session at a sun-drenched New Meadow Park with the Bs and GCFC U12s for a couple of warm-up games and thirty minutes focusing on pressing the oppo...
Warm-Up Friday I’ve just discovered that Captain Cooper doesn’t like peas or homework, does like The Goonies and Woolacombe Sands and once got extremely embarrassed by falling over his own two feet. And judging by the erudite way in which he explained...
The Short Flight to Newport I woke up a little fretful as today was coach Harris’ turn to drive the two of us all the way to Newport, in a socially distanced way of course. I am not saying he is an unsafe driver but he has missed his true vocation of be...
Breathless Friday It’s St George’s Day and an array of red & white flags flutter gracefully above the patriotic street parties taking place in the Longlevens suburbs. Or they might be, if anyone realised what day it is. It does seem however, that ...