Dad advice sharing thread.
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Nothing wrong with loosehead prop! I held up that side of the scrum for nay on 25 years. If anything its the glory spot of the front row. You can break away fast get to that first breakdown and steal some ball.
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@mooshld said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Nothing wrong with loosehead prop! I held up that side of the scrum for nay on 25 years. If anything its the glory spot of the front row. You can break away fast get to that first breakdown and steal some ball.
You're meant to say "Because I am the Lord Protector of Our Feed, and on their feed I get to savage their THP to within an inch of his life".
You're ruining this for all of us.
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@mooshld he likes LH or hooker, although wants to give 6 a crack like his old man
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@taniwharugby said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mooshld he likes LH or hooker, although wants to give 6 a crack like his old man
One thing about kids is that you can't always tell what their strengths and/or body shapes are going to be when they grow up (let alone the aspects of the game that they enjoy)
What is important to recognise though is that any developed physical skill implants itself and can be transferable to an extent. I know my boy used a lot from other sports in his rugby naturally especially around reading play and anticipation. Things like downhill mountain biking developed reaction time and control of fear for example. Within rugby, a player that gets the chance to play a number of positions will usually have much more rounded skills. We see this often with flankers that become front rowers or backs that become locks or flankers. -
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@crucial well TR Jnr is moving more into the loosie body shape from prop last year.
There are a couple of boys (twins) in his team who have been rock stars since day 1, make all the rep teams, but at the moment they are basically doing rugby 6 days a week with the teams they are in (rep training on a Saturday after playing their game too) and their mum said one of them is losing abit of his spark as he is over it all, so they are trying to reduce the load where they can for him.
TR Jnr has stuff on 5 days a week but is not just rugby rugby rugby, so is benefitting from the other physical stuff he does (although limited somewhat with his arm in a cast)
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A guy from the Roar website (in Aus) messaged me last week on instagram asking if they could share the vid I posted of Phin last week.
They did and added a sweet slow mo in which you can actually see the steps he put on
https://www.theroar.com.au/tv/little-legend-goes-the-length-of-the-field-with-a-great-solo-run/
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So after having his arm in a cast for a week, TR Jnr went back to hospital last week and we saw the 'head Othopedic Surgeon, who had it removed, got the impression if we had seen him the week before, he'd not have had it put in a cast!
Said the x-rays showed there was still bruising there, and this could take several more weeks to go away.
I had suggested he not play on the weekend, but he was adamant he was, so I strapped it up and on Saturday he played half a game for his team and made tackles using that arm and then played another half game on Sunday in his pre-Taniwha Shield tournament game vs Hokianga up at Taheke.
So he is pretty stoked, after 10 days ago fearing he may not play again until after the school holidays!
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@taniwharugby need to tap into the Saffers on here to find out what Matfield used to wear on his arm.
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TR Jnr is away at the Taniwha Shield (Northland wide U13 under 57kg at INtermediate tournament) this week. I went up for first game yesterday, and he is playing today, and it dawned on me this morning, that since he was 5, this was the first game I wont be there to watch him play, and is quite nerve racking waiting for someone to text me the result (game finished about 10 mins ago...)
edit: got a text from him saying they won 70-12. Appears a bit of a big gap between the top 4 and bottom 4 teams with the top 4 winning 91-5, 70-0, 70-12, 43-5, the team he plays tomorrow have won 69-0 and 70-0.
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@jk so they play right through the holidays or just have the middle weekend off?
Ours was the middle and last weekend no play, although we postponed our game on 1st weekend due to rep players in both teams and the weekend prior was cancelled due to weather so now be first game in weeks this weekend.
