U12 Rugby Tournament

The injury... The Black Eye!!!
Match 1 against Thomas Moore College - unfortunately we lost this one.

3rd Match against Berea West - we won this match...

Absolutely knackered... but still smiling.

Serious scrums and rough stuff - look just how many does it take to stop my boy???

Left prop in the scrum... (I think that's what it's called)

Another early start, up at 6am to school for 7am... Off to another school (Lyndhurst) for the 7-a-side Rugby Tournament.

Well when we got there did I feel like the country bumpkin!!! There they were the other parents rocking up with their portable braais (BBQ's) their packs of bacon and wors (SA sausages that everyone eats) Their camping chairs and even their gazebo's... :-0

Me I had a bag with a couple of ham butties and a packet of crisps... OK! so I did have my flask of hot coffee and a cushion... Didn't have the fancy sun screens etc. though... and boy was it HOT!!! (and it's supposed to be Autumn)

Kelsey had fun as you can see by the photos, and he can't wait to get back in there now. Ended up with a couple of injuries... A black eye courtesy of a team mates knee in the wrong place... a couple of boot prints in the top of the leg... It's seriously rough stuff, no holds barred, full contact rugby....

How it works - the teams are split into age appropriate groups (8 in total) (U12 2nd team for KB) and they play against each other in a 'round robin' type of effect on 2 fields... the winners of field A play the 2nd place of field B and the winners of field B play 2nd place of field A for the semi's and then after that I was lost.... Luckily it was only 7-a-side so they play 10mins each way with 1 minute change over. Very fast, furious and loads of fun... (even I eventually understood what was going on and enjoyed the day)

Unforuntely Kelsey's team did not make it into the semi's they lost 2 games, drew 1 and won 1. But when we left Hillcrest 1st U12 and the U13's were playing in the semi's, we'll probably get the results Monday.

I can see me getting used to this 'Sports Mum' thing!!! But I have gotta get me some of that portable shit, can't be letting the side down now can I??? ...lmao!!! :-} (camp chair/hip flask/ cooler box - maybe I can get them in matching colors!!!)