Match Report: Waverton Arrows vs. Waverton Dynamos

To all the new parents/guardians, I’d like to say a formal welcome, although I know I’ve spoken to you all individually.

To every parent and player today – I’d just like to reiterate what I said at the end of the match – I’m proud of every single boy. I always look at players and then try to match them to their best positions, but obviously it was a bit different today; the Arrows team selected I was comfortable with, but with the Dynamos team I was going on past experience for five of the boys and then I had to go with my observations with the remaining four today from what I’d seen over the last 2-3 training sessions. I don’t think that anyone was disappointed.

Normally, in the past when we have played Arrows v Arrows they were always competitive, but today the boys really took it up a notch – I called out the boys as Yellows and Greens and they played as such – really competitive across all areas of the pitch. I’m not going to call out individual boys today as with eighteen it will make the mail longer (although I know that hasn’t stopped me in the past).

What I will say again though, is the competitiveness of both teams was outstanding; you would be hard pressed to call out that this was the first time that one of the teams had played together at all, let alone in a competitive match. I saw every single boy come off the pitch today with a massive smile on their face which ultimately is what it’s all about for me, I hope you all agree.

As you know I introduced all the parents to the two teams at the end of the match today; every single player that was there was happy and there were loud cheers all around when I announced the teams – I am extremely excited to drive the development in both teams now and see how we all progress in the coming months and seasons.

I promised I would reconfirm the teams, and these are below. All new players have provided me with their forms so these just need to be processed now; for players that are moving between teams, I’ll need a transfer form to be completed (sad I know) – I’ll send these out this week and hopefully we can get the players aligned to their teams as soon as possible.

Dynamos

Finlay

Larry
Elliott
Sam Ch
Sion
Oliver Barnes
Kailen
Reece
Alex
Jack C-P

Arrows

Oscar
Max
Harry
Oliver Wrigley
Tom
Jack Binns
Sam Curtis
Henry
OMG
Jack Broadhurst

Both teams will be playing in the same league, although the Dynamos will not play in the Shield competition this season as its already mid-flow. I’ve had commitment from the league that the Dynamos will have fixtures early in the new year – between now and then I will be trying to organize matches myself with teams in and around the area, please bear with me on this.

I hope you and the boys all enjoyed it and look forward to seeing you all at training on Friday.

Final thanks go to Damon for being our Ref, Matt for running the Dynamos today and to all parents that helped construct and break down the pitch.

Carl

AFC Waverton u9 Arrows & u9 Dynamos
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