Match Report 6th May

​Right from the kick off, Marist camped themselves in Gunghalins territory and stayed there for the next 20 minutes. Gunghalin lost the match in the first half when they failed to keep up with a rampaging Marist side, whose intensity and precision was too much for the visitors to handle. Some excellent rucking with strong cleanouts allowed clean ball for the backs to work their magic. Hunter Bailey took the ball up following a penalty to Marist and took 3 Gunghalin boys with him over the line. Further tries to Jacob Knobel and a pair to Joseph Phillips and the boys came in for some well earned oranges at half time.
Gunghalin came out in the second half with more vigour and camped themselves in the Marist territory. The boys defended well, withstanding some strong scrums and spirited running from the large Gunghalin forward pack to keep them scoreless. Two more tries in the second half to Charlie Taylor and a sneaky intercept to Lachlan Smith and the final whistle was blown with a comprehensive 32-0 victory to the boys in blue.

Match Report 14th May

It was a great all round effort from the boys against Easts. From the first whistle they all fronted up with some intimidating defence and strong running into contact. After posting early points it seemed to be all one sided but the boys didn't let up. Our clean outs so far have been outstanding and we dominated again to the point where the referee asked us to ease up. He also asked for us to ease up on set play defence. The backs ran the ball well and put together some great hands to see the ball move wide throughout the 2nd half, while the forewards forced Easts to uncontested scrums with some dominant shoves. A great result to keep Easts scoreless and look forward to improving on our great start to the season.

Match Report 20th May

The U10 Royals showed plenty of confidence in their performance on Saturday against a large St Edmunds outfit. The pitch was in surprisingly good condition even after receiving 50ml of rain the previous night and the boys enjoyed practicing slide tries in the wetter edge sections of the field in the pre game warmup. This was to be an omen as right from the opening whistle Marist camped themselves in Eddies territory and after a series of rucks with multiple pick and drives Ben Martino stormed over for the first try of the match. Further tries to Bede Foggarty and a pair to Koen McCann and the boys came in for oranges.
The St. Eddies outfit were not going down without a fight and showed some discipline with a more concerted effort in the second half. It was a slower half dominated by set pieces with Marist showing superior scrumaging techniques to win multiple tight heads. Joseph Phillips scored a try but St Eddies managed to get on the board late in the second half with a try out wide. With a failed conversion attempt the final score was a comprehensive 29-5 victory to Marist.

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Match Report 12th August Round 11 U10 Royal v Vikings ​


An unusually warm and sunny morning greeted the U10 Royals boys and supporters for their second clash of the season against a large Vikings team. The boys have been brimming with confidence lately and were looking at making it 11 wins from 11 to keep the unbeaten streak going, despite querying why such professional athletes and gifted entertainers as themselves had been relegated to the Marist No 2 oval and not allocated centre stage to showcase their skills!
At 840 proceedings were underway with Vikings electing to kick deep into Marist territory. The coaches have been working on the team’s structure between backs and forwards and the boys executed it perfectly for a couple of phases up the field to send Joey at inside centre on a 40m inside run to the line after 2 minutes for the opening try. This would be the first of three tries for Joey and it was a great centre’s game from him with some dazzling footwork, slick passing and hard running into gaps.
The lads were starting to find space all over the field off the Vikings restarts with many good direct runs from the forwards setting up excellent attacking field position for the backs to cross the line regularly. Ky found himself hemmed in against the sideline on the right wing by Vikings defenders but coolly threaded a grubber kick ahead and pounced on the ball to score a memorable try.
Benny M, as usual was having a strong game in defence putting lots of pressure on the Vikings ball carriers and his effort was rewarded with a strong 20m run to score. Lachy S was getting lots of dropkick conversion practice and after a shaky first effort from in front didn’t miss another 8! Awesome kicking Lachy! Lachy then popped up from outside centre in the second half to run onto a nicely weighted kick pass from fly-half Tommy inside the Vikings 22 to score a sweet try for the highlight package. Take that Baudy Barrett!
Marist elected to kick possession back to Vikings in the second half after scoring quite a few tries and some committed tackling all across the field and good rucking by the forwards kept the pressure on the boys in red. Char, Benny H, Lachy H, Hunter and Sam in the tight 5 were tackling low, rucking hard and running straight. Tommy and Xavier in the halves were finding holes close to the Vikings ruck and Elijah was making lots of metres but the final passes close to the line either didn’t come or were rushed, leading to intercepts and we left at least 4 tries out there which is something we’ll work on for the final round next week.
A very good team performance to get up 69-0, so stick at it boys for one more game to make it 12/12 and let’s take some great momentum into the finals.