The Trojan Under 9s really enjoyed the day. And it wasn’t just the boys, some coaches are even more excitable than the kids.

 

They played on the Twickenham pitch during the half time break in the London Wasps v Harlequins game, 8 minutes of exhibition tag rugby in front of more than 60,000 spectators.

 

The format had been:

8 leagues of five teams in the morning.

The winners of the leagues were calculated by tries scored and not wins or losses. There were also extra points for fair play awarded by the neutral referees. Trojans won all 4 of their games and had a try scores of +2 against the nearest rivals, Old Dartfordians.

8 winners then made up 4 matches to be played simultaneously  over 8 minutes during the half time break of the Wasps game.  

The same format was played for an U8 age group and they played on the Twickenham pitch during the break in the Saracens match. Unfortunately Trojans didn’t send a side as they could have done very well.

 

All told, with the two tournaments and with specialist coaching sessions for older age groups, London Irish, Wasps and Saracens put together a tournament for 3000 children in the morning and it was a very good day. As it was all sponsored by Highland Water, we wore their shirts during the matches but not playing in Trojan's shirts didn’t put anyone off.