Well that's it for the Heigham Park Rangers under 8s for this season, the management would like to say thank you for all the parent's support throughout the season, we know that some of the other teams in the club don't get the help that we do. Also, thanks for the beer and cider - always much appreciated!
We might just have have another 'kick around' and sudden death penalty shoot out in a couple of weeks (July 13) at Rec Road if the weather's good, drinks on the sideline perhaps? We'll keep you posted.
The team will be the under 9s from August and we'll get a couple of friendlies together so they can get used to playing 7-a-side and for the new team members - Arthur, Sam and Mark to get acquainted with how we do things.
The new season itself starts on 16 September and we'll play one match every Sunday morning. We will be registering a team of 14 this year and plan to take a squad of nine to each match so players will rotate and therefore not everyone will be required every week - which will be relief to the parents. We will be focusing more on player progress in training and making decisions about teams based on this - although we will attempt to maintain our inclusive approach throughout the season.
We have been placed in League C with a lot of B teams. some teams we've never played and the Norwich Corinthians! Click here to see the link to the FA page where the table will be updated. We should do well in this league and will hope to be promoted to the League B for the under 10s (but don't hold us to that).
There's also an under 9s division cup, which means we will play knockout games against teams from the A, B and C league.
We will need to send out a mail to get details to register each player on the FA website which is a requirement. At the same time, Tom, James and Michael will be using a new online system called 'teamer.net' which will allow us to send out messages instantly by both email and text which you can easily respond to.
We are hoping that this type of blog can be incorporated into the Heigham Park Rangers club website next year so you get to see what else is happening in the club.
Thank very much.
