Day 2 Youth Nats

Well, today wasn't really as good as Day one.

First game against HOSY half our team was away getting the youth nats medals in neutral bay, we lost they played very well and we played horribly, we lost pretty badly.

Second game against Chatswood well spirited fun game they have al ot of surprisingly good up and coming kids I think Eshan was the best of the new group of CHS kids. We won that one.

Last game against Big Mac Small Fries, fun game they surprised me with how well they handled just they had no real strong receivers to back it up and we won.

Semi-finals were HOSY (1st - Undefeated through round robin) against Discgraceful (4th) and In-Tents (3rd) vs PUMSAT (Princess Unicorn Magical Sparkle Action Team) (2nd).

Hosy won their game and PUMSAT vs In-Tents was probably the worst game for us all tourney. In-Tents took 15 minutes to make the first pull, meaning it was only a 30 minute match, time cap score was 5-2 (In-tents) 6-2 game to 7, we lost i think 7-4 or 7-3. They played about as well as they did the last game, but we played a lot worse. Noble played for them that game and made some excellent throws. He has improved a lot as a handler. This game wasn't anywhere near as angry as the last game, there was some extremely bad calls during the game but everyone on PUMSAT had no heart since the start of the day. Tiger probably gave them another 10 for spirit.

The highlight was probably a catch from tom tullet managed to catch some crazy blade throw completely vertical on the trailing edge with his knuckles facing towards his body (if you can imagine the crazy position you would have to be to get a lay out catch in yoru hand with your knuckles facing down and towards your body on the trailing edge)

After a quick chat with Discgraceful there was no 3/4 play off.

HOSY vs In-tents was a great final HOSY dominated with their awesome lineup, Lewis Broad pulled some awesome forehand hucks and not so good backhand throws, Buttons and Tarrant were solid and great. Jake-as was huge. Lochies were strong stringy receivers.

Lex was absolutely amazing pulled probably the best and most beatiful d's of the entier game with some hectic layout blocks. he is going to be a huge asset for Thunder... as long as he doesn't injure himself!

I think the only bad thing about this youth nats was probably the timing.

For most of the worlds players on our team it was something none of them really cared about as much as the non-worlds players. For the worlds players it became a tourney that was just exhausting and could injure them, so they had much different expectations to the other players on the team and its pretty hard for a team to play to its potential when half of its players dont give a crap about the outcome. This was reflected by the lack of girls games where sydney was too injured.

Good tourney, good fun, well organised and the last youth nats for a lot of us.