Victorian Rugby League appreciated despite poor on-field performance
The Victorian Rugby League is grabbing a lot of appreciation as the hosts of the tournament which was scheduled at Clayton’s Fregon Reserve and the Melbourne Olympic Park, for a week’s time and wound up on this Saturday, August 13.
However, for their last week’s performance of under-12 rugby league championships at the School Sports Australia was not impressive at all but their arrangement definitely grabbed everybody’s attention.
While speaking about the appreciation received by the coaching staff of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Dean Andrew, the coach of VRL stated, “We got a good wrap from the NSW coaches I spoke with after we played them at Fregon Reserve. They said they
had looked at the venue on Google Earth and were a bit concerned because it didn't look very good, but the organisers put up some marquees and tents, which worked really well. Those coaches are used to getting pretty good facilities in their own states so
we did well to impress them.”
Against the expectations of the NSW who appeared concerned about the venue before reaching here for the tournament, the facilities were well lined up by the organisers. According to Andrew, the facilities were at par with the facilities at Queensland and
NSW.
The Victorian coach who teaches at a Primary School in Dandenong, called St. Elizabeth, admitted that his side battled back strongly, despite not being comparable to the opponents, who were much stronger and tougher. Nonetheless, he believes in bucking up
his squad which had answered back the stronger side in the much better way.
By branding it as “massive set-up,” the Victorian coach believes that the exposure granted to his outfit through this opportunity is definitely huge. It was also told that the boys were able to improve on their every game and the mustered up motivation as
they marched deeper into the competition.
On the Victorian side was the Dandenong High School’s Thomas Ertl, St Simon's the Apostle Primary School’s student Jordin Leiu , the Cranbourne Primary School’s Shaydyn Pirere, the Cranbourne East Primary School’s Chase Aporo and the Templeton Primary School’s
Niall Hargreaves.
All of them managed to give a good competition to the opponents and that won them all appreciation.
While speaking about the vigour shown, they said, “We hope they will go back to their club sides and become leaders and pass on what they learnt this week.”
The result of this tournament may not be in favour of the Victorians as they finished on the seventh spot by the end of the competition but it proved to be beneficial for the organisers as it gained them a lot of appreciation for reaching up to the required
standards of NSW. This however was more of a surprise as the Queenslanders were worried about the arrangements when they learnt about the venue specifications but they left on a much happier note.
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