HKFC Programme/schedule

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Dear U12 members

 The HKFC final programme has just been released but it is too large to send via the DeA Minis website, so I have asked Brenton to place it on the DeA Minis website today. Please look for it there. This outlines the playing times for our DeA U12s on Sunday. Please all meet at HKFC main pitch at 10.50a.m. at the latest, so that Terry and Mark can organise the teams and get the players warmed up and mentally ready to play. This is a huge weekend for the U12s, so we hope that all registered players will turn up on the day. This is the big one, whereby DeA1  will be playing for the Richard Hawkes' trophy and DeA2 will be playing for the end of season Bowl. Previous festivals this season have been to rank the teams and now this all culminates in the final placings for the season, with big trophies to play for. I urge all parents to make the effort to bring your kids along. As we have 2 teams entered, we will require a minimum of 24 players, which we can just do if everyone comes!!

If you look carefully at the groupings for the Cup, i.e. the Richard Hawkes' trophy, our coaches are very confident we can do very well if the kids focus on playing the great rugby we know they can. We should not be overawed or intimidated by anyone, as we have the ability to beat them all on the day!  Please talk to your child before Sunday and instil in him the belief that they can be winners at HKFC and make what has so far been a progressive season into a successful and memorable one.

DeA1 are seeded against DBP, FC1 and HKU1. We lost to DBP 2:1 in the VF festival, but could have won that game. We drew 0:0 with FC1 in VF festival and were the better team on the day, and we can surely beat HKU1, who we drew 1:1 with at the DeA festival back in November. DeA1 has improved tremendously since that festival and Terry, Mark and I are confident that we can have a very successful weekend if we believe in ourselves!! Please motivate your child and we will prevail!

DeA2 also has a great chance of doing well in the Bowl, if we can get 12 players on the field, so please get along and support the Tigers. This team is made up of a lot of new players this season and their progress has been exceptional over the past months. I am proud of all of them and I am sure you will be too at HKFC festival. Let's give them some great and vocal support.

Go Tigers!!!

 Peter