Under 9's Information
Welcome to the under 9's page. This age group is for boys in the school year 4 age group starting on 1st September, i.e. children aged 8 at the 1st of September 2009.

The coaches for this age group are
Grahame White H 01422 300554 white_ghw1@hotmail.com
Simon Donaldson H 01422 369813
Lee Haigh H 01422 384234 M 07947 714434 lm.haigh@talktalk.net

2009 - 10 Season - The Under 9's
The under 9's throw away their tag belts and prepare for contact rugby. They have started pre season training in preparation for contact rugby. The move from tag to contact is a big step with the introduction of tacklingy, scrums, line out, ruck/maul and a more structured game. Training is on a Friday night at 6:00pm. Any new players ar welcome to come down and join in. We currently have a squad of 13 players and need a few more to create a development squad.

Click here for this seasons Fixtures/Results & Match Reports
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Under 9's Squad Joe Barrett, Toby Helm, Kian Sutcliffe, George Sutcliffe, Luke Sadler, Tom Stott, Nathan Donaldson, William Harker, Daniel Haigh, Corey White, Carrick Keighley-Payne, Zak Rush, Ben Riley

Review of 2008 - 09 Season - The Under 8's
The under 8's had a good season winning 50% of their games. On several occasions they had enough players to form two teams. In the Sandal Festival they were unable to progress past the pool stages winning 2 games losing 2 and one drawn. At the Harrogate Festival they beat Brods and Otley but lost to Darlington MP who went through to the final unbeaten in the pool. There were some good wins against local rivals Brods, Keighley, Huddersfield and Hudds YMCA.

Tney are looking forward to the new challenge of contact rugby next season.

The under 8's ended their season with a playing record played 45, won 22, drawn 9, lost 14.

The Under 8's Awards
• Toby Helm won the most improved player award.
• Corey White won the coaches award.
• Nathan Donaldson won the player of the year trophy.

Under 8's Squad Joe Barrett, Toby Helm, Kian Sutcliffe, George Sutcliffe, Luke Sadler, Tom Stott, Nathan Donaldson, William Harker, Daniel Haigh, Corey White, Carrick Keighley-Payne, Zak Rush, Ben Riley, Toby Muscat-Baron, Reggie Herd

Results 2008-09
Match Reports 2008-09

Review of 2007 - 08 Season - The Under 7's
The under 7's had a very successful and enjoyable first season of competitive rugby. With new players arriving at the club throughout the year and players coming up from the under 6's the squad has grown to a very healthy 20 players. However we will still need to continue to recruit more players at Under 7 level next year as well as at Under 8's.

Whilst the coaching staff has grown to three more help is needed with the larger numbers of players. Fortunately 5 more parents and a sister of one of the players have agreed to take the tag course and are interested in helping out. With more adult input the standard of coaching should get even better resulting in an improving quality of rugby being played by the minis.

The increasing number of players has allowed us to field two sides in most competitive matches since Christmas. This has given the chance for all the players to take part in and gain experience from both the Huddersfield and Harrogate festivals and in playing matches against some very good local and not so good local sides. The main emphasis as usual in the under 7's has been about enjoying the game and playing fairly. The players have responded brilliantly and throughout the year have been a credit to themselves, the club and their parents.

The parents also need a mention for their continued support. It makes life so much easier when you can rely on them to keep you informed of the availability of the players and to bring them week in week out to the games and training. I would personally like to thank Mark Oldroyd and Neal Mallinson for all their hard work and help in coaching the teams over the past year.

Under 7's Squad Corey White, Kian Sutcliffe, Finn Sutcliffe, Ben Riley, Nathan Donaldson, George Sutcliffe, Tom Stott, Joe Barrett, Toby Muscat-Baron, Daniel Haigh, Alex Oldroyd, William Harker, Carrick Keighley-Payne. Henry Hilton, Jacob Whitehouse.

Finally, the awards.
Player of the Year goes to Corey White.
The Most Improved Player award goes to William Harker. In his first season he has scored 42 tries.
The Coach's Award goes to Henry Hilton. Always present, always keen, always listening and always trys to put into action what I've asked the team to do. Well done All.
Grahame White

Match Reports 2007-08
Results 2007-08

Review of 2006 - 07 Season - The Under 6's (The Micros)
The under 6 section (The Micros) has developed well this season with over 10 players (some as young as 4 ) in the squad attending training sessions over the season. Several have gone onto play competitive games with the under 7's having reached their 6th birthday. Three of the squad played in the Harrogate Festival final. Next season should see the start of a good under 7's squad.

Under 6's Squad Corey White, Kian Sutcliffe, Finn Sutcliffe, Ben Riley, George Sutcliffe, Toby Muscat-Baron, Daniel Haigh, Alex Oldroyd, Jacob Whitehouse.

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Interested in Playing for the Under 9's
Anyone interested in playing Under 9's contact rugby please contact any of the people below or just come down on a Sunday morning 10:30am to Noon during the season September to April. Please check our fixtures page first in case they are playing in a match at another club.

Grahame White via e-mail white_ghw1@hotmail.com
or telephone 01422 300554

Dave Butler via e-mail davebutler@orrufc.co.uk
or phone 01422 371672

Under 9's Fixtures Results and Reports 2009-10
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