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The netball and football season for 2009 officially kicked off last night with our first training for all grades.

Trailer Boy was so cute.  He wanted to go to football training.  At 5, he’s a little on the young side but having a father as assistant coach gives certain privileges so we allowed him to go (on the proviso he listened and didn’t muck around).  He was so excited to put on Lleyton’s old Crows guernsey and Lleyton let him wear his spare footy shorts (size 10 mind you!!!!).  I wish I’d had time to take a photo but we were running a little late (maybe next week?).  Apparently he did very well at training and stayed involved for the entire hour + .   Farmboy even said that if he was keen enough he could probably get a run this year (get to play on a Saturday).  I’m not so keen on that idea given it’s an “under 12″  competition.

Princess Singstar was also very excited to be getting into netball this year.  I watched her training and you can see the results of her training year last year.  She’s no longer one of the “newbies” with a few in the year level below her beginning their training year this year.   I was able to get a second hand uniform for her last night which is a relief as new they’re $50.  It’s a little bit on the large side but then they were recommending I go larger anyway to get a couple of years of wear from the uniform.

Lleyton had a great night.  He joined the Senior Colts training when the juniors were finished and it looks like he might get a run with them some of the time this year (when they’re short).  He had the opportunity last year but wasn’t overly keen (which was wise given how small he is).  It’ll be interesting to see how he goes this year.

Farmboy thinks he’s going to pull up a little sore after his training last night.  He was pretty exhausted after a couple of days shearing followed by training the juniors then his own training in seniors.

And Me?

I’ve forgotten how to play netball!!!!

Which isn’t all that surprising but rather frustrating.

Let’s hope it all starts to come back to me soon.

Because it feels kind of silly given I’m no longer in my “first year”.

Anyway, time will tell.

It’s kind of messy at the moment while they try and work out the higher grades.  I think once that’s settled down and we can train as a team, it’ll get better (I hope so anyway).

Fitness wise I felt I did okay.

Ball skills?

Hmmmm…….

Footwork?

I can’t remember how to pivot and to remember which foot I landed on.

Court Play?

Well, admittedly we only had enough for half court (while the others were mucking around with team selection) and no bibs and a mixture of people so it did make it kind of hard.  I couldn’t remember who was on my team and generally had no idea what I was doing.

Other than really bad cramping last night, I seem to be pulling up okay - so that’s good.

Things can only get better from here, right?