World Cup Essay

The achievement of just getting there, of just making the tournament, united the country behind the notion that anything is possible if a person, a team, or a country works hard and maintains hope for a brighter future.

“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”

We went into the third tied at two. Halfway through the period, I can still see him, (Sydney’s) Dave Burke, fired the winner. It broke our hearts.”

The next game was early in the morning against region 3 who is known to have some of the best players around nut after the end of the 2nd period we were tied 3-3. “Lets rush the the nat and try to score”, Matt our top scorer said. “No, let's just stay in our own zone and just play defence and not then them score. after we see a weakness we just rush ahead and attack!” said Joe, another player on the team. I didn’t think much of Joe and I voted for Matt’s idea. I shouldn't have. The nest period we got swept off our feet the the south in the dust bowl. We lost

“Never get too high and never get too low,” Sarkisian said. “You recognize what went well and what didn’t. Our guys were focused and they were ready to go. They were in it and played hard, but it was just that last half of the inning it just didn’t work. But there is nothing to hang your head about. Just recognise that we had opportunities and we have to just make more plays. We come back to work on Monday and move forward.”

Emotion can carry a team just so far and that's how this one started. On the Bulldogs first drive their multi-talented quarterback,Aaron Latiolais was sacked by,Connor Sheehan. Sheehan has been injured on and off this season, so to see the young guy get involved early was nice. Latiolais recovered nicely as he connected with, #3 Brock Williams all the way to the Green Wave one-yard-line, with 3:37 left in the quarter. From there the Heath line blew up a large hole for Latiolais to walk threw, to give Heath a,6-0 lead, The point after kick by #17 Tayte Duncan, to make this a,7-0 lead at the 3:23 mark.

“Michael deserves a great deal of credit of holding their leading scorer to one point.” The one point did not come until the 1:49 mark of the second half.

“I called a timeout over here in the third game and got a little bit heated with them and I think that kinda lit a spark under them.” Whaley said after the match, “I told them If you really want to win the game then you guys really need to prove it and come together as a team and you need to focus and you can’t lose focus at this point because we have no other option.”

Cornish and Cody Walker stood out for their respective teams in a game that had twelve tries, a sin binning, a Latrell Schaumkel hatrick, and a controversial yet exciting final five minutes.

“That’s what footy is all about. When I had that two years off with injury, I worked hard [to get back on the field] and I’m starting

Captain John Kennedy had a fantastic day out, as did Chad Porter and Brendan Raeli for Mounties, as they blew the game out in the final quarter of the game to claim the premiership.

Going into that game we had convinced ourselves that we had already lost before it even started. We were about as flat as a tabletop. While warming up we were pretty much just waiting for the game to end, so that we could just leave and just call it a year!” Once the game actually started something just clicked. We

Moreover, as the boys' and girls' team faced the Paterson Kennedy Knights in their first game, much of the crowd was left in utter silence. The final score of 62-56 for the boys and 57-34 for the girls, with the Knights claiming the victory, explained the reaction of the crowd with the Bulldogs showing signs of exhaustion. "Our players were trying their best despite the loss," stated Coach Boorman.

The D team scored a number of tries out wide and while was never going to be a doubt as to who would win, to their credit the E / F team never gave up and produced some penetrating pick and drives which resulted in three forwards tries. Patrick Moody scored twice and Prop Eli Johnston burst over to make it three. Congratulations to all players for putting in a

The Englishmen, and the scoring machine, Kamara also had a few words to add in about the emotional victory. “I’m so grateful for this victory,” he states. “The whole team came together to win. This is a great day.”