RESULTS are important, but positive sportsmanship is vital and can go a long way: just ask the Weebolla Bulls under 10’s.
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The club recently took part in the National Primary Games in Tamworth where they finished runners-up in the rugby competition.
Presented by the Northern Inland Academy of Sport and sponsored by Macquarie Bank, the Bulls won five of their six games, losing out in the final to a strong outfit from Scone.
So impressed at the sportsmanship and behaviour of the Moree boys, competition organisers and representatives have extended an invitation to the club for the under 10’s to travel to Sydney to take part in a training camp run by the NSW Waratahs.
They have earned the right to go.
- Austin Finlayson
The team will head to Sydney for the May 22 camp, with all the kids unsurprisingly signalling their intent to go.
“They’re pretty excited. They all accepted,” under 10’s coach Austin Finlayson said.
“They’re a good little footy side, but they play in the right spirit. They have earned the right to go,” he said.
Austin said the club had “drawn the right numbers” and were lucky to be able to have the opportunity.
He’s now trying to organise a friendly game in Sydney prior to the training clinic.
A Waratahs development officer was in Moree on Monday to run a session.
Austin said close to 50 kids, aged 6 to 12-years, took part in the clinic.
The Sydney camp will be a step up though, with Waratahs and Wallabies players overseeing the day.
“It’ll give the group great confidence. Like when they head to representative footy, they come back bigger and better,” Mr Finlayson said.