There's no training tonight, but you can still practice!

We've spent time at training previously practising juggling the ball. It's a great one to do at home! I've seen you all starting to learn and some of you are pretty good at the kick-catches. This is one of the best exercises you can do to improve your skills. In our games on Saturday a really important skill is being able to control the ball at your feet when someone passes you the ball. If you master juggling, controlling the ball in the game is easy.

This little three minute video has some great pointers on how to practice juggling the ball with your feet. Don't worry if all you can do at the moment is kick-catches, keep practising. Let me know your new records. We might even have a juggling competition at the end of the season. See you all on Saturday!

Olympic Raiders vs Tarragindi Tigers - Cobras

Fantasic effort by all the boys. So many good things to talk about:

• Goal of the season so far from Ethan, dribbling the ball almost the length of the field and beating 3 players on the way! It was the first goal of his first ever hat-trick.
• Great running with the ball from Mateo and scored his second goal of the season with a clinical finish. I lost count of the number of times he ran with the ball beating players and then got a pass off.
• Christos had perhaps his most impressive game yet. Very solid in defence, lots of runs with the ball.
• Ralph had good game getting in amongst it with a couple of good goal saving tackles in defence in the first half and didn't let a goal in as goal keeper in the second half.
• Jadrian went agonisingly close to scoring a goal on a couple of occasions, and looks like he enjoys playing up front.
• Geordan made lots of runs down the right. It's great to see the way Geordan and the other kids are all looking for their team mates to pass to.
• Harry had another good game. A lot of saves in the first half as goalie, and a nice goal scored from Mateo's cross.

A few photos from the game below.