5/31 Cape Fear U19 Intrasquad Scrimmage

As I am living in Wilmington, NC at the moment, and have been playing touch with the Cape Fear Rugby club on Tues/Thurs, I offered to referee their U19 scrimmage. This was the first time these boys had played a game of sevens, and only the second time they had actually played rugby! It was great to help teach these boys rugby. The biggest problem they had was reacting to ADVANTAGE, when one of them knocked the ball on or committed a penalty they all tended to just stop and wait for me to do something after I said advantage instead of taking advantage of the situation! Towards the end of the day (They played three games) they started to get this though - and some great tries came from it. Some of the boys have rugby experience being from Australia / England, but the majority are Wilmington grown and learning the sport. There were many good athletes out there and I think Bob Bogen (the U19 coach) could really make these boys go somewhere.