Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Column 339

Leo, Roving Reporter Report from: The Locker Room Story filed: ISA Soccer, Kinda Hard Hi there folks, Leo here. My soccer season this year is looking much different to last year's season. The difference being that last season my team and I were playing in the local Bathurst Comp which we won in our age group. This year we are playing in the Independent Schools Association (ISA) Division 3 football competition and it's a completely different league. When I mean it's a different league, I mean it's just a lot harder. The teams are much tougher than the Bathurst teams we are used to playing. Our opposition so far has been St Patrick's College Strathfield, St Pius X College Chatswood and coming up is Oxley College Bowral, St Andrew's Cathedral School Sydney and some of these are really good sporting schools. What I'm saying is that we have got to pick up our game, here. So far, my team and I have played against Pius and St Pats, and they were both good and it's a shame we lost both games as we managed to stand our ground pretty well in the first half but we let it slip in the second half both times. The boys on the other teams are incredibly good and have a completely different playing style to what we're used to - some get pretty physical. In all, it's going to be a tough season. Until next time Leo Roving Reporter