Jared has decided to return to the team after spending the first part of the season with Booragoon. It’s good to get Jared back into the team. I know all of the players that had played with Jared previously will be happy that he’s back.
Tuesday, 1 July – training
Last training session before school holidays and a couple of weeks off. We had 10 players at training including Dylan’s brother Keiran (who is an honourary member of the team) which is about what I expected.
I thought I’d try something different today and incorporate bump bags into our training drills. I had a feeling that the kids would like crashing into the bags and have some fun with it but I was also aware that if not properly supervised someone could potentially get hurt. The training with the bump bags, although not perfect was pretty good and I think I’ll definitely use them again.
We also practised bouncing the ball and kicking for goal on the run. Jeremy is getting very proficient at running and bouncing the ball and Dylan and Kobe consistently kicked some nice goals. It was good to see that the boys were concentrating and trying to kick a goal instead of just kicking the ball and not caring where it went.
We finished with a game of 5 on 5 where to score a goal (6 points) a player had to kick the football into a bump bag being held by a team mate, you could also score 1 point if you handballed the football into the bump bag. Steve did well to think up this game in about 30 seconds. The kids had a great time playing this, Alex was crashing into everyone and played really well, Jeremy and Jensen also had a lot of the football. I thought Luke and Caleb combined well, they always seemed to be kicking or handballing to each other. Ethan wasn’t scared to dive into the bottom of the packs and Nathan won a few contested possessions which will be great for his confidence. Kobe went for a couple of runs and no one could keep up with him. Keiran and Dylan aren’t big kids but they don’t stand back from the action, they love getting involved and getting a kick.
The players were rewarded with a Freddo Frog for completing a hard training session.
All of the players have trained hard and played well so far this season, it’s been a massive improvement from last season. I hope everyone enjoys the school holidays and I’ll see everyone in a couple of weeks time.
Round 5 v Booragoon – Sunday, 29 June
Weather wise, it wasn’t too bad today. No rain and not as cold as it has been. The grass was nice and dry with no dew. We had a bit of drama before the game when a dog ran off with one of our football’s. Luckily the football was ok (I thought it may have got punctured because the dog was aggressively chewing it) although Jeremy didn’t want to touch it because it was covered in dog saliva.
We were very low on numbers with only 10 players available. Kevin had a broken toe, Jayden was overseas, haven’t seen Nick for a couple of weeks, not sure what happened to Amelie, Nathan didn’t feel up to playing, plus I don’t think Matthew, Damien and Truan will be back (now that they have shifted house).
I would like to note that it was excellent to see Kevin come to the game and support his team mates even though he was unable to play – great stuff Kevin.
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Tuesday, 24 June – training
Nice conditions for training today. Unfortunately I got to training about 10 minutes late but it’s always a stretch to get there by 4:30pm. The kids were all having shots on goal when I got there so I don’t even think they realised I was late.
Only had 11 players at training which was surprising because the weather was pretty good. I suspect it’s that time of the year when everyone gets sick.
Parent support was excellent (as usual) – Simon, Jamie, Scott and Marty made my job pretty easy. Tim helped a little bit. The kids all trained pretty hard, we just moved from one drill to the next and I didn’t give them any breaks. Best to keep the kids occupied because it doesn’t take much for a couple of them to get distracted.
I’d just finished telling everyone there was training on Sunday when one of the parents reminded me that we had a game on. It’s not the best when as the Coach you don’t know when the team is playing a match. Anyway, an email went out early the next morning letting everyone know we have a game on Sunday.
Riverton Football Club Family Day – Sunday, 22 June
The Riverton Football Club was celebrating it’s 50th year this weekend and one of the events was a family day at Riverton Reserve. Jeremy was really excited because there was a parents and kids Auskick match.
There were lots of Auskickers from the Joey’s, Kanga’s and Boomers teams. The Super 8s had Ethan, Kevin, Jeremy, Jayden, Jayden’s little brother, Kobe, Matthew, Damien and Truan. For the parents we had myself, Scott, Marty, Adrian and Darren.
All of the boys had a few possessions each which was great and they all seemed to really enjoy themselves. I recall Ethan kicking a good goal on the run and Jeremy snapped an excellent goal from a long way out. Marty was easily the best of the Dad’s, he was leading for the ball and quickly playing on and bringing the kids into the play by handballing and kicking to them.
Truan told me that Matthew, Damien and himself had shifted house and were now living in Kenwick. He said that they still wanted to play for Riverton but the travelling from Kenwick to Riverton may be too far. It’ll be sad if Truan, Matthew and Damien can’t be a part of the team anymore.
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Life Member of the Riverton Football Club
I received a surprise at the Riverton Football Club’s 50th Year Anniversary celebration (Saturday 21 June) – I was presented with life membership.
My family knew what was happening and they did a good job keeping it a secret from me.
I can’t remember exactly when I first got involved with the club. It would have been roughly 2002, I think that’s when Josh and Tim started playing Auskick.
Round 4 v Melville – Sunday, 22 June
The weather had been cold, wet and windy all week and today was no exception. The game started at 8:30am and it was pretty cold and dark when people were turning up for the game. The following players were absent – Nick, Jordan, Nathan, Dylan, Matthew, Truan and Damien were all missing which meant we were one player short.
Unfortunately Matthew, Truan and Damien had shifted house so when I went to pick them up I didn’t know where they were. Apparently they are now living in Kenwick, but are still going to play in our team. It would be a shame if they couldn’t play with us anymore.
Because we were one player short the opposition team loaned us a different player each quarter which was good sportsmanship. The Melville players that played for us played well so it was all good.
We only had one heavy downpour during the game but I was well prepared with my weather proof jacket and pants.
Cambell was outstanding and just dominated for the whole game – he just kept getting the ball and never stopped competing. Ethan played his best game of the season, he was involved in the play a lot and got some good possessions. Jayden continues to improve and looked good either playing in defence or in attack, although he missed a good opportunity to kick a goal. Amelie did some good things which was pleasing to see because she was looking pretty cold and not very keen on getting out onto the ground but once she started to run around and get involved she did well. Jensen also did well chasing hard, tackling and making it hard for the opposition. Caleb had a few good kicks but for some reason kept wanting to play on when he received a free kick which resulted in him having to kick under unnecessary pressure .
As usual the kids did their best and although a few were complaining about the cold I’m pretty sure they had some fun.
Tor Challenge
I’m using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run my Tor relay. I’m using an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance type is a t1.micro and the OS is Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), amd64 version.
These are the instructions I followed. SSH into your AWS EC2 instance.
Figure out the name of your distribution.
lb_release -c
add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org trusty main
Change trusty to the name of your distribution e.g. sid, saucy or whatever.
Then add the gpg key used to sign the packages by running the following commands at your command prompt.
gpg –keyserver keys.gnupg.net –recv 886DDD89
gpg –export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add –
Now refresh your sources, running the following command (as root) at your command prompt.
apt-get update
Help you keep our signing key current. It is recommended you use it. Install it using.
apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring
To finally install Tor just run.
apt-get install tor
Edit the file /etc/tor/torrc
ORPort80
Nickname barrycus
RelayBandwidthRate 200 KB
AccountingMax 3 GB
AccountingStart month 3 15:00
ContactInfo bscable@amnet.net.au
ExitPolicy reject *:*
Because I’m using port 80 I need to allow incoming traffic to my AWS EC2 instance on port 80 i.e. AWS Security Groups.
Restart the Tor service.
sudo service tor restart