Addam makes division one

Addam looks our way during trials.















Addam stretches during trials.


The results of the past few months training were put up tonight and, as we suspected, Addam made division one for North Sydney.
You would expect him to be delighted, and he was to a degree.
The minus?
He will have to travel down to Melbourne for a competition sometime around April. The problem is the boys will travel by plane and Addam is terrified of flying.
It's a long story but I think it trails back to 911. He was young but his memory of those planes crashing into the Twin Towers is still strong.
Sadly, none of the other Cool Cubs made division one but many, if not all, have made it into division-2, so this bunch of nine-year-olds are very promising indeed.
The team for division one is:
Addam
Christopher Georgiou
Jordan Cook
Lachlan Estok
Matthew Millikin
Mitchell Howden
Scott McMurdo
Scott Muirhead
Shane Wong
Will Clark.

If you want to have a look at all the rep players go here

Congrats to all and we will see you in the new year.

Cheers

Alvin

Congrats and wait for it, wait for it

Hi all,

I was just flicking around the Sutherland and Bankstown sites to see who made it into Division one for the clubs.
There were quite a few who Addam knows and likes, so I thought we should put up a little congrats for all concerned.
Across at Sutherland we have to give a big , "well done and see you through the season" to
Thibaut Potin, who was always going to be the first pick for Sutho, the dynamic Jack Gogoll, Lachlan Banks who was on last year's winning team with Thibaut. I'm sure I know the rest on the under-12s but I just can't put faces to names.
It was also grand to see that some of the guys in Addam's first ever rep team made it into division-2 in the under-14s.
A big shout out to Luke Skorski, Geoff Gerlach and Zac Akkaway who all made the grade and congrats to Lloyd Perris who moved straight into division-1.
It was also great to see that Marcus Vella, Ridge Barredo, Adam Joy, Aaron Caldwell, Kurt Joyner, Louis Potin (great to see you back!!), Jack Suva, Geoff Tai and James Trimble all made squad. We hope to see you around some time this season.
Across at Bankstown, Alex Theuma, Filip Ivanovic and Kristian Illoski (aka 3-point Kiki) made it into div-1.
Congrats to you all.
This afternoon the announcements for rep team places at North Sydney take place.
I'll let you know how Addam goes, although it seems very likely that Addam will have a division-1 spot this year with the North Sydney Bears.
I'll let everyone know as soon as it is confirmed.

Cheers

Alvin

Back again

These last few weeks have been very hectic, mostly to do with work.
Anyway, here we are back again.
Since last time I wrote here Addam has had a few more training sessions at North Sydney and has played another game at Bankstown.
The team lost the Bankstown game but the refereeing was much better. We had one of the refs from earlier weeks who has a problem with our big Ellie. After he called a foul that was clearly not, I called a time out.
I went over to the referees and said that if this was going to be a repeat of last time then I would go straight to the court officials.
After that it was excellent. Certainly there were some bad calls, but they went both ways.
We got smashed by the opposition but it was played in a good spirit and all the kids walked away happy, which was a lovely change.
We had an On Fire game the following week but, as mentioned before, Addam did not play following our earlier decision. There is no reason to play nasty teams where the possibility of injury is so heightened, especially with reps and the metro games.
Back at reps, Addam has really taken his play to another level.
He doesn't know it yet, but Addam has already been selected for division one by the coach Olly.
Olly chatted to me about how intense his training sessions were and explained that some parents found the going a bit tough at first for their kids.
He doesn't know Addam, he will thrive on this, although he will whinge at first. Then he will consider it a challenge and excel.
I can't wait to see his face on Thursday when he finds out.
I'm going to give a Christmas party a miss just to see that smile.
He played a magnificent game for the Cool Cubs on Saturday. The team beat a team that has always defeated them with some great defence and passing.
Addam was often the first to each end of the court, which was a great change. He rebounded and had an outstanding offensive game, with shots from the outside, drives and a couple of three point plays. He missed only one from the field and hit all five from the free-throw line. I suspect he scores well over half of the team's 35 points.
The other great thing was that players on both sides played hard, but still smiled, chatted and enjoyed the game.
Anyway, that's it for now.
I'll catch up again soon, probably after the Thursday celebrations.