Herons U11's win Sun Postal 6-a-side tournament

NEW SEASON IS UPON US!!!

Archie will be playing for Herons Youth again for another season. He has had interest from his old team Evergreen Juniors who have been promoted to the 1st division, but he's quite happy where he is. The only major change to Archie's football is going to be the fact that he is only going to be playing half the amount of games due to him coming to Watford every other weekend now (which is a shame).

West Herts Youth League have published the league tables of which there are 4. They are:

Division 1:
Chorleywood Common Panthers
Evergreen Juniors
Garston Boys
Harpenden Colts Pirates
Hemel Stags Aces Diamonds
Little Gaddesden
St Albans City Youth East
Tring United

Division 2:
Bovingdon Panthers Red
Chorleywood Common Lions
Comets Cougars
Harpenden Colts Cobras
Herons
Leverstock Green Willows
Rickmansworth Rebels
St Albans City Youth West

Division 3:
Berkhamstead Raiders White
Bovingdon Panthers Blue
Chorleywood Common Leopards
Evergreen Youth
Harpenden Colts Tigers
Hemel Town Youth
Kings Langley
St Albans City Orient
Tring Albion

Division 4:
Berkhamstead Raiders Blue
Comets Lions
Evergreen Colts
Harpenden Colts Rhinos
St Albans City Youth Boreal

Friendly: Herons 13-2 Comets Lions

Well, today's game was a closely fought encounter... not. Comets turned up 45mins late for kick off too which I think probably helped encourage our boys to give them a beating. Archie started the game off upfront alongside James S who was only 1 goal away from matching Archie's tally.

I can't remember the sequence of goal scorers apart from the first goal, which was poked home by James S. This Herons team have improved brilliantly as the season has gone on and played some fantastic football today. Archie seemed to be getting back to scoring ways by bagging himself 5 goals!! The goal scorers were: Archie 5, Joe 2, JJ 2, Liam 1, James S 1, Harry 1, Kian 1.

League results & table 10/04

Sat 09/04
Hemel Aces Diamonds 4-4 Little Gaddesden

Sun 10/04
Harpenden Colts Cobras 4-4 Chorleywood Panthers
Hemel Aces Diamonds 7-3 Kings Langley
Herons 2-0 Little Gaddesden
Herons 0-0 Little Gaddesden
Rickmansworth Rebels 7-2 Hemel Town Youth

League: Little Gaddesden 0-2 Herons & Herons 0-0 Little Gaddesden

Today the boys played a double header due to the snow that we had delaying matches. Archie had never played against Little Gaddesden before and I have to say that their pitch is amazing and the setting is very plush. Little Gaddesden play on the grounds of Ashridge Estate which is a National Trust centre.

Anyway, back to the football. Archie played the whole of the first game at Left midfield and imediately set about playing for the win. He played some cracking balls, made a few runs and had a couple of digs at goal. The goals came from Franky via a goal mouth scramble and captain Liam from a brilliantly placed free kick.

The 2nd match saw Archie sit out the first half and play left full back during the 2nd half! No goals in this one, Archie was lucky because the lad he was marking did lose him on a few occasions. Defence is not Archies position but he was happy to help the team out by stepping into Elliots usual place as he had injured his leg.

Both matches were hotly fought but i felt that Herons had the upper hand and looked most likely to win.

League results & table 03/04 & 06/04

Sunday 03/04
Harpenden Colts Cobras 2-5 Evergreen Juniors
Herons 0-3 Chorleywood Panthers
Kings Langley 0-7 Rickmansworth Rebels

Wednesday 06/04
Rickmansworth Rebels 4-2 Little Gaddesden

League: Herons 0-3 Chorleywood Panthers

Archie played his first game for atleast a month today against top of the league side Chorleywood Panthers. It was a very tough game, one that we were unlucky to lose. Archie didn't really show up for the game, he was subbed once. James S hit the post early on as did Ricc on two occassions.

Next week we are playing two games on Sunday, both versus Little Gaddesden.