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Aaron has changed football training to Thursdays now with Marjons.  It had got to a point where there weren’t enough children turning up to the West Pro training on a Tuesday so they cancelled that. So Aaron has been at 6pm-7pm at Marjons since the start of this term although he hasn’t been the last couple of weeks.  He only really wants to go if his friend Reuben P goes so he isn’t really that committed. We have been told that this training will lead to a team as well, which he does say he wants to do. Aaron is just being Aaron (haha) so we will see if he changes his mind after the May half term and start going again.

A couple of weeks ago, Aaron decided that he wanted to try and join a football club again, with sessions run by WestPro. This coincided with Coby starting playing as well on a Tuesday at 5pm at Eggbuckland school, as Aaron knew that his good friends also played football on a Tuesday at 6pm, straight after Coby’s year, and they had been asking Aaron to join up for ages. So we said we would take him along with Coby and he joined in with the first hour (so the coach could see how well he did) before also joining in with the session for his own age group.

We were quite surprised that Aaron lasted both sessions without getting too tired out and we were also impressed with how well he played, especially in the lower age group. He scored a couple of cracking goals and we were cheering him on from the sidelines! He seemed to really enjoy it but kept looking over at us for reassurances. 😉 He was with the older children from that group, so Coby was with some others of his own age in a different group. Aaron was still the oldest there though and taller than them all! 

In the second session, all his friends played as well and they were put into teams. Aaron was in goal quite a lot but he did play out as well and did well, although you could see the step up in quality with his age group. He did very well though and did a few good passes and saves in goal, and managed a couple of shots.  It was very good really although we would have liked a bit more training in the older session due to some team coaches being there wanting to practices for the upcoming matches. All the training seemed to happen in the session before with the younger children. Anyway, Aaron enjoyed it and wanted to carry on each week, so we paid for him to start properly and he now goes on a Tuesday. 😉

Aaron has now stopped going to the weekly football training. We have actually stopped going to Goals now and Ben is doing a properly run coaching session with the other Bickleigh Buddies at Marjons on a Thursday now. Aaron had the opportunity to play as well but didn’t want to really. Unfortunately, the boys that play are all in Ben’s year and he doesn’t really know any of them properly like he did with some others before. One of his friends did come along once, but didn’t like it either, so never came back again.  So Aaron, for now, has given up on the training, but we are going to try and get him to do something else instead with some of his friends, so watch this space! 😉