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On Saturday 7th March, myself, Ben, Aaron and Coby were all at Home Park to watch Plymouth Argyle vs Macclesfield Town.  It turned out to be the last match they played before the country was shut down due to the covid-19 pandemic, so we were lucky there!!

Ben actually went with Plymouth Kolts as it was the DJM League day at Argyle, so he was dropped off well before kick off as they organised a 5-a-side match at Goals and some party food beforehand.  Typically though, he went over on his ankle again during the kick around and had to sit out a fair portion of it.  They all then went inside and had some food before going over to Argyle to watch the game. 

In the meantime, I had been given 3 tickets from one of our Directors at work, so I took Aaron and Coby to watch.  We were sat in the Lyndhurst Stand and had a pretty good view and the boys seemed to love it, especially Aaron who doesn’t usually like football too much!  They were both cheering when Argyle scored all 3 of the goals to win 3-0.  Aaron seemed to take a shine to George Cooper who was playing on the left wing in the second half and scored 2 cracking goals where we were right down the eyeline so saw them both fly in.  He was even joining in his song ‘Oh Georgy Georgy etc etc’ haha.

After the game, we met up with Ben and Marcus (Kolts coach) to get Ben, only to find out that he had left his shin pads and boot bag in Lewis’ car at Goals, and to find out about his sore ankle which was causing him to limp.  He seemed OK though.

So, it was a good afternoon for all of us and Ben enjoyed his time with his team mates and I enjoyed my time with Aaron and Coby, and Argyle won easily which made it all the better!!

This year was the first KS2 Sports Day for Aaron, so it was proper sport this year!

During the morning session, Aaron did cross country and Football. He did very well in cross country around the school and finished in the top 10, which was excellent for him! 😉 He also did very well in football and seemed to enjoy himself in both of the events.

In the afternoon, he did a round robin of events including the relay, tag relay, standing long jump and a throwing event. He did well at them all as well and put a lot of effort in. The final set of events were the running races so Aaron participated in his class race. He ran as fast as he could and ended up in the top 10 again, so was a great effort as his class has some really good runners!

All in all, Aaron had a great first KS2 Sports Day and did very well!

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. 😉

On Friday, I took Ben and Aaron to watch their first live football match.  It was a pre-season friendly between Plymouth Argyle and Cardiff City at Home Park.  The game wasn’t the best, it ended up 1-0 to Cardiff, but they both seemed to enjoy the occasion and were very excited, even though they started acting silly midway through the second half! We were sat at half way and on the second row of seats back, so we had a very good view apart from when people were walking along in front of us.  We will definitely go again soon!

Argyle vs Cardiff City

Argyle vs Cardiff City