Chris Cornford V2

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00:00On a Tuesday night with the transition going into the seniors, the senior coaches have gone down

00:04to coach the youth sides and on the Thursday then the youth players who are second year youth

00:12ready for seniors will go and train with the senior side so it's a nice transition for them.

00:18Like I said we've got over 30 teams taking part in this directive and for example I can give you

00:26Kefili are playing under the 17th game so 16 year olds are playing with the 17 year olds at youth

00:31playing another side on the weekend in another club Pontypool are doing the same Pontypool United

00:39they're doing the same directive as well so it's all over the region and like I said over 700 players

00:45taking part. So we've got 71 clubs in the Dragons region there's 22 of them or youth will play in youth

00:55however there's another 22 playing under 16 sides so what we did we put a Google form out

01:02with the criteria so the criteria is 16s into youth and youth into seniors and we want to

01:12put it all over social media just to highlight the good work all these volunteers and these clubs are

01:17doing so over the week we have had over 700 players taking part and that is also with the coaches as

01:26well so I think with the success of the transition week we've had in in the Dragons region I really

01:34can see this going out nationally next year as it's a great directive

01:38So if you're an under 16s coach youth coach or senior coach you need to be signed up for this directive

01:47you