Improving.

I remember a few years back I was Captain for the Felixstowe 2nd Team. We had to travel to Colchester for a league game and as per second team tradition we scraped a side together including one of our player mate that had never played before and jumped into the cars to go and play.

Now we had a pretty young and quick side that day, and the new boy although not knowing what he was really doing ran like the wind. The Colchester side however was older and slower but never in rugby do you look at this as an advantage.

I have played these old boys many times and they are strong and hit hard and this day was to prove no different.

We got to half time 10 points behind and as captain I was trying to explain to our young backs that to score try's we needed to run round them not through them. This seemed to fall on def ears as we fell further behind and our centres seemed to have no passing ability.

I remember one of our older forwards and myself shouting at them PASS, PASS PASS... that seemed to do the trick and what happened next changed the game.

The centre's had finally got it into there heads that this funny shaped ball could be passed to another guy and decided to try it. This was a revelation and once they got it the ball ended up out on the wing and who should be holding the ball.... yep, the new guy.

He ran like the wind passing with ease the defence and ran in for a try. Then again the revelation of ''the pass'' was awarded straight after with another try on the other wing. We one that day and I can honestly say this was one of my most memorable moment in my rugby playing days.

Rugby is sometimes about thinking on your feet and having the ability to learn and change your way of thinking. It's sometimes essential to listen to others around you and work with them in order to improve the teams performance.


We all have to learn to listen as we go through life, its not easy and sometime we have to swallow our pride but trying to work with whats in front of you can sometimes be the only way forward. God will not put anything in your way that you cant deal with, and we sometimes have to try and find a way round those things.

If your struggling with stuff right now and cant find a way through it, maybe there's away round it and just maybe God will show you and help you to pass it.