Day 1 & 2 - Firetails 3-1

Two days of worlds are over and the Firetails are well positioned.

Our first game of Day 1 was against Team USA who we played a couple of weeks ago in San Francisco. We came out fired up on D and had a very close first half, including the opportunity to take half 9-7 before a couple of basic errors allowed USA to take half 9-8. Receiving going downwind to start the second half we should have evened things up but an incompletions allowed USA to take an upwind goal. They then applied a suffocating 4-man cup which we struggled to advance against. After a 4 point run we finally got back in the game but then just traded out to finish 17-12, a disappointing result though we did take a lot of positives from the game.

Later on day 1 we played Ireland, who are a younger, less-established team. We had some very clinical points but unfortunately quite a few that were far from clinical. Final score 17-2 but quite a lot we could improve from.

Day 2 we had Switzerland first up. We came out and pressured them a lot early to take half 9-3. In the second half the Swiss pulled it together and scored some excellent goals, we mainly traded the second half for a final score of 17-9. Our offence was very crisp and a marked improvement from the Irish game.

Last game of the day we took on Italy. Italy had played NZ earlier in the day and gone down by a few, the Italians came out pumped up and with nothing to lose, and we ended up in a very tight first half. Goals were traded till 5-5 before we changed up the D and took half 9-6 (?). The second half our defence remained stifling and we took the game 17-9.

Following that we were very excited to watched the U19 girls beat Team USA. Day 2 was a very good day for Australia with 8 wins, 2 losses across the 6 teams.

We are largely injury free, with Annette our physio keeping us all running. Unfortunately a bit of flu is going round and we were without Gamble or Viv today, hopefully both will be right to play tomorrow.