The Firetails are comfortably settled into our hotel in Sakai. We have been enjoying sleeping in beds, in rooms with dark curtains, allowing us to be fully rested in preparation for the opening game on Saturday. The hotel staff have been a little shocked at the uncouthness of some of the Australians - with barefoot breakfasters sent back to their rooms to get shoes. Most of the other Australian teams have also arrived so we have enjoyed hearing their adventures and trying to avoid contact with those people from the mixed team who have unfortunately had gastro.
We had our final warm-up game yesterday against Team Canada. The conditions were not ideal with rain and wind. We played on one of the astro-turf fields, many of our games will be on this surface so it was good to get a feel for conditions. I think a few people will be changing cleats for the next time we play on astro-turf!
We played a 60 minute game. There were quite a lot of turnovers in most points; due to the difficult wind conditions and tight defence on both sides. The Firetails managed to convert early going up 4-1, then 6-4. Late lapses in concentration meant a disappointing end score of 9-6 to Canada. It was a good for us to have to play against a team with a different style to Japanese teams we have been playing in the last week.
Next time we play will be in the opening game against the Japanese - Saturday 7 July 4:30pm local time (5:30pm AEST). As Kaz mentioned in her last post it will be streamed live by NGN see www.ngnultimate.com/schedule.
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