Li'l All Blacks

Today we went to visit some of Bryce's family and got a chance to see his 2nd cousin (?) Henry play rugby. Henry is 7 and Cushla had said he was one of the youngest on the team. It was a much more skilled game than I thought we were going to see, considering their age. They had "proper" scrums, lineouts and even some super hero, leap in the air trys to score. Very cute.
Henry is number 9 and was a great player. Very focused and a super tackler. Here's a picture of him at the end. His mom Rachel said that he would not be in the bath till later in the day. Not by her choice, but he just loves being dirty and we saw the esteem he held around the big rugby boys later, with having lots of dirt on him.


The picture below shows Henry and an opponent (with barefeet,of course) fighting for the ball.