Endeavour SHS vs Engadine HS in this years Elite High School 7's comp (Photo & ani : ourfooty media)

Word has gotten back to the Endeavour coaches that the Engadine boys have been talking the talk after they got lucky against Endeavour in the Elite Schools sevens comp back in term one.

Endeavour Sports will not be sending their rugby league team, the Endeavour teams. The U 13's, U 14's & U 15's playing tomorrow will consist of kids NOT in the Endeavour Rugby League Program. "We have only won about 1 game in 3 years" said Mr. Howlett from Endeavour, "no we will not be sending any players from out TSP program"

Good luck to all schools tomorrow, see ya's at the footy.

Wooloware have a few of their players up at the snow on a school camp and other schools report they are ready. De La Caringbah are keen to play after their 16's won the 16's knock out a few weeks ago at Shark Park.

Sharks U 14's Coached by Rob Nathan & Paul Riley (Photo : ourfooty media)

Balmain Tigers U 13's are HOT (Photo : ourfooty media)

Balmain Tigers U 14's (Photo : ourfooty media)

Balmain Tigers U 15's (Photo : ourfooty media)

After a very busy school holiday Schedule the Sharks played their final development games against the mighty Balmain Tigers.

Today we saw 3 very good games of junior rugby league between these two sides and all 3 games were played with fantastic spirit, all the players respected one another which allow the footy move around the paddock with out interruption.

The Tigers under 13's are one HOT little footy side, they run the ball hard, back each other to the hilt and seem to be able to pass the ball in most tackles.

They like to score a few tries too with 3 players scoring doubles and a dead eye kicker who booted 6 from 6 before he was sacked to give someone else a go.

These slick little Tigers lead 0 - 34 at half time and went on with the job in the second half to beat the Sharks 8 - 44, young Sharks winger Ben Issa ran in two good second half tries.

The score reflex the effort the Cronulla boys put in in the second half restricting the Tigers to just 10 points, it was a fine display of footy by these little Tigers and all at the ground know the Sharks tried very hard.

The Sharks under 14's are a very well coached outfit, they play to their game plan and do a mighty jobs of sticking to it.

They run good angles, with players backing each other up in both attack and in D.

Young Robbie Nathan came off the field with a broken nose, it was bent over to the right and looked painful, good luck Robbie, in a few weeks she'll be right for a good pick.

Sharks Under 13's (Photo : ourfooty media )

Sharks & Wests MAgpies Under 14's after the game ( Photo : ourfooty media)

Sharks & Wests Magpies Under 15's after the game ( Photo : ourfooty media)

Cronulla Sharks Under 17's Dev team (Photo : ourfooty media)

Well done to all you boys who played today and this week, there has been a lot of football lately and its not even the weekend, so suck in the air, get some rest coz it's all on again in 2 days.

The littlest Sharks can not be called midgets any more after the way they played today.

These little fella's all put their bodies and lives on the line for their team mates and team today.

The Under 13's had a comfortable 14 - 4 lead at half time only to see the Wests boys storm home with late charge and actually scored on the bell with a kick to come to draw the match, the kick went wide and the Sharkies held on for a very well played 16 - 14 victory.

MoRe SooN GuYS

Photo's later or tomorrow, go put your toes in the air boys, u earned it

It was good to see the two Rockys at the footy today.

Rocky Musolino, the St. George Dragons Development manager and his son Rocky came to referee a couple games and saved the day as there were no ref's scheduled to officiate.

Both Rockys did a fantastic job and so did the other young ref who was called in this morning at very short notice.

ON YA BOYS -

SOME PHOTO'S FROM THE MAGPIES GAME WILL BE ON LATER TONITE ( we hope hey)

The Cronulla Junior League will today host 4 development games against Western Suburbs Magpies.

Traditionally West have plenty of big hard hitting footballers in their squads and the Sharks coaching staff are prepared for more of the same today.

The first game will be the Mighty Midgets when the Under 13's kick off at 10:00 AM. the Under 14's at 11:00 AM, the Under 15 at 12:00 PM and the last game of the day will be the under 17's who kick off at (yep, u guessed it ) 1:00 PM

St. George Dragons Under 13's Development Squad (Photo : ourfooty media)

Cronulla Sharks Under 13's Development Squad (Photo : ourfooty media)

St. George Dragons Under 14's Development Squad (Photo : ourfooty media)

Cronulla Sharks Under 14's Development Squad (Photo : ourfooty media)

St. George Dragons Under 15's Development Squad (Photo : ourfooty media)

Cronulla Sharks Under 15's Development Squad (Photo : ourfooty media)

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The Sharks Development teams were in action again on Monday night at Beverly Hills Park.

This time the enemy was the St. George Dragons. Under lights with more than 400 footy mad spectators, and we watched three very good, well ref'd and fair games of junior rugby league.

The first teams up were the mighty midgets, the under 13 development sides suprised a few people with thier speed, skills and general play that in the end they smashed the Dragons to the tune of 34 - 0.

The whole team deserved the man of the match award, the points were shared by 6 different players and it was a shame when the game ended and 2 teams of excited little footballers came off the field with huge grims on their melons. Well done to all involved, yeah good on ya Joe, Noel and the team.

Next up was the Under 14's, most of these guys played together last year, they all get along real good & are well coached by Robbie and Paulie real well too.

There game was a fast one with little blokes rnning around everywhere, this team plays with structure beyond their years with every member of the team knowing him job inside out, they must be good listeners hey.

The under 14's ran away in the end, the score was 28 - 4

Then came the Under 15's. The under 15 squad had already played in the morning against the visiting Queenslanders, the Toowoomba Development boys were too good on the day and had their first win of their Sydney Tour with a 36 - 18 victory.

After a very tough and physical encounter, the Dragons were able to hold off the fast finishing Sharks to win in the dying stages to finish 28 - 20 victors.

This was a bit of a grudge match ater Rea and his Matty's Cup teammates beat the Dragons at OKI Stadium this year. hehe

Everyone put in during the game, no one was sin bined, so thats an inproveemnt too.

Bennett, Day, Drinkwater & Belford crossed & Alex booted 2 conversions.

Some of these boys backed up from the Toowoomba game which kicked off at 12:00 noon.

Not only had some of the players backed up, but so did the coaches Holzie & Wiggie, it was the Gorilla conection with Cronulla Sharks Media Manager Rob Willis running water like he loves it, and the parents backed up again too, so good on every one, go the Sharks and good on ya Ken Fitzgerald for once again arranging for the boys who put all this training together & get a game of footy.

Interestingly the St. George Under 15 dev side played the Toowoomba boys on Saturday and the Dragons one that by a fair bit, 48 - 18 or something.

The Dragons have some very good players in their development squad including NSW CHS U 15's player Jamie Stanley, his mates from Endeavour like Kiti Gylmin, Hayden, Joey, Chief and the list goes on. They are a pretty hot footy team when they are on.

Cronulla Sharks & Toowoomba after their game (Photo's : ourfooty media) PHOTO'S & REPORT LATER

The visiting Toowoomba Under 15's defeated a Sharks under 15 development side today 18 - 36

The Queensland boys have been on tour in Sydney for over a week now and have been staying at the NSWRL Academy at Narrabeen with it's excellent facilities.

So far the young Queenslanders have had a rough trot here in Sydney, they started this years tour with a game against the Parramatta Eels u 15 De v squad on Sunday last wek and got smashed by the Eels.

On Monday the Toowoomba boys played the Winsor Wolves, another hiding, Tuesday they got flogged by the Bulldogs U 15 De v side. Wednesday the boys got to go to the State of Origin which would have made them happy with the result.

Thurday they played the Manly SeaEagles Dev side, another loss for the visitors. Friday MORE SOON

WELL DONE TO BOTH TEAMS

There is much more Cronulla Sharks Development games these school holidays with the Under 13's, 14's & under 15's doing battle with arch enemy the St. George Dragons at Beverley Hills.

The Under 13's kick off at 5:30, the under 14's at 6:30 and the under 15's at 7:30 pm.

Tomorrow the Under 17's play a round robin comp up at Newcastle against half a dozen other NRL development squads.

Engadine celebrate a rare win over Cronulla Caringbah at Endeavour (Photo : ourfooty media)

Dela Salle U 15 B(2) reckon "THAT'S GOLD" after smacking Cronulla Caringbah in their Rnd 13 clash

The Engadine Dragons haven't sniffed a victory over Cronulla Caringbah at Endeavour Field for many years and now they have broken that hoodoo in round 13.

The Dragons were the better team on the day but just couldn't put the Sharks away, the Sharks kept biting back to counter every Engadine point.

Gymea have been the form side in the comp for the pat few weeks but their roll came to a big halt as Team Spirit kept De La in the game up to half time were the visitors enjoyed a small 6 - 8 lead at the break.

The 1st half was a mistake ridden affair, it was possibily the worst half of footy played this year with both teams dropping too much ball and only De La Salle completing 3 sets for the entire half. CHECK OUT MORE U 15A'S ACTION HERE

Zac Wedersweiler at the ASSRL Championships in this NSW CCC jersey (Photo : k wedersweiler)

Zac Wedersweiler played in NSW CCC's total demolishion of the ACT in the battle for 3 rd and Gene DuBois played for NSW CIS, but they got hammered.

Both boys conducted themselves very well, enjoyed the experience very much and played like all Cronulla boys, hard, fast & in their faces.

In the Under 15A's, De la Salle get to play their round 3 game & the Engadine Dragons have to replay their called off game against the Menai Roosters.

With all four teams building towards the finals they should provide some really good footy, so grab a few blankets and your beanies and come to Shark Park on Wednesday night.

THAT'S GOLD !! The Yarrawarra Tigers & De la Salle Under 11A's (Photo : ourfooty media) UNDER 11A's PHOTO GALLERY

In the Under 11A's it was a replay of last years Grand Final at Yarrawarra between the Tigers & De la Salle.

What a great game, both teams played like little demons and at the end of the game the scores were 12 - all thanks to De la scoring a try right on the final whistle to make the score 12 - 10 with a kick to come. True enough the little De la kicker converted to make the scores even.

The Sharks High Schools Knockout carnival, scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday, June 4) has been postponed due to ground closures caused by the wet weather.

The Sharks High School knockout tomorrow was to be for the under 12's, 13's, 14's and 15 years age groups.

It has been tentatively rescheduled for July 23. Information will be relayed to schools as to the new date in the coming days.

The under 16's and Open's Sharks knockout has been set down for June 25, while the Sharks Primary Schools knockout will be played on July 2.