Despite a short but hectic season, Goldie Warriors Under-20 Division boys managed to finish second on the ladder after the final round and will be in a face-off against the Southern Chiefs U20 Division who finished first on the ladder. As the last weekend of games winded down for the NCDRU community last weekend, some teams walked away victoriously while others humbly bowed out of the competition. Coach Boaz Kitoro said he was proud of the boys and happy for them as this is the first time since the team joined the Competition that the U20 division has made it into the Grand Final in the coming weekend. “The boys will rest on Monday and Tuesday we’ll commence training in preps for the weekend." "The boys will also go into camp on Friday." Kitoro added that the team was made up of the Goldie officer’s children and some of the officers as well that play with the team’s A Grade Division. Despite living all the way up at Goldie, they manage to make it down for games during the weekends. “Most of the boys grew up together in the barracks and most of them had been influenced by the wrong things so some of the big boys and I talked to them and managed to change some of their ways.” “The previous seasons, the A grade division was the only division that always made it to the finals but this season, we encouraged and pushed the smaller boys to work hard and do better and I’m happy that they’re finally into the finals.” He also added that they were lacking in some areas but would work on these areas as well as work on perfecting the areas in with some improvement during training this week. “We are lacking in our scrum because we have light forwards, they all go to high school or primary school." "We just need to work on holding and winning the scrums." “We have improved in our line outs, running in our pods, the boys used to always run everywhere but now they’re playing some structure in their games and our backline as well in running their set plays.” Meanwhile the boys from Goldie are looking forward to the Grand Final this coming weekend and are already look to up the standard of the game and help the NCDRU community to grow Grassroots rugby in the coming years and added a word of appreciation to the NCDRU community for helping to keep the boys busy during the season. “Thank you for running this competition and helping to keep the youths [of Goldie Barracks] out of trouble and busy during the weekends.” “We’re looking forward to the rugby season next year as we plan on developing the code in their players as well. "We see that NCDRU is running a really good grassroots competition.”