The O’s 2009 Season @ Kent Exiles (photo-gallery)

The controlled scrimmage against the Kent Exiles proved to be a valuable learning process for the reorganised London Olympians team especially as it gave the rookies a taste of the levels they need to go through to achieve premiership status. Likewise, the Kent Exiles used this session to assess what areas they needed to work on for the coming season.

It was tough opposition for such a young team but they more than coped with the tasks in hand. Both offensive and defensive lines were able to block well enough to either allow the quarterback time to dispatch the ball successfully and prevent the opposition from advancing the ball much respectively. The offence made some good runs, pass catches (both in and outside play traffic) and punts were good. Despite the Kent Exiles defence being at times too experienced and stronger, the London Olympians offence worked together with a success rate of about 60%.

The London Olympians defence started slowly but after giving ground for the first series, they stepped up to stem the flow. Kent managed a few scores via their outside running game, which was expected; however as the day progressed the London Olympians, defence came good. A few times the quarterback had to resort to scrambling to get out of trouble.

Special teams had a 50% success rate and it showed how inexperienced the visiting squad was nevertheless it is something that was earmarked to be worked on. The Kent Exiles were very helpful in that they kept their tempo going all throughout the session and a lot was taken in from this opportunity.

Appreciation for the day goes to the Kent Exiles from the London Olympians!