SCHOOL sports, it can be a great experience, also it can be a bit of a bore.
Playing for your school team can be a great experience, joining in with any sport with your friends is great fun.
However if your only on the fringes of the school team, its not always the greatest way to spend a rainy school night, sitting down watching, waiting for your turn to get a vital two minutes of experience at the very end of the game.
The gloomy nights when you get picked by the school team and you know the only reasons you got picked was to fill up the numbers.
You travel all the way on the windy roads feeling sick. You leave the bus full of enthusiasm, looking forward to showing off your skills on the pitch.
Then you're brought crashing back to reality when you discover you have been picked as a substitute.
The game passes by and your sitting there on the soggy grass that has now soaked through to your skin. By the time you get picked to play in the dying embers of the game your socks, shorts and shirt are soaking and the last thing you feel like doing is running around.
Thats what it can be like, the grim, dark side of school sports.
However thats just the one side, there is the glory side to school sport too. Being the main player in the squad, turning up to the other school grounds and being feared by the opponents as they know how much quality you possess.
The teacher always applauds you and your fellow team mates can't help but admire your skill.
You get to play the full game and if the weather is bad you can just pull out, you know your going to get chosen for all the games regardless, so if you dont fancy it, why bother?
When you get back to school you get told by everyone that you were simply amazing.
School sports is a mix, the grim side is a harsh learning curve but the great side is incredibly rewarding. Is it worth it? You decide.