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Northern Hearts Are Set On League

On Sunday 8 July, representative hopefuls from the Northern Zone took to the field in Kaikohe to trial for the upcoming representative season.

Prospects for the 15s and 17s teams spent the full day in an NZRL Hearts Camp receiving fitness testing, a drug education seminar before trialling, while the representative coaches and managers were joined by Premier coaches from throughout the Northern zone in an advanced coaching workshop facilitated by Dan Floyd and Tony Kemp from NZRL. 

The local referees also took the chance to receive some specialist training from NZRL National Referees Coordinator Ian Mackintosh.

Northern Zone General Manager Rob Wakelin commented "We had a great turnout particularly from the Premier grade players who have shown their support for the Zone concept and are keen to have the opportunity to once again represent Northland on a national platform".

"The support shown by the Kaikohe community was great for our young players", said Wakelin. "We greatly appreciate the support shown by Far North District Council and we look forward to bringing our representative teams here to play Counties-Manukau on Sunday 5 September."

Premier Coach Revell Neal was enthusiastic about the trial form shown "It is obvious the players are passionate about representing Northland and we have plenty of talent to work with, I look forward to the competition". 

The next Hearts Camp is in Auckland on 16 August, 2010. For details see the website National Calendar for details.