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Staggering. This has been a really constructive thread. It's given my plenty to think about and I've had a brief chat with my daughter (who's quite positive). I should say that the head coach at the club was brilliant at picking up their spirits and accentuating the positives but I've got a few...

We can all laugh but, sadly, I have seen coaches give dogs' abuse to 10/11 year old kids who have just lost. I'd take my children away that week if a coach behaved like that - I'm staggered that some parents put up with it

That's really excellent advice and lots of pointers there. We know exactly why we lost so heavily: they had two very fast wingers. Their tactic was to get the ball to them at the first opportunity and every time we missed a tackle or gave them space, they scored. Our two wingers were both away...

But it's not obvious and easy. As I said, we couldn't substitute their best players. We could have stopped the match early, but I think that would have been even more dispiriting for our girls. We could have mixed the teams up (which is something we did a few months ago, when they started) but...

Not as straightforward as that. Because it was half term, we only had 11 players and they had 8 - we therefore played 8-a-side, with rolling subs for us. It sounds like the dice were loaded in our favour but the players we had were mainly forwards and there's were mainly backs and you're playing...

Reading the thread on 13-0 defeat got me thinking about the team I help coach. My daughter's rugby team lost by more than 100 points yesterday and. not surprisingly, the girls looked very down. It's a new team, only formed this season, and about three-quarters of the team hadn't played rugby...