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BYAFA Tournament 1
Crawley

Thunder 13 - 12 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 26- 13 Redborne Rhinos
Thunder 26 - 13 Leicester Eagles

Overall : Winners
Tournament MVP : Seb Eubank
NFLE Kickoff
Loughborough
  Overall :
BYAFA Tournament 2
Crawley
Thunder 34 - 2 London Warriors
Thunder 26 - 6 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 19 - 6 South Wales Rebellion
Overall : Winners
Tournament MVP : Dana Neale
BYAFA Tournament 4
Kent
Thunder 40 - 0 Studley Bearcats
Thunder 25 - 28 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 27 - 7 Leicester Eagles
Overall : Runners Up
Tournament MVP : Seb Eubank
BYAFA Tournament 5
Nottingham
Thunder 30 - 0 Studley Bearcats
Thunder 25 - 0 Coventry Jets
Thunder 39 - 7 Chorley Buccaneers A
Thunder 33 - 18 Woodham Warriors A
Thunder 25 - 0 South Wales Rebellion(Final)
Overall : Winners
Tournament MVP : Dana Neale
BYAFA Tournament 6
Bolton
Thunder 25 - 13 Chorley Buccaneers A
Thunder 33 - 0 Woodham Warriors B
Thunder 20 - 7 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 12 - 20 South Wales Rebellion(Final)
Overall : Runners Up
BYAFA Festival of Football III
Kings Norton
Thunder 26 - 14 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 14 - 6 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 25 - 20 Woodham Warriors A
Thunder 20 - 12 Studley Bearcats (Final)
Overall : Winners
BYAFA Championships Thunder 27 - 13 Woodham Warriors A
Thunder 24 - 32 South Wales Rebellion
Overall : Runners Up
Tournament MVP : Seb Eubank
     
The junior flag team led the league from the very start, and never let it slip. In regular season tournaments they only failed to win one, which they were runners up in, ands they also won the Festival of Football. In the finals they breezed through the semis, but fell short in the final, being edged out by South Wales.
     
2006 Youth Flag
     
NFL Superbowl
Croydon
Thunder 18 - 15 Lightning
Thunder 48 - 0 Kent Exiles
Lightning 27 - 7 Kent Exiles
Thunder 21 - 20 Lightning
Thunder 36 - 0 Kent Exiles
Lightning 21 - 6 Kent Exiles
Overall : Winners (Thunder) and Runners Up (Lightning)
BYAFA Tournament 1
Crawley
Thunder 19 - 6 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 12 - 7 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 18- 13 Redborne Rhinos
Overall : Winners
NFLE Kickoff
Loughborough
  Overall :
BYAFA Tournament 2
Crawley
Thunder 33 - 0 Kent Exiles
Thunder 32 - 6 Nottingham Caesars
Thunder 21 - 19 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 21 - 12 Newport City Saints
Thunder 6 - 19 South Wales Rebellion
Overall : Runners Up
BYAFA Tournament 4
Kent
Thunder 13 - 19 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 27- 13 Nottingham Caesars A
Thunder 12 - 12 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 27- 6 Nottingham Caesars B
Thunder 27 - 7 Leicester Eagles
Overall : 3rd
BYAFA Festival of Football III
Kings Norton
Thunder 20 - 21 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 20 - 18 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 19 - 33 Woodham Warriors A
Overall : 4th in Group
BYAFA Championships Thunder 13 - 6 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 13 - 33 Woodham Warriors A
Overall : Runners Up
     
The youth flag team started the year in fine form, but were hit by GCSE's in the second half of the season. So although they topped the league for the first couple of months, missing the whole of the second half of the season saw them slip down into 3rd place in the league. This was still enough to qualify them for the playoffs. They lost in the finals to Woodham Warriors.
     
2006 Junior Kitted
     
BYAFA Tournament 1
Norwich
Thunder 28 - 6 East Midlands Saxons
Thunder 24 - 0 Norwich Devils
Thunder 13 - 0 MK Pathfinders
Overall : Winners
Tournament MVP : Dominic Gould
BYAFA Tournament 2
Sheffield
Thunder 25 - 6 Yorkshire Rams
Thunder 26- 12 Sheffield Tomahawks
Thunder 25 - 34 MK Pathfinders
Overall : Runners Up
BYAFA Tournament 3
Crawley
Thunder 38 - 0 Yorkshire Rams
Thunder 20 - 0 East Midlands Saxons
Thunder 15 - 0 MK Pathfinders (Final)
Overall : Winners
BYAFA Tournament 4
Peterborough
Thunder 27- 6 Sheffield Tomahawks
Thunder 26 - 0 East Midlands Saxons
Thunder 32 - 6 Chorley Buccaneers
Overall : Winners
BYAFA Championships Thunder 39 - 28 Highland Wildcats
Thunder 33 - 27 Glasgow Tigers (O/T)
Overall : CHAMPIONS!
     
Following last season's excellent debut, the junior kitted team was psyched up for the new season. Just how psyched up was demonstrated by shutting out the MK Pathfinders, the team we could not beat last year, in the first tournament of the season. From that moment on the team didn't look back, losing only one game all season (to the Pathfinders) and winning 3 of the four regular season tournaments, and topping the English Conference league table easily. The semi finals against the Wildcats was a see saw affair, but nothing compared to the final against Glasgow which was undoubtedly the best game of youth football the Thunder has ever seen. The final could have gone either way, but in the end the Thunder triumphed and were crowned national Champions.
     
2005 Junior Flag
   
NFL Superbowl Tournament
Croydon
Thunder 33 - 0 Leicester Eagles Red
Thunder 40 - 6 MK Pathfinders
Thunder 26 - 6 Leicester Eagles Blue
Thunder 24 - 0 Croydon Cavaliers
Overall : Winners
BYAFA Tournament 1
Milton Keynes
Thunder 19 - 0 Leicester Eagles B
Thunder 19 - 0 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 6 - 12 Leicester Eagles B
Thunder 25 - 0 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 12 - 6 Heeley Tomahawks (Final O/T)
Overall : Winners
Tournament MVP : Dana Neale
BYAFA Tournament 2
Crawley
Thunder 20 - 12 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 25 - 6 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 20 - 0 London Os
Thunder 25 - 7 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 27 - 7 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 21 - 21 London Os
Overall : Winners
Tournament MVP : Dana Neale
BYAFA Tournament 4
Heeley
Thunder 22 - 12 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 40 - 7 Studley Bearcats A
Thunder 26 - 6 Leicester Eagles B
Thunder 21 - 18 Woodham Warriors B
Thunder 0 - 7 Leicester Eagles A (Final)
Overall : Runners Up
BYAFA Tournament 5
Leicester
Thunder 20 - 0 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 26 - 0 Leicester Eagles B
Thunder 14 - 6 London Os
Thunder 12 - 6 Leicester Eagles A (Final)
Overall : Winners
BYAFA Tournament 6
Cardiff
Thunder 19 - 6 Studley Bearcats A
Thunder 14 - 7 London Os
Thunder 26 - 0 Studley Bearcats B
Thunder 21 - 0 Leicester Eagles B
Thunder 18 - 7 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 26 - 0 Leicester Eagles A
Overall : Winners
BYAFA Championships Thunder 26- 32 South Wales Rebellion (O/T)
Thunder 53 - 60 Leicester Eagles
Overall : 4th place
Championship MVP : Dominic Gould
     
The defeat in the championships semi-final game was due to the team going fown to 4 players in the middle of the game when Fred Stanley broke his ankle. Even so, the team managed to come from behind to take the game into sudden death overtime, but in the end it was South Wales who managed to win. The Junior team also won the Channel 5 Trophy for the second year running, and they are the only team ever to have won it twice.
     
2005 Youth Flag
     
NFL Kickoff
Loughborough
Thunder 19 - 20 South Wales Rebellion
Thunder 26 - 0 Southend Sabres
Thunder 47 - 14 London Os
Overall : 2nd place in group
BYAFA Tournament 2
Crawley
Thunder 19 - 0 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 8 - 20 South Wales Rebellion A
Thunder 6 - 14 South Wales Rebellion B
Thunder 24 - 13 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 6 - 34 South Wales Rebellion A
Thunder 12 - 14 South Wales Rebellion B
Overall : 3rd place
Tournament MVP : Joe Bailey
BYAFA Tournament 5
Leicester
Thunder 7 - 6 South Wales Rebellion B
Thunder 28 - 19 Leicester Eagles
Thunder 33 - 6 South Wales Rebellion A
Thunder 6 - 24 Heeley Tomahawks
Overall : Runners Up
BYAFA Tournament 6
Cardiff
Thunder 25 - 13 South Wales Rebellion B
Thunder 6 - 31 South Wales Rebellion A
Thunder 20 - 6 Coventry Jets
Thunder 0 - 18 South Wales Rebellion B
Thunder 0 - 20 South Wales Rebellion A
Thunder 7- 0 Coventry Jets
Overall : 3rd place
BYAFA Championships
Solihull
Thunder 19 - 44 South Wales Rebellion B
Thunder 39 - 33 Leicester Eagles
Overall : 3rd place
NFLE Kickoff   Overall : Winners
     
The interesting thing about the youth season was apart from the first half of the frst game of the first tournament, the youth team could never field more than 4 players. With the exception of the Leicester Eagles who sportingly played us 4v4, even in the finals, the entire season was played 4v5. Despite being a man down, the youth team still managed to take 3rd spot in the league and 3rd in the Championships.
     
2005 Junior Kitted