Newtown Tigers

The Newtown Tigers have lost eighteen games in a row. Surely they are the unluckiest team in the history of football! In the final game of the season they are to play the Dingley Demons – and their coach is sick. But it’s now that the luck of the Newtown Tigers starts to change, because the coach’s daughter, five-year-old Isabella Trott, decides that she has what it takes to lead the team to victory. The boys are slow to accept this. You wouldn’t think in a million years that little Isabella could coach a footy team of eight-year-olds! But, as luck would have it, Isabella has watched her father coach so often that she knows exactly what NOT to do. With Isabella as coach, the boys stop fooling around and actually start to look like a team. And they learn the value of an old saying, ‘The harder I work, the luckier I get.’ It’s time for the Newtown Tigers to start making their own luck … and they do!