Training Wednesday 14th January 2009

Great to see an improvement in the weather, the ground had finally softened. Wednesday's training was on tonight. A good number turned out of 15 players. Richard, John and Adrian were there starting with a warm up, and leading onto passing and overlap drills.

Richard at the helm, the obligatory running to the tree for any misdemeanour or digression (not listening springs to mind!). ‘Run around the tree keeping it to your RIGHT’. Well that brought a few chuckles from the coaches as the players were in disarray. Again ‘around the rugby posts, keeping the rugby post to your RIGHT’. Must be the lemming effect. Sam was the only one to pass the test.

Well you may ask, Left, Right is there some confusion!. Well lets look back to Sunday, when at the start of training the players warmed up running zig-zags towards Tim, who was facing them. The command of ‘Right’ holding out his right arm and the players moved in that direction (in fact it was to their left), ‘Left’ holding out his left arm (in fact to the players right). I’m sure it will confuse the opposition at some point. Well we do have twenty weeks left to get it right!. Sorry for the pun.

Finishing off with a game, having an ideal number of players, each one getting involved, good work and positioning from Connor, Greg, Matt and Tim leading to tries by Sam, Myles, Charlie and James C. Both teams working hard. Jack nearly got through after a darting run when Daniel S put in a very good tackle, pushing Jack out into touch.
Good running with the ball from Jac, Freddie, Daniel C and William. Nearly time and Sam got hold of the ball, running zig zag along the left wing (or was it right!), they weren’t catching him today, followed closely by Miles waiting for the pass. Finally Sam was tackled and out of play. Game over. Well done. Was that Tristan still trying to get into the yellow tabard!.