First Training Eve

Well woke up this morning, on this the first training eve, to a cooler morning, and the news that we will now have less time to put this squad together than I had originally anticipated.

Was informed this morning that the first time we go into battle for real in with be on the 24th of March. This will be Round 1 and the official start to the 2017 South West League season, which now means we have less weeks than I have planned to pull this all together. Our last trial game leading into the season will be on the 18th of March, that now gives us exactly one week as opposed to the two I thought we would have.

Still thats part and parcel of what happens leading into the start of the season, and this now means that we will just have to step things up and work harder to make sure we are ready to go. The biggest impact it will most likely have is on the timing of selecting the final SWL squad, instead of perhaps being able to go right the way through to the 18th of March, we now may have to settle on as close to a squad as possible the 11th of March after our second trial match against Towns.

This will allow us to iron out any kinks in the last trial game and also give us time if we feel we need to make any last minute decisions. Alternate to that we go right the way through to the 18th of March and to finalise the squad and pull it all together in 1 week. Either way I am confident it will all work out and we will be ready for game 1.

So as my nerves build, it all starts tomorrow with the first turf training, I am looking forward to it, my plan is to make sure we hit the ground running and get through everything we need to get through tomorrow night. Its going to be a very full on session.

Anyway that is it for now, bring on our first training.