First off id like to appologise if this isnt up to standard, i have big shoes to fill here.
With the camp going on at the moment there wasnt any first year players there or Vickery who is speaking at the camp, also didnt see Cousins. Its hard to pinpoint who isnt there lol.
It was only about a 1 hour session today, mainly defensive drills.
Starting off with a small group that were practising a rotating zone for about 10-15 mins. they then had a break and the rest came out and just did some kick to kick warm up. Noticed that Rance teamed up with Thompson (i think), IMO those two should team up with someone that can help improve their kicking instead of each other being pretty sloppy. On the opposite hand watching Morton send 40 metre bullet passes to Newman, i would like to see him run farther up towards the wing with passes like that.
They then split into 3 groups the closest doing more zone defence training (Jack barking orders like mad), Mids and rucks (Browne is a big boy these days, i know he always was but it looks like he has been hitting the gym a fair bit) in the centre of the ground doing tap work with a tag on the receiver. couldnt really see what was happening up the far end but it looked like they were practising forward 50 kicks towards goal to a team mate.
Towards the end they were all up the close end of the ground with defense trying to get the ball out and offence trying to lock it in.
There didnt seem anyone that was obviously on a modified program with Cotchin and Foley doing the whole sesion with the group. Polak also did the whole session. Saying that though Collins? seemed to have his left thumb pretty heavily taped and was hindering him somewhat when marking.
Also didnt see a lot of Simmo, he was out on the ground at one stage but didnt really see him doing any drills. Gilligan looks almost ready for a call up if we are looking at someone, smoth player and he looks like he is finally starting to learn the game. There was someone in the last drill that i couldnt name but looking at the RFC website i think it is Gourdis, if so this guy is a unit and i hope he makes the grade he had one of the best bodies in the team.
As they say in the classics. Thats all folks. And im sorry if i missed out on ayone they you may have wanted info on.
