Monday 2nd February: What do you know? With all that rain in the morning the pitch was not flooded. Not even wet. Just nice and soft and a bit squishy in some places. We started off with ball handling then we played against a couple of the guys who play for Heathens. They are bigger than the Saracens guys and play in division 1 so they have to be easy on us. No full out tackles or big hits. They are just supposed to make us work hard. We were bushed at the end but did pretty well: we scored 2 tries and although they scored more tries than we did they had to work really hard for them. Things are looking good.
Wednesday 4th February: the pitch was flooded. Eugh! Soggy decided that was perfect for tackling drills. One on one and the hits and the tackles were massive: no prisoners taken. Afterwards, we looked a right mess – there was more mud on us than on the pitch. We wound up with defence patterns, shuttle runs then the gym. Connie (our team doc) gave us all dewormers after training: we needed them, what with all the muddy water we were gulping down during the tackling drills!
Friday 6th February: the pitch was back to being squishy. We warmed up with passing drills then had 2 games against Saracens. The scores were close in both games. We drew the first game and lost by 1 or 2 tries in the second game. A friendly rivalry is building up between them and us and the games are played with such passion: both sides go all out and are hungry to win and the boys are so pleased that they are helping us in our World Cup preps. In an ideal world we would be flying to San Diego next weekend for the 7s tournament but we are cash strapped so we play boys.
We checked into Mukono Resort Hotel on Friday night for our second camp.
Wednesday 4th February: the pitch was flooded. Eugh! Soggy decided that was perfect for tackling drills. One on one and the hits and the tackles were massive: no prisoners taken. Afterwards, we looked a right mess – there was more mud on us than on the pitch. We wound up with defence patterns, shuttle runs then the gym. Connie (our team doc) gave us all dewormers after training: we needed them, what with all the muddy water we were gulping down during the tackling drills!
Friday 6th February: the pitch was back to being squishy. We warmed up with passing drills then had 2 games against Saracens. The scores were close in both games. We drew the first game and lost by 1 or 2 tries in the second game. A friendly rivalry is building up between them and us and the games are played with such passion: both sides go all out and are hungry to win and the boys are so pleased that they are helping us in our World Cup preps. In an ideal world we would be flying to San Diego next weekend for the 7s tournament but we are cash strapped so we play boys.
We checked into Mukono Resort Hotel on Friday night for our second camp.
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