 Nasties Rugby Another well thought out set of warm up excercises had a few of the lads breaking into a gentle sweat early on. There was plenty of banter on offer with the sighting of a few cones and a ball. This banter evaporated fairly quickly with the announcement of a few stiff 3/4 pace trots. Mike Sergeant again performed well in this discipline, more on Mike later. The moment all backs had been waiting for in this pre season arrived around 10:25am, the magical words of "lets form a backline" were muttered by Hawko and away we went, all except Deak who is now an honourary forward, all the backs send our heartfelt congratulations to Deak and his family on this success. With no further ado positions were assigned, Scotty Dalton coming in at 9 (The writer genuinely believed he was a natural loose head), Vince Carmody at 10 (pictured right, with JC and SD). Hawko must have been paying attention to Vince's reffing the day before and his struggle to count the touches for the boys so he made things easy for him by naming both Jeremy's in the centre which could really make things interesting during the heat of the battle.Sean and Michael made up the wings, with Stavros "the Greek god of goalkicking" taking the coveted number 15 jumper. The forwards were named and promptly spent the next 40 minutes cuddling each other as only forwards can. The lads worked hard in their various roles for a little while and the commitment and passion was visibly rising, no one typified this attitude more than Jeremy Charlton who was prepared to sacrifice his son to the scrummaging machine gods for the good of nasties rugby, thankfully the gods were not hungry today.  Forwards Every session needs a defining moment and todays was no different, Mike Sergeants (pictured left) beautiful presentation of the ball to the opposition scrum half was absolutely text book, well done Mike. Training Thursday night 7pm at Porters, don't forget the team BBQ on Sunday. |
