Hello!
So today was the first official training! Despite all the heavy rain throughout the week, today it was nice and sunny! Yeah, so we started with a warm up round around the field. While running, we practiced lifting our knees high and running backwards.
After which, we did the usual four corners.
We then proceeded to practice picking and dumping. We did a drill whereby one player would run to the center, dump the ball and the opposite player would run forward and pick the ball.
Wendy then briefed us on P1 AND P2. P1 is where we practice the normal three-man punch up. Whereas P2 is where the three-man punch would always hit the same man(either second left or the second right man). A maximum of three punches before the dummy half would sprint towards the gap btw the second man and the last man. The dummy half would then pass out the ball to the player to try.
After trying out P2 for awhile, we proceeded to practice the three-man punch up again.
We then played a short match between ourselves... a warm up for the friendly with the guys!
The friendly went quite well for a first time! so well done team!
Wendy also mentioned three actions which would result in a touch and go.
1. a touch pass
2. a rough foul
3. dumping the ball quite far from the point of being touch

YEP! so tts all for today!! seeya at the nxt training!

ruggin on

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