hello hello! this post is for training on thursday, the one just before the friendly with TH! sorry for the late post, the lack of a computer is a great inconvenience :(

anyway, training on thursday was mainly about defence! we learnt how to defend on the try line and did many back-five drills. the main things to remember about defence is:
1) call out for your man
2) move up as a line
3) remember to back five and stand in a horizontal line
4)do not run backwards when backing five!
5) keep your hands outstretched
6) remember to cover for each other when our teammate moves up to touch the opponent

we still need much improvement on our back-five, because there were many times during the friendly with the guys when some of us were offside, or we backed too slowly. and sometimes we don't know how far back to go, but it has been standardised at six steps backwards.

we also revised the loops and switches that we have learnt, and then did pt to end off the training because its been a really looong time since we did pt! lets brace ourselves for more to come according to wendy! hope to see more people coming down for training this week especially since this is the last week of holidays (boohoo) and the first 16 will be chosen in this period of time! SEE YOU!

ruggin on

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