Hi,

 

Couple things....

 

BBQ - Just to confirm....I've got to postpone the BBQ at my house, so it won't be this Sunday....gonna be bad weather anyway.  It may be next Sunday or within the next couple weeks, but we are definately having one.

 

TWO SATURDAYS, NO RUGBY?? - Okay, so no match THIS weekend, and possibly no match next weekend.  We're going to see if we can set something up for next weekend...whether it be playing someone's b-side, or see if I can get a bunch of players up to Towson to run a scrimmage on Sunday (Phelps parade is Saturday, sooooo...that's why we're looking at something for Sunday).

 

Do NOT sit around and do nothing....get out for a jog, play a sport, whatever....just get out and do something.

 

BACKS PRACTICE - Thursday didn't go quite as I planned.  We need to install our plays and work through a bunch of stuff.  So, either Wednesday or Thursday (I'd prefer Wednesday) will be a "backs practice."  I do need all potential backs, flankers and eights there though....we have plays that involve the flankers and eights.  We're bouncing a lot of people around positionwise, so it's probably wise that everyone make it.

 

Make sure you're looking at your playbooks....I want to branch out our lineout plays from just 'A' jumps.

 

Also, I've been thinking and we're going to expand the SixtyNine play to have specific calls, like a 692 (going to the inside center), 693 (going to outside center), 69 Red/White/Blue (ball kicked to open space w/ chase).   We'll make these calls based on mismatches.

 

If we can get the basics in we can start running fun stuff like Squishee and Carwash against UMBC.  They'll never know what hit them, and where it came from.