Good training last night lads, certainly quite a lot of effort put in. Try not to get too frustrated with the teams and stuff - when there's a lot of people there it's tough to give everyone the same amount of time - I don't think I ever had that many people in that hall while I was boss, but I remember once before trying to rotate teams using a different system and it descended into utter chaos.

Tried to give every player a number, then players 1 to 5 were a team against a team of players 6 to 10, while 11, 12 and 13 watched. Then when one team lost, the first three numbers went off and were replaced by 11, 12 and 13. That was the easy bit, after that it became clear that what the fuck happens next? No bugger could count, if the team now consisting of 11, 12, 13, 4 & 5 lost, then should that be 4, 5 and 11 going off and 1, 2 and 3 going back on, then what? 13, 1 and 2 go off? Nightmare.

All I can suggest is that at the end of a game, when a team has won, that you just give it a second or two to listen to what the new teams will be - it was right last night where possible to stick the players wearing red on the same team, just a shame that they kept getting beaten quickly. And if you find yourself getting less footy cos you keep losing, tough, get better, quick. No easy way to manage an odd number of players, and with only an hour to play, we just have to get on with it as best we can. I suggest if you want to get more time on the pitch next week, you wear blue.

There was some good footy played last night though and it was good to see Dave Frew back and straight into things again like he'd never been injured or away shooting guns in Vietnam.

Tough tough game ahead on Sunday, I think if we'd drawn Kennet in any of the last 3 seasons we'd have given them a very stern test and may well have turned them over. Sadly, this season they seem to be a lot stronger than before, so we'll have to be well prepared for em.