Training Wednesday 22/12
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:30 pmSunny ,warm Carrington again to day and the pitch was in great condition.The players came out slowly in 1's and 2's and first out after Abdul Razzak was RSC. He spent a minute or 2 chatting with the boss no doubt wondering where he will play on Sunday!
A few missing today and a few more who only did half a session but good to see Ade out for the first time in quite a while. Zaba was missing which is no surprise after his battering on Monday but also Kolo, Carlos and Lescott. Lescott actually came out to start but didn't last long so might have felt a niggle.
Plenty of warm ups to start with to entertain the watching crowd. Just me behind the fence but a family or two inside in and around the dug out. I assume they won a visit as a prize or Jim's at it again. A good session of keep ball followed before they switched to some finishing practice. I think 5 went in at this point. Yaya,Barry,Vinnie,Silva,Kolarov. The plan for the finishing was a ball was swung to the wing and a coach sent a cross in while 2 players attacked the box.
Seems to me our main crossers should have been crossing the ball. Especially as Lombardo was poor but at least little Fausto was quality.Finally we scored with a header and obviously it was SWP with a tremendous leap. It was actually a good goal and got a good cheer from the team.They then moved onto shots from the edge of the box or just inside and on this one the keepers won easily. Best I can say about the finishing was that it was consistent. Only two landed in the field behind the goal to wake up the horses.
To finish it was a game on a small pitch. Competitive as usual and inevitably quite a few goals scored.After a good early one from Jo the best for me was a great left footer from Jerome which curled away from Shay.Plenty of moaning at the ref from Nigel.It was good to see Nigel in the thick of it today but sadly he didn't find the net at all today , no doubt saving it for the barcodes.
Overall I would say a good but fairly gentle first session today in the build up to Sunday's game.
A few missing today and a few more who only did half a session but good to see Ade out for the first time in quite a while. Zaba was missing which is no surprise after his battering on Monday but also Kolo, Carlos and Lescott. Lescott actually came out to start but didn't last long so might have felt a niggle.
Plenty of warm ups to start with to entertain the watching crowd. Just me behind the fence but a family or two inside in and around the dug out. I assume they won a visit as a prize or Jim's at it again. A good session of keep ball followed before they switched to some finishing practice. I think 5 went in at this point. Yaya,Barry,Vinnie,Silva,Kolarov. The plan for the finishing was a ball was swung to the wing and a coach sent a cross in while 2 players attacked the box.
Seems to me our main crossers should have been crossing the ball. Especially as Lombardo was poor but at least little Fausto was quality.Finally we scored with a header and obviously it was SWP with a tremendous leap. It was actually a good goal and got a good cheer from the team.They then moved onto shots from the edge of the box or just inside and on this one the keepers won easily. Best I can say about the finishing was that it was consistent. Only two landed in the field behind the goal to wake up the horses.
To finish it was a game on a small pitch. Competitive as usual and inevitably quite a few goals scored.After a good early one from Jo the best for me was a great left footer from Jerome which curled away from Shay.Plenty of moaning at the ref from Nigel.It was good to see Nigel in the thick of it today but sadly he didn't find the net at all today , no doubt saving it for the barcodes.
Overall I would say a good but fairly gentle first session today in the build up to Sunday's game.