First and most important, we are going to be entering a lot more tournaments with four dedicated emerging players tournaments. This means that we will maximise the number of players getting tournament experience. The club are delighted to fund these tournaments for us which is fantastic.

We will be sending out the confirmed tournament dates over the next few days and working on early provisional selection to help you with planning around the dates.

Secondly, the coaches have set in place their plans for the next six week block. It involves building on these key areas:

Nick, Adam and Dave R
Creating and finding space

Greg, Lucien and Steve
Getting the ball out from rucks and mauls and back into the space

Theo, Dave BD and Johnny P
Roughing it up – contact strength and body positioning