Pre-Tour Training

The boys worked really hard on various aspects of their game including contact skills, kick chase, team play, passing, offloads and scrummaging to name but a few. Obviously Nick Pearce and Henry Corke are going "head to head" for the centre positions in the team....

Mr Tom Haynes (Henley Hawks and a Judo/Self Defence Coach) came into Shiplake to run a morning session on how rugby players can take a huge amount out of the discipline of Judo. He taught the boys techniques to tackle larger players than themselves, and ways to move an immovable prop (Toby Stevens) at ruck time! See photo below!

The boys have come on leaps and bounds as a team since Monday at 9am, and I look forward to seeing how they progress over what will be a tough and demanding tour to the Southern Hemisphere.


See you all in Heathrow at 6pm!