Rugby League Training-
Went down and trained with the Bulldogs today. They started their pre-season 10 weeks ago so they were in pretty good shape. Numbers were good as well- had 40 players out so it'll be a competition for spots in the team. I watch tonnes of rugby league on television and ball skills wise it's very similar to rugby so even though I've never played before I'm confident that I should be able to crack a spot in the 1st division team hopefully playing outside centre or wing. I just need to learn the plays and stuff of this team but overall it was alright.
Training wise it was mainly doing drills/plays and punishments, which they called 'Charlie'. The 'Charlie' is similar to the suicides that you do in basketball but ours was run 10m drop on the ground, get up run 20m drop on the ground, get up run 10m drop on the ground. ]We had to do a 'Charlie' every time somebody fucked up/dropped a ball and the coaches would wait until 6 mistakes were made and we'd do the Charlies in sets of 6. Next training will be on Friday where the session will be around tackling and defence. The Wednesday sessions are when they focus on the offence and running plays. It would've been funner if we played some more touch but I only got to training 10 minutes before it started so I only got to play touch for like 5 minutes today.
99% sure I'm going to play league this season now.