Loading Up - Has Anybody Noticed

Question was asked in recent days of the requirements and needs for the last remaining weeks of the normal season to allow a proper and complete preparation. The attitude due to learnings from last season and also with the confidence that our list is healthier so less attention having to be paid to what is left available. Being bereft of bravado the reply for needs is minimal, could even say mute. Nevertheless, match day health services have been extended to include Tuesday training as well under the professional ministrations of Abax.

Could it be that the Abax appearance on Tuesday evenings has resulted in an increase of attendance and urgent need for treatment by some, we are suspicious in ways and at all times observant of those ducking off. Pandas may be endangered but surely the Lions Panda has not reached such a perilous state as of yet.

As a by product, those with responsibility for planning the Tuesday schedule have deliberately been loading up on the stressful workl. The theory being that having come from a softer mid season break, hardening up now will have us in good stead for when the need for back to back days play action under the pressure of finals is demanded. More running and effort drills have been factored in to the session, with a lingering finishing activity in smaller groups.

Such a difference in now having a group with more depth and physically stronger to handle the increase, last year it was more like the Epworth infirmary. Even Jag looked a possible healthy option back then.

To support the logic, recent form line has been solid down the lines with key measurables in runs per wicket and partnership improving along the required part of the scale to indicate that when the big show arrives, we can progress on normal behaviour. Stronger performances do seem to be credible, while the need to manage the physical assets that are now starting to realise the endurance needed (The Badge, Kebab, Panda and Little Guus) all in place.

Only worry, more emotional, is The Badge starting to sneak off early under the reasoning of emplyment that takes him through the night. Has he become a Vampire of sorts? Has he learnt to read and taken special notice of the excitement around Twilight? Can he handle the ongoing jibes from Panasonic as he departs and "leaves his mates" behind.

All this will surely be revealed on FriendFace soon. At least it should be better than some of the Max1 inane outbursts and Mad Dog Ginger dance shots - Whip!