Reminders for the New Year

Welcome back and Happy Christmas (and New Year if you have just found the computer again).

Here are a couple of reminders for the second half of the season:

1. Cold weather "attitude" - please read the guide above.
2. Training starts on 6th January at 9.30am sharp. We will finish promptly.
3. When you arrive at training, can you get your son to be "tagged up".

Cold weather "attitude"

Cold weather can affect youngsters in different ways and at different times. Once the player has "gone over", it is rare to get them warm again.

Here are some tips to keep them warm so we can keep them warm too:
1. Wear a hat.
2. Wear gloves - a cheap pair of goalie gloves are fine and a worthwhile investment.
3. Layers - lots of thin, peelable layers. When they peel off a layer, encourage them to give the layers to you though - we will.
4. Wear tracksuit trousers, sometimes two pairs.
5. Two pairs of socks, with say school socks underneath rugby socks.
6. Warm the boots by the radiator before coming out and put the boots on in the car before coming onto the field.
7. Don't let them onto the field until the practice is about to start.
8. Encourage them not to "fall over" which might mean they get wet or their hands get wet.
9. Don't let run them around with a ball with bare hands - a cold ball will make the hands feel cold.
10. Though the boys are not wimps and we don't want to create a sense of being pampered, if you are watching on the sidelines and feeling cold and would prefer to be still in a nice warm cosy bed (with perhaps George Clooney or Cheryl Tweedy or even both), then the boys are only few steps away from this themselves. Therefore double check that you only have one more layer than them.