The countdown is on till this weekend’s video games at Allegiant Stadium and the boys are buzzing.
We’ve spent the final week in San Diego and have just about had a at some point on, at some point off schedule since arriving on Monday nineteenth February which has allowed us to get out and about to discover.
The journey began off on a excessive be aware once we flew over with Fiji Airways, who actually taken care of us. We sat in Business Class, which is fairly cool given it’s not typically you get to try this!
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Our Rabbitohs dietitian, Alice, suggested us to not sleep on the primary leg — Sydney to Fiji — and to reserve it for the lengthy flight as an alternative. I acquired about 5 hours in and was fairly proud of that. Keaon Koloamatangi, nevertheless, can sleep at any time in anywhere and instructed me he was awake for less than an hour and a half of the entire journey.
Alice additionally gave us hydration packs to maintain us feeling good. We really do hydration exams over right here and weigh-ins twice every week too. I suppose you’ve acquired to seek out that stability of having fun with your environment and the expertise but additionally remembering that it’s not a vacation — we’re right here for enterprise.
We’re staying on the Hyatt Regency in La Jolla, which is about quarter-hour from San Diego’s metropolis centre. I’m rooming with my good mate Alex Johnston, after all. We’ve been roomies for a very long time now so we simply get one another. We know one another’s routines… and annoying habits.
Our first day was spent down at one in every of San Diego’s essential seashores the place the seals come up on the rocks — that was cool to see. It was a fairly chilly day however Jai Arrow nonetheless went for a swim. He was the one one courageous sufficient to get within the water.
We’ve had our heads down working laborious at coaching too in preparation for the sport.
We’re coaching on a soccer discipline on the University of California San Diego. We initially weren’t going to have any posts however they put collectively some makeshift footy posts, which is very nice of them. The solely concern is you possibly can’t grubber into the in-goals as a result of there’s really a body holding up the posts.
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It’s been cool sharing the gymnasium with different athletes. I’ve seen the rowing staff in there lots and we shared half of the gymnasium with the lacrosse staff the opposite day too.
We’ve additionally needed to put together for the smaller discipline at Allegiant Stadium. It’s going to be six metres shorter and 5 metres narrower.
We spent one week coaching to these dimensions again at Heffron Park in Maroubra earlier than we left however then needed to re-mark the sector for the boys enjoying within the Charity Shield. But since we’ve been in San Diego, each session has been to the smaller dimensions.
I feel the video games shall be actually attention-grabbing on a modified discipline. In the center I feel we’ll discover it’s lots tighter and it’s going to be a giant battle too with a number of work being completed by the packs if we’re going to seek out any area with the skin backs.
I spoke to our wingers and so they’ve positively seen they’re a couple of metres in need of area so that they have to essentially time their runs to benefit from alternatives off the again of form.
Teams need to play with slightly little bit of ways. For us, we simply need to make certain we get the processes we’ve been practising all through the pre-season — defence and energy areas — proper early and the factors will come.
Away from coaching I’ve been in a position to tick off some bucket lists objects. We had final weekend off to went as much as LA to look at a Lakers sport.
My household have come over so we went to Disneyland — and that’s positively been my spotlight up to now. My one-year-old, Jagger, ran amok but it surely was actually particular to see my four-year-old daughter meet all of her favorite characters and get the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique expertise.
The subsequent few days shall be all about getting ready for the video games on Saturday (Sunday AEDT). We had a giant session on Tuesday after which transfer to Vegas on Wednesday.
I feel the thrill will certainly elevate once we get to Vegas. The boys will see the stadium and lights… We’ve acquired to verify we purchase into it although and use that pleasure for the sport. It’s an ideal expertise.
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