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In training for CL match

Had a bit of a practice yesterday, seeing as I don't kick a football very often. Managed all on my own to get a hard-fought 2-2 draw against my eight-year-old niece and six-year-old nephew on a pitch about the size of the six yard box at The Valley. Watch on 22 May, that's all I'll say...
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  • Weegie - I'm glad you have started - I haven't even tried my Loan Boots on yet! (Thankfully my sister in law used to play so has some boots for me!

    I must get out there and start training! I think a few of you boys would be able to help us girls out with a few training sessions before the match!

    Mx
  • I am avaliable for one on one 2 minute sessions if required
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]I am avaliable for one on one 2 minute sessions if required[/quote]

    Thanks but I think we will need more than 2 minutes!! ;-)
  • [cite]Posted By: MariaCAFC[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]I am avaliable for one on one 2 minute sessions if required

    Thanks but I think we will need more than 2 minutes!! ;-)

    I wont love
  • [cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]I am avaliable for one on one 2 minute sessions if required

    Now there's a surprise!
    Sometimes I'm very glad I live in Glasgow...!
  • [cite]Posted By: MariaCAFC[/cite]Weegie - I'm glad you have started - I haven't even tried my Loan Boots on yet! (Thankfully my sister in law used to play so has some boots for me!

    I must get out there and start training! I think a few of you boys would be able to help us girls out with a few training sessions before the match!

    Mx

    I train twice a day - down the Bugle before a home match and down the Oak afterwards.

    Perhaps a kick about over Blackheath Common (and onto pub of course) would be a good idea? Barts could get an idea of a few player's standards then in an effort to get balanced teams.
  • Just had a bit of a kick about. I Had the ball bouncing towards me just on the edge of the penalty area. It all went in slow motion as i hit it so sweetly i carried on sprinting towards the goal for any rebounds. the ball smashed of the post then hit me in the Jacobs! As i got up my groin tightened as i bent down to hold my groin, something tweaked in my back. That was after over an hour tho so not so bad. Out on the bike tomorrow.
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: Sco[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: MariaCAFC[/cite]Weegie - I'm glad you have started - I haven't even tried my Loan Boots on yet! (Thankfully my sister in law used to play so has some boots for me!

    I must get out there and start training! I think a few of you boys would be able to help us girls out with a few training sessions before the match!

    Mx[/quote]

    I train twice a day - down the Bugle before a home match and down the Oak afterwards.

    Perhaps a kick about over Blackheath Common (and onto pub of course) would be a good idea? Barts could get an idea of a few player's standards then in an effort to get balanced teams.[/quote]


    Sounds like a great idea - could help out the like of me that needs all the practice I can get!!

    Anyone else up for this idea??

    Mx
  • [cite]Posted By: Sco[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: MariaCAFC[/cite]Weegie - I'm glad you have started - I haven't even tried my Loan Boots on yet! (Thankfully my sister in law used to play so has some boots for me!

    I must get out there and start training! I think a few of you boys would be able to help us girls out with a few training sessions before the match!

    Mx

    I train twice a day - down the Bugle before a home match and down the Oak afterwards.

    Perhaps a kick about over Blackheath Common (and onto pub of course) would be a good idea? Barts could get an idea of a few player's standards then in an effort to get balanced teams.

    sco thats a great idea man, could be worth thinking about, perhaps we could just do the pub bit tho!!
  • We could have a kick about before the Reading match, say about midday - nothing too strenuous, on to the pub and the build up to the match. Could be a laugh.

    There's a field over the back of Charlton House/Village that would do. Check the weather out first of course.

    Proper jumpers for goalposts affair!

    If anyone is interested, even if they aren't playing in the main matches, chuck your name down here. As I say - just a kick about, nothing mental.
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  • yeh and you'll all be hot, sweaty and stinky before the game. remind me to avoid you lot.
  • perhaps something once the season has finished and people have free weekends would be better placed ?
  • yeh plenty of time then... start training the week before the match!
  • thought you would offer your place for the boys to have a shower! hehe
  • Nice Idea Sco but I'll be drinking before the Reading match, playing football will just get in the way. I am sure I can get in an even worse state this time..!
  • edited April 2007
    I agree about waiting until our weekends aren't so hetic!

    But on the otherhand the season only finishes a week before the match.

    Oh god - now I'm dreading ever saying I would play! ;-)

    Mx
  • [cite]Posted By: MariaCAFC[/cite]I agree about waiting until our weekends aren't so hetic!

    But on the otherhand the season only finishes a week before the match.

    Oh god - now I'm dreading ever saying I would play! ;-)

    Mx

    dont worry maria, you'll be fine, i am a girl too (even with beard) so you wont be alone!!
  • Fair enough, just a thought. Was only figuring on an hour's play. I am not looking at the big day as the greatest match of my life, although sadly, it may be so!
  • Having been given the all clear not to have an ankle op, I did my first swim session at the weekend and didn't drown once, which was a bonus I thought.

    At this rate I'll look like Arnie by May 22nd.

    As long as Arnie puts on 10 stone and ages by fifty years in a month that is! :-(
  • [cite]Posted By: carlsberg[/cite]Just had a bit of a kick about. I Had the ball bouncing towards me just on the edge of the penalty area. It all went in slow motion as i hit it so sweetly i carried on sprinting towards the goal for any rebounds. the ball smashed of the post then hit me in the Jacobs! As i got up my groin tightened as i bent down to hold my groin, something tweaked in my back. That was after over an hour tho so not so bad. Out on the bike tomorrow.

    lol, you just reminded me, I had Dr`s appointment last week, and while I was in the surgery I mentioned the slight a pain in the groin area, the Dr said you`ve "tweaked your groin" and then added with snide laugh, at your age "a tweak in that area should be appreciated " I felt like smacking him in the mouth. : )
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  • LOL

    important thing to remember is quite a few people, like myself, will go into this after a long period of doing nothing. The important thing to remember is to ease yourself back into excercise. GO into it too hard and you're likely to lead yourself back to square one very quickly. Everyone has seven weeks still if you're using the charity game to sort yourself out, so ease your way in and gradually pick up the intensity over the weeks.
  • Thanks for the wise words, AFKA. I'll take on my teenage nieces and nephews on a pitch the size of the penalty box next, then. Got the fright of my life on Sat looking at the size of The Valley pitch from the perspective of playing on it!
  • ScoSco
    edited April 2007
    Everyone practice their lollipops - the sight of 21 fake fake Ronaldos will be like poetry to Ketman.
  • Sco has given fore-warning , whilst this game is a friendly anyone who tries to embarrass anyone out there thinking they are Ronaldo/Ronaldinho will be dumped on their arse by me at some stage in the game, cannot stand flash b'strds. Anybody who manages to accidentally hit the Ref with a wayward shot gets Free-bar access all evening in Bartrams in the evening :-)
  • Less hectic weekends? Cricket season starts in a few weeks so I'll be even busier on a saturday as I'm out the house for 9 hours rather than 5 or 6.

    Guess I'm just going to have to rely on the Tuesday night 5-a-sides to get my match practice!

    Mind you I'd probably still be up for an hours kick around on a saturday or sunday morning if somebody is arranging anything
  • ScoSco
    edited April 2007
    Chill out Kets - my lollipops look like a bad riverdance audition. You'll more likely laugh than get mad!
  • LOL, i am so going to nutmeg you !!!
  • [cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]Sco has given fore-warning , whilst this game is a friendly anyone who tries to embarrass anyone out there thinking they are Ronaldo/Ronaldinho will be dumped on their arse by me at some stage in the game, cannot stand flash b'strds. Anybody who manages to accidentally hit the Ref with a wayward shot gets Free-bar access all evening in Bartrams in the evening :-)

    What do you get if you accidentally on purpose hit the ref in the bullseye?
  • edited April 2007
    [cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]LOL

    important thing to remember is quite a few people, like myself, will go into this after a long period of doing nothing. The important thing to remember is to ease yourself back into excercise. GO into it too hard and you're likely to lead yourself back to square one very quickly. Everyone has seven weeks still if you're using the charity game to sort yourself out, so ease your way in and gradually pick up the intensity over the weeks.

    would you call 15 years of doing nothing a long period of time? I did ease into training gently, I started back in january by watching back to back recordings of Aerobics oz style! but the wife put a stop to that, then went on to crosstrainer workout, a bit of jogging which nearly killed the knees, now in april I`m doing weights & (sort of playing) a small sided game once a week, my weight is now down to a personal best for ages, from about 14st 10lbs to 13st 4lbs if only I could turn back the years. ; )
  • Wow! I'm impressed.
    I'd better get started then.

    Dear diary:
    Monday: Thought about getting fit for the BIG match, 7 weeks to go.
    Tuesday: Nearly left somebody's birthday doughnuts alone. Only had 2 tho'
    Wednesday:
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