We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,
Quotes about pre-season (16 Quotes)
The benefit of the pre-season cup is having the luxury to send a 28-man squad to cover all bases.
Our attitude and work ethic have been great with this group. This pre-season went above and beyond my expectations. But, we have inexperienced players who do not have a lot of (varsity) game experience. But, I feel good about being able to compete.
Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.
It's early in the pre-season and it was the ideal time for Milan to get this taken care of. He'll be fully recovered in a few weeks and ready to embark on a long regular season.
Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.
There's no doubt, the best way to celebrate my birthday would be with champagne on the winner's podium, but we have a lot of work to do before I can think about that. I had a good feeling with the Focus WRC in the pre-season test and I hope to regain that during the shakedown ahead of the start on Friday.
We have experienced some injuries during pre-season, but the 22 named are an experienced side and we are looking forward to the match.
Adam impressed us in a trial game in pre-season and has been training with the first team squad for the last few weeks,
He needs a fantastic pre-season and a great two months leading into the Autumn internationals. If you have seen what I have seen in the last three weeks, you will know this guy is a class act.
I don't care if it's pre-season or whatever, you want to at least play well. Offensively, we were much improved.
We are pretty happy with where we are at so far, especially the fact that the players are backing themselves. Their confidence is coming as much from the pre-season preparation we had, including the tour to Australia, as anything else, but there is still a lot to do. We've won nothing yet.
There was a lot of talk about Ryan and his ability. I knew he could play, but he has earned his job. He only started one game in pre-season and didn't start until the last four games. Corey makes almost every play out there.
It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
We've had some great pre-season workouts and hopefully it carries over when the dual meets begin.
After a few discussions, we determined that it wasn't something that could be resolved over the phone, so we made an agreement to come to the pre-season test day at Daytona to see how the car did.