Blues Pre-Seaon Kicks Off

If you had walked past the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School last night you may have mistaken the school with a jail, full of rioting inmates. As the echoes of players screaming for the ball eminated from the school gymnasium - one could feel almost feel the electricity in the air - as the Blues Football Club got into the first pre-season training session of the year, fittingly on Australia Day(26 January).

If the turn out was anything to go by, the Blues 2009 season looks to be an exciting one! 22 players (new and old) clocked in for a neat little 2 hour session. For the first time as Assistant Coach, Jason Cain ran proceedings leading the players through a relatively light session. Cain told Blues News that he "didnt want to flog them too early."

Blues News spoke with Club President Rob "Chaps" Chapman after the session. When asked about his thoughts on his club's first session of the year he had this to say "It was exciting to see 4 new faces at the training session. But it was difficult to pick them out during the drills, such was the ease with which they picked up the handball skills"

The session concluded with a quick game of hybrid basketball. We call it hybrid, as some of the players confused the roundball game with footy - some nifty travels were ignored. As for the basketball skills - let's just say that at least they're good at footy.