Lanzarote? When I was a lad there were 25 of us training in a rolled-up newspaper in a sceptic tank! Every day Dad would make us lick road clean wit' tongue.....

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Right...

When I was training I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you tell that to the kids of today and they dont believe you.

I was told this weeks pre season is voluntary thats why there might not be many.

Also Lanzarote was good in Rads book he said it was hard work we played well in those days its just recently its not been run right from the management as Rads said Monie flogged them over there.

That was last week and quite a few turned in I believe.

This week is proper pre season training and they all had to turn in.

you sure, a friend of Fielden said he turned up today for voluntary?....the head coach only just landed so it seems odd.

I read in the papers last week that Coley and O'Loughlin had turned in for voluntary training aswell as a few others and then the proper stuff was starting yesterday.

I know somebody on here mentioned about Fielden having an op during the off season so maybe he'd been given extra time off but has decided to turn it down.

Last week the reserves started training and was voluntary for the first team.

This week it's the real start for everyone except those who have been on International duties.

I guess MM is still in the 'getting to know' stage ? This is the type of pre season training start he's used to - [url=http://www.melbournestorm.com.au/default.aspx?s=article-display&id=318&storm-scheduleweek one Storm schedule[/url

and riddell who seems to be having two weeks in thailand. although the pig has just got married so perhaps a bit of time off.

I'm fairly sure he didn't want to spend his honeymoon running around Haigh...

Poor stuff imo.

Riddell should have planned his wedding and honeymoon for the period of time he was already getting off not at the end of it and be given an extended period off.

He needs as much fitness work as possible and should be in 'now'.

A lack of commitment imo.

I'm sure he's 'working on his fitness' while on honeymoon

I hope that was tongue in cheek

Weddings are usually planned quite a long time in advance aren't they? like before pre season start date was decided maybe?

Hell if i told my lass 'Sorry love but we're going to have to have a short honeymoon as the jobs more important' I wouldn't need to worry about making pre-season training, i'd be too busy in hospital

But maybe his wedding was planned many months ago. I know how long beforehand we had to book and plan my daughters (It was almost 18 months)

Is it correct Rogues that the brides father has to pay for the wedding?

It certainly was.
That's why I can only afford four nights away for the Catalan game next year.

I'm just a poor pensioner now. But never mind the winter fuel allowance is due next month, that'll pay for the flights.

What about your position as Piggy's chief defender? Surely that's not pro-bono on your part?

He must have had the clubs blessing which is the main thing, to be fair though i can understand where you are coming from as as far as I know most clubs are now fully back some have been for a couple of weeks, i was unsure when we had returned in the past but given the comments on here I would assume it was a good bit later than everyone else, which maybe explains the god awful starts to the season.

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Maybe it was planned before the pre season date was known but he must have had a good idea he'd be back around the middle of November?

He has had since the start of October off which is around 4-5 weeks(even if we'd made the Grand final). I'm sure he could have arranged to have a wedding and a honeymoon in that period.

I honestly think it's poor from him but maybe i'm being harsh. I'm not a Riddell knocker either. I've backed him on numerous occasions over the past 12months.