The Eagles Senior coaches have hailed the first camp of 2016 pre-season schedule as a huge success.
More than 50 players attended the weekend-long mini-camp, which consisted of a combination of installations, walk throughs, targeted practice sessions and film reviews.
Commenting on the weekend, Defensive Coordinator Darren Hill said:
“Our first ever training camp was a tremendous success. We got our returning players quickly back up to speed, demonstrated to our rookies the standards expected to play football for OVE and embedded a huge amount of both scheme and technique”.
Offensive Coordinator Neale McMaster believes the team is further ahead of where he expected them to be.
“Given that was our first camp, I was delighted with both the enthusiasm and the progress,” he said.
“To be so far along so early in the season is terrific, and it gives us a great platform to build on”.
This weekend the team travel to Cambridge for a scrimmage with the Cambridge University Pythons, and the coaches are looking forward to giving rookies and first-year players exposure to game days, and returning players a chance to knock some rust off ahead of the new season.
“The scrimmage against Cambridge Uni will really cement the plays we have installed and give our rookies much-needed game-like experience,” said McMaster.
Coach Hill added:
“Everyone is looking forward to our scrimmage against Cambridge Uni as a means of solidifying the huge steps we have taken already, as we look towards another challenging schedule in 2016”.
As a result of this weekend’s scrimmage there is no practice for the senior team on Sunday. Youth Team training will take place at Bedford International Athletics Stadium on Sunday afternoon between 1 and 3pm.