14 Hours on a coach journey-but another five points

I had a lot of time to think and reflect over the last weekend.  On Saturday morning at 11am I boarded the coach with the rest of the team and embarked on the long trip to Cornwall.

 

I am not going to say that being a rugby player doesn’t have its perks but having to sit on a coach for 14 hours over a weekend is not really one of them.  However, when you are sat on a bus with nowhere else to go you do find time to relax, switch off, people watch and engage in some weird and wonderful conversations.

 

The trip was definitely worthwhile we picked up another 5 points and moved nicely into joint second in the league but it is on these trips that you find out more than how good you are at rugby.  From 11am Saturday until 1:30am Monday morning we were totally immersed in each others worlds. 

 

True you have time to relax and be alone in the hotel but for the rest of the time you are together.  I tend to sleep a lot on the bus but for a few hours, and there were plenty of them, I just studied what people were doing.  A group at the front were whiling away the time watching DVD’s, some people read books, others read rugby reports and papers, a small group played on their PSPs and the crazy gang at the back held a card school.

 

What intrigued me the most was that within one team we have so many different characters, who all prepare differently for the game and enjoy spending their leisure time doing lots of different things.  But come 3pm on game day we all have the same focus goal and drive to deliver one thing and for the fourth consecutive game we have done that this season and long may it continue.

 

Every player will have a very different week in the build up to the game on Sunday against Doncaster but we will all arrive at 3pm ready to deliver as a team.

 

See you there……………………….