Andy Reid

So the amount of contact hours that we can get with these players throughout the year, I think it's phenomenally important and it's difficult to understate how important it can be for them.

I do sometimes feel when we look at some of our younger players, when they play in some of the international games, I believe that technically they compete a lot with the physical development and they need to kind of catch up a little bit.

We can definitely help with that.

So that side of it and I suppose getting ahead of the game for me is really important.

Well, first of all, we got them in and there was an introduction.

You know, it's important that, you know, they get to kind of know me.

This is, I think this is something that people may look at and go, well, Andy Reid's using his name here.

This is something that I really believe in and something that I'm, you know, really invested in.

and so for me to be there today to kind of you know really introduce myself to them so they know who they're working with i think is is important we then separate the groups one group went into the gym and worked on counter movement jumps where we have all the equipment we can see how powerful they are the lower body strength is really important so that can give us a good gauge for where they're at the other group went outside and we've done some sprint testing with them so that's five meter 10 meter and 40 meter sprints

and then we swap the groups over so they both get to do both.

This gives us a really key insight into where they're at, but it's also not really for us to say, OK, he's too slow, he's not quick enough.

What it is is it gives us a gauge so we know how much of a game we can make.

Sometimes it's the players who come in

that maybe aren't as athletically developed that you can make the most gains with.

So it's not a kind of test to say, he's the highest, he's the lowest.

It's very, very individual-based, and we believe that we can make them better from where they are.

We then moved on to some ball manipulation.

We then went into some 1v1 dueling, where we could look at how players move, how they move their hips, can they manipulate the ball?

And then on the other side of that, can they defend?

Can they move the feet?