Feels good to be on the road again, with a strong group of players, a new manager for the season (Alice) but same physio and same coaching team. The off-season for the staff is all about paper planning, it’s important work but let’s be honest, we want to be on the pitch, we want to be playing, we want to be with the players. We want to be with our team.

We’re in Finland for a nordic nations training camp, something that has been on our wish list for a long long time. We have 18 players with us, enough for 2 teams. We will meet Finland and Denmark, play games, train, kick off our season.

It’s really the first time I will have a training camp with real competitive games, we’ll have the occasion to try different tactics, different game plans, much more than at a tournament.

Finland is a great opposition for us. Last year we played them twice, one win, one loss, very close games both times.

Denmark is in the pool below us. They had a really good tournament last year, but lost unexpectedly in the 1/4 finals. They will also be a strong opposition.