We are staying at Eerikkilä sport resort, 1hr from Helsinki. It’s a perfect place for spending a rugby weekend, it has all the facilities we need, great accommodation, good (and plenty of) food.

This afternoon we used the cinema room for a one and a half hour video session. We watched the games from the first team, against Denmark and Finland 1. It was a good session, with an engaged squad, bringing different perspectives, discussing options, how we can improve, what we are good at etc.

It’s always a bit risky to watch games in plenum – necessarily, we will zoom in on some action, we will look again and again at a sequence where we see improvement potential. But the spirit was great, the discussion very positive and constructive. We noted down a few things we need to focus on, we the coaches also received some good feedback. It’s one of the good things of having a training camp like this. We’re not under pressure to win all games, we don’t need to turn the page immediately and focus on the next game. We can look back and learn.

We will play two more games a bit later, one for each team. We will try different compositions, different game plans.