Sun Rising On New Season

And so we are all back at the starting line, last season's triumphs and tragedies but a fading memory. Everyone starts from scratch and thus is full of merry hope and unbridled ambition.

The Dublin footballers are always the source of much amusement at this time of year. Stories of 06h30 training sessions followed later by an evening session decorate the back pages of all the Dublin rags. What is it about the Dubs? I had Eoin Sheanon on the phone last night still huffing after an 8km run and eagerly awaiting news of the commencement of training. They give so much so early...

The revolving door has not been so active this winter. Clux is back in Dublin but work will still have him spend some time in Brussels so we can expect to see him a good bit. He has competition as of Monday when Corkman Timmy O'Donovan lands. Timmy arrives with positive reviews from fellow clubman Liam Wolfe. We eagerly await news on anyone else that the recession washes out.

Colin was busily confirming pitch bookings this week and we head for the BSB on January 21st for our first session. Fellas are eager to get back but from a football side it's nearly too early. The year here is long and maintaining interest is an issue. For the first five weeks we'll just run and motivation will have to come from within. There will be no badgering by text or email. Fellas are free to come and go for those weeks before we get down to the official start at the end of February.

Its Year 3 of our little project and we'll be looking at ways to freshen things up. Fellas will naturally look for a new voice and it would be good if we could get a non-player on board so I'll look into that. One old face that we will welcome back is Crusher. He has his last physio session this week and then he works away on his own. He is back training but there will be no pressure on a quick return.

I've plenty of ideas having been home at Christmas and seeing Condon at work in his role as Chairman of the club. Conan did similiar research over the break and has been flinging all sorts of things at us via email so it should be a lively meeting when we sit down with Colin next week.