This was both the team's last training session of the term and my last training session with the club.

My penultimate training with the team was lightly attended, but the focus and intensity levels made for a satisfying session.

In preparation for a big league match I focused training on game play and used a new twist to combine serve-initiated rallies with over-speed action.

While there were frustrations about certain aspects of things this training, there were a couple of significant positive takeaways.

My last match in charge saw a lot of things click for the team, leading them to their first win of the season and revenge…

Unfortunately, it was one of our shorter training slots for this session before our next match, so game play was strongly featured.

It was our best match of the season so far, and we definitely had our chances, but the team doesn't yet know how to win.

Missing bodies forced me to go with a more general training than I would have liked to do the day before a league match.

The training focus this session was on two related concepts - getting rid of one-arm digs and passes and being more focused on non-setter second…

A day of competition for both parts of the squad saw the first team play poorly, but the second team earn a pair of surprisingly…