 English sunshine, how's training gone so far? We're hearing a camp here in Cheshire giving the chance for the lads to get some time together. Yeah it's been great weather's been perfect, great facilities and everyone's back raring to go so it's been an enjoyable first couple of days and just enjoying the hard work at the moment. We were looking up to see some of the training that we've had so far in this camp. Everyone looks certainly fit and raring to go come back you know chomping at the bit from a summer break. Yeah exactly all the boys have kept themselves in good shape over the summer and we've really come back with the bit between our teeth you know no one was sort of happy with the way we finished the season last year and new coaching set up so a few new players in and everyone's trying to impress and put a marker down and you know try and get in that starting 11 for the first game of the season. And I know you'll be used to this beautifully warm weather but all jokes aside does it make you harder the training sessions obviously it's really cranking up the heat. Yeah it does a little bit you know some of the boys aren't really used to the sun let alone the heat so yeah it does make it harder but at the same time it's enjoyable to get away and you know be together for a few days and get to know everyone and yeah you know us footballers are sometimes a little bit we enjoy getting away even if it's just a different pitch that we get to train on so being in a totally different part of the country I guess and using the different facilities has been good for us to get away and yeah we're all enjoying it. Several of the summer signings with the group this week I guess as a camp like this give you the chance to get to know one quite quickly ahead of the new season. Yeah it's you know it's a lot easier to get to know them obviously even just eating together you know we eat three times obviously breakfast lunch and dinner and walking down roommates it's just been good just to get to know them you know off the field and more importantly know them on the field and what they're good at what they might need help on and what we can help them with as players. Obviously we have our new coaching team head coach Michael Collins and assistant Martin Dury here as well taking taking the team house training going under those. Everyone's been very impressed you know training has been spot on it's got a meaning to it everyone knows exactly what they're doing and you know for the next couple of weeks it will be the coaching staff trying to get their point across and it's up to us as players to grasp that as quickly as we can and and if you can do that then you'll be involved in their plans but you know the first three or four days have been very impressive been great training and all the boys are really enjoying it. Yeah you said that obviously early days I guess into preseason but can you kind of feel that positivity around the camp when you're talking about the training and the standards at the moment? Yeah exactly you know these the new coaching setups brought in you know a great vibe they're young they're exciting they put on good sessions they want us to play a certain way and I think the whole group's responded to that exactly how you should do and yeah it's been three or four days but already you know tempo and training has been a lot higher than it was last season and yeah everyone's really excited about the season coming up. We're talking about the weather officer we spoke off camera about you could have flown four or five hours away to get this sort of weather so it's kind of we've got everything we need really and we're only an hour or two away from Brownfield. Yeah it's been beautiful even the setup you know it's a great golf course that hopefully maybe get to have a swing at one afternoon but yeah training pitch a couple hundred meters away from from the rooms and you know that's probably the best thing about being away is that you know we're not having to travel an hour on the bus to a training ground everything's here that we need and yeah the weather has been turned on it's been great and all the boys are really looking forward to it. And a personal note I guess you must be raring to go this season obviously the obvious injury frustrations towards the back end of last season? Yeah it's part and part of football really getting injured and just unfortunate that it was quite a bad injury to my knee but you know touch wood it's all fixed and all better and yeah full training full steam ahead for the season. And the injury came unfortunately fairly early into rapid cramming it's your third game after joining the club does it almost feel this summer this pre-season kind of like a new start for you as a referee player? Yeah you know a lot of the boys obviously know me from off the field and being in the gym and in the physio room they probably don't realize that I can actually a footballer and actually play so yeah it's been good to be out there and get in amongst them and and hopefully play a big part this season. And your hopes I guess for the rest of this pre-season I guess it's just to be make sure you're fit and firing come August the 4th? Yeah that's you know that's the key for everyone really is you know some boys come back well some boys are naturally fitter than others so it's just to try and get everyone up to speed as quickly as possible get the messages that the coaching staff want to put on us and make sure that everyone understands that so that you know there's no real excuses come the 4th of August of you know boys not knowing what they're doing and so far that's been really impressive by the coaching staff is you know that they put their point across in every training session every drill that we do there's a meaning to it and it's up to the boys to to pick up on that as fast as we can and and to sort of understand what they want and if I think if you can do that and do that to their standards then you'll be in the team so it's yeah pre-seasons looking good and shaping up nicely and everyone can't wait for the 4th of August.