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We had our usual training sessions at the School, this week including light passing drills and then some stretching as well as dribbling and turning. At the beginning of the week at evening training sessions we worked on possession and played 3 v 2 attack v defence and 7 v 5 attack v defence…

Match: Nottingham Forest v Mansfield Town (friendly)

On Tuesday we had a friendly against Mansfield, which for us was an opportunity to get the defeat on Saturday out of our systems and get a win under our belts. I started off playing right midfield in a very offensive line up. We started the game a bit sloppy but then got on top of the game and started to pass the ball well. ..

Had training at the Dragon School again at the beginning of the week doing passing drills and some stretching. Evening training consisted of technique work and then we went into a small game but unfortunately I rolled my ankle quite badly so the Physio wrapped it for compression and luckily there was no significant swelling…

We started the week with training on Monday at 6pm; it was just a light training session with a 4 v 4 game. After training we went back to the hotel and had a game of poker but I wish I hadn’t bothered…

At Nottingham Forest there is an annual Academy golf day in which people compete to raise money for the Academy and Coaches and players are allowed to take part as well. We teamed up in groups of 3 or 4 and there were about 4 teams made up of Academy members alone – so you can already guess that it was going to be very competitive!

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We started the week with light passing work and ball control drills at the Dragon School, and at evening training we talked about Sunday’s match then played a small sided game…

As it had been a disappointing result at the weekend everyone was a bit down and thinking we were out of the running for promotion so training was not as good as usual. We just had a little game and it was slightly frustrating because no one was really trying and we were all feeling pretty sorry for ourselves…

Match: Nottingham Forest v Grimsby Town

After not playing on the previous Saturday, there was a mid-week U18’s game in which we played Grimsby Town. The game was to maintain our fitness and to try and get a full ninety minutes for some of us…

Training at the Dragon School consisted of some light jogging and some stretching. I felt really tight from the 90 minutes played on Sunday! During evening training we had a small possession game followed by a 9 v 9 box-to-box match…

I was so bored of the hotel breakfast that I decided to make breakfast for myself. I made egg and soldiers and it was really satisfying – even though it tasted awful, it was different to the pancakes that I usually have!..

I’ve had three days away from the pitch this week due to my sending off the previous week. We played bottom of the league side Heffners/Ortvikens IF but the game was awful – full of mistakes and people running round making wrong decisions which reminded me more of a school playground kick-around!..

We went to the Dragon School to train with their team at the beginning of the week. They concentrate mainly on technique work so it was great for me as it gave me more time with the ball each day…