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Day five in Holland consisted of a single session in the morning and the rest of the day to rest and find our own thing to do in preparation for tomorrow’s game.

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Wednesday was our first game day as we had an arranged fixture against Fortuna Sittard.

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The third day in Holland was focused on our evening game against Breda, again another morning session was organised in order to prepare for how we thought the Dutch team would set up against us.

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After a short journey through the night to Holland we arrived at Amsterdam airport ready to embark on a successful pre-season tour. The two hour coach journey to our hotel allowed us to catch up on last night’s sleep before we arrived in Venlo.

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After an early flight into Amsterdam our first training session was very good, the facilities and the pitches were a really high standard with 4G pitches and smart changing rooms. For a non-league club VV Gilze certainly know how to keep their players happy.

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Well, where do I start?…I arrived back from Dubai yesterday with the lads, and words can’t really describe the 12 days experience that each one of us had. ..

The last time I wrote, I mentioned the tough fixture we had coming up against Norwich City. They did indeed prove to be tough visitors, but a visit that all of the lads were capable of handling because we ended up winning the game 2-1 with a real strong and steady performance..

After the Youth Cup game against Everton I was told by the Development Squad Manager, Curtis Fleming, that I would be training with him and the first team everyday and not with the youth team anymore. ..

When I last wrote the weather wasn’t the best, which caused us to carry out a lot of training indoors. The game vs Bristol City was called off for obvious reasons, with the snow causing problems up and down the country…

Our form after the Christmas break hasn’t been great. We’ve hit a bad run, that began with a 3-2 defeat away at Leicester City, although we did well to fight back from 3-0 down…

Since my last blog I have been involved with the first team and reserves a lot more…

I hope you all had a nice Christmas and a very Happy New Year, but now it’s back to business for us at the training ground and the mice pies have to be put away for another year!..