D’Arcy’s Diary, Next Entry: Beyond Belfast France Camp + Bayonne

Before flying out to the pre-season camp in the south of France, Adam D’Arcy scribed his second blog entry which once again gives us an insight of life inside the Ulster camp…

D’Arcy’s Diary
Entry 2: July 15th – August 5th
Beyond Belfast
It’s been a busy few weeks down at Newforge Lane. Pre-season is drawing to a close and towards the first of three trial games, as reality sets in that season 2012-2013 kicks off in less than a month.

We are now at ‘Camp’ phase, and for us that means a 5 day training retreat to Cabpreton, France, a small seaside town in the Basque country near Biarritz.

I know what you’re all thinking “sounds like a nice little holiday, you rugby boys have it so easy….” Well if double training sessions daily culminating in a match against TOP14 side Bayonne sounds easy, I’d say I just saw Declan Fitzpatrick drop a goal from 55 metres out into the wind at Ravenhill, blindfolded!!

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