NEWS

Injuries!
18th April 2010

As a coach it is important that the squad mentality is practiced so if the “what if………” scenarios happen you have back up and have shown confidence in all your players throughout the season. By Thursday 10am it was clear that Maggie Jackson had met a situation that she had not come across in the 5 seasons of coaching Hertfordshire Mavericks - 4 current national players and 1 former England player unavailable for the Saturday match. Jackson commented that “the response in training on Thursday by the squad was outstanding; there is such a lot of talent and confidence in the group and we have no bench warmers so having seen how players had performed in previous matches the decisions were easy and it was an ideal opportunity to see how the Hertfordshire Mavericks players would respond both in their units and individually. Thunder won the game but I feel for ¾ of the game we were very competitive and that gives me real confidence as we meet them again in a fortnight’s time”

We wish Naida Hutchinson and Sophia Candappa well as they recover from their operations last Thursday and we hope the ash subsides so Amanda Newton can return from Malta and that both Louisa Brownfield and Karen Atkinson recover from their injuries .