Wessex training and the rest of the week

Last night I went to Wessex training. Was a good turnout and a good workout.
Started with a warmup: jog, dynamic stretches and some sprints... standard.
Then moved on to a short huck drill, aiming to hit the deep cut in stride in the back corner of the endzone. We've done a similar drill at Ka-pow! but this variation had the cutter choosing the cut forcing the thrower to adapt.
We then moved on to a seven pull defense v offense game with the offense getting stalled out at 5 and the defense getting one chance to score after getting a block (stall out at 10).
After this we moved to a break force drill and then onto a regular game.
We finished with a warm down and the 90 second drill (v cutting around a cone, receiving an under pass on every cut and passing it back for 90 seconds) and then 5 different strength exercises:
1. Plank position shifting to pressup position and back * 20
2. Seated row crunches * 20
3. Plank position pushing legs forward and to the side of the body (haven't found the name of this on the internet, if anyone knows it, put it in the comments) * 10 on each leg
4. What I've learned are called Candlestick raises/extensions * 20
5. Lying side leg raises * 20 on each leg
Good exercises to finish!
Some observations on Wessex:

The offensive structures seem pretty solid. Split stack is working with the offense line and there seem to be lots of options.
I don't know how many of the players at the training are on the final squad but the offense line looks pretty strong.
I was on the defense and it's fair to say that the level of fitness and effort at training has massively improved since I was there. The defense line got some blocks and was looking to start quickly after a turn if possible.

Overall, I think Wessex will definitely be a better team than Release 1 was last year. The attitude seems to be right and the effort is solid at training which was missing in previous years. I think they will probably be winning some of the close games they had last year and I see them breaking the top 12 at least once during the tour season. At the very least, I don't see them bouncing between A-Tour and B-Tour like last year and I don't see them losing to Cardiff/The Brown at any point. Of course, it's difficult to tell with the changes going on in Open this year.
Regardless, a lot of them are mates and I wish them the best of luck.

The rest of my week looks like this:
Tuesday: 3 mile run
Wednesday: Gym
Thursday: Track
Friday: Night off
Saturday: Herd
Sunday: Ka-pow!

Good week!