The BMO is a weird place to be at the moment. Firstly to see this gigantic marshmallow like dome over the top of where we practice and play week in week out is very strange. The field seems like a different place than what we experience on the atmospheric match-day. It feels quite eerie on the pitch as you cannot see the stadium and do not get the feeling that you are actually in a stadium. Secondly  , its an absolute ‘Ghost Town’. No one is about the place, the locker rooms and halls are empty and even the office staff up-stairs look bored!!  Now i know all the players have gone back to their home towns and rightfully so,but this is where i am getting to. I am not the best of trainers at the best of times and you can ask the majority of players and Paul Winsper(fitness coach) who regularly get little chuckles out of my attempted sprints etc. So for me who’s getting  older and having to look after my fitness with even more scrutiny, i am finding it very hard to train alone! Paul who is probably one of the best fitness guys i have worked with has sent every player their off season fitness plan. And let me tell you, the boys who do not stick to this plan will get found out when we return to pre-season!   So as well as having to stick to a strict fitness regime i’ve got to do it alone. I hate training alone, i need someone with me who i can challenge or who can encourage me to carry on going. Thats why i have a lot of respect for those guys in individual sports who do lots of their training alone, i suppose its a battle with your mind foremost and then your body. So i am trying it alone at the moment hoping that an estranged player might appear from no-where and want to come in and help! Good job i’ve got my soccer schools going on in the evenings, where the kids keep me on my toes and the new adult camp i can actually join in and practice with.  Apart from that i may write an advert in to the local ‘Lonely hearts’ to see if there is anybody out there for me!!!