Steve Bates Takes Session

By Dave Picken - August 11 2009
Steve Bates Takes Session
Steve Bates
Falcons coach Steve Bates will take time off from his own pre-season preparations to take Tuesday's training session [August 11]. Bates is keeping a promise he made when he was guest of honour at last season's players' dinnner.

West Coach Tim Sawyer says: "It will be great for the lads to benefit from his experience and from having a different voice shouting at them."

The session follows hard on the heels of Saturdays first game of the season against Gateshead. In all 37 players had a run out [some of them in the Gateshead front row]with a furrther ten or so players missing for various reasons.