Back in the gym

I've given up on the idea of taking and passing my fitness test in March. I've not trained often enough or hard enough to increase my fitness sufficiently. So I'm resigned to another season of being an also ran, just another name on the list for another season. Well to be honest I haven't. I just need more time to lose weight with me putting on half of what lost and build my stamina. So the target is now March 2009 and I'm going to work on my man management too to see if I can reduce my reliance on my cards. It's working out well this season as my average is down from 3 cautions a game to 2. My dismissals are still running at 1 every 5 games but I'm not in total control over them. If a player wants to commit another cautionable offence when he's already received one caution, then talking them to death doesn't always work on the player. Something I have noticed though in my last three middles is that players on cautions who I talk too at length during play seem to get substituted. It seems the players aren't paying attention but their coaches are!