PRESEASON GAMES BECKON FOR BEARS IN FEBRUARY
Coventry Bears Butts Park Arena
We have a number of games now in place for preseason which will lead us up to our first competitive game on Sunday March 1st away to Oldham in the League One cup. Please see our schedule below and comments from Head coach Tom Tsang on how preseason has been progressing and his feelings on our games that are coming up in February.
Preseason Warm-up games
Coventry Bears v Hemel Stags, Saturday February 14th, 2.30pm kick off, Butts Park Arena, Coventry, CV1 3GE
University of Gloucester All Golds v Coventry Bears, Sunday February 22nd, 3.00pm kick off, Prince of Wales Stadium, Cheltenham, GL50 4RN
Kingstone Press League One Cup
Oldham RLFC v Coventry Bears Sunday March 1st, Whitebank Stadium, Oldham, OLH 3JH
Ladbrokes Challenge Cup Saturday/Sunday March 8th Weekend, opposition tbc
Kingstone Press League One
Coventry Bears v Oxford RLFC, Good Friday April 3rd, 3pm kick off, Butts Park Arena
I'm very happy with how our pre-season preparations are going so far and it is only set to get better with our pre-season camp to Spain before playing Hemel Stags and University of Gloucester All Golds.
Spain will be a brilliant opportunity to get some concentrated work done in a fantastic environment and great facilities. It will also be a chance for the players to really come together and build some bonds ahead of what will be a long and tough year.
Our first pre-season match against Hemel will be a first look at many of our new squad in action and will be a good hit out to test some combinations and players in different positions. It will be a tough game obviously with Hemel performing so well in the last couple of seasons and that is exactly what we will need.
The second friendly against Gloucester will again be a tough game and a perfect opportunity to fine tune things as well as give game time to anyone who misses out versus Hemel. It will be a very important game as we prepare to play Oldham in the first round of the League One cup the week after.
I am very confident that we are currently on track with where we wanted to be and it promises to be an exciting few months before the season starts properly in April.
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