WE were running like it was pre-season on Saturday thanks to our game being cancelled, so it was over to Hainault for lots of trekking up and down hills and running in and out of cones.

There were a lot of 'Hainault ankles' around though as a lot of the lads cried off the run, funny that. But at least the early morning hard graft left us the rest of the day to do as we please. Though what with it being Valentines Day I think a lot of the lads would rather be doing a three hour coach ride to an away game rather than having to run out and buy roses.

Timmy Cole had his romantic side on full show as he turned up wearing his best boxer shorts, white with red hearts all over them. He's had them for about seven years, some might ask if they are lucky, but I can't say that's the word I'd use to describe them!

Elsewhere, Robbo seems to think that the Welsh are taking over now that he's got one more Welshman in the Daggers team with Matt Rees alongside him.

All you could hear on Monday night at training was: "I'm back!" as my fellow diarist was pinging balls from one box to the other. It's nice to see that his kicking is back to his best, but then again he hadn't exactly set the bar too far!

Our new secret weapon in training to improve our performances is the '118 vest'. Coley managed to get his hands on one of the athletics shirts like those in the 118 118 advert and now whoever has a stinker in training has to wear it for the next session.

So far it's only been dished out six times, yet I still manage to have had my turn wearing it. Who knows, if this technique was implemented in August we could have been top of the league by now.