The waiting is nearly over...

For rugby followers the waiting for the start of the new season is nearly over. Clubs up and down the country are into the annual rite of "pre-season" games in which all the substitution laws go out of the window so that coaches may exercise as many player combinations/options as possible and that players may make their bid for a place on the team sheet when the League games start at the beginning of September. 

Cambridge is no exception and they travelled to Hertford yesterday with the entire squad for a game of three halves with mass player shuffling going on at each break. Cambridge also seemed to be trying out all of their kit-combinations.

It also gave me a chance to remind myself how to photograph rugby and to try out some new photographic kit - yesterday I patrolled the ground with no less that 3 cameras, at least one of which will be on the reserves bench in a few weeks.  For those who are interested, my new Olympus OM-D performed better than I had dared to hope, but I found it quite hard to follow the action through the electronic viewfinder with the camera set to rapid fire.  Meanwhile here are a few to whet your appetite for a new season.

Oh, and there's the World Cup starting in September too...