Preview -v- Nottingham
By Roger Clarke - Birmingham Mail
April 24 2006
Jim Jenner will line up his battle-weary Pertemps Bees troops tomorrow ready for the last three matches before he hands over the captain's armband to Gloucester lock Mark Cornwall for next season.
By Roger Clarke - Birmingham Mail
April 24 2006
Jim Jenner will line up his battle-weary Pertemps Bees troops tomorrow ready for the last three matches before he hands over the captain's armband to Gloucester lock Mark Cornwall for next season.
Jim Jenner will line up his battle-weary Pertemps Bees troops tomorrow ready for the last three matches before he hands over the captain's armband to Gloucester lock Mark Cornwall for next season.
Jenner took over the role this year when Ed Orgee's knee problems left him on the sidelines.
He said: "I have enjoyed my little spell as captain, it has been fun, but the truth of the matter is that because of work commitments I can only do two evenings a week and outside of that I don't have much time to do video analysis and so on."
Jenner owns three children's day nurseries in Worcester and also a construction company building bespoke log homes.
He said: "It is great fun but I find myself working 12 hours a day most of the time and it is difficult to give rugby the time that it needs.
"Mark Cornwall can perhaps do the job more thoroughly and add a bit of impetus to it. He is a talented player and we are all looking forward to him coming and hopefully he will be a great leader."
First, though, comes the final three games and the visit of Nottingham is a chance to expunge the demons of their past. In the reverse fixture two days after Christmas, Bees lost 30-8.
Jenner said: 'That was definitely the low point of the season. It was a really horrible game in every aspect.
"The weather was terrible and we played terribly and got pounded. Nottingham have shown some good form of late and it is going to be a tough game for us. They have got a well-drilled pack, very fluid line-out routines and a very powerful driving maul.
"Driving line-outs is the real strength of their game and they score a lot of tries from it. I think it is going to be a big task for us."
Good news for Bees is that their outstanding flanker Cae Trayhern is expected to be fit again after his neck injury and director of rugby Phil Maynard said that full-back Dave Knight and centre Adam Billig should also be fit.
But they will still be playing with a squad decimated by injuries.
Jenner added: "We have a small squad but one of the benefits of a small squad is that it does allow us to gel quite tightly as a unit. We know we have an almighty challenge on our hands in the next two or three weeks but we are determined to have a go at it and we want to do ourselves some justice."
Jenner took over the role this year when Ed Orgee's knee problems left him on the sidelines.
He said: "I have enjoyed my little spell as captain, it has been fun, but the truth of the matter is that because of work commitments I can only do two evenings a week and outside of that I don't have much time to do video analysis and so on."
Jenner owns three children's day nurseries in Worcester and also a construction company building bespoke log homes.
He said: "It is great fun but I find myself working 12 hours a day most of the time and it is difficult to give rugby the time that it needs.
"Mark Cornwall can perhaps do the job more thoroughly and add a bit of impetus to it. He is a talented player and we are all looking forward to him coming and hopefully he will be a great leader."
First, though, comes the final three games and the visit of Nottingham is a chance to expunge the demons of their past. In the reverse fixture two days after Christmas, Bees lost 30-8.
Jenner said: 'That was definitely the low point of the season. It was a really horrible game in every aspect.
"The weather was terrible and we played terribly and got pounded. Nottingham have shown some good form of late and it is going to be a tough game for us. They have got a well-drilled pack, very fluid line-out routines and a very powerful driving maul.
"Driving line-outs is the real strength of their game and they score a lot of tries from it. I think it is going to be a big task for us."
Good news for Bees is that their outstanding flanker Cae Trayhern is expected to be fit again after his neck injury and director of rugby Phil Maynard said that full-back Dave Knight and centre Adam Billig should also be fit.
But they will still be playing with a squad decimated by injuries.
Jenner added: "We have a small squad but one of the benefits of a small squad is that it does allow us to gel quite tightly as a unit. We know we have an almighty challenge on our hands in the next two or three weeks but we are determined to have a go at it and we want to do ourselves some justice."
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