Ewe must be joking! Burnley players in team building experience
11:28am Thursday 2nd August 2012 in News
By Suzanne Geldard, Burnley FC reporter
TEAM WORK The sheep were rounded up by players
BURNLEY manager Eddie Howe showed just how much he wants his players to ‘raise the baa’ this season, by taking them on an alternative team bonding session.
The Clarets boss organised a sheep herding exercise for his squad and staff during a midweek break yesterday on their pre-season tour of Bath.
The players were kept in the dark about the trip until they arrived at Folly Farm near Bristol, where they were split into two groups and tasked with rounding up 10 sheep and securing them in a pen in the middle of a one-acre field.
Some thought ‘ewe must be joking’, but ‘Raising the Baa’ is proving a popular team-building exercise all over the country, and manager Eddie was ready to ‘dip’ his toe into it.
In his group young forward Alex MacDonald and experienced defender Michael Duff took the shepherding lead.
A club spokesman said: “It was a really good exercise in being a leader and really good fun. I think the players got a lot out of it.
“They had to work as a team to get the sheep into the pen and the manager was pleased that they did that.”
Comments(10)
A Darener
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12:41pm Thu 2 Aug 12
AndyW
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1:17pm Thu 2 Aug 12
You could not imagine anything more apt for the Burnley squad.
Well, maybe day of mass marriages to their sisters/cousins, but let's not get picky.
Surely this has been done purely to cheer up us Rovers fans in our current time of depression.
And it's worked :)
horse whisperer
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1:40pm Thu 2 Aug 12
Anyway did he get to court on friday, i believe he`s going to jail furlong time !
horse whisperer
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1:43pm Thu 2 Aug 12
shytalk
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2:26pm Thu 2 Aug 12
A Darener wrote:Ask Les Thompson he would know
What did they do with them after they had rounded them up?
verbal discharge
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2:38pm Thu 2 Aug 12
AndyW wrote:Any chance of the Rovers gimps doing another star-studded ad for Venkys Chicken this close season?
Amazing!
You could not imagine anything more apt for the Burnley squad.
Well, maybe day of mass marriages to their sisters/cousins, but let's not get picky.
Surely this has been done purely to cheer up us Rovers fans in our current time of depression.
And it's worked :)
Shame - I could do with another laugh, I suppose I will have to wait for the season to start and Blacburn to kick off
Izanears
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4:03pm Thu 2 Aug 12
davidinburnley
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4:54pm Thu 2 Aug 12
RUinsane
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5:23pm Thu 2 Aug 12
LMFAO, dingles next up team banjo pluckin.
Shorty Medlocke says...
12:04pm Thu 2 Aug 12