Because I booked the pre-season Salford-Leeds game on line I now find myself on the Jacksonville Axemen's mailing list and get the occasional e-mail from the superbly named Daryl Spinner Howland. I have copied part of the e-mail from today's e-mail as I thought it may be of interest to readers of this message board:-

- The Axemen open up the season this Saturday at UNF under the coaching of former professional and international player Sean Rutgerson. Sean played in the NRL in Australian and also played for the Salford City Reds in the UK for three years during which time he got to visit Jacksonville three times for training camp. He is now the head coach of the Axemen.

Certainly if the Axemen play like Sean used to do they won't go far wrong - though they will all have to learn how to take head tackles! I hope he enjoys Florida.

The players at Forever reds meeting on Monday were telling us he is coaching there.

Wonder if they can do a training exchange, Sean brings the Axemen over here for some pre- season training

I was chatting to sean tuesday on facebook he said they have got a good bunch off players there and looking forward to the season.

This could be the beginning of a great coaching career for Sean. Maybe we could even see him back at the willows to take over from Shaun

I think the Axemen have just become my second favourite team.

Sean and the Axemen got a victory in a pre season game
Axemen 52 Brendeton Bulldogs 0
Caught the last 20 minutes streamed over the net.

http://www.jaxaxe.com/

http://www.jaxaxe.com/

What is the standard like?

Chatting to sean earlier today and he is playing too.