Davidson has taken the team out to Portugal for their final preparations for the season with a warm weather training camp but admits that the focus this week will be on the field rather than the gym as the team fine tune their preparations for another tough season.
Speaking from the training base, he commented, "The aim of the camp is to get all the players together before a tough, long season and get plenty of field sessions, with the weather as forecast at home, it has worked out to be a really good time to come over."
The Rhinos have brought their largest ever group for pre-season training with 29 players in total heading on camp. Davidson says that will be of benefit for the goals the team hope to gain from the week, he added, "When you go into camp, you are getting ready for the up and coming season, you need two teams to play against each other to test out what you have been doing in pre-season. We have looked at the young guys who have been training with us all pre-season and they deserve to come out here. If we can have 13 v 13 in training it will be beneficial this close to the season.
"The best thing with this group is that we have blended really well, the young and old players are pushing each other. Jordan Baldwinson and Liam Sutcliffe have made some good gains in the off season and I will be interested to see how they play when we get back. They, along with Josh Sunley and Elliot Minchella, are on the AASE scheme which allows them to train four times a week with the first team on top of what they do with the Under 19s and go to college and they have really benefitted from that," added Davidson.
Looking back on pre-season as a whole, Davidson is happy with the progress that has been made. He added, "I am very pleased with how pre-season has gone, we have done everything that we have needed to do and everyone is ready to go. Over the next fortnight, we are looking to fine tune things so the camp is not about fitness but more to do with the on the field things."
