But persistent rain had turned the pitch into a midweek lottery, with the players raising spray with every kick and passes stopping short of their targets with frustrating regularity.
For the remaining two-plus hours of the practice, I sat bundled on the sidelines as the Sea Gal squad perfected every kick, split and pom-pom thrust in some 30 routines.
As a minister, I welcomed the chance to deliver the parliament's first cut in business rates, to introduce enterprise education for every child and to kick start new wave and tidal projects to release Scotland's potential to be the renewable energy powerhouse of Europe.
The particles get a little kick in energy every time they cross the shock front, and eventually they get accelerated to these massive energies that we detect here at Earth.
Football fans would be outraged if every time one team was preparing to kick a field goal the officials moved the goalposts further back, making it harder to score.
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You can plan all you like, but if the opponent has a big man who can do what Carroll did to Everton, you'll be in jeopardy every time you concede a corner or a free kick.
And every few years the SEC gives the NASD a good kick in the pants.
ECNs pay brokers a kick-back of a few cents for every order sent their way.
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Not every fish could stand up to the mustard greens' kick, but cod more than holds its own.
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London Business School's effort will kick into high gear in coming weeks, when every student without a job offer is assigned a career-services adviser.
Through techniques such as visualization, we can picture how to kick the winning field goal and then trace through every step necessary to achieving the task.
"Every few years it does something to give its market share a kick then it starts to go back down again, " said Mr Gammage.
Pavlyuchenko drove home the third after 65 minutes to maintain his record of scoring in every round of the competition before Michael Duff glanced O'Hara's free-kick past Jensen into his own net.
That could kick-start a broad debate over what risks we're willing to take every time we swallow pills.
Every year, if my aging memory is correct, Lucy would ask Charlie Brown if he wanted to kick the football.
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"I try to wring every possibility out of my properties, " she said, adding that a national tour of "Peter" will kick off in August.
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Over by the street-vendors, setting up their food stalls to tempt the hungry and exhausted, young men kick a ball about until the last of the light fades, scuffing up a cloud of dust with every footfall.
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