They are confident to play on it and if they carry on practising on it like they have for the last two weeks they will wear it out!

Inspectors general play a vital role in ensuring that taxpayers' funds are used properly. The fact that the DOD has not had an IG on the ground in Iraq for at least six months raises serious questions about the DOD's priorities and their ability to handle the war spending in an honest and transparent way.

There were a lot of questions in a lot of people's minds. Not ours. I expected him to play well. For the first time out, he probably performed better than any of us thought.

He said, 'Let's put something together and devise a game plan. We knew we wanted to play in the winter months, and in New York and some of the cities he hadn't played since 1998. We knew (we would play) the Northeast, Florida and some dates in the West.

It didn't matter where we had to come to to play this game. This team is coming together at the right time.

You certainly want to come out and play well and go into districts with that momentum.