I took my 2.5 year old to training today. The players and staff were fantastic. It is incredible how accessible they all are.

For those interested Wanna said he is 2-3 away from playing.

Col said he wasn't that close this week but should be right next week.

What was an utter shambles was the fact that there are NO GOALS AT JUNCTION OVAL. No wonder we cant kick. Attached is a photo of the Auskick goals they were using.

Which Col? Garland or Sylvia?

I can't stand cricket and their overlong season.

i read somewhere Garland played 3 quarters for Casey and Sylvia will miss this week just for precautionary reasons only.

Does anybody know the timetable on the junction?

We must be leaving soon, as in weeks i hope.

Does anybody know the timetable on the junction?

We must be leaving soon, as in weeks i hope.

June - July

What was an utter shambles was the fact that there are NO GOALS AT JUNCTION OVAL. No wonder we cant kick. Attached is a photo of the Auskick goals they were using.

I don't see the problem Frank. Our forward line is non-existent and we can't buy goals in a chook raffle. We really don't need goalposts at all for training.

Not a good look...

June - July

How boring, oh well at least its only months-when Schwab says we concede 3-4 goals a game because of the junction-this is what he means.

i read somewhere Garland played 3 quarters for Casey and Sylvia will miss this week just for precautionary reasons only.

Garland didn't play last night.

Garland played last week for about 3 Qtrs.

and that, gentlemen, is why i keep getting told that my club is a joke. no goalposts? [censored].

Collingwood actually train on a ground that has no goal posts over summer.

I took my 2.5 year old to training today. The players and staff were fantastic. It is incredible how accessible they all are.

For those interested Wanna said he is 2-3 away from playing.

Col said he wasn't that close this week but should be right next week.

What was an utter shambles was the fact that there are NO GOALS AT JUNCTION OVAL. No wonder we cant kick. Attached is a photo of the Auskick goals they were using.

Was there any word on Jared Rivers?

He wasn't on the official injury list that was published on the AFL website during the week and now he's out with a knee injury. I haven't heard or read any comments as to how serious a knee injury it might be.

and that, gentlemen, is why i keep getting told that my club is a joke. no goalposts? [censored].

What about our facilities? Third world? MFC should make a jump and give the boys some decent facilities, not expecting Colling-garbage or Carltank like but something of a standard.

I don't see the problem. They didn't have big goalposts, so they used little ones. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

Rivers injured his ribs last week. They said he was out with another type of injury, not sure why? Maybe to hide the injury from opposition teams when he returns.

And in terms of no goal posts, it is a hassle, but really not the end of the world. We will not be at the Junction soon, and then who cares, and I am not sure how much goal kicking practice we will need for this week.

Maybe we need the goal posts to practice how to defend from close to them and how to kick out.

Rivers injured his ribs last week. They said he was out with another type of injury, not sure why? Maybe to hide the injury from opposition teams when he returns.

And in terms of no goal posts, it is a hassle, but really not the end of the world. We will not be at the Junction soon, and then who cares, and I am not sure how much goal kicking practice we will need for this week.

Maybe we need the goal posts to practice how to defend from close to them and how to kick out.

I heard Rivers was icing his knee all week. Probably was the knee.

Posts should be up by now. Would like someone to drive past and give us a quick update. Reckon in 2010 its a bit average not to have posts at an AFL training venue.

No goal posts at our training venue..?

Have the panel on Footy Classified been reading Demonland..??!?

Goalposts are just mental markers. If you can kick accurately they are only needed on gameday. This makes sense in my head but is probably riddled with holes. Feel free to poke..

Goalposts are just mental markers. If you can kick accurately they are only needed on gameday. This makes sense in my head but is probably riddled with holes. Feel free to poke..

This is what I think too. As long as you have something that tells you whether you missed or not (could even be witches' hats), then that's good enough. Obviously not preferable though.

Goalposts are just mental markers. If you can kick accurately they are only needed on gameday. This makes sense in my head but is probably riddled with holes. Feel free to poke..

Ha but still training is all about simulating match conditions.

well since people take what they see on footy classified and make a thread out of it, i'll just take what I saw on footy classified, Lyon's comments, and respond: you are not telling the club anything they don't already know when you say it is a disgrace etc they are working on the problem. End of story.

Ha but still training is all about simulating match conditions.

This is true. But is a goal post a physical structure of wood which can be touched or merely a white vertical line of which to kick the ball through? I suppose running into one would answer that question. But yes, preferably a side that trains football should have goal posts present on the field. Seeing as it forms the main nucleus of our game.. Almost like ice hokey men training without skates.

Ha but still training is all about simulating match conditions.

Training is about improving skills and there are a range of drills that can be done without having to have pot shots at the sticks.

Might give us an edge, we could reduce the size of the goals, a bit like altitude training.

I would have thought the bigger concern was the middle of the ground being roped off (as it was on footy classified, not sure how it was at training).