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Training - Tuesday 26th March, 2013

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Initial live update.

Around 18 watchers here for the big day.

Gary loin chop stretcher Lyon gracing us with his presence

Magically mystery players not sighted in Sylvia and Matt jones.

Clisby and Jonah Lomu's skinny cousin walking laps same as Fitzy and Joel too old McDonald.

Mckenzie and kent doing reduced training by themselves.

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    Initial live update.

    Around 18 watchers here for the big day.

    Gary loin chop stretcher Lyon gracing us with his presence

    Magically mystery players not sighted in Sylvia and Matt jones.

    Clisby and Jonah Lomu's skinny cousin walking laps same as Fitzy and Joel too old McDonald.

    Mckenzie and kent doing reduced training by themselves.

    Sorry to be a pain, but is there any chance of you asking someone there if it's likely there will be one more training session before Sunday's game? - would love to be able to take my son along if they are doing Gosch's Paddock on the Saturday (we get down to Melb on Friday). Thanks in advance.

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    Initial live update.

    Around 18 watchers here for the big day.

    Gary loin chop stretcher Lyon gracing us with his presence

    Magically mystery players not sighted in Sylvia and Matt jones.

    Clisby and Jonah Lomu's skinny cousin walking laps same as Fitzy and Joel too old McDonald.

    Mckenzie and kent doing reduced training by themselves.

    Wow, 5 lines of "live" training updates and you've had a shot at 3 different people. I await the rest of your training report with anticipation.

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    Found Matt jones and Sylvia. Training as they play they must have gone missing for a quarter.

    Clark, blease and trengove now having shots for goal. Obviously on reduced training but did a full warm up.

    Grimes, Viney, frawley, stark and couch doing kick to kick. Today's remedial kicking class?? Whilst main group practice picking ball off deck and hand balling to running player with pressure

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    Nicholson just doing laps as well. Kent and mckenzie back to the rooms. Jordie might be acting as his lawyer at the tribunal tonight.

    We've gone into a full ground drill now. It's a bit windy. Rohan bail hit sellar lace out.

    There's a really cute trainer. If she's on demonland and reads this later she should pm me.

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    We've split into whites and blues. Most of the starting 22 in blue, Tom McDonald and watts in white as is Strauss and terlich. Drill is about moving ball from backline for white whilst blue defends so explains teams

    Viney and jt kick to kicking. Viney's kicking will frustrate early in his career like a young nath jones

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    Jetta in white as well. I'd say this drill would be important for the small defenders.

    The intensity in this drill is pretty good.

    Don't expect too much from Barry he's still adapting to pace of training mentally. It might be a long year for him but he'll get through.

    Garland copped a knock on the shoulder but is fine. He's looking to re enter the drill with the orange safety vest. Seems to be like he wouldn't mind wearing it in a game.

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    Dawes just kicked a sausage from 50 in match simulation.

    There's a BBQ happening there as well?

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    I thought the Comedy Festival started next week, nice reporting once you get past the University Revue titillation

    Hardtack, was in the Club last night and asked the Website guy, forgot his name, old age, to ask and put on Website about Saturday, lot of us like to go on Sat before first game, will remind him again tonight

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    There's a BBQ happening there as well?

    Haha! Would be nice I'm starving.

    Haven't seen Clark on the track for a while.

    My tip is Dawes plays but Clark plays at Casey 1 more week.

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    Keep it coming the Master. Been the only funny thing in my day so far :)

    Some of the members on here, just do not have a sense of humour.

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    I thought the Comedy Festival started next week, nice reporting once you get past the University Revue titillation

    Hardtack, was in the Club last night and asked the Website guy, forgot his name, old age, to ask and put on Website about Saturday, lot of us like to go on Sat before first game, will remind him again tonight

    Thanks mate... really do appreciate it.

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    Tom couch has finished up, maybe he has to work like all the other VFL players.

    Pickles, toumpas and Barry practicing getting ground balls under pressure.

    The others have split into positional groups.

    Dawes is moving well. The players doing a nice job of testing out his hammy. And now he's headed to the side line but seems ok.

    Our clearance midfielders seem happy with just bombing it. I'd say if they've got clear possession then a sequence of handballs and an accurate kick would be better but then again they have no other players. This drill might have been more about combining with the rucks

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    Tom couch has finished up, maybe he has to work like all the other VFL players.

    Pickles, toumpas and Barry practicing getting ground balls under pressure.

    The others have split into positional groups.

    Dawes is moving well. The players doing a nice job of testing out his hammy. And now he's headed to the side line but seems ok.

    Our clearance midfielders seem happy with just bombing it. I'd say if they've got clear possession then a sequence of handballs and an accurate kick would be better but then again they have no other players. This drill might have been more about combining with the rucks

    Practising interchange technique, perhaps

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    Don't know where port got the funds for this helicopter hovering over training for the last 15 minutes but they really could of just come and watched.

    Nice to see big maxy gawn back rucking. He's a super important player long term for us

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    Keep it coming the Master. Been the only funny thing in my day so far :)

    Some of the members on here, just do not have a sense of humour.

    We all have senses of humour, just have trouble telling my nom de plume from my alias, complemented the reporting, not the 'Humour'
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    The bombing is from the centre clearance, too often in the past we have [censored] farted around with it and lost possession in the middle, with all the tall timber we have up forward, bombing it forward and then keeping it there is a good plan. Assume we will then have plans of action for ball ups in the fwd half

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    James sellar practicing some Ruck work late. Might be an indication they leave pedersen out and go with sellar and whatever combo of Dawes and clark

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    Correction pedersen now practicing his ruck work as well. I don't mind the bomb if it gets deep to a tall but its more a rush kick to a flank is too easy to defend and counter attack from.

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    Correction pedersen now practicing his ruck work as well. I don't mind the bomb if it gets deep to a tall but its more a rush kick to a flank is too easy to defend and counter attack from.

    We get it out of bounds, and take it from there, if it is towards the flank, exactly what Essendon did to Adelaide, from the centre bombing it in to the tall timber that Hird had stacked up there and then locking it in or crumbing or getting it out of bounds if it went wide, the last thing we need is giving away possession in the middle

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    This has to have set a new standard in training reports... thanks for the running commentary guys!

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