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Took the family in to the open training at the Gabba today and had a great time!

The team did a lot of drills, handballing, kicking and shots on goal.

They split up for a little bit and did some area drills. The defenders did a drill with four of them... three running towards the goal - middle one picks up the ball, hand passes to the guy to his left, who handpasses to the guy running across from the right who handpasses to the guy running away from the goals who kicked it out to the mids.

Most of the kicks were pretty accurate and the entire team was very vocal for the whole session - you could clearly hear them from the other side of the Gabba!

The team then came over and signed whatever was available and handed out posters and stickers and such.

Had a chat with Max Gawn for a few - says he used to eat 16 weetbix when he was growing up, but has cut back to 8!

The team was all in great spirits and am looking forward to a great game tomorrow!

 
 

Took the family in to the open training at the Gabba today and had a great time!

The team did a lot of drills, handballing, kicking and shots on goal.

They split up for a little bit and did some area drills. The defenders did a drill with four of them... three running towards the goal - middle one picks up the ball, hand passes to the guy to his left, who handpasses to the guy running across from the right who handpasses to the guy running away from the goals who kicked it out to the mids.

Most of the kicks were pretty accurate and the entire team was very vocal for the whole session - you could clearly hear them from the other side of the Gabba!

The team then came over and signed whatever was available and handed out posters and stickers and such.

Had a chat with Max Gawn for a few - says he used to eat 16 weetbix when he was growing up, but has cut back to 8!

The team was all in great spirits and am looking forward to a great game tomorrow!

Would that be packets?

And. Thanks for the report.


I got along as well.

Looks like Max and the Russian playing deep forward will be integral to our structure. Watts involved with backline drill. All 22 named were present plus Nicholson as the only emergency.

Just a light run. Boys in good spirits. Max is a legend. All the players great with the kids after the session.

Haha. Not sure how I missed that one!!

Yes not sure how you did - there was a thread dedicated to it.

Thanks for the report.

Had a chat with Max Gawn for a few - says he used to eat 16 weetbix when he was growing up, but has cut back to 8!

He probably realised that he will need to start playing like Cox if he is going to be able to pay his food bills! wow

 

Yes not sure how you did - there was a thread dedicated to it.

Thanks for the report.

I don't think he did miss it YD.

Haha. Not sure how I missed that one!!

Probably because Jack didn't get close to it last week. It's not your fault LD. ;)


Yes not sure how you did - there was a thread dedicated to it.

Thanks for the report.

Yeah and it only had 2704 posts.....

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