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Training - Friday 15th November, 2013

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chookrat
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I didnt go yesterday because I wanted to be at my computer in case Demonland came back online.

biggestred
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OMG I saw players actually shepherding in that drill :wub: :wub:

demonoid
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Any chance anyone went to training?

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Thought I would start a thread early for tomorrow's training but please also feel free to report on yesterday's training which missed its own dedicated thread due to our server issues.

Anyone go?

Considering dropping in tomorrow for a quick look, but yesterday it rained all bloody day.

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OK. The melbournefc.com.au site has this vision of the lads training yesterday in the wet conditions at Gosch's Paddock - Pre-season training footage.

Safe to assume nobody observing and taking notes would have been able to read them after that downpour - and that's assuming there were any bona fide spectators there at all.

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Tearing up the track, feeling great, having the best preseason ever... take your pick.

Until the following year's pre-season when it becomes - "could never get a run at it, had an interrupted pre season and never really got going, had series of niggles that made it hard to get the base down, it made realize the importance of having an uninterrupted pre season, was always playing ctach up, a frustrating period etc etc" (see comments from any number of players, most recently Trenners presser

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I've read the reports one question has Luke Tapscott ever been out of the rehab group prior to Christmas. Every year I read that Tappy is in the rehab group.

Yes it seems to never end for him. I wonder how much that has hampered his development.

He has to start getting more of the ball or he will be delisted.

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Yes it seems to never end for him. I wonder how much that has hampered his development.

He has to start getting more of the ball or he will be delisted.

Agree, hate to see him go because he has something but he isn't a small crumbing forward, he plays more as a small leading forward he hasn't been able to push into the midfield, which these days is a massive requirement for small forwards, if he can't do that the only option is to take him down back again.

Be interesting if he is mentioned in todays training reports

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Was 'running' around the tan this morning and saw Frawley and Dunn doing some 20m sprints up Amderson St hill... At least I thought it was Dunn (didn't have the mo)

Moving very quickly between a few bus loads of tourists.

Gonna be interesting to see what becomes of Lynden Dunn under Roos

Doubt anyone here has him close to our best 22 but i reckon ROos has a few surprises up his sleeve for us all

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Gonna be interesting to see what becomes of Lynden Dunn under Roos

Doubt anyone here has him close to our best 22 but i reckon ROos has a few surprises up his sleeve for us all

I certainly have him in our best 22. Of course i can see his limitations but i reckon he is our most underrated player (if Demonland is a reliable gauge).

Of course he is in our best 22. When was the last time he was dropped? Has played 117 games since his debut in 2006.

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I certainly have him in our best 22. Of course i can see his limitations but i reckon he is our most underrated player (if Demonland is a reliable gauge).

Of course he is in our best 22. When was the last time he was dropped? Has played 117 games since his debut in 2006.

The fact that he is in our best 22 explains why we have been so poor since 2006....

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I'll say this:

For a bloke that it seemed a lot of people wanted traded, due to their paranoia he would bolt at the first opportunity, as he hasn't yet signed a contract extension... it's good to see James Frawley showing the commitment of attending preseason training well before he is required to, when others with the same requirements, but with far more that they need to prove, having not yet attended.

Gotta love the bloke, and I'd say anyone who claims his declarations of love for the club in recent times are a smokescreen, are clearly poor judges of character.

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