According to the Melbourne Football Club website there's an open training session tomorrow (Monday 2nd December) at Casey Fields at 9:30am.

I'm hope some Demonlanders will provide the usual high quality reports and perhaps solve a little mystery for me about one of our rookies James Harmes.

The publicity surrounding Harmes, a long time Demon supporter who is virtually local to the area (Devon Meadows is in close proximity to Cranbourne East where Casey Fields is situated) is that one of his major attributes is his pace. But I got a different impression reading Graeme Yeats' brief description of him in The Oracle's piece CHANGES 2013:-

James Harmes ® Dandenong Stingrays 5/10/95 H: 185cm W: 78kg

James developed this year as an inside/outside midfielder who competes hard but his lack of speed might hold him up a little bit. He's got a good vertical leap, a good engine, neat skills but just has to sharpen up in a couple of areas to knock the rough edges off." - Dandenong coach Graeme Yeats [inside Football]

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I doubt whether his coach would get it wrong but I suppose no Harmes done by checking it out if someone could have a look at tomorrow's session.

Nice observation blistering.

My suggestion is they go over to the athletics track at the back of Casey Fields and have a 1 v 1 footrace between Harmes and Jayden Hunt.

Winner is declared officially quick.

Is there a training camp in Darwin this year?

Is there a training camp in Darwin this year?

no

I heard a tail end of an interview with Josh Mahoney on SEN this morning and Sorrento was mentioned for pre-season training.

https://soundcloud.com/#sen1116/josh-mahoney-on-morning

Isn't today day 1 of the Sorrento Camp?

I thought they started at Casey Fields this morning and then head down to the Peninsula.

Just my thoughts, rushed

Rush and king jogging laps, king taller and solid

Clark is frothing, celebrating when he won his 80% stride through

Watts in real good spirits. Gets along well with the coaching staff

Fitness test, 300m, groups of 7

Jones is all arms, powers through

T Mac, toumpas, jones in 1st 300m

Cross at the back

Fitz smashed his, watts and dunne at the back

Pedo 2nd in group, a long way from where he was last year. Impressed me in the few sessions I've seen so far

2nd run: jones went from 3rd to 2nd last, only Beating trengrove, tmac won. Barry did well.

Fitz won by 20m, dunne last

Chip winning his group easy, hogan second, viney falling away

Barry stood up and smashed tmac, jones and trenners last by a fair bit

Fitz wins again, watts and pedo tie for second, dunne jumped the start by 5m, still last.

Hogan is a beast, winning easy, chip 2nd, but hogans effort was clearly massive. Working super hard, finished real strong

Evans beats Barry and tmac, toumpas falling away

Watts base fitness showing, smashed Fitz and pedo,

Could not be more impressed by Hogans runs, won 5th leg by about 20m and wasnt easing up. We have a star with a great attitude

Evans finished last run real well, beating tmac then Barry falling away but working hard

just a note on pedo, last run, finished 2nd behind Fitz but ahead of watts, and was encouraging his group the whole was down the straight, big plus for me.

jack viney last run specialist, disappointing to see, as clearly had more in the tank he wasn't using earlier, where as hogan was spent on the last run, falling back to third.

Jones had a chuck, Georgiou last by a long way every run

Not running: Clark, Howe, wasn't really looking at that group

Grimey running laps,

Watched Tyson in a contested handball drill against garland, super clean and evasive. Knee looks fine

JKH will be a player. Most enthusiastic trainer I've seen. Does everything at 130%, is super explosive and has very clean skills. My pick for round 1

Viney looked disinterested the whole session. Very unimpressive

Toumpas looked class, hopefully a big year ahead

Dunne snapped a goal on the full from 55m, mucking around but impressive

Roos inter action is constant, just walks around talking to individuals, has the people around him to run training but he just teaches.

Barry impresses me more each time

I see him this pre season. Skills up, fitness up and move well

Watts nicknames killer, boys taking the [censored] out of him

Roos all over nicho for poor kicking on multiple occasions.

Hogan missed a kick, very critical of himself, wants more

Watching cross and howe train is very enjoyable, the boys are text book smooth movers.

Type it as you see it. Nice work Tappy, thank you. Felt I was watching those runs with ya.

Keep it coming!

I agree about Evans, Fitzy and Barry. These three looked good on Friday when I saw them training.

I also noticed how vocal and relaxed Watts was. I actually thought he was demonstrating some decent leadership traits.

It is good news about Pederson. For him to improve so much will put constant pressure on all our talls to hold their place (if he can hold his training form, and take it into games.)

Great report, can't get to Casey and back for work, sounds very unViney like, unless like last year he has had the brakes put on him, tends to over train, saw him pulled up quite a few times last year

Pederson is unfairly criticised on here, never shirks at training, one of the 'body judges' decided he was overweight and that was it

Thanks for the report, tappysquads. How did Salem go?

Great work thanks TQ - how did your namesake travel?

My namesake ran some tremendous laps with HIS group. His lap running has really come along way in the last few years.

Anyone have a comment on James Harmes and whether he's quick or otherwise?

Thanks very much for the report Tappy. That was some really interesting information on the run throughs. I like that Watts has clearly built up his tank, and it sounds like Barry is coming along very nicely.

Might have been a furphy from Yeater.

DID michie Train?

No comment. Going to wait until round 1, all this positive stuff doesn't mean a thing. Injury list is minimal and hopefully it stays that way.

No comment.

He said, before commenting.

My namesake ran some tremendous laps with HIS group. His lap running has really come along way in the last few years.

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Great report, can't get to Casey and back for work, sounds very unViney like, unless like last year he has had the brakes put on him, tends to over train, saw him pulled up quite a few times last year

Pederson is unfairly criticised on here, never shirks at training, one of the 'body judges' decided he was overweight and that was it

Even Viney can have a session where he isn't in top form. We've all had days like that! Doens't mean a thing, in my book.

Even Viney can have a session where he isn't in top form. We've all had days like that! Doens't mean a thing, in my book.

He may be catching the MFC disease! It's been endemic since 65!

DID michie Train?

Yes he did and has been with the main group most of the time since his arrival.

Looks very assured with ball in hand and disposal is really good.

Considering what we paid and his string of injuries he looks the goods and will be a quality addition to our squad.

Quality report Tappy.

It's reports like that that make this site an absolute must read each day.

Thanks.

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