Training - Friday 7th February, 2014

[SaberFang 7,141]

Proud to be one of those people! Wish I had a chance to thank the man face to face, but he's always in the thick of it teaching the players something new.

[McQueen 17,864]

What do you do when you're in Newcastle on business? Well, you pass through Melbourne on Friday before returning to Perth for umm... more business.

Pretty happy that it's an intraclub also.

[DemonOX 8,578]

U can tell its the off season when u r looking forward to a training report!

Geez it's been a long off season.

Looking forward to the real stuff and hoping like hell we improve and maybe even win.

[Chelly 760]

It's really been a strange preseason. We're reading on an almost daily basis about players going down with injuries. Most AFL clubs are affected and it's going to be very interesting how the different clubs fare with injuries over the year. Dave Misson had a great record with injuries when he last combined with Paul Roos and I'm hoping he can repeat it in 2014 at Melbourne.

[DeeSpencer 23,689]

Guys (and sue) I was thinking at late notice those attending tomorrows training could pick 3 or 4 players to focus there eyes on in the intraclub and post observations. That way we get a view of a lot of the list. I'll nominate myself to Strauss, Michie and Hunt.

If others can do the same for other players then that would be great.

Edited February 6, 2014 by the master

[Whispering_Jack 28,128]

Guys (and sue) I was thinking at late notice those attending tomorrows training could pick 3 or 4 players to focus there eyes on in the intraclub and post observations. That way we get a view of a lot of the list. I'll nominate myself to Strauss, Michie and Hunt.

If others can do the same for other players then that would be great.

Great idea. Roger should be able to handle cut & paste about 12 players on his own.

[Chelly 760]

It's really been a strange preseason. We're reading on an almost daily basis about players going down with injuries.

Two more today. Robert Murphy (WB) out for 8 weeks and Kieran Harper (NM) gone for 6 weeks.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

[Roger Mellie 3,669]

Great idea. Roger should be able to handle cut & paste about 12 players on his own.

I was very excited by the prospect of making it to Wednesday's training - bummer .

I cant get there tomorrow so will be relegated to cutting and pasting (hopefully Tas will post himself).

Good idea though master! Satyriconhome can have Bail, Byrnes and Westrupp

[tasmanlvr 529]

I cant get there tomorrow so will be relegated to cutting and pasting (hopefully Tas will post himself).

All over it Rog.

Edit: apparently the last one I posted was the fourth most liked post on this site and biggest in terms of likes on a training report. I think I may have a fair bit to live up to.

Edited February 6, 2014 by tasmanlvr

[Moonshadow 16,624]

All over it Rog.

Edit: apparently the last one I posted was the fourth most liked post on this site and biggest in terms of likes on a training report. I think I may have a fair bit to live up to.

Better familiarise yourself with the location of the public toilets beforehand Tasman, just in case you get the nervous runs. And keep hydrated!

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Better familiarise yourself with the location of the public toilets beforehand Tasman, just in case you get the nervous runs. And keep hydrated!

And don't wear Lycra.

[Satyriconhome 10,091]

I was very excited by the prospect of making it to Wednesday's training - bummer .

I cant get there tomorrow so will be relegated to cutting and pasting (hopefully Tas will post himself).

Good idea though master! Satyriconhome can have Bail, Byrnes and Westrupp

I love posters on here who attempt humour and fail so spectacularly

[Guest]

From the reports thus far we seem to be going for a more attacking style than the classic Sydney stoppage machine. Lots of drills have focused on fast movement through or near the corridor.

We seem to have an emphasis on getting the ball to CHF to open up our options going into the F50 rather than the Neeld plan of attacking along the flank which limited the options for our forwards.

There has also been a suggestion that it will be short accurate passing out of defence followed by the running/attacking movement from HB to the forward line.

I suspect that a lot will still depend on our back six, with the midfield basically trying to break even to stop the onslaught rather than dominating.

Historically Roos has also liked his talls, so I wouldn't be all that surprised to see extra talls appearing in the side in odd places some of the time. We could actually see Fitz on a wing.

Hmmmm. Almost sounds, dare I say it, Daniher-esque.

[Goodvibes 3,596]

I love posters on here who attempt humour and fail so spectacularly

I giggled.

[Satyriconhome 10,091]

I giggled.

So did I just looking forward to Bail and Byrnes being oustanding today, Westrupp showing he has taken big steps....will post my usuall boring report later today

[Goodvibes 3,596]

So did I just looking forward to Bail and Byrnes being oustanding today, Westrupp showing he has taken big steps....will post my usuall boring report later today

Loving the reports. Greatly appreciated.

[Roger Mellie 3,669]

I love posters on here who attempt humour and fail so spectacularly

Lighten up you old fart. At least they'll all be having great games

[tappysquads 618]

Pumped to see the new boys have a go this morn, I'll be the guy losing my **** whenever JKH go anywhere near the ball

[Hannibal 5,814]

I'd like someone to play devil's advocate and post a realistic report. I don't want them to be overly critical for the sake of it, but I also don't want the gushing reports where every player on the list looks like a frigging Super Duper STARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Know what I mean ?

Thanks.

[old dee 23,256]

Blowing a gale already doubt it will be of a great standard today.

[Cards13 9,117]

Blowing a gale already doubt it will be of a great standard today.

Is that becuase they are on fire ont he track OD?

[old dee 23,256]

Is that becuase they are on fire ont he track OD?

Not there yet Cards13

But you really don't need an answer do you?

[Bring-Back-Powell 13,657]

I was very excited by the prospect of making it to Wednesday's training - bummer .

I cant get there tomorrow so will be relegated to cutting and pasting (hopefully Tas will post himself).

Good idea though master! Satyriconhome can have Bail, Byrnes and Westrupp

Meanwhile who's going to volunteer to focus on Nicholson and Pedersen?

[Port Demons 124]

Can't make training today unfortunately - damn work !

Really looking forward to people posting how the scratch match plays out.

In particular, some insight into: match ups, styles of play, structure/set up's & who wins them etc

Keen to hear how Roosy is playing with the squad in the lead up to pre-season games.

Edited February 6, 2014 by Port Demons

[P-man 13,353]

Guys (and sue) I was thinking at late notice those attending tomorrows training could pick 3 or 4 players to focus there eyes on in the intraclub and post observations. That way we get a view of a lot of the list. I'll nominate myself to Strauss, Michie and Hunt.

If others can do the same for other players then that would be great.

This is actually a great idea if it could be co-ordinated. A big if, unfortunately. But even if 3 posters did it, that's 9 players with a detailed write up.

Edited February 6, 2014 by P-man