Training Thursday 29th May

[Satyriconhome 10,880]

Frawley did the whole session, asked him, said he was ready to go and looking forward to it

Last 20 minutes of session, midfield group stood in a circle in middle of ground with lots of discussion , pointing, repositioning think the coaching group are still not happy with some of the centre bounce setups, all playes seemed to be allowed input as well...Stafford did a lot of talking interestingly

Spoke to Nev Jetta as to why he had pulled out of Richmond game, said he had a bit of gastro but thought he would be ok to play, but concerned that if he had a bad game he would let the team down and may lose his place, preferred to do the team thing and pull out

Spoke to quite a few players just to say hello, one thing that struck me is that they are all really looking forward to the game on Saturday, and it is not just empty words, you can sense the renewed belief

Watts was sublime in the kicking drills today, most drills consisted of spreading from stoppages, and full lenght from kickouts

Believe Casey have some sort of praccy match in next couple of days so some left early, leaving the team that played Richmond plus Jetta, Nicholson, McKenzie and Georgiou, so that may point in some way to emergencies

If you have any questions feel free to ask

Edited May 29, 2014 by Satyriconhome

[Generation dee 1,336]

Were there any training drills that looked different from usual, as in how to try to combat port adelaides 2 way running and ability to get loose players forward?

I watch them play in envy how they get loose players running forward of centre into open goals. Id love to know a stat of goals kicked inside 15metres from goal, I suspect port adelaide would be clearly ahead.

Furthermore saty, did any player's mention any tips the coaching staff had used to get them firing coming off a bye? Plenty of teams have lost after the bye in previous years.

[What 18,810]

All i wanna know is if Jesse started running yet

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,910]

Frawley did the whole session, asked him, said he was ready to go and looking forward to it

Last 20 minutes of session, midfield group stood in a circle in middle of ground with lots of discussion , pointing, repositioning think the coaching group are still not happy with some of the centre bounce setups, all playes seemed to be allowed input as well...Stafford did a lot of talking interestingly

Spoke to Nev Jetta as to why he had pulled out of Richmond game, said he had a bit of gastro but thought he would be ok to play, but concerned that if he had a bad game he would let the team down and may lose his place, preferred to do the team thing and pull out

Spoke to quite a few players just to say hello, one thing that struck me is that they are all really looking forward to the game on Saturday, and it is not just empty words, you can sense the renewed belief

Watts was sublime in the kicking drills today, most drills consisted of spreading from stoppages, and full lenght from kickouts

Believe Casey have some sort of praccy match in next couple of days so some left early, leaving the team that played Richmond plus Jetta, Nicholson, McKenzie and Georgiou, so that may point in some way to emergencies

If you have any questions feel free to ask

Plus Frawley?

[Satyriconhome 10,880]

I won't quote makes the topic too big

The players were switched on from the get go, lots of talk, lots of encouragement

There were a couple of drills which required players to get through a defensive group which then became the attacking group against a new defensive group which then became an attacking group..so yes two way running

[Satyriconhome 10,880]

Plus Frawley?

Whoops, old age, yes sorry had previously mentioned him, and Dawes

No sign of Hogan, Byrnes, Clisby, King, Spencer, Trengove, Barry

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,910]

King and Clisby are already in the NT. MFC just tweeted a picture of them in a school classroom giving out lunchboxes with MFC logos.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,910]

Here's the tweet. And correction - it's an AFL NT tweet, retweeted by MFC

@melbournefc Mitch Clisby and Max King at Sadadeen Primary School launching @coles Lunchbox Program @AFL_Indigenous pic.twitter.com/pjCSmELWR7