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Posted
2 hours ago, Mad_Melbourne said:

My initial comments were all tongue in cheek, as I carried on with it a bit further. But his response was to me being sarcastic in regards to players being given a program and it's got much more legs than necessary. 

 

I dont think our players would not be under instruction in regards to running at pre season. 

I don't think they could get away with being lazy in the early sessions to improve later in the pre season and look better. 

I didn't think I needed to explain that all those comments had my tongue planted firmly in my cheek 

I find it much easier to make comments that nobody understands.....

Posted
1 minute ago, willmoy said:

I find it much easier to make comments that nobody understands.....

Yes, I've noticed that.

 

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Posted
25 minutes ago, Swooper said:

Have been past Gosh's on 3-4 occasions over the break and Maynard was working 1-on-1 with Cross.

Busy boy Crossy, so glad we got him.... and Maynard....

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Dante said:

Yes, I've noticed that.

 

Hey, i was being sarcastic too....

Posted
37 minutes ago, Tram 74 said:

The bloke on the right seems really happy to meet Goodwin.

lol - the bloke on the right is goodwin (and he looks somewhat apprehensive)

 

just razzin ya. i know what ya meant

Posted
15 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

 

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Saty with pillow, Saty's mate packing a pistol, or very small hand gun, Goodwin adopts defensive taekwondo stance. Man on grassy knoll runs away.

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Posted

Just an observation:  many seem to be wearing watches.  Do / should they remove them when doing any sort of tackling drills at all?  Could do a serious finger injury to the tackler.  

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Posted

They keep their watches on when there are shady characters lurking on the sidelines.

lets hope kents terrible ear ring and  prince alberts are left in the locker.

Posted
30 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Just an observation:  many seem to be wearing watches.  Do / should they remove them when doing any sort of tackling drills at all?  Could do a serious finger injury to the tackler.  

Most were timing themselves for laps. I assume when they change from their running shoes they likely drop the watch as well.  

Posted
19 minutes ago, Biffen said:

They keep their watches on when there are shady characters lurking on the sidelines.

lets hope kents terrible ear ring and  prince alberts are left in the locker.

no, they keep their watches on so they remember left from right

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Posted
41 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Just an observation:  many seem to be wearing watches.  Do / should they remove them when doing any sort of tackling drills at all?  Could do a serious finger injury to the tackler.  

I recognise a few of them are wearing fitbit watches. These record your heartbeat as well as how many footsteps you are taking and they also have a GPS to measure how far you have run and possibly even how fast. It can all be uploaded to an app which has graphs to show all of this at the same time. It looked like a few of the other watches were also training computers which would have this info. The GPS gizmos they have in their shirts that are directly connected to the Club's computers don't give the players any info while they are out there but these watches do.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, It's Time said:

I recognise a few of them are wearing fitbit watches. These record your heartbeat as well as how many footsteps you are taking and they also have a GPS to measure how far you have run and possibly even how fast. It can all be uploaded to an app which has graphs to show all of this at the same time. It looked like a few of the other watches were also training computers which would have this info. The GPS gizmos they have in their shirts that are directly connected to the Club's computers don't give the players any info while they are out there but these watches do.

wifey has same watch....quite remarkable the amount of info you get off of it.  Records sleep as well.

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Is it possible to quarantine the pointless and worthless personal chit-chat between posters from the real news about our players and their progress over the pre-season? Like many other readers I highly value the training observations but don't want to have to scroll through multiple pages of nonsense to find the information I want. Perhaps a "mirror" topic where the observations can also be posted for their juvenile fun without sullying the main topic with the important information? This issue will only get worse throughout the pre-season when these reports are the only football news that sustains us. The players, coaches and committed posters deserve to be treated with more respect than is shown currently.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, tiers said:

Is it possible to quarantine the pointless and worthless personal chit-chat between posters from the real news about our players and their progress over the pre-season? Like many other readers I highly value the training observations but don't want to have to scroll through multiple pages of nonsense to find the information I want. Perhaps a "mirror" topic where the observations can also be posted for their juvenile fun without sullying the main topic with the important information? This issue will only get worse throughout the pre-season when these reports are the only football news that sustains us. The players, coaches and committed posters deserve to be treated with more respect than is shown currently.

No chance.

Anyway, how have you been Tiers?  Hope the family is well mate.  Been weird weather, hey?

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Posted
18 minutes ago, tiers said:

Is it possible to quarantine the pointless and worthless personal chit-chat between posters from the real news about our players and their progress over the pre-season? Like many other readers I highly value the training observations but don't want to have to scroll through multiple pages of nonsense to find the information I want. Perhaps a "mirror" topic where the observations can also be posted for their juvenile fun without sullying the main topic with the important information? This issue will only get worse throughout the pre-season when these reports are the only football news that sustains us. The players, coaches and committed posters deserve to be treated with more respect than is shown currently.

Tiers, that's life isn't it. Trolling through endless flotsam & jetsam searching for gems. Listening to fools and idiots, reading reams of illiterate rantings. Toughen up princess, this is demonland.

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Posted
39 minutes ago, tiers said:

Is it possible to quarantine the pointless and worthless personal chit-chat between posters from the real news about our players and their progress over the pre-season? Like many other readers I highly value the training observations but don't want to have to scroll through multiple pages of nonsense to find the information I want. Perhaps a "mirror" topic where the observations can also be posted for their juvenile fun without sullying the main topic with the important information? This issue will only get worse throughout the pre-season when these reports are the only football news that sustains us. The players, coaches and committed posters deserve to be treated with more respect than is shown currently.

What time is it ?

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Posted
50 minutes ago, tiers said:

Is it possible to quarantine the pointless and worthless personal chit-chat between posters from the real news about our players and their progress over the pre-season? Like many other readers I highly value the training observations but don't want to have to scroll through multiple pages of nonsense to find the information I want. Perhaps a "mirror" topic where the observations can also be posted for their juvenile fun without sullying the main topic with the important information? This issue will only get worse throughout the pre-season when these reports are the only football news that sustains us. The players, coaches and committed posters deserve to be treated with more respect than is shown currently.

It's good in theory but I don't want to miss out on who is or should / shouldn't be wearing lycra in the crowd at training.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Tram 74 said:

The bloke on the right seems really happy to meet Goodwin.

No he's my bodyguard, he has a gun in his pocket......(which makes a change)

Anyone would be happy to meet Goody, just checking with us that the game plan he is going to implement is ok for 2017, we gave it a tick of approval

Posted
8 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

No he's my bodyguard, he has a gun in his pocket......(which makes a change)

Given the amount of abuse you get around here, I fully understand your need for a bodyguard, Saty!

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Posted
2 hours ago, Biffen said:

They keep their watches on when there are shady characters lurking on the sidelines.

lets hope kents terrible ear ring and  prince alberts are left in the locker.

Now you have figured out the answer for Kent's poor form yesterday, he had forgotten to take it out and it came to a head halfway through the session

Think those watches are fitbits or whatever they were called, understand about the shady characters, my scooter actually didn't go walkabout yesterday, could be the fact that Max Gawn was not in attendance though

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Posted
23 hours ago, Red and Blue realist said:

Was he required to be there? He's going into his 5th season so not sure if he was, might be using the extra week or so he has off to get back into shape before being required to 'officially' be there? That's not to say he looks way out of shape but I imagine some guys get back to close to full training a week or so before pre-season even begins.

Maybe Kent's considered a fourth year player (has played 4 years since 2013) and was subsequently required to be there.

And maybe Oliver and Weideman are still considered first year players.

 

 

Posted
2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Maybe Kent's considered a fourth year player (has played 4 years since 2013) and was subsequently required to be there.

And maybe Oliver and Weideman are still considered first year players.

Oliver and Weideman are in a different category to Kent as both played in the VFL Grand Final so start back later.

Posted
18 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

Satyricon "Show us your guns"

Goody "No."

Other fellow "Show us your guns or I'll break your legs"

Literally almost made me choke on a sandwich you scallywag! 

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2 hours ago, It's Time said:

I recognise a few of them are wearing fitbit watches. These record your heartbeat as well as how many footsteps you are taking and they also have a GPS to measure how far you have run and possibly even how fast. It can all be uploaded to an app which has graphs to show all of this at the same time. It looked like a few of the other watches were also training computers which would have this info. The GPS gizmos they have in their shirts that are directly connected to the Club's computers don't give the players any info while they are out there but these watches do.

Yes.  When I  said watches,  I really meant those gizmos but my concern re finger injuries when and if they wear them in contact sessions stands.  

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