6 minutes ago, DeeZee said:

Haven't heard alot about Jordan Lewis how is he traveling?

Without being funny, he is exactly how you would expect him to be, everything he does is just professional, today when they were doing match simulation when they swapped over and some players stood watching, he was pointing, coaching, commenting.......when playing he was just Jordan Lewis

Great reports Deespicable and DeeSpencer. Much appreciated.

thanks everyone;hopefully i will get down there in 17.

 

I attended training today to get out of my un air-conditioned house. I pretty much just sat in the shade so I'm only going from what I saw from a far.

Rehab group: Filipovic,King,TMac,Pedo,Wagner & Hannan

Brayshaw came off the ground with troubles to his foot. Got assessed by the docs and they put him through a series of run throughs and exercises. Nev also came off early but wasn't attended to as did Frost who had a bit of work done on his lower back.

There was some form of VIP group that got invited down to training, a lot of oldies including the great Ron Barassi. Robbo & Daisy Pearce were also there. Matt Egan addressed this group for a few minutes and as luck would have it I happen to be within earshot of most of this. He gave a brief description of what we were meant to be seeing in each drill (at that moment). There was one drill where there were 2 lots of defenders & attackers and the defenders were to block leads and the attackers were to block the defenders from blocking leads. Looked like a bit of merry-go-round until it was explained by Egan. Another drill was stoppage work from the mids and the other drill was leading & contesting marking up forward with an emphasis on repeat efforts & Hogan's name was dropped. Egan said whilst they are happy with Hogan's contested marking they'd like him to have repeat efforts and impact more contests.

Egan was asked about the music at training. For those who haven't been to training, they have music blasting out from the punt rd end. The reason behind this is to overcome noise & in game day situations there are points where you cant hear the person that's yelling at you so you have to use signals.

Egan also made mention of Goodwins coaching style at training where he likes short,sharp,intense drills. If you've been you'll notice that drills go for about 5 mins and then they huddle in the middle very quickly & break out again. He likes to change it up and not leave room for rest and see how the group deals with fatigue.

One thing that was noticeable in todays session was the emphasis of using your opposite foot in the drills. Frost, Petracca were prob the worst. Suprisingly Weiderman pretty handy on the op.

There was a 3/4 ground drill where the emphasis was on quick ball movement, playing on or 'rolling' as the players would call it. Oliver had good hands, Hibberd, Lewis & Watts field kicking were sublime & Spencer held his own against Gawn.

I was a little disappointed when a wayward kick got kicked to Viney and as he lead to it he was quickly approaching the fence. I was the only one to yell out 'fence' and by then it was too late and he cannoned into it. Luckily he is built like a wombat and got straight back up but it could have been far worse.||

Max Gawn made note of the lack of talk and gave a spray from the sidelines.

As I left they were doing some form of 3/4 ground run throughs around the boundary. Up & back twice. As they finished and naturally put their hands behind their heads, Gawn & Lewis ripped into em and said words to the affect 'don't show signs of fatigue. The comp wont know what's gonna hit em'.

Wagner, TMac & Pedo did a lot of lap running.

Leadership group locks at this stage look like: Jones,Gawn,Viney,Lewis

Contrary to recent reports, Oliver was in the main session today looking like he has knocked off the puppy fat. Petracca looked like he was on limited minutes.

Feel free to ask questions, however I normally drink at this time of the night

What an epic trilogy of training reports from @Deespicable, @DeeSpencer & @Stevienic23.

Thanks to all 3 of you for the brilliant write-ups.

Thanks everyone. 

I love reading all of your reports!

The oldies group was the Bequest group /committee of the Club

Wagner has had a grumbly quad

Think Nev's issue is blisters, gave me a silly answer when I asked

Garlo's strapping is precautionary 

BenKen's strapping from incident on Friday

Excellent reporting of drills again by DSs 

 

11 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

The oldies group was the Bequest group /committee of the Club

Wagner has had a grumbly quad

Think Nev's issue is blisters, gave me a silly answer when I asked

Garlo's strapping is precautionary 

BenKen's strapping from incident on Friday

Excellent reporting of drills again by DSs 

 

He was definitely sore and feeling his ankle after clashing with Stretch. Not sure it's major but it's not just blisters. Brayshaw had me more worried but I was happy to see back on his feet and do some run throughs.

1 hour ago, DeeSpencer said:

He was definitely sore and feeling his ankle after clashing with Stretch. Not sure it's major but it's not just blisters. Brayshaw had me more worried but I was happy to see back on his feet and do some run throughs.

Brayshaw was ok, Nev had his toes and sole of his foot taped before training, assumed blisters, didn't see the ankle bit, but after previous injuries he has ankles strapped now, wasn't limping when I spoke to him, told me he was sore from stepping too many teammates ?

Let's be realistic, if we get through till Christmas without a reasonably serious injury or two, we'll be doing well.

Great reports fellers!

5 hours ago, bing181 said:

Let's be realistic, if we get through till Christmas without a reasonably serious injury or two, we'll be doing well.

Which should happen given we're not in full contact yet

10 hours ago, Stevienic23 said:

Egan was asked about the music at training. For those who haven't been to training, they have music blasting out from the punt rd end. The reason behind this is to overcome noise & in game day situations there are points where you cant hear the person that's yelling at you so you have to use signals.
 

 

I had a conference at the Glass House yesterday next to the Pies ground. They had the music blaring from the sidelines as well. 

Worth noting that they looked pretty bloody average, especially going forward. A lot of passes dropping short or going straight to a defender. So much for the highest rated midfield in the comp!

 

 

Geez I love that comment by Gawn that the Comps not gonna know what hit them!

1 hour ago, Stevienic23 said:

Which should happen given we're not in full contact yet

Unfortunately you don't need full contact to get injured.

Is There open Training on Wednesday 14th December?

May wander down to my second session

 

11 minutes ago, jackaub said:

Is There open Training on Wednesday 14th December?

May wander down to my second session

 

It is supposedly closed but they have been training Wednesdays  start about 9.15  only issue if 2nd 3k is on

Thanks for the info Saty

14 hours ago, SaberFang said:

What an epic trilogy of training reports from @Deespicable, @DeeSpencer & @Stevienic23.

Thanks to all 3 of you for the brilliant write-ups.

Seconded.

3 hours ago, Redleg said:

Unfortunately you don't need full contact to get injured.

Yep, during preseason most of the serious injuries seem to occur from innocuous incidents.

Just the other day an Eagles player did his ACL changing direction.

1 hour ago, boydie said:

Yep, during preseason most of the serious injuries seem to occur from innocuous incidents.

Just the other day an Eagles player did his ACL changing direction.

I thought about it once but I changed my mind, too dangerous.

8 hours ago, Stevienic23 said:

Which should happen given we're not in full contact yet

If we aren't in full contact we are pretty close. They are bumping, tackling, spoiling, crashing in on loose balls. 

It wouldn't surprise me if after Monday they pull back and focus on skills and running for the next 2 sessions to get through til the end of year break then ramp up the competitive stuff again. Then again, they are trying to train at high intensity and under pressure so they'll probably just keep it going.

32 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

If we aren't in full contact we are pretty close. They are bumping, tackling, spoiling, crashing in on loose balls. 

It wouldn't surprise me if after Monday they pull back and focus on skills and running for the next 2 sessions to get through til the end of year break then ramp up the competitive stuff again. Then again, they are trying to train at high intensity and under pressure so they'll probably just keep it going.

I agree DS, the physicality of the sessions has been a standout, Wednesdays are normally craft days, but there is still a bit of banging bodies, believe the plan for Friday is 'to put on a show for the supporters' so assume it will be more of the same, I hope so anyway,

Difference this year is Misso's program has worked it's magic over 3 years and we have men clashing with men, as somebody has already said you do can do an ACL turning too quickly, think they just want to train as they will play

I think the pics of Pencil and Hulett wrestling sums up the training, and Kent, trying to bring down Max, if you can stick them here

Injuries suck, but if you train to avoid them, you will never be much good.

We need to be physical and train hard within reason- aka keep Viney away from everyone 

22 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Injuries suck, but if you train to avoid them, you will never be much good.

We need to be physical and train hard within reason- aka keep Viney away from everyone 

As they say "yeah right", he nearly killed a fence on Monday.

I have spoken to both Macca and Goody, if you shirk at training, you shirk in games, it is non-negotiable, any really good fair hit or tackle gets instant praise