Following on from the reports of training on Monday, I'm wondering what the story is with today's training session. 

Did it happen?

Did the players realise that they were supposed to be on holiday and therefore opted out or did they take the day off in solidarity with Heritier Lumumba on the announcement of his retirement?

If it turns out that there was indeed no training today then please feel free to derail this thread. We can make an exception in the Spirit of Christmas.

JKH was training by himself with Crossy and a fitness staff member. Some sprints a bit of ball work.

No one else in sight.

2 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Following on from the reports of training on Monday, I'm wondering what the story is with today's training session. 

Did it happen?

Did the players realise that they were supposed to be on holiday and therefore opted out or did they take the day off in solidarity with Heritier Lumumba on the announcement of his retirement?

If it turns out that there was indeed no training today then please feel free to derail this thread. We can make an exception in the Spirit of Christmas.

Well in that case I'd like to take this opportunity to criticise Stuie for .... for ...........  well there must be ...........  It'll come to me .................!    I'm sure he's guilty of ....... something.

Edited December 21, 20168 yr by Bitter but optimistic
typo

3 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

JKH was training by himself with Crossy and a fitness staff member. Some sprints a bit of ball work.

No one else in sight.

Where are the 200 photos of JKH?

29 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Where are the 200 photos of JKH?

 

29 minutes ago, Redleg said:

 

Sorry, only took one.

 

Edited December 21, 20168 yr by Six6Six

Is there a harder working MFC staffer than Crossy?  That pick up keeps giving in spades.

 

 

All the other players were at the Heretier farewell function 

56 minutes ago, Six6Six said:

 

Sorry, only took one.

 

But it was a good one.

Training Report:

First one for the year so my 12 year old and I were really looking forward to it.

The team started with a clover leaf passing formation with the coach looking on from afar.  Each player started at a cone with one player in the middle, he passed the ball to one of the outside players who in turn would pass off into space for the next player to run on to, they in turn passed on to the next alternating with the player in the middle.

The skill level seemed pretty good considering where they are in the season with lots of passes hitting the mark.  Some of the second stringers were lacking the finish of the starting line up.  This exercise went on for about 15 minutes.

The next drill was passing tighly in space with an unbalanced attack and defense ratio which required pin point passes.  Once again, there seems a bit of a gulf between the more senior player and the younger guys.  This was another 15- 20 minute exercise.  By this stage with the humidity and the incredible number of pesky flies we decided to head off to the tennis centre to do some Christmas Shopping (fail as they have run out of tennis balls!!!)

We did notice that the filth were out trainig doing a full ground drill at Eddieland, my only observation was that Bucks appears to be working on getting his team of champions moving the ball out of defense by constantly missing targets at speed. From our osbervation they were excelling at this tactic.

We stopped off at Edwins for a coffee and an iced chocolate and debated the training drills that we had seen and how they had changed since last year.

As we wandered past Gosch's to our car we noticed that the team were doing a full match simulation.

Stand out players were Broxham, Ansell, Troisi and of course Berisha.

Look forward to seeing another session in 2017! 

Merry Christmas Demonlanders!!

Woof.

14 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Following on from the reports of training on Monday, I'm wondering what the story is with today's training session. 

Did it happen?

Did the players realise that they were supposed to be on holiday and therefore opted out or did they take the day off in solidarity with Heritier Lumumba on the announcement of his retirement?

If it turns out that there was indeed no training today then please feel free to derail this thread. We can make an exception in the Spirit of Christmas.

Excellent, no more warnings about derailing threads, all I need now is someone else to start talking about a something that's completely off topic .

11 hours ago, Six6Six said:

 

Sorry, only took one.

 

Good one 666.

Another reminder that a picture is worth a thousand words.

1 hour ago, AzzKikA said:

Excellent, no more warnings about derailing threads, all I need now is someone else to start talking about a something that's completely off topic .

We get it.  You're annoyed about a warning.  I copped a month ban, but cop it on the chin.

Stop sooking it up.

Not sure if anyone saw AFL.com's MFC preseason report video. Ben Guthrie gave a good old whack to both Oliver and Pedders for coming back in poor shape, despite the fact that Cam was injured. 

2 hours ago, Salems Lot said:

Training Report:

First one for the year so my 12 year old and I were really looking forward to it.

The team started with a clover leaf passing formation with the coach looking on from afar.  Each player started at a cone with one player in the middle, he passed the ball to one of the outside players who in turn would pass off into space for the next player to run on to, they in turn passed on to the next alternating with the player in the middle.

The skill level seemed pretty good considering where they are in the season with lots of passes hitting the mark.  Some of the second stringers were lacking the finish of the starting line up.  This exercise went on for about 15 minutes.

The next drill was passing tighly in space with an unbalanced attack and defense ratio which required pin point passes.  Once again, there seems a bit of a gulf between the more senior player and the younger guys.  This was another 15- 20 minute exercise.  By this stage with the humidity and the incredible number of pesky flies we decided to head off to the tennis centre to do some Christmas Shopping (fail as they have run out of tennis balls!!!)

We did notice that the filth were out trainig doing a full ground drill at Eddieland, my only observation was that Bucks appears to be working on getting his team of champions moving the ball out of defense by constantly missing targets at speed. From our osbervation they were excelling at this tactic.

We stopped off at Edwins for a coffee and an iced chocolate and debated the training drills that we had seen and how they had changed since last year.

As we wandered past Gosch's to our car we noticed that the team were doing a full match simulation.

Stand out players were Broxham, Ansell, Troisi and of course Berisha.

Look forward to seeing another session in 2017! 

Merry Christmas Demonlanders!!

Woof.

Rojas out on the track and moving well  ?

30 minutes ago, ProDee said:

We get it.  You're annoyed about a warning.  I copped a month ban, but cop it on the chin.

Stop sooking it up.

Will remember that.

45 minutes ago, Melbournepotter said:

Rojas out on the track and moving well  ?

very smooth! (teeny weeny)

Edited December 22, 20168 yr by Salems Lot

58 minutes ago, ProDee said:

We get it.  You're annoyed about a warning.  I copped a month ban, but cop it on the chin.

Stop sooking it up.

Hahah love it! You, Stuie and a couple of others all copped a month during the great purge. I only got 2 weeks. Don't know if it was deemed low impact, it was certainly intentional. Maybe it was that karma thing ...or the spirit of Christmas.

Funny though.

1 hour ago, Mickey said:

Not sure if anyone saw AFL.com's MFC preseason report video. Ben Guthrie gave a good old whack to both Oliver and Pedders for coming back in poor shape, despite the fact that Cam was injured. 

And despite the fact that Oliver almost died, all through his break, from a malicious strain of hay fever. Poor love.

Not the sharpest tool in the shed and when someone told him hay fever could be treated by copious amounts of beer and getting blind at sketchy clubs he believed them.

39 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Hahah love it! You, Stuie and a couple of others all copped a month during the great purge. I only got 2 weeks. Don't know if it was deemed low impact, it was certainly intentional. Maybe it was that karma thing ...or the spirit of Christmas.

Funny though.

Not as long as the year I copped a while back 

It's good for the soul.

RE Pro Dee's Avatar

That Raquel Welch is a fine form of a woman...Fantastic voyage....a lesson in biology dressed up in a wet suit! 

Edited December 22, 20168 yr by Salems Lot

4 hours ago, Mickey said:

Not sure if anyone saw AFL.com's MFC preseason report video. Ben Guthrie gave a good old whack to both Oliver and Pedders for coming back in poor shape, despite the fact that Cam was injured. 

He must trawl here, wasn't he the same journo who said training was on yesterday, should have checked with me

 

2 hours ago, Salems Lot said:

RE Pro Dee's Avatar

That Raquel Welch is a fine form of a woman...Fantastic voyage....a lesson in biology dressed up in a wet suit! 

1,000, 000 years BC an anthropological study in animal skin bikini

4 hours ago, Mickey said:

Not sure if anyone saw AFL.com's MFC preseason report video. Ben Guthrie gave a good old whack to both Oliver and Pedders for coming back in poor shape, despite the fact that Cam was injured. 

Interesting. Pedda's never going to have the same body shape or endurance as Tom McDonald but from watching the rehab runs he's been keeping up with a strong group of runners including Trengove, Vanders and Viney. Shape wise he's certainly the bulkiest big man we have but that's always been him and I don't think he's in bad condition, certainly nothing like when he first came to the club. 

3 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Interesting. Pedda's never going to have the same body shape or endurance as Tom McDonald but from watching the rehab runs he's been keeping up with a strong group of runners including Trengove, Vanders and Viney. Shape wise he's certainly the bulkiest big man we have but that's always been him and I don't think he's in bad condition, certainly nothing like when he first came to the club. 

I have already put this DS, Peddo has had  a couple of different coaches and what size he should be, he is at size and body shape Macca and Goody want him at, but with 'new' gameplan has to be able to run more,  like all of them, spoke to him about it, why we have a new running machine in Spencer as well, has to

Ignore Guthrie another one who gets his 'stories' off here

Edited December 22, 20168 yr by Satyriconhome
bloody smartphone

At training on Friday Peddo was just in front of me and lifted his jumper to wipe his face.  I can tell you there is not one bit of fat on him, he looked ripped.

I was surprised to hear in the report he wasn't in good shape, I reckon it's rot.  I've got no idea what the story with Oliver is but he was a star on Friday although his running is poor by AFL standards.  He has this break to make things right and we'll learn a bit when he comes back in the new year.  The kid is a freak, he just needs to learn good habits.  Macca will do the job with him I'm sure.