Training - Monday 16th January, 2017

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Arrived on time. Only ANB, Filipovic & Hanban in rehab group with Crossy... maybe Mitch King had graduated!

Beautiful morning in Melbourne, going to be 31 today (cheers Ron Barassi!).

Main group just arriving.

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Kent training?

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Only Tyson, Kent & Hulett missing.

Big cheer for Kingy as they jog off on warm up lap.

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Petracca very particular on how he wants his knee taped near boundary line

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Wally    Kent

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Just going through routines at the moment, run throughs, short kicks... nothing of significance to report

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Into 3 groups for skills/evasive work with assistants. Misso comes over and carefully rearranged a cone that a toddler/spectator had carried around for a while

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2 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Into 3 groups for skills/evasive work with assistants. Misso comes over and carefully rearranged a cone that a toddler/spectator had carried around for a while

Dion j?

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Agility on feet through cones layout.... beautiful to watch!

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Three sets of 60 metre sprints.

Petracca just leads Melksham for 2, Melksham pips him on third.

Johnstone impressive but Clarrie runs him down in third. Keilty is quite quick. 

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23 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Misso comes over and carefully rearranged a cone that a toddler/spectator had carried around for a while

It's this sort of attention to detail that typifies New Melbourne.

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30 metre passing, full ground. Assistant (couldn't tell which) calls them in because they aren't doing enough when they haven't got ball

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He wants them to scream for the ball when they haven't got it. 

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2 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

30 metre passing, full ground. Assistant (couldn't tell which) calls them in because they aren't doing enough when they haven't got ball

Awesome. Moving without the ball has been my biggest problem with us for 10 years!

Cheers for the reports btw WW

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5 minutes ago, stuie said:

Awesome. Moving without the ball has been my biggest problem with us for 10 years!

Cheers for the reports btw WW

 

Which is why we've been utterly shite from kick-ins and going forward. 

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There's quite a bit of 'dissatisfaction' being expressed by the assistants today. It's a lazy day sunshine type of Monday! I don't think the squad are particularly poor... I think it's time to crank it up!

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First time long time guys & girls. 

Very excited for the year ahead, somehow managing to keep a lid on it however.

Getting slightly concerned re the training reports and Dean Kent ... seems something suss is going on.

Any word on what is happening there? 

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The iron boundary rail is too hot to lean on now as they break into small groups again. The group near me are doing a run and carry activity which is very willing. Wagner puts White down, Hoges flips Garlett over into a barrel roll. Rawlings is barking instructions... first demanding more, then full of praise for intensity and decision making

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Gotta love it when there's no injury news on a player who hasn't trained for over two weeks now.

Really good stuff.

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Groups rotate now. Standouts in previous group, Watts, Jones, Wagner. Slight errors by foot... Billy, Oscar. In new group Clayton holds on to ball for too long... a little later he is monstered by Max, but bounces up and gets straight back into it. Bernie excels by foot. Kielty is praised for two great intercepts

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Harmes been doing well, Judy just took on Maynard and won. Johnstown pops it up a little high for Kielty, but he marks and handballs back to Johnstone who has run on impressively... he nails a 'goal'. Rawlings calls them in, then they rest. Max is outstanding in these small team games

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Hannan putting some space between him and Filipivic as they run the boundary... perhaps he got a jump start. This rehab group, which includes ANB has continued, hard at it, throughout the session. The main group are in the centre now setting up the next drill. A trainer holds up the magnets to allocate teams/roles

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Maybe family matters over in perth for Kent?  Has anyone even seen him since the break?

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11 v 8 defenders between the HF lines. Long Petracca pass cut off by Hibberd, he passes over the back to a running Spencer, but Jetta runs him down and stops him in a vice like tackle

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Defenders, including Max and Oliver intercept the next thrust, pass to Bugg who holds on for too long and the reset whistle blows