21 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

OK. Interesting. You'd reckon an older age recruit would bust his chops to play but I have since read an article where Melbourne told him after yr 1 that if he didn't lift his game he would be delisted despite having a 3 yr deal.

 

Year	Team	#	GM	W-D-L	KI	MK	HB	DI	GL	BH	HO	TK	RB	IF	CL	CG	FF	FA	BR	CP	UP	CM	MI	1%	BO	GA
Totals			61	19-0-42	456	298	361	817	51	30	196	153	90	133	42	127	53	57		349	479	75	65	209	7	35
Averages			10.17	31.15%	7.48	4.89	5.92	13.39	0.84	0.49	3.21	2.51	1.48	2.18	0.69	2.08	0.87	0.93		5.72	7.85	1.23	1.07	3.43	0.11	0.57
2011	North Melbourne	39	14	7-0-7	132	74	59	191	18	5	29	34	31	30	7	24	15	10		73	118	20	18	64	1	10
2012	North Melbourne	39	2	0-0-2	15	10	7	22	2	1	4	4	2	2	1	5	2	3		6	17	2	4	4		1
2013	Melbourne	21	10	1-0-9	66	57	69	135	5	2	15	23	23	17	3	25	4	12		50	86	10	5	40	5	2
2014	Melbourne	21	19	4-0-15	136	82	118	254	14	9	92	58	20	49	15	39	16	15		126	135	21	20	66	1	11
2015	Melbourne	21	7	1-0-6	46	37	42	88	6	6	23	18	4	14	9	13	7	5		39	49	10	9	13		3
2016	Melbourne	21	9	6-0-3	61	38	66	127	6	7	33	16	10	21	7	21	9	12		55	74	12	9	22		8

In his first year with us he played 10 games for 1 win and averaged 13.5 possessions. Not a terrible output for a big bloke.

I presume plenty of others were therefore told to lift their game as well.

 

1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

OK. Interesting. You'd reckon an older age recruit would bust his chops to play but I have since read an article where Melbourne told him after yr 1 that if he didn't lift his game he would be delisted despite having a 3 yr deal.

 

It's no more surprising than any player not busting their chops, really. You'd think most players would be aware of their privileged position but at the end of the day, some humans are strongly self-motivating, while others need a hard kick up the arse to get going.

How often do you see some players consistently play their best season in the year their contract expires?

1 hour ago, Nasher said:

It's no more surprising than any player not busting their chops, really. You'd think most players would be aware of their privileged position but at the end of the day, some humans are strongly self-motivating, while others need a hard kick up the arse to get going.

How often do you see some players consistently play their best season in the year their contract expires?

Classic Col Sylvia move.

1 hour ago, Nasher said:

It's no more surprising than any player not busting their chops, really. You'd think most players would be aware of their privileged position but at the end of the day, some humans are strongly self-motivating, while others need a hard kick up the arse to get going.

How often do you see some players consistently play their best season in the year their contract expires?

 

Went too 

Pros

- Lewis - like a gift from God

JKH, Stretch, Trenners, Maxy, McKenna, Oscar and Keilty( kid has something),Harmes, Hunt, Watts ,JV,and Pedo. And Chunk always. and  AVB, Bugg. ANB won the coaches award for the session.

Like the work being put in too last line of defence to clear the ball out.

Fast ball movement evident.

CONS

Jesse just looks to slim

Fast ball movement really exposes poor foot skills.

Bernie and Hibberd's mows awful.

 

3 hours ago, Nasher said:

It's no more surprising than any player not busting their chops, really. You'd think most players would be aware of their privileged position but at the end of the day, some humans are strongly self-motivating, while others need a hard kick up the arse to get going.

How often do you see some players consistently play their best season in the year their contract expires?

Pederson's last year of his 3y deal was 2015 and judging from the stats above he doesn't fit your profile. He's a conundrum for sure...

Can anyone comment on how Keilty looked in the match sim, how he handled the heat, and if he looks like there might be a place for him in the backline? Cheers

50 minutes ago, Drunkn167 said:

Can anyone comment on how Keilty looked in the match sim, how he handled the heat, and if he looks like there might be a place for him in the backline? Cheers

You could just give him a call no?

It seems like most people have covered things really well but I'll throw in my two cents.

I'll add to the praise for JKH, I must have missed all of the turnovers because I think at this stage he'll make Kent/ Garlett nervous about maintaining their spots in the best 22.

Sure he missed a couple of targets under high pressure but they were still generally to advantage.

I'm not sure I agree about Vandeburg, I thought he was a bit clumsy even though he was in everything, he seems happy he's in the new jersey though.

In regards to Keilty, he took some great marks and seemed to be getting around the ground fairly well, I would have liked to see him in the forward/ backs drill at the end ( might have missed him in there earlier when I was watching the grappling drill). One moment stood out for me as it was right in front of me on the wing. JKH had gotten away from his direct opponent (not sure who it was) and sat underneath a bit of a floater. Keilty was about 15m away jogging over to pick him up when (I think) Lewis yelled at him to go hard and that he would make it so he put the foot down and absolutely bowled over poor JKH, he hurt himself a little bit in the process but received a lot of praise for the extra effort as it spilled the ball to the advantage of his team.

Oliver was a bit of a standout, there's not much of his puppy fat left on him, he looks a lot fitter so I'm a bit confused by all of the reports from dlanders and reporters saying he is under done.

Another standout moment was when he was leading for a ball that missed the target and went to his opponent heading the opposite direction. They managed to get the ball away quickly and got 15m on Oliver and ran up to link after the kick. Ollie put his head down closed the space to prevent that option. His opponent didn't get used so it probably wasn't noticeable but I thought that defensive gut running in that heat was impressive. Ollie looks like he can get up a bit of speed when he get going, i think he'll run out a few more games this year.

Oscar McDonald also impressed me today, he still needs to put on a bit of size but he was very competitive against the much bigger Max and Hoges.

The forward/ backs drill at the end had 4 talls standing in a diamond shape about 20m apart while one player had to compete for the ball as Lewis bombed it towards them, they then had to run to the next contest and compete with all four before changing out. Everyone was cheering on Weids at the end who was absolutely spent and really only lost out to Max who shoved him aside and took it out in front. I though Oscar Mac comepeted really well in this drill. Hogan, Max and Watts were obviously all very impressive in this drill but as far as winning the ball in the air O mac and Frosty made it particularly difficult for them.

The wrestling drill was a bit of laugh, it seemed they almost had to wrestle each other to the ground before leading for a short kick. Pedo struggled towards the end against Mackenna which wasn't surprising at the end of an almost 4 hour session. Garland and Watts were fun to watch.

I didn't really notice many of the new boys, Hibberd seems fairly surly, I either didn't notice or didn't see Tim Smith (hard when they're in bibs/ have new numbers) and only realised who Melksham was when my mate picked out his fleuro yellow boots.

I was disappointed that Brayshaw was in the rehab group, I didn't get a chance to ask why but I was really looking forward to seeing him.

Dom Tyson is a top bloke who came over for a chat sweating bullets from some boxing, he looks ready to get back to the main group, we might see him in the JLT series if everything goes well for him. He seems to think they're being cautious with him and said he would be spewing if he didn't play round 1.

Flippas legs are massive from his soccer days, he may need to lose a bit of weight off them or build his upper body to match. Either way I can see him being a decent tap ruckman in the future because he'll be very hard to move off of the ball.

Watts and a few of the boys enjoyed the fact I was wearing his Skwosh shorts.

Hogan signed my little girls hat but she doesn't get the concept of a signature and thought he should put her name on it. Her words were "But now it doesn't belong to me, it belongs to him." It might be worth something one day.

That's about it for the moment, sorry for the late post, hopefully it gets you through your Monday, questions are welcome.

P.S I didn't go through and edit, hopefully it's not a tough read

 

15 minutes ago, Jrono64 said:

It seems like most people have covered things really well but I'll throw in my two cents.

 

Top work, great read.  Thanks.

Don't take this the wrong way Jrono64, I loved your work. But my favourite bit was the story about your daughter and her newly signed hat.

2 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

You could just give him a call no?

lol yeah but there's a big difference between how a player feels he is going v how he looks compared to the rest so I was just curious 

Thanks for the reports everyone!

Does anyone know what is wrong with Brayshaw and Jetta?

 

 

34 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Thanks for the reports everyone!

Does anyone know what is wrong with Brayshaw and Jetta?

 

 

Brayshaw - calf

Jetta - NFI

26 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Thanks for the reports everyone!

Does anyone know what is wrong with Brayshaw and Jetta?

 

 

they're just a little jaded  nothing major

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

they're just a little jaded  nothing major

Not your best work and I say this as a fan...

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Don't take this the wrong way Jrono64, I loved your work. But my favourite bit was the story about your daughter and her newly signed hat.

Not at all, She eventually got Viney to sign her name on there along with his own.

I got my jersey signed by the team and she couldn't understand why 

It's not the size of the dog in the fight. 

Who would you rather run into you?

18 minutes ago, ManDee said:

It's not the size of the dog in the fight. 

Who would you rather run into you?

Neither Petracca nor Viney! ?

42 minutes ago, ManDee said:

It's not the size of the dog in the fight. 

Who would you rather run into you?

None!

3 hours ago, Jaded said:

Thanks for the reports everyone!

Does anyone know what is wrong with Brayshaw and Jetta?

From the Day 6 preseason diary

Even the rehab group, which trained on the oval next to the main group, had its best skills session of the pre-season.

Mitch King, the developing ruckman, who ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in Casey’s opening round last year and missed the rest of the 2016 season, is set to complete some drills with the main group next week.

In about two weeks’ time, King should be in full contact with the group.

Dom Tyson, who hurt his knee in Melbourne’s pre-Christmas camp, is set to ramp up his contact work next week.

Angus Brayshaw, Neville Jetta and Michael Hibberd are now all set for the camp’s last big training session on Tuesday, after coming through strongly in rehab.

 

 

Still no word on Kent's progress I see 

17 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Still no word on Kent's progress I see 

There's an article about him on the clubs website. Sounds like he's the furthest back (no pun intended) and would be lucky to play in the preseason so unlikely to play round 1 as it stands.

4 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

Brayshaw - calf

Jetta - NFI

Both got calf issues    no stress to rush them back and cause further or recurring injury      report is they trained strongly    neither was unduly concerned with cautious approach  when I spoke to them before heading to QLD

Best training reports I've read. Much appreciated guys.