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Melbourne goal sneak Jeff Garlett is working closely his Demons teammate Dion Johnstone during an off-season visit to the south-west.

Can someone put up please a link to a Warrnambool Standard (the local rag) article last Saturday about Jeff Garlett and Dion Johnstone training here in bool . Couple of good photos in the two articles in the paper as well. Thanks.   Reads very well. 

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    Hopefully Dion's apprenticeship to Garlett is like Charlie Cameron's to Eddie Betts (minus the eventual defecting...).

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    Nice article. Thanks for posting.

    You only have to look at the Tigers to see how a couple of skilled small forwards can make a difference.

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    Great to see Jeff mentoring young Johnstone

    Many have written him off already, prior to his second preseason - hope he proves them wrong. 

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    Looking forward to seeing Dion play for the Dee's, maybe next year? 

    I remember one year Gary Lyon was down in the rooms before one of our matches at the G for triple M and he said "You can hear Jeffy going hard at the boxing bag"  Gary was very Imprest by Jeffy boxing skills.

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    Two players putting in the hard yards during the off season, fantastic to see.

    Hopefully it pays dividends for young Dion.

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    Had the pleasure of meeting Jeffy towards the end of this season, he's a genuinely lovely bloke who absolutely loves the Dees. Dion can learn a lot from him and hopefully the two will find themselves causing headaches for oppositions sides together next year. 

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    It's great to see our players doing a little extra before the official start to pre-season.  Listening to the speeches at the B&F it sounded like this is the standard they are hoping to set with our squad.  Don't just do the official training sessions, go out and work on your own as well. 

    Of course, if they want the players to do more than the official work-outs and training sessions, they could just add more to the official workload rather than hinting that they want more but not outright saying so.  Maybe they have limits imposed by the AFL on how much they can require of the players? 

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    Boxers are our new basketballers. Lever, Melksham and apparently DJ all handy with the gloves and Jeffy favours boxing training over doing heaps of running which makes sense to me.

    Hope it translates to a tough team not afraid to take a few hits during the season.

    Garlett's first half of the year was great last before he trailed off badly towards the end of the season. I hope DJ is pushing him because we need that competition for spots from the small forwards.

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    Hogan, Lewis, Vince and Bugg appear to like their boxing too. ?

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    It's really good training.  Builds fast twitch muscle, whole body workout, surprisingly good for aerobic endurance.  Plus getting hit a lot in a controlled way is a good way to toughen yourself up for a sport that involves getting hit a lot. 

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    A lot of the boys box at the Richmond gym too. It's been noted that Viney and Lever were there recently. 

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    15 hours ago, Ruffles said:

    Hopefully Dion's apprenticeship to Garlett is like Charlie Cameron's to Eddie Betts (minus the eventual defecting...).

    Read this as 'defecating'. Googled the Daily Mail Australia for the first time ever to see what else I might have missed.

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    1 hour ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

    Does anyone know how quick Dion is with regards to leg speed?

    From the few games I have seen average, well perhaps a little better than average.

    Two of the games where on wet grounds. 

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    Don't rate Dion at all..

    Happy to be proven wrong.

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    17 hours ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

    It's great to see our players doing a little extra before the official start to pre-season.  Listening to the speeches at the B&F it sounded like this is the standard they are hoping to set with our squad.  Don't just do the official training sessions, go out and work on your own as well. 

    Of course, if they want the players to do more than the official work-outs and training sessions, they could just add more to the official workload rather than hinting that they want more but not outright saying so.  Maybe they have limits imposed by the AFL on how much they can require of the players? 

    I wonder this as well.

    My guess is the extra training they hope the players do is in recovery not muscle building or endurance. Or working on a particular skill / weakness. 

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    17 hours ago, old dee said:

    The last MFC player doing boxing down Warrnambool way ended up in Brisbane.

    Geez OD I had forgotten Boloney ever played with us

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    1 hour ago, Barney Rubble said:

    Geez OD I had forgotten Boloney ever played with us

    Not the worst to every pull on a MFC jumper either Barney.

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