Training and Trackwatching

[Jeremy 981]

The amount of content other clubs give their fans for their match sims vs ours is just crazy, some of them are even being streamed for fans meanwhile we get a photo gallery taken by the work experience kid. Can be really frustrating at times, hoping some on here caught the hit out 

[dazzledavey36 54,893]

25 minutes ago, Lewis said:

The amount of content other clubs give their fans for their match sims vs ours is just crazy, some of them are even being streamed for fans meanwhile we get a photo gallery taken by the work experience kid. Can be really frustrating at times, hoping some on here caught the hit out 

The media department has been extremely poor this off season.

Edited February 17, 2023 by dazzledavey36

[DistrACTION Jackson 8,734]

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

The media department has been extremely poor this off season.

I disagree with this.

I've been on a few other sides websites and some have had like 2 or 3 photo galleries for the whole pre season!

[58er 6,432]

Given that we have lost Gibbo our media coverage has been quite satisfactory.

[bandicoot 1,395]

17 hours ago, Lewis said:

The amount of content other clubs give their fans for their match sims vs ours is just crazy, some of them are even being streamed for fans meanwhile we get a photo gallery taken by the work experience kid. Can be really frustrating at times, hoping some on here caught the hit out 

Agree… there has been minimal content. It’s as if we are back in the 2000’s. 
where are the videos of training sessions, more interviews with players, coaches and admin departments. 
this isnt expensive to do. Just needs someone with some will power and initiative 

[Deemania since 56 6,635]

23 hours ago, Redleg said:

Daz, a little thought to ponder.

Ralphy is saying Liam Henry will definitely be in Victoria next year. He is apparently very close to Kozzie. We lost Toby and overlooked Burgoyne. We have a need for his type of player.

What if we have an arrangement with Liam to come to us and of course Kozzie would know if it was in play and it gives him another housemate and another reason to stay.

Just spitballing.

 

Slip into this idea as it makes sense and could also be valuable. Whilst we're at it, how about writing into his contract a fortnightly  return airfare for wherever he wishes to return - maybe one of our sponsors might contribute?

[Jeremy 981]

16 hours ago, Action Jackson said:

I disagree with this.

I've been on a few other sides websites and some have had like 2 or 3 photo galleries for the whole pre season!

It’s nearly March and we haven’t heard from Simon Goodwin once 😂 not one press conference with a player either 

[DeeZone 9,828]

5 hours ago, 58er said:

Given that we have lost Gibbo our media coverage has been quite satisfactory.

Actually 58er I agree,  I have noticed that over the last couple of weeks it has gone up quite a notch.💕

[dazzledavey36 54,893]

17 hours ago, Action Jackson said:

I disagree with this.

I've been on a few other sides websites and some have had like 2 or 3 photo galleries for the whole pre season!

I've been on the freo website and they've had a couple of 3 minute intra club highlights over the past few weeks.

Most clubs have have also done interviews for first year draftees about starting life as an AFL footballer etc as well as injury updates along the way. Max Gawn has tight hammy and it's breaking news all of a sudden out of the blue. Yet no injury reports on the lesser names like Melksham and Joel Smith.

Meanwhile we put up cringe videos of mini golf and shooting toy basketballs into hoops. Why they think this is exactly what the fans want is beyond me.

Gibbo is a huge loss and it's very evident in this.

We're just blessed that we have regular track attendees on here who are able to give up their time and and report on actual football related stuff. 

Edited February 18, 2023 by dazzledavey36

[Bags 34]

Re: preseason coverage, the trackwatching is fantastic, and we are lucky to have such dedicated supporters. Surely the club has considered the preseason media coverage as a cost benefit analysis (my ignorant view!). Outside of a few committed supporters I wonder if it stacks up from a financial point of view. 

FWIW I would love to see more coverage, but if it means dollars are being used elsewhere (other human resources), I can cope with what we are getting during the off season. I do understand the frustration of others but I wonder if the club have decided money is better spent in other parts of the club. Is anyone able to shed any light on this?

[Deemania since 56 6,635]

23 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I've been on the freo website and they've had a couple of 3 minute intra club highlights over the past few weeks.

Most clubs have have also done interviews for first year draftees about starting life as an AFL footballer etc as well as injury updates along the way. Max Gawn has tight hammy and it's breaking news all of a sudden out of the blue. Yet no injury reports on the lesser names like Melksham and Joel Smith.

Meanwhile we put up cringe videos of mini golf and shooting toy basketballs into hoops. Why they think this is exactly what the fans want is beyond me.

Gibbo is a huge loss and it's very evident in this.

We're just blessed that we have regular track attendees on here who are able to give up their time and and report on actual football related stuff. 

Some of the stuff that the MFC puts out are so simple, irrelevant and suited to the levels of engagement of the fans of teams like The Filth, Essendrug and Footiskrie. Thank heavens for the informative trackwatchers on Demonland. 

[DistrACTION Jackson 8,734]

On 2/18/2023 at 12:02 PM, dazzledavey36 said:

I've been on the freo website and they've had a couple of 3 minute intra club highlights over the past few weeks.

Most clubs have have also done interviews for first year draftees about starting life as an AFL footballer etc as well as injury updates along the way. Max Gawn has tight hammy and it's breaking news all of a sudden out of the blue. Yet no injury reports on the lesser names like Melksham and Joel Smith.

Meanwhile we put up cringe videos of mini golf and shooting toy basketballs into hoops. Why they think this is exactly what the fans want is beyond me.

Gibbo is a huge loss and it's very evident in this.

We're just blessed that we have regular track attendees on here who are able to give up their time and and report on actual football related stuff. 

I'm definitely not going to say we are the best, but are far from the worst.

We get photo galleries pretty much every training session and a lot of short clips and stories on Insta.

I agree it would be good to see some more video clips. 

I assume they probably have someone very new in the role, so they may be learning on the job so will give the benefit of the doubt.

[loges 6,767]

Does anyone have the training schedule for this week. Will be in Melbourne and try to get along

[jnrmac 20,060]

17 minutes ago, Action Jackson said:

I'm definitely not going to say we are the best, but are far from the worst.

We get photo galleries pretty much every training session and a lot of short clips and stories on Insta.

I agree it would be good to see some more video clips. 

I assume they probably have someone very new in the role, so they may be learning on the job so will give the benefit of the doubt.

Has anyone ever thought that maybe the club doesn't want to disclose too much what its doing?

The off season is where you experiment with positional changes, game plans, tactics etc. Is it any wonder that the club wants to keep a few things under wraps?

 

[DistrACTION Jackson 8,734]

4 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Has anyone ever thought that maybe the club doesn't want to disclose too much what its doing?

The off season is where you experiment with positional changes, game plans, tactics etc. Is it any wonder that the club wants to keep a few things under wraps?

 

That is definitely the other thing. If the club post a full internal match replay other clubs can go through it to try get an edge for round 1. I saw Port Adelaide posted this, so if I'm the Lions I would be watching that very closely.

[Neil Crompton 5,535]

Any chance we might get the MFC website updated? We have players without pictures and bios that are 2 or 3 years out of date. We couldn’t get that updated even with Benny G around - what chance now? Who is in charge of this anyway?

[dazzledavey36 54,893]

1 hour ago, Action Jackson said:

That is definitely the other thing. If the club post a full internal match replay other clubs can go through it to try get an edge for round 1. I saw Port Adelaide posted this, so if I'm the Lions I would be watching that very closely.

The footy club last year posted a 3 minute video on match simulation. 

We then won 10 games in a row.

Opposition clubs would struggle to nitpick anything out of this.

They had an interview with James Harmes the other day and the most exciting part about that whole video was seeing a quick 5 second grab on Matthew Jefferson taking a strong contested mark. I loved seeing little glimpse like that on our first year players.

No one is asking for a full streamed match simulation. Save that stuff for when we're playing practise games against St Kilda next week.

Edited February 19, 2023 by dazzledavey36

[Fat Tony 5,228]

56 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

The footy club last year posted a 3 minute video on match simulation. 

We then won 10 games in a row.

Opposition clubs would struggle to nitpick anything out of this.

They had an interview with James Harmes the other day and the most exciting part about that whole video was seeing a quick 5 second grab on Matthew Jefferson taking a strong contested mark. I loved seeing little glimpse like that on our first year players.

No one is asking for a full streamed match simulation. Save that stuff for when we're playing practise games against St Kilda next week.

I wouldn't mind to see a full streamed match simulation.

 

[Demonland 72,178]

Just now, Fat Tony said:

I wouldn't mind to see a full streamed match simulation.

 

So would opposition clubs I'm sure. Despite the fact that I love reports from training I have no problem with the club not giving away any intel too early to opposition clubs. They won't get much from reading our training reports and if the send out spies then good luck to em but as much as we all want to see the match sims we really shouldn't be providing them video footage on demand.

[Tarax Club 3,905]

1 hour ago, Neil Crompton said:

Any chance we might get the MFC website updated? We have players without pictures and bios that are 2 or 3 years out of date. We couldn’t get that updated even with Benny G around - what chance now? Who is in charge of this anyway?

Yes we’re waiting for Benny’s new snap without the sideshow ‘Bob’.

Edited February 20, 2023 by Tarax Club
It was a close shave 🪒

[Demonland 72,178]

 

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[Fat Tony 5,228]

34 minutes ago, Demonland said:

So would opposition clubs I'm sure. Despite the fact that I love reports from training I have no problem with the club not giving away any intel too early to opposition clubs. They won't get much from reading our training reports and if the send out spies then good luck to em but as much as we all want to see the match sims we really shouldn't be providing them video footage on demand.

Just tell May to kick in long and to the left side and they won't learn anything.

[kev martin 9,888]

3 hours ago, loges said:

Does anyone have the training schedule for this week. Will be in Melbourne and try to get along

Just a guess, as nothing has been posted.

Since they trained out at Casey today, they will probably have a run at Gosch's on Wednesday  9.30 am.

Maybe, they will also have a captains run Thursday, prior to the game at RSEA stadium on Friday, 4pm. Then there is the family day, Saturday at Yarra Park, from 10 am.

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4 minutes ago, kev martin said:

Just a guess, as nothing has been posted.

Since they trained out at Casey today, they will probably have a run at Gosch's on Wednesday  9.30 am.

Maybe, they will also have a captains run Thursday, prior to the game at RSEA stadium on Friday, 4pm. Then there is the family day, Saturday at Yarra Park, from 10 am.

As you say, Kev, it’s all “maybe” and likely will be from here on in. This morning I asked my DeeArmy training schedule go-to, who is more across this than anyone, and even he doesn’t know.