It’s a beautiful sunny morning at Gosch’s Paddock and I’ll be bringing you some observations from training.

REHAB:

Viney, Melksham, Joel Smith, Salem, Woey, Verral

No Shows - Steven May & James Harmes

Players warming up with kick to kick.

Stafford taking the Rucks (Gawn, Grundy, Farris-White) in ruck craft drills. Verral acting as the umpire throwing the ball up.

Lever, Petty & Hibberd running laps to warm up.

White:

Grundy Farris-White Clarry JVR Schache Fritsch Sparrow Howes Hunter Rivers Hibberd Tomlinson AMW Deakyn Smith Laurie

Blue:

TMac Gawn Lever Bowey Petty Brayshaw Petracca Jordon Viney (no number today) Brown Kozzy Melksham Nibbler Joel Smith Sestan Dunstan Langdon Kye Turner Jefferson Chandler Kozzy

Clarry training with the main group. I didn’t notice any strapping on his hand.

Interestingly Viney in the rehab group not doing anything.

Boys playing a game of soccer.

No Steven May

No James Harmes

Melksham involved in a goal kicking on the run drill.

As already reported Lever is back in full training and does not look to be hampered by anything. Running and kicking freely. Looks in great nick.

Max also running freely with no apparent lingering effect of his hamstring injury that sidelined him a few weeks ago.

Clarry back in full training marking and handballing with no apparent discomfort in his thumb.

Melksham and Joel Smith are participating in this no contact full ground drill

Viney & Woey doing work on the rowing machine.

They’ve broken up into the white versus blue keepings off game with a pink vest on the middle that plays on both teams.

Kozzy in pink in one group. Lingers in pink in the other. Spargo now pink. Now Bowey

One group keeps changing the pink vest. Lingers still the pink vest in his group. No one ever anywhere near him.

Sestan does appear to have one quad bandaged. Moving freely though.

Sparrow is a tackling beast. Has put on so much size.

Looks like Match Sim is about to start.

Clarry is wearing the flouro yellow hat. Assume this is meant to denote no or limited contact and isn’t a fashion statement or screen from the sun.    

Kozzy just carved his way through traffic with ease and such poise. I’ll eat my hat off his not playing more midfield minutes.

Long beautiful kick from Trac off half back to TMac who turns and kicks beautifully to Jefferson on a lead.

Disco Turner takes an intercepting screamer in the middle of Gosch’s Paddock.

Rivers looks super fit.

Hunter is going to be so important for us on the other wing. Constantly with the get, give and go again. He and Lingers on opposite wings is a weapon.

Max playing last line of defence.

If we kick to Brown in front on a lead so he can mark out in front he will be unstoppable.

Hibbo came off second best in a marking contest with Trac and limping with some discomfort to his left leg.

TMac, Brown & JVR all look in great nick out on the track. Would not want to be a round 1 selector.

Jefferson obviously won’t play for a while but he is an exciting prospect for the forward line.

Brayshaw came off and is getting his wrist strapped. He’s back out training now.

Some great tackling from Fritsch today.

Feel for Tomlinson. Works his guts out but I feel he has moved down the pecking order. Already hard to break into the defence with Petty, May & Lever and with Disco Turner impressing and Jed Adams doing his apprenticeship you feel he might not get the opportunity baring injuries.

It’s evident that this year we’ll be bringing the ball back into the guts more rather than always predictably going along the wings and kicking into the forward pocket.

Brown, Hibbo, Adams & Moniz-Wakefield no longer participating in match sim and are running half laps at a quick pace.

Hibbo’s thigh has been bandaged indicating a corkie. Running with a slight limp.

Melksham on the bike and Woey doing weights.

Lever also left the match sim and is doing gym work in the makeshift shed.

Ben Brown practicing snaps from the boundary.

Howes also working out in the outdoor gym now.

JVR cleaned up Petty in a contest. I like his mongrel. Petty eventually got up but he felt it as did the spectators nearby.

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REHAB:

Viney, Melksham, Joel Smith,, Salem, Woey, Verral - I’ll add to this

Players warming up with kick to kick. 

Stafford taking the Rucks (Gawn, Grundy, Farris-White) in ruck craft drills. Verral acting as the umpire throwing the ball up. 

Lever, Petty & Hibberd running laps to warm up. 

White:

Grundy Farris-White Clarry JVR Schache Fritsch Sparrow Howes Hunter Rivers Hibberd Tomlinson AMW Deakyn Smith Laurie 

Blue:

TMac Gawn Lever Bowey Petty Brayshaw Petracca Jordon Viney (no number today) Brown Kozzy Melksham Nibbler Joel Smith Sestan Dunstan Langdon Kye Turner Jefferson Chandler Kozzy 

Clarry training with the main group. I didn’t notice any strapping on his hand. 

Just about to rock up after 10 hours on the train to Melbourne.  Don't think I'll be much good for insights but will add anything that catches my eye!

Lingers is back from wherever he was

After some light drills, the boys are playing soccer

Joel Smith practising some goals, and then rehab group sets up for some agility drills

Most boys now doing the three station kicking and grabbing on the run drill

Rehabbers doing ground ball / low kick drills

Salem walking laps with a trainer

Tomlinson disposing well in kicking / full ground drill

I second Demonland's comments about Clarry - saw him do some one hand grabs and then handball with his left hand (which was the injured one iirc)

Some nice tackles by Jordan and Hibbo (in the group that has Spargs/Kozzie in pink)

Burgoyne also did some agile handballs but later got caught

Sestan tried a tackle on, then a few moments later got take down in a ripper tackle from JVR

Hunter just did some nice running on the wing to link up with Tomlinson

Gus shouting for corridor set up but then match sim ended.  Might be a sign of more flexibility in game plan this season?

Edit:  match sim started after minute resetting

Schache tries one handed grab while being pinned, Hunter swoops in and grabs the crumb before neat pass out 

Disco took a nice contested mark but fumbled disposal

Chandler did great intercept on Grundy kicking to Hunter

Seems like match sim is done - scoreboard reads 115 Blue to 99 White

Tommo was great today in both match sim and drills but it's a packed field ahead of him

Nothing we don't already know, but gee Bowey is a clean kick

Chandler really working in this match sim, had a few good marks where he's run hard to win them

Max and Grundy face off, Max successful but Hunter snatches the pass out (Max the only blue)

Kyah faces off Petty for a mark and then "goals" (as far as there's such a thing in these match sims) to shouts of delight from some of the boys.  Nice to see him coming along!

Choco supervising and kicking points haha

Trac limping off over to the shed but not sure what caused it - nothing immediately prior that looked like it could cause damage

Squad now lined up down the centre on either side, with individuals coming down the centre to kick for goal head on.  Heckling on the approach and shouting encouragement after.  Didn't go for too long, was using Choco's striped balls

I didn't notice Deakyn much but Schache went well in the match sims.  Few good marks and nice positioning at times.

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Lingers is back from wherever he was

After some light drills, the boys are playing soccer

Interestingly Viney in the rehab group not doing anything. 

Boys playing a game of soccer. 

Joel Smith practising some goals, and then rehab group sets up for some agility drills

No Steven May

No James Harmes 

Dazzle reported yesterday that Seston had a bandaged left hammy. How’s he looking?

Melksham involved in a goal kicking on the run drill. 

Just now, Chelly said:

Dazzle reported yesterday that Seston had a bandaged left hammy. How’s he looking?

No bandage today. 

Most boys now doing the three station kicking and grabbing on the run drill

Rehabbers doing ground ball / low kick drills

Edited February 7, 20233 yr by DeelightfulPlay

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Interestingly Viney in the rehab group not doing anything. 

Now just hand balling with Woey

As already reported Lever is back in full training and does not look to be hampered by anything. Running and kicking freely. Looks in great nick. 

Max also running freely with no apparent lingering effect of his hamstring injury that sidelined him a few weeks ago. 

Clarry back in full training marking and handballing with no apparent discomfort in his thumb. 

Melksham and Joel Smith are participating in this no contact full ground drill

Salem walking laps with a trainer

Tomlinson disposing well in kicking / full ground drill

I second Demonland's comments about Clarry - saw him do some one hand grabs and then handball with his left hand (which was the injured one iirc)

Viney & Woey doing work on the rowing machine. 

They’ve broken up into the white versus blue keepings off game with a pink vest on the middle that plays on both teams. 

Kozzy in pink in one group. Lingers in pink in the other. 

Spargo now pink. 

Now Bowey 

One group keeps changing the pink vest. Lingers still the pink vest in his group. No one ever anywhere near him. 

19 minutes ago, Chelly said:

Dazzle reported yesterday that Seston had a bandaged left hammy. How’s he looking?

Apologies Sestan does appear to have one quad bandaged. Moving freely though. 

Some nice tackles by Jordan and Hibbo (in the group that has Spargs/Kozzie in pink)

Burgoyne also did some agile handballs but later got caught

Edited February 7, 20233 yr by DeelightfulPlay
Autocorrect typo

Sestan tried a tackle on, then a few moments later got take down in a ripper tackle from JVR