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1 minute ago, Demonland said:

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

He's a massive unit. 

Our midfield has some serious size and grunt in there.

 

Pert, Lamb, Richo, Kelly OD..good crop of admin here on the outer wing

Lot of quality in the blue team. Chandler, Dunstan, McVee the only non best 22 starters. Jeffo rolling in too.

White has Oliver, Grundy, Hib, JVR but otherwise seems the lesser side and Fritsch

Lovely spoil by K Turner on JVR, then recovery and handball out infront of Langdon. AMW closed quickly and disrupted the handball though.

More of that from Turner and he’ll get the last list spot

K Turner switch to JJ. JJ hits corridor kick to Max. Gets the handball, hits Jeffo on the wing, he rolls to Spargo. Spargo plays on, bounces, hits up Dunstan 35 out filling in from midfield. That’s the game plan.

Nasty clash between Hibbo and Hunter after a Tracc marking contest. Hibbo in a bad way

He’s up and gingerly walking it off.

And jogging back to position. The pig lives!

Kyah banana! Young fella kept involved running down the flank, Nibbler kick missed JVR, Kyah pounced, stepped through traffic and nailed the snap from 40 out. Exciting

Blue team are dominant forward of centre (having BBB, TMac, Tracc and Pickett) but being held inside d50 at times leading to long bombs. The lack of May and Salem is showing.

White a bit the same, but Sparrow long to JVR seems an effective match up.

Andy Moniz-Wakefield was filling in on a wing and I think JJ had 15 touches on him, but when he did get around the contest he looked handy. He’s wearing bigger shorts than Eddie Betts

Messy low intensity start to this sim.

Adams now doing sprints with Hibbo, AMW, BBB who have been pulled out

Good stint in that drill from Jeffo, finding space on Disco by timing his leads and leaps.

Very very messy period of match sim. Honestly I would’ve called it off and given them a bake.

No doubt they’re running on fumes down rotations but there’s a lack of off ball running to create switches and corridor looks.

You can’t beat a zone purely by accurate kicks, you need guys moving in and out of gaps.

Not sure why the coaches are so keen to keep practicing JVR and Petty crunching in to each other over and over again.

Not sure if it was the defensive pressure dropping off but they just finished a much sharper period with far more corridor play.

Pretty willing session from what I saw between 10:05 and 11:20.

One big full ground drill that seemed to be a mix between 3 cone kicking, some defenders involved and hit up kicks. I couldn’t work out who went where so good on the players getting this one sorted. Otherwise periods of match sim for about 10 minutes at a time mixed in with some high tempo small handball drills.

Standouts:

Fritsch, playing as a lead up target on team white and just racking it up in the corridor and facilitating nicely.

Sparrow, showed an exceptional turn of speed to take the game on and used it well. Tracked back in defence hard. Looks ready for more midfield time

Oliver was Oliver. Gawn dominated the air early. Grundy got involved at ground level, he links up in traffic very naturally. Liked the work of JJ on one wing, and Langdon had the better of Hunter on the other.

From the young guys Jefferson was really good. You can see the way he reads the play and times his leads. Even showed the ability to push back in to a defender then hit up. Only one mark that I’d even remotely call contested but plenty of others with natural extension towards the ball. Then he makes calm decisions with the ball.

Kyah also had a good day. He’s a proper tall ruck so can make an impact at marking contests even if he’s still learning positioning and timing, then he has the athleticism to get back on to the ground ball first. It will be 5 years until we know for sure if he’s any good but early signs are he has the tools.

Schache has moments were his tank to present to space really looks the goods and his skills are solid. But he got worried out of a chest mark when 3m clear on a lead and he had a one on one with Gus that was halved but they were side by side competing. Not sure his fatal flaw has improved.

Deak Smith had some willing contests but didn’t stand out. McVee throws in some classy moments with a cheeky underground handball and the likes.

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Lot of quality in the blue team. Chandler, Dunstan, McVee the only non best 22 starters. Jeffo rolling in too.

White has Oliver, Grundy, Hib, JVR but otherwise seems the lesser side and Fritsch

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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

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Lovely spoil by K Turner on jvr, then recovery and handball out infront of Langdon. AMW closed quickly and disrupted the handball though.

More of that from Turner and he’ll get the last list spot 

K Turner switch to JJ. JJ hits corridor kick to Max. Gets the handball, hits Jeffo on the wing, he rolls to Spargo. Spargo plays on, bounces, hits up Dunstan 35 out filling in from midfield. That’s the game plan. 


Nasty clash between Hibbo and Hunter after a Tracc marking contest. Hibbo in a bad way 

He’s up and gingerly walking it off. 

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Andy, Andy Moniz-Wakefield assume he's back with the main group?  How is he traveling?

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3 minutes ago, Tarax Club said:

Andy, Andy Moniz Wakefield assume he back with the main group?  How is he traveling?

Yep he's back with the main group.  Moving fine but not having much of an impact in the match sim

 

Kyah banana!

Young fella kept involved running down the flank, Nibbler kick missed JVR, Kyah pounced, stepped through traffic and nailed the snap from 40 out. Exciting 


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