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TRAINING: Wednesday 22nd February 2023

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BBB presumably being ‘managed’.  How are TMac and JVR looking?

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    Forwards/Mids/Wingers doing a drill with either the wingers kicking from half forward flank or a Mid kicking from CHF into the forward line to a lead again focusing on if the ball isn’t marked then it is swooped on and snapped for goal or a better option is kicked/handballed to. There is a lot of congestion and chaos built into the drill. Often the wingers will look for a better option at CHF first before kicking into the forward line. 

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    11 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Boundary throw in simulation drill with small forwards like Spargo, Nibbler and Chandler also involved with the Mids and wingers. 

    Verral getting a lesson in ruck craft from the Master Max. 

    As a matter of interest, are you using a colloquial expression to mean Verral is rucking against Gawn and being beaten badly or that Gawn is actually teaching him properly?

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    2 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    As a matter of interest, are you using a colloquial expression to mean Verral is rucking against Gawn and being beaten badly or that Gawn is actually teaching him properly?

    Same thing either way

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    Grundy is training with the forwards on that drill whilst Max, KFW & Verral have joined the defenders drill which appear to be a drill simulating taking the ball out of defence end ending with a long kick into the forward line to a contest between KFW and Verral (who are just being used as a tall target to kick to). Max floating around as a tall marking option as the ball comes out of defence. 

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    4 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    As a matter of interest, are you using a colloquial expression to mean Verral is rucking against Gawn and being beaten badly or that Gawn is actually teaching him properly?

    It’s not a teaching drill. The ball is being throw in from the boundary and Max is just too big and strong. He’s getting his hands on it and tapping it down to the crumbers first. Not a knock on the young kid. I would not have expected anything else at this stage. 

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    1 minute ago, Demonland said:

    Grundy is training with the forwards on that drill whilst Max, KFW & Verral have joined the defenders drill which appear to be a drill simulating taking the ball out of defence end ending with a long kick into the forward line to a contest between KFW and Verral (who are just being used as a tall target to kick to). Max floating around as a tall marking option as the ball comes out of defence. 

    I love this. I prefer Gawn floating back than in the forward line, unless he can start kicking straighter.

    Just please try handball off to a Brayshaw or Bowey once it's been marked Max.

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    34 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Trainer is throwing the foot at Fritsch to catch it in one hand whilst he is standing/balancing on one leg (the right one).

    He'll be catching flies with chopsticks next

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    1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

    He is basically our best forward, so if he has anything serious going on we are stuffed.

     

    No we are not.

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    49 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

    Can we assume lower back/glute issue?

    Don't tell em nothing.

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