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TRAINING: Tuesday 4th April, 2023.

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Got down to Gosch's for this morning's run.

Taj was being put through a fair bit of running. He also had a small amount of time kicking and marking.

Max ran more than 10 laps. At one stage, he tried a drill with direction changes, that didn't last long.

The rehab also had Farris-white, K.Turner, BBB, Lever and Hibbo in it.

Hibbo looks in trouble, probably his achilles. Left training after 20 minutes.

Lever appeared to have a right hip complaint. He joined the main group after they finished their running.

Schache was in full training, he also spent time after the session, marking the high ball.

No Harmes.

Kossie looked happy.

The session was mainly about stretching the legs and having some fun.

After some run throughs, they separated into 4 stations. Short kicking drill, with movement either left or right behind the mannequin after marking. A game of keep the soccer ball in the air. A handball game with a precision target to finish the action. The final one was competitive handball, finishing with a 40-meter pass to a leading forward.

That was it. A few stayed back, working on their goal kicking. Grundy, Petty, Tracc, Moniz-wakefield, Oliver and a couple of others who I can't recall.

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    24 minutes ago, kev martin said:

    Got down to Gosch's for this morning's run.

    Taj was being put through a fair bit of running. He also had a small amount of time kicking and marking.

    Max ran more than 10 laps. At one stage, he tried a drill with direction changes, that didn't last long.

    The rehab also had Farris-white, K.Turner, BBB, Lever and Hibbo in it.

    Hibbo looks in trouble, probably his achilles. Left training after 20 minutes.

    Lever appeared to have a right hip complaint. He joined the main group after they finished their running.

    Schache was in full training, he also spent time after the session, marking the high ball.

    The session was mainly about stretching the legs and having some fun.

    After some run throughs, they separated into 4 stations. Short kicking drill, with movement either left or right behind the mannequin after marking. A game of keep the soccer ball in the air. A handball game with a precision target to finish the action. The final one was competitive handball, finishing with a 40-meter pass to a leading forward.

    That was it. A few stayed back, working on their goal kicking. Grundy, Petty, Tracc, Moniz-wakefield, Oliver and a couple of others who I can't recall.

    Was Disco Turner training? He missed for Casey on Sunday.

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    2 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

    Was Disco Turner training? He missed for Casey on Sunday.

    Yep, full training.

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    12 minutes ago, Brownie said:

    Sad to see Hibbo struggling.

    Unfortunately, that particular part of his body has always been his Achilles' heel.

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    1 minute ago, Lewis said:

    Any sign of Will Verrall?

    No, didn’t see him.

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    Worrying about Lever, as he's been back to best finally. Hopefully just minor.

    How did BB look to be moving?

     

    Happy that Gawny is running. Not great about the change in direction stuff, but it is still early days. 

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    9 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Worrying about Lever, as he's been back to best finally. Hopefully just minor.

    How did BB look to be moving?

     

    Happy that Gawny is running. Not great about the change in direction stuff, but it is still early days. 

    When I did mine I wasn’t running a week later. 

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    4 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Worrying about Lever, as he's been back to best finally. Hopefully just minor.

    How did BB look to be moving?

     

    Happy that Gawny is running. Not great about the change in direction stuff, but it is still early days. 

    Lever's problem did look minor.

    BBB in runners, moving without obvious restrictions, probably just his individual program, which he has been on for a while now.

    Gawn looked a bit forlorned (I think he likes the company) running by himself at about 60% effort, but he was getting the kilometres done. 

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    1 hour ago, kev martin said:

    Got down to Gosch's for this morning's run.

    Taj was being put through a fair bit of running. He also had a small amount of time kicking and marking.

    Max ran more than 10 laps. At one stage, he tried a drill with direction changes, that didn't last long.

    The rehab also had Farris-white, K.Turner, BBB, Lever and Hibbo in it.

    Hibbo looks in trouble, probably his achilles. Left training after 20 minutes.

    Lever appeared to have a right hip complaint. He joined the main group after they finished their running.

    Schache was in full training, he also spent time after the session, marking the high ball.

    No Harmes.

    Kossie looked happy.

    The session was mainly about stretching the legs and having some fun.

    After some run throughs, they separated into 4 stations. Short kicking drill, with movement either left or right behind the mannequin after marking. A game of keep the soccer ball in the air. A handball game with a precision target to finish the action. The final one was competitive handball, finishing with a 40-meter pass to a leading forward.

    That was it. A few stayed back, working on their goal kicking. Grundy, Petty, Tracc, Moniz-wakefield, Oliver and a couple of others who I can't recall.

    Did Joel Smith train?

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    1 minute ago, Fat Tony said:

    Did Joel Smith train?

    No sightings of him!

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    6 minutes ago, Lewis said:

    Kozzy happy cause he was in Tim Lamb’s office before training hopefully ✍️✍️

    Seemed happy to be back into his regular routine and hanging out with AMW, and the rest of them. At one stage he was dancing around and shadow boxing the stations post, ala Tim Cahill (soccer world cup).

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    4 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

    Did Joel Smith train?

    Poor bugger can’t take a trick. 
     

    Interesting seeing Petty doing goal kicking - maybe at least another week up forward / ruck. 

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    12 minutes ago, kev martin said:

    Lever's problem did look minor.

    BBB in runners, moving without obvious restrictions, probably just his individual program, which he has been on for a while now.

    Gawn looked a bit forlorned (I think he likes the company) running by himself at about 60% effort, but he was getting the kilometres done. 

    Nobody likes to be in rehab I am sure. But good that he is getting the KMs into his legs and keeping his fitness up.

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    34 minutes ago, Lewis said:

    Any sign of Will Verrall?

    He’s out for a long while. Could even be potentially in SA resting up. Not a lot he can do with his injury other than rest.

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    43 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Worrying about Lever, as he's been back to best finally. Hopefully just minor.

    How did BB look to be moving?

     

    Happy that Gawny is running. Not great about the change in direction stuff, but it is still early days. 

    As long as it's not his foot/ankle 

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    Thanks KM and all posters great to be in the loop.!!!

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    If Gawny could change direction, then one would think its more likely to be 2-3 weeks away, which is well ahead of expectation. 

    Mind you, Im not a physio so my opinion matters little.  

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    1 hour ago, monoccular said:

    Poor bugger can’t take a trick. 
     

    Interesting seeing Petty doing goal kicking - maybe at least another week up forward / ruck. 

    I’m sure that what we saw on Sunday will be our forward setup for a while - 21 goals against a top team!! I don’t think they’ll change it in a hurry.

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    1 hour ago, 12345_54321 said:

    He’s out for a long while. Could even be potentially in SA resting up. Not a lot he can do with his injury other than rest.

    Such a bummer that one. Hope he's back sooner rather than later. 

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    3 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Such a bummer that one. Hope he's back sooner rather than later. 

    Ditto. We need him, we’re light on for rucks and we need him to be developing. Such bad luck for the young fella.

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    1 hour ago, Lewis said:

    Kozzy happy cause he was in Tim Lamb’s office before training hopefully ✍️✍️

    Is this fact or part of the "hope"? Whey else would he be in Lamb's office if it wasn't re: contract?

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