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TRAINING: Friday 21st April 2023

Dee Zephyr
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Arrived just before 10am and the team was starting to prepare for the session. They did some fun warm-up exercises in their respective lines to begin with. Noticed Kozzie was part of the forward group. 

Players on modified duties were Salem, Spargo, Verrall and K Turner with the former two running laps mostly.

The serious stuff begun with some kicking and handball drills at high speed spaced out over 50m or so. 
The next exercise consisted of two groups split into white v blue. Basically kick to a pack and which ever team won the ground ball would try and attack with precision at high speed mainly looking for a player over the back.
When this ended some of the squad mainly the whites went in the rooms, that included Brown and Melksham. The rest stayed out for some match sim. I counted about 26-27 players left. Harmes, Joel Smith and a kid in the 17 jumper with long hair (no idea who sorry) were included in the sim along with the main extended listed squad. 

Match sim was 13v13 and was at high intensity and fast. I have no idea how the scores were kept but it was Blue 4.20-44 to White 3.25-43. I only saw one goal and it was from Dunstan after some good ball movement. Blues won the match with the last play because Langdon marked a Chandler pass inside 50, I guess hitting a target counts as a score. Highlights in the sim included a Sparrow tackle on Laurie and Grundy taking a couple of pack marks.

After this they split into their lines again for some extra work. 

Petty was with the forwards as was J Smith. The backline only consisted of May, Lever, Turner, McVee and Hibbo. Rivers was with the mids as was Gus. 
Lever, Gawn and Viney trained fully and seem ready to go. Brown also trained fully.

I wasn’t going to post the following but we had reporters there asking MFC officials why Oliver didn’t train. I’m sure it will be reported he was absent.

Viney and Gawn stayed out for extra work with Stafford as I was leaving. Kozzie, Trac, Grundy, Fritta and Harmes stayed out for goal kicking practice and there was also a cheer in the end of session huddle.

There were a few other observers there so if I’ve missed anything maybe someone else can post it.

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    Mr Zeph! Is this your first full training report? You might have done another but the memory is hazy.

    Does it look like Dunstan could be spending some decent time in the middle?

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    30 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    I wasn’t going to post the following but we had reporters there asking MFC officials why Oliver didn’t train. I’m sure it will be reported he was absent.

    Apparently attending to a very forlorn JJ after he visited Clarry's hairdresser

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    2 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    OK this was a question that was first raised at the open session a couple of days ago....

    Who is this with JJ?   It's not John McEnroe or Bjorn Borg.  Perhaps @dazzledavey36 can help out?

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    @Tough Kent theorised in one of the previous training threads that it could have been Harry Demattia from the Dandenong Stingrays.  Was apparently signing things in Dees gear at the Kids clinic too

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    whoever he is, give him a Sandman and a blueheeler and he could work on any building site in the 1970s

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    12 minutes ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    @Tough Kent theorised in one of the previous training threads that it could have been Harry Demattia from the Dandenong Stingrays.  Was apparently signing things in Dees gear at the Kids clinic too

    looks like him

     

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    1 hour ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    Viney had strapping on his left knee and the pink training bib (for non-contact?) on the MFC insta story.  Hopefully just preventative.

    He did sit one drill out DP, but I saw no issue with his running, kicking and turning. 

    1 hour ago, layzie said:

    Mr Zeph! Is this your first full training report? You might have done another but the memory is hazy.

    Does it look like Dunstan could be spending some decent time in the middle?

    Your guess is as good as mine layz, he trained and linked up well in the short match sim. 

    1 hour ago, Demon Dynasty said:

    Apparently attending to a very forlorn JJ after he visited Clarry's hairdresser

    The strange part is DD, Oliver was in gear ready to go and just prior to the warm-up he went in the rooms and didn’t reappear.

    Edited by Dee Zephyr

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    It was reported that Clarry had 20 possessions in the last quarter last week. If true, then perhaps he needs more recovery time than the others.

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    3 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    OK this was a question that was first raised at the open session a couple of days ago....

    Who is this with JJ?   It's not John McEnroe or Bjorn Borg.  Perhaps @dazzledavey36 can help out?

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    Not sure who he is but he was on the gus n gawny poddy instagram clip if anyone cares to check, that's where the info will be! 

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    3 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    The strange part is DD, Oliver was in gear ready to go and just prior to the warm-up he went in the rooms and didn’t reappear.

    "Strange days indeed... most peculiar mama" (fingers crossed!)

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    Oliver has flu like symptoms so he isn’t training with the rest of the team. 

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    1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

    Oliver has flu like symptoms so he isn’t training with the rest of the team. 

    I’ve heard that leather poisoning has very similar symptoms

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    8 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    OK this was a question that was first raised at the open session a couple of days ago....

    Who is this with JJ?   It's not John McEnroe or Bjorn Borg.  Perhaps @dazzledavey36 can help out?

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    Honey Badger?

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