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4 minutes ago, Sydee said:

Just not sure about having 3 debutants in a first round team - seems like a lot of inexperienced players at once 

We’ve done that before. Nothing out of the ordinary imo. 

 
8 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Gawn and Langdon heading back to AAMI. No idea why. Neither looks hampered. 

Will be load management would have reached their km’s, I would assume 

Demonland, thank you very much for the updates, much appreciated 

 
9 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Most of the boys having shots for goal now. 

How's the accuracy?


9 minutes ago, 12345_54321 said:

We’ve done that before. Nothing out of the ordinary imo. 

Really when ? 

5 minutes ago, Sydee said:

Really when ? 

We had McVee, Laurie in R1 last year (and Grundy if that counts)

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25 minutes ago, adonski said:

We had McVee, Laurie in R1 last year (and Grundy if that counts)

And Hunter…😂😂

38 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Petty and McAdam last ones on the track working with the Selwyn. Both have been getting high 5s from assistants and trainers. Both seemed to have ticked off some boxes today. 

Great news that these two seem to be progressing well, but maybe not so good that they will have to wait 3 weeks before having a legitimate hit-out in the VFL.


1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Most of the boys having shots for goal now. May and Lever having a chat with Chaplin. 

It can be irritating when May and Lever feel they must have an on ground postmortem after every opposition goal, 

1 minute ago, bluey said:

It can be irritating when May and Lever feel they must have an on ground postmortem after every opposition goal, 

It doesn't seem to worry them Bluey - which i guess is all that matters - and their results have been pretty good over a long period of time now, so it obviously works.

Thanks for giving up your time on Saturday Andy, great to hear that Woey has trained and of course Petty and McAdam sounds very promising. Go Dees.!!

1 hour ago, adonski said:

We had McVee, Laurie in R1 last year (and Grundy if that counts)

Hah Grundy 😂

the other two had spent a year at Casey 

11 minutes ago, Sydee said:

Hah Grundy 😂

the other two had spent a year at Casey 

So did Grundy!


That news about McAdam and Petty is very, very pleasing.

If we can be 4-2 or better going into our round 6 bye, with the best of our forwards still to come... look out.

 

A nice late morning run, good temperature with a bit of wind about.

They are out of the sheds and walking down to Gosch's with smiles on their faces. The review about Wednesday must have gone well.

The three of Kossie, McAdam and Moniz-Wakefield walk with Wheelan from a different area.

Great to see Petty with the squad, Fullaton, Woey, Clarry and Moniz-Wakefield as well. McAdam did the warm-up with them. Petty building his fitness with extra running after the drills.

Rehab was all split up into different programs for different levels. BBB, Spargo, Turner, Hunter (in runners but doing very little), no Melky.

The squad is looking good, there was a great atmosphere about them today. It appears they are happy with the preseason being over and ready for the season to get going. They had a low-key recovery session run today.

The main drills were two groups, one with the mids starting on the goal side of centre, (via a tap down) then moving the ball by handball and finding a forward who were running set patterns. Three opponents against about nine attackers. Then they changed to using the other direction.

The other one started from the back of centre (via a kick towards that direction), with the backline spreading, finding a runner with a kick and hitting up a forward. Then again repeating towards the opposite goal, it also had about the same numbers of defender as the previous squad.

I heard Goody say if you have any doubt of where to run, head towards the straight line corridor, and don't hang out for the angled inside kick.

Plenty of kicking for goal. Many doing what Tracc does and having shots after the session has ended, mostly the young ones, but also Kossie, and Fritsch.

Chandler was not hitting them well, still with the yips. Ended his shots with three bad misses, then walked off. Really needs to work on his art and get it right, I reckon.

 

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1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

Are Petty or McAdam a sneaky chance next week? As in Round 1?

I think they both have more preparation to go, though Petty looks ahead of McAdam.  

I had a good chat to Petty when getting a photo with my son. He said he needs a solid block of training / fitness after missing so much of the pre season. If everything goes to plan he's looking at 4 - 6 weeks. 


27 minutes ago, Matt Demon said:

I had a good chat to Petty when getting a photo with my son. He said he needs a solid block of training / fitness after missing so much of the pre season. If everything goes to plan he's looking at 4 - 6 weeks. 

4-6 Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

4 hours ago, Matt Demon said:

I had a good chat to Petty when getting a photo with my son. He said he needs a solid block of training / fitness after missing so much of the pre season. If everything goes to plan he's looking at 4 - 6 weeks. 

 

3 hours ago, Roost it far said:

4-6 Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Nick Smith #2? 😮🙄🤦‍♂️.    Only joking. Harry has many more runs on the board than poor Nick .

6 hours ago, Roost it far said:

4-6 Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

4-6 is actually code for 8-10.

 
6 hours ago, Roost it far said:

4-6 Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

OD is usually all over this!

16 hours ago, Roost it far said:

4-6 Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Is a bye in there too,  Syd, Dogs, Hawks, Port, Adel, Bye

Hard run, but only Port have 2 good solid tall defenders, the others are good teams but def is their weak point.  Especially tall defenders.  So not too bad to go into those games without Petty(obviously prefer a fit Petty in), he needs to be completely cherry ripe for the back end of the year.  If that means he only plays 10 games from round 7 onward then so be it!


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