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On the eve of the 2024 Season I ventured down to Gosch's Paddock for one of the final preseason training session before we head up to Sydney to take on the Swans. Here are my observations from the training session.

The session was light and despite it being a Saturday was akin to a Monday/Tuesday session following a regular season weekend match as we played on Wednesday night and the boys had a couple of days off after the Practice Match prior to the season proper.

Main Squad: May, JVR, Salem, McVee, Trac, Windsor, Viney, Lever, Gawn, Clarry, Billings, Langdon, Laurie, Bowey, Schache, Tomlinson, Jefferson, Howes, McAdam, Rivers, McDonald, Adams, Hore, Verrell, ANB, Fritsch, Sparrow, Fullarton, Petty, Kozzy, Chandler, Sestan, Tholstrup, Woey, K Brown, KFW, AMW

Rehab: Brown, Spargo, Turner handballing in triangle. Hunter just arrived in training T-shirt and runners.  Will keep an eye on what he does. 

Not present: Melksham & Smith

Woey who I reported as having strapping on quad after Casey game is warming up with main group as is McAdam & Petty

High Performance Manager & Head of Strength & Conditioning Selwyn Griffiths taking the boys through some warm up jog troughs 

McAdam has split from the main group and is doing 200m run through on the boundary as he’s been doing the last few sessions I’ve been to. 

Petty moving very well 😀

Selwyn Griffith is kicking the ball to McAdam far and high in the air and making him run to it. Moving much better than I have seen in a number of weeks. Can’t be too far off returning to the main group. 

Now McAdam doing some lateral movement ground ball drills. Reckon if he gets through today he’ll be training with the main group next week. 

Brown and Spargo doing rehab together. 

Transition/Interception drill. Simulating opposition kicking from our half forward to half back and we intercept and transition through the middle to hit up one of our forwards. Lots of long handballs. Out numbered amount of opposition in white bibs to simulate pressure from oppo. 

2 separate groups simulating this drill on either side of the ground. 

Selwyn kicking the ball to McAdam on the lead out of the pocket. McAdam marks and kicks back to Selwyn and then has to sprints back to position by zig zagging out of the way from another trainer applying blocking pressure.

Petty now left the main group and doing 200m sprints. I don’t think there is anything nefarious to it. Probably easing back into the main group. 

Hunter has not done much except throw the ball back and forth with one of the trainers. Worrying signs for him to not be running.

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

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

I think that’s stumps. Light session of just over an hour.

Selwyn kicking the ball high up to Petty who is being manned by Stafford and another trainer and Petty needs to lead and get separation from the two. Moving & jumping very well. 

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. 

KEV MARTIN'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS

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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On 02/03/2024 at 09:43, Demonland said:

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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On 02/03/2024 at 17:43, Demonland said:

On the eve of the 2024 Season I ventured down to Gosch's Paddock for one of the final preseason training session before we head up to Sydney to take on the Swans. Here are my observations from the training session.

The session was light and despite it being a Saturday was akin to a Monday/Tuesday session following a regular season weekend match as we played on Wednesday night and the boys had a couple of days off after the Practice Match prior to the season proper.

Main Squad: May, JVR, Salem, McVee, Trac, Windsor, Viney, Lever, Gawn, Clarry, Billings, Langdon, Laurie, Bowey, Schache, Tomlinson, Jefferson, Howes, McAdam, Rivers, McDonald, Adams, Hore, Verrell, ANB, Fritsch, Sparrow, Fullarton, Petty, Kozzy, Chandler, Sestan, Tholstrup, Woey, K Brown, KFW, AMW

Rehab: Brown, Spargo, Turner handballing in triangle. Hunter just arrived in training T-shirt and runners.  Will keep an eye on what he does. 

Not present: Melksham & Smith

Woey who I reported as having strapping on quad after Casey game is warming up with main group as is McAdam & Petty

High Performance Manager & Head of Strength & Conditioning Selwyn Griffiths taking the boys through some warm up jog troughs 

McAdam has split from the main group and is doing 200m run through on the boundary as he’s been doing the last few sessions I’ve been to. 

Petty moving very well 😀

Selwyn Griffith is kicking the ball to McAdam far and high in the air and making him run to it. Moving much better than I have seen in a number of weeks. Can’t be too far off returning to the main group. 

Now McAdam doing some lateral movement ground ball drills. Reckon if he gets through today he’ll be training with the main group next week. 

Brown and Spargo doing rehab together. 

Transition/Interception drill. Simulating opposition kicking from our half forward to half back and we intercept and transition through the middle to hit up one of our forwards. Lots of long handballs. Out numbered amount of opposition in white bibs to simulate pressure from oppo. 

2 separate groups simulating this drill on either side of the ground. 

Selwyn kicking the ball to McAdam on the lead out of the pocket. McAdam marks and kicks back to Selwyn and then has to sprints back to position by zig zagging out of the way from another trainer applying blocking pressure.

Petty now left the main group and doing 200m sprints. I don’t think there is anything nefarious to it. Probably easing back into the main group. 

Hunter has not done much except throw the ball back and forth with one of the trainers. Worrying signs for him to not be running.

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

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

I think that’s stumps. Light session of just over an hour.

Selwyn kicking the ball high up to Petty who is being manned by Stafford and another trainer and Petty needs to lead and get separation from the two. Moving & jumping very well. 

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. 

KEV MARTIN'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS

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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Petty sounds like he's doing ok.

 

Thanks very much for this report.

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