TRAINING: Monday 17th February 2025

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Demonland Trackwatchers were on hand at Monday morning's preseason training at Gosch's Paddock to bring you their brief observations of the session.

HARVEY WALLBANGER'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS

Gentle flush session at Gosch's this morning.

Absent: May, Pickett (All Stars) McVee, McAdam.

Rehabbing: Great to see Kentfield back (much slimmer), walking with Tholstrup, TMac (suspect just a management thing), Viney (still being cautious with that rib cartilage?), Melksham (in and out of drills with lots of straight-line running), Fritsch also in and out of drills, but that is not unusual for him. Windsor definitely has a limp, and you can see the photos.

Train-ons: Culley and Yze. Culley looks good - as he has all pre-season.

Great to see Trac and Spargo back into full training, will be interesting to see if Charles has a run on Saturday?

AMW copped a corky (from Gawny) but was running it out and in good spirits.

KEV MARTIN'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS

Beautiful morning at The Paddock. Windless with a few less spectators than usual. There was a group of young, probably academy players in MFC gear on the sidelines as well.

Goody throwing the positions around, at one stage he spent 5 minutes on the board organising them.

Spargo had some time on the wing as did Chandler. Langdon had some time off halfback and pushed really high.

Fritsch continues to play a high forward role.

Brown and Lindsay matched up against each other, either as half's or on the wing. They broke even, as Brown finds space with arcs and separation, and Lindsay makes straight line breaks with quick steps, and finishes very well.

Sestan still off the backline and playing well, also showing structural leadership as he instruct others to position.  

Most of the sim sets started from a throw in from the back point post. We cleared well and found lots of space up forward. The backline couldn't get to the contest numerous times. Trac has brought lots of poise to the midfield. Clayton was in good form, shrugging tackles with hip movement, and beating the scramble and congested packs.

Lever is doing well, as they play plenty of switches from one boundary to the other, a few times they went central. H. Langford missed a few hit ups and made a couple of poor decisions, though getting plenty of the ball.

Billings is playing strong and wants the ball off the wing.

Laurie is doing everything right as a mid.

Woey has a bit of pain through his shoulder, but continues to do most drills and sims.

They are happy and boisterous.