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PRESEASON TRAINING: Friday 21st February 2025

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47 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Koz and Roy Boy having a water fight.

GW, reporting on the stuff that matters. 

Importantly, who won the water fight?

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    It’s a wrap. Short session but great vibes. They’re champing at the bit to get the season going. 

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    8 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Leb is a very happy lad. He said it’s good to be back in boots. About his injury- listed as a skin infection, he thought it was an ingrown hair at first but the medics said it was likely a spider bite and it became infected. In any case, it’s been cut out. It’s his big toe which is now sporting three stitches and he temporarily can’t bend it. He’s not playing tomorrow but has been told he’ll get a run vs Freo next week. 

    Must be a Collingwood official paying off Spider’s to try curtail our season…

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    5 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    It’s a wrap. Short session but great vibes. They’re champing at the bit to get the season going. 

    It's very impressive that you didn't say ''chomping''.

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    After reading these reports I'm still none the wiser on who is playing tommorrow! Surely it cant be that hard to have some sort of an indication based on personel present!🤪

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    13 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

    Importantly, who won the water fight?

    I’d give the win to Koz, because the water fight ended when Roy squirted his bottle at Koz and Koz doing Koz things, sidestepped in a flash and the water hit Selwyn.

    😬

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    8 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    After reading these reports I'm still none the wiser on who is playing tommorrow! Surely it cant be that hard to have some sort of an indication based on personel present!🤪

    Patience PF. Kev was here and I’m sure he’ll furnish a comprehensive report. I hope so lest we incur the wrath of big bad @Roost it far 

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    Absent: McAdam

    Rehabbing: Melksham and McVee lots of running. Moniz-Wahefield. Tholstrup and Kentfield not doing much.

    Not playing tomorrow: May, Salem, Petracca, Viney, Spargo, Gawn, Langdon, Fritsch, Henderson, Windsor

    Train-on: Roy George (Culley not present).

    Leaves the other 28 available to have a run tomorrow:

    2 van Rooyen
    8 Lever
    13 Oliver
    14 Billings
    16 Laurie
    17 Bowey
    19 Langford
    20 Lindsay
    21 Jefferson
    22 Howes
    24 Rivers
    25 TMac
    26 Adams
    27 Hore
    28 Verrall
    29 Campbell
    30 Sharp
    32 Sparrow
    33 Fullarton
    35 Petty
    36 Pickett
    37 Chandler
    38 Sestan
    39 Mentha
    40 Woewodin
    41 Brown
    42 Johnson
    ? George

     

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    You know who’s really excited to be playing tomorrow? That’d be Harves. He’s rapt.

    Also, someone on here suggested a change of nickname for him, perhaps Bull or Bison. I ran it by him and he said it’d definitely be “very cool” to be called Bison. I said I’d make it happen which I shouldn’t have said coz how the hell can I make it happen?! 🤷‍♀️ 

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    55 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Luker says his recovery will be loooong. Minimum two months. He’s doing very, very light exercises and stopping frequently. He’s still barely recognisable. 

    TBH I probably wouldn't have recognised him before, Sounds like he has quite a few mini-pre-seasons and weight sessions on the agenda. 

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    18 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    After reading these reports I'm still none the wiser on who is playing tommorrow! Surely it cant be that hard to have some sort of an indication based on personel present!🤪

    There's your answer!

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    1 hour ago, adonski said:

    Anyone know how Kolt is tracking

     

    Given the nature of Kolt's injury he just turns up to training but he is not doing any running or drills. Today he spent quite a bit of time with his friend Kentfield - gentle stretches etc, hand-balling, etc. They will both be a couple of months away based on official and unofficial reports.

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    4 minutes ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

    Did some running with the main group - a big step forward from last week. Don't expect him to play tomorrow though.

    Yeh he trained properly for a good half hour but came off and put sandshoes on.  Looked uncomfortable but just needs to heal

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    48 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

    Is Windsor going to play?

    Don't think so - but he did not come out with the "early group" but I think that was mainly because that group was doing some serious running, given they are not playing tomorrow.

    Based on what we saw today I expect the Casey game will not have any AFL listed players, and as reported earlier it may be that Roy George has a run in the main game (even though not on the list?).

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    3 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

    There's your answer!

    The ones i listed at the start are not playing tomorrow, the trainers said so.  And they did bulk running at the end of training.  Not ideal for a game at 10 tomorrow morning.

    This was:

    Trac, May, Langdon, Gawn, Salem, Spargo, Viney.

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    Just now, Travy14 said:

    The ones i listed at the start are not playing tomorrow, the trainers said so.  And they did bulk running at the end of training.  Not ideal for a game at 10 tomorrow morning.

    This was:

    Trac, May, Langdon, Gawn, Salem, Spargo, Viney.

    And Fritsch 

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    15 minutes ago, roy11 said:

    TBH I probably wouldn't have recognised him before, Sounds like he has quite a few mini-pre-seasons and weight sessions on the agenda. 

    Luker is a long way from being back to how he was pre-illness. On Monday he seemed in good spirits, today not so much ☹️
     

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    My emoji finger gets tired easily.

    So thanks everyone! 🥈

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    I had a giggle at Clarry introducing himself to Henderson "hi mate I'm Clayton, nice to meet you" as if he didn't already know.

    Was nice to see the guys get around him too.  Can be daunting first training with a bunch of blokes you don't know

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    Had the pleasure of meeting our newest player, Jack Henderson. He seemed a little overwhelmed, (by being thrown straight into the fray, not by meeting me, at least I hope that wasn’t the reason 😅). He’s small in stature but has a presence about him. The boys were great in making him feel welcome and he’s ”stoked” to have been picked up by us.

    Hashtag Culture Shmulture 

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    5 hours ago, Travy14 said:

    I had a giggle at Clarry introducing himself to Henderson "hi mate I'm Clayton, nice to meet you" as if he didn't already know.

    Was nice to see the guys get around him too.  Can be daunting first training with a bunch of blokes you don't know

    I would have replied “Clayton who”!

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    28 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Luker is a long way from being back to how he was pre-illness. On Monday he seemed in good spirits, today not so much ☹️

    i suspect it must be very hard to know that yr teammates are gearing up to play against opposition and you're stuck in rehab and recovery

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    My squad prediction:

    B: Lever, Adams, Hore

    HB: Bowey, Petty, Howes

    C: Sharp, Rivers, Billings 

    HF: Pickett, van Rooyen, Sparrow 

    F: Chandler, Jefferson, Turner

    FOLL: Campbell, Oliver, Laurie

    IC: Langford, Lindsay, McDonald, Verrall, Fullerton, Sestan, Mentha, Woewodin, Brown, Johnson

    Was Turner there?

     

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