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PRESEASON TRAINING: Friday 7th March 2025

Ghostwriter
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20 minutes ago, Kev said:

All about bonding.

Most of the drills had a competive edge to it.

Golf with a footy, closest to the pin.

 Group handballing, with one more ball than the number of contestants. The one handling two balls was out, last man standing gets the chocolates. 

Snaps for goal off passes, two teams, first one to countdown to zero wins.

Two groups, handles ball then passes to end the set. First to finish wins.

Kind of juvenile, they were all regressed back to teenagers. Plenty of noise and excitement filled the paddock.

And how bloody awesome was it, Kev?!

Seeing them having fun like little kids was heartwarming. I could watch that all day.

They were having a blast but geez they were serious and super competitive. Ricky Lever in particular… he doesn’t like losing and he makes it known. 😂 Jed Adams was also very vocal. 

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    4 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

    what colour?

    One must assume he has a vast array that will either match or enhance the sunglasses for the day. 

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    32 minutes ago, Kev said:

    Kind of juvenile, they were all regressed back to teenagers. Plenty of noise and excitement filled the paddock.

    I try and do that every Friday or SaTURDAY      bundy and coke did it for me

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    54 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

    Sky, light, navy, cobalt or electric? 

    I actually asked what shade of blue (not as detailed as you’ve asked 😅) and he said he likes every shade of blue but probably likes the blue of our red and blue the most. 🥹🥹🥹

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    1 minute ago, 640MD said:

    I try and do that every Friday or SaTURDAY      bundy and coke did it for me

    I would rather my way of being free, play, laughter, and curiosity. 

    Drugs (alcohol) can become a crutch that may impose on your happiness, and on others.

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    3 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Jai’s moonboot is purely precautionary because he has “a very minor foot thing”

    His favourite Dees player growing up? Despite the media citing Max and Vines, he actually has never had a single favourite player, rather he loved the midfielders. Even as a little kid he’s always loved the midfielders. 

    That's a relief that Jai Culley's moon boot is only precautionary.

    Hope he takes it easy and we get to see him kicking huge goals from outside 50 metres on the MCG later in the season.

     

    Looking forward to seeing Harvey "The Bison" Langford debut soon too! ❤️💙

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    14 minutes ago, adonski said:

     

    This is great! I love Chunk telling them to “ignore the scoreboard.”

    Also, Max’s little dance when he stands up in the rooms. Bless his unco little heart 😅

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    I love this inside stuff, their reactions who talks and moves when they are focussed and how they show care for one another, Gold.

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    1 hour ago, DeeZone said:

    I love this inside stuff, their reactions who talks and moves when they are focussed and how they show care for one another, Gold.

    Rick squeezing his chocolate gel snack thing and then realising he'd squeezed too much and it fell on the floor 😂

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    8 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Today is about fun. They are so happy and playful. Doing drills and sh!tt stirring at the same time. This drill seems to be about reaction times. There’s double handballs flying around players in a circle.

    Now there’s eight players in a circle with four balls being handballed and the idea is you can’t have two balls at once, ie. you have to give off the ball before you receive another. 

    Thanks for the reports GW.
    Any chance they did goal kicking practice while having fun. 

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    3 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

    Thanks for the reports GW.
    Any chance they did goal kicking practice while having fun. 

    I didn’t see any goal-kicking practice, not serious practice anyways. But today was bookended by a thorough training session at Casey yesterday and an intra-club match tomorrow, so they deserved a fun day today imho. 

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    2 hours ago, adonski said:

     

    I couldn’t help but notice that as the boys left the room, Sharpie stayed back to pack up the chairs. Seems a small thing but it’s actually a big thing. It shows his character. 

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    44 minutes ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    Rick squeezing his chocolate gel snack thing and then realising he'd squeezed too much and it fell on the floor 😂

    We can all relate to this, right? Well I can, anyways. 

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    8 hours ago, adonski said:

    AFL injury report is hopeless they had it listed as back on Tuesday

    Today someone who I think is in the know told me that sometimes Collingwood “play funny buggers” when informing the AFL of injuries, as in exaggerating an injury so as to keep everyone else guessing. 🤷‍♀️ 

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    9 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Clarry’s favourite colour is blue. 

    As long as it is matched with red, and not white and certainly not alone !

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    46 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    I couldn’t help but notice that as the boys left the room, Sharpie stayed back to pack up the chairs. Seems a small thing but it’s actually a big thing. It shows his character. 

    I noticed that too!  A few boys helped (saw Kozzie in the background) but Sharpie definitely did the most, making that big stack.

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    5 hours ago, Kev said:

    I would rather my way of being free, play, laughter, and curiosity. 

    Drugs (alcohol) can become a crutch that may impose on your happiness, and on others.

    They can indeed,  some friends never saw the light,  and hit the whole lot pretty hard. Don’t be let it become a crutch, same applies to demonland. 
     

    Those not so sensibile started departing this life, some early but some and regularly from turning 55. Some are still here , hey Mal, know your still here .  Rose are you on DL ?   Who knows what’s around the corner.  Flag 14.      Go dees. Enjoy life,

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