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TRAINING: Monday 9th February 2026

Back pocket
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We may be getting a better look at who's in our best 23 from today's training photo gallery. It appears that our first team players were selected in the blue team's forwards and the white team's backline, while the midfielders were evenly mixed. Most of these are probably as expected. Interesting to see Melksham straight back into the ones.

 

WHITE

DEFENDERS (first team)

  • Tmac

  • Disco

  • Lindsay

  • Taylor (featured on both teams)

  • Howes (may have been playing on the wing)

  • Lever

 

MID (evenly spread across both teams)

  • Windsor

  • Steele

  • Sparrow

  • Heath

 

FWD (reserves)

  • AJ

  • Mentha

  • Kolt (may have been a mid)

  • Matthews

  • Kentfield

 

BLUE

DEFENDERS (reserves)

  • Taylor (featured on both teams)

  • Berry

  • Adams

 

MIDS (evenly spread across both teams)

  • Rivers

  • Langdon

  • Koz

  • Gawn

  • Langford


FORWARDS (first team)

  • Roo

  • Chandler

  • Fritsch

  • Latrelle

  • Melksham

  • Jeffo

 

Petty was pictured in a blue top, however it appeared that he was running laps of the oval.

 

Not pictured: May, Salem, Viney, Culley, CJ, Laurie, Bowey, McAdam, Mihocek, Campbell, Sharp, White, Onley, Henderson, AMW

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    10 minutes ago, Random Task said:

    Kentfield in the batman mask. Possible fracture somewhere?

    Or maybe he'd just returned from performing some super-hero task and hadn't changed.

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    40 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Or maybe he'd just returned from performing some super-hero task and hadn't changed.

    You might be onto something here.

    I believe he now wants to be known as Clark Kentfield and has been seen hanging around in the vicinity of phone booths. (Ask your grandparents, kids)

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    london theatre GIF by The Phantom of the Opera

    With team selection speculation reaching Saturday Night Fever levels on DL.

    Our young proto-champion patiently awaits his curtain call on the wings.

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    reverse negative edit

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    16 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    You might be onto something here.

    I believe he now wants to be known as Clark Kentfield and has been seen hanging around in the vicinity of phone booths. (Ask your grandparents, kids)

    My interest in this subject is already waning.

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    58 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

    They trained today? No posts?

    It’s Casey — never get the eyeballs we do at Gosch

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    1 minute ago, Tolstoys Nudge said:

    It’s Casey — never get the eyeballs we do at Gosch

    Is that on purpose?

    Edit* by the club?

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    Going by the photos, Adams has put on some good upper body size. Disco is also looking in good physical condition.

    For those that attend training, who has made the best of their off seasons physical-wise (either/or size and conditioning)?

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    8 hours ago, Mickey said:

    For information, the SSP signing period ends 2 March. So plenty of time for them to assess both Viney and McAdam

    Does anyone know if a LTI needs to be season ending to get supplementary players, or just to mid season? If the latter both Viney and McAdam would seem to fit in there.

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    1 minute ago, monoccular said:

    Does anyone know if a LTI needs to be season ending to get supplementary players, or just to mid season? If the latter both Viney and McAdam would seem to fit in there.

    Pretty sure it has to be season ending. Similar to how we got both Henderson and Culley with the season ending injuries ro AMW and McAdam.

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    57 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    For those that attend training, who has made the best of their off seasons physical-wise (either/or size and conditioning)?

    Roo

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    Agrees, Roo.

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    1 hour ago, monoccular said:

    Does anyone know if a LTI needs to be season ending to get supplementary players, or just to mid season? If the latter both Viney and McAdam would seem to fit in there.

    AFL rules on the Long-Term Injury (LTI) list allow clubs to temporarily replace injured players who are expected to miss a minimum of six weeks . Players on the LTI cannot compete during this minimum duration, allowing clubs to activate a rookie or elevate a player without salary cap penalties for the replacement player.

    Whilst we know about Viney's injury the situation with McAdam as far as I know, has not been made clear.

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    12 hours ago, M_9 said:

    AFL rules on the Long-Term Injury (LTI) list allow clubs to temporarily replace injured players who are expected to miss a minimum of six weeks . Players on the LTI cannot compete during this minimum duration, allowing clubs to activate a rookie or elevate a player without salary cap penalties for the replacement player.

    Whilst we know about Viney's injury the situation with McAdam as far as I know, has not been made clear.

    This seems like the old LTI/rookie list rule to me. I didn't think rookies needed to be elevated to play AFL anymore.

    The rules from 2021 (when it was instituted) say that it needs to be a year ending injury or retirement, at which time they are placed on the inactive list and replaced with an SSP

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    24 minutes ago, Mickey said:

    This seems like the old LTI/rookie list rule to me. I didn't think rookies needed to be elevated to play AFL anymore.

    The rules from 2021 (when it was instituted) say that it needs to be a year ending injury or retirement, at which time they are placed on the inactive list and replaced with an SSP

    I looked at the AFL rule book published in 2023 (rule 26 on pp 100,101). Nothing about the injury needing to be season ending - player out for a minimum of 6 rounds. Primary listed player is replaced by a Cat B rookie.

    BTW Ricky Mentha our only Cat B rookie (I think).

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    21 minutes ago, M_9 said:

    I looked at the AFL rule book published in 2023 (rule 26 on pp 100,101). Nothing about the injury needing to be season ending - player out for a minimum of 6 rounds. Primary listed player is replaced by a Cat B rookie.

    BTW Ricky Mentha our only Cat B rookie (I think).

    Fair enough, although I think the rules for a Cat B listed player and SSP/PSP player are different (which I acknowledge wasn't included in my previous post).

    The AFL rule book for 2024, also in rule 26 on pg. 99-100 says that to get someone from the SSP/PSP (i.e., train on player), the AFL listed player needs to be on the inactive list, which means they are ineligible to play that season unless another list spot opens up and the club gets permission from the AFL.

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    37 minutes ago, M_9 said:

    I looked at the AFL rule book published in 2023 (rule 26 on pp 100,101). Nothing about the injury needing to be season ending - player out for a minimum of 6 rounds. Primary listed player is replaced by a Cat B rookie.

    BTW Ricky Mentha our only Cat B rookie (I think).

    Is Oscar Berry category B? If not, what category is he?

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