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Spoke too soon. Boots are off and runners are on so I guess they are ramping up the running loads now heading into the season.

And that’s stumps folks. I mostly just talked about the rehabbers with a few other observations of matchups and who is training in which lines. Happy to talk individuals so ask away.

lol. Blame @WalkingCivilWar she started the thread.

Rucks and Rovers mentioned before now doing a tap drill (Rucks one at a time jumping into a bag held by Stafford) and tap to one of 3 rovers without an opponent.

Jefferson off to the sheds and on the bike.

Defenders and wings doing a separate drill - May, McVee, Rivers, Lever, k Brown, Howes, Windsor, Langdon, Adams, Bowey, Tomlinson, Hore.

Forwards doing some goal kicking Chin, Kolt, Kozzy, JVR, Fritsch, Sestan Shows just how decimated our tall forward line is. Schache of course is an option but for this drill he is practicing his ruck craft. As mentioned earlier it is interesting that Kozzy was not with the "mids" group practicing the receiving from ruck taps. Understand that he will mostly play forward but I was hoping he was earmarked for more midfield minutes based on the past few weeks at training on a Wednesday. Assume he will still attend some centre bounces most likely at the beginnings of quarters.

Some ruck tap drills in the middle with 3 ruckman taking turns Max, KFW & Schache tapping to Viney, Trac, Nibbler, Brayshaw, Sparrow, Billings, Laurie, Wowey on at a time. This gives a good indication of who is in the midfield mix for Round 0. Other potential currently in rehab are Oliver and Salem but perhaps not Round 0.

Our forward line 😬

Tight calf apparently for TMac 😱

Goal kicking drills now. Variety of snaps, set shots and on the run.

Daniel Turner is also in the rehab group today.

Chin with a beautiful kick for goal from a set shot hard up on the boundary.

Schache getting a lot of the ball as a key forward. Nibbler, Billings, Woey have hit him up on a lead with some beautiful passing.

Kozzy not doing any midfield work today. Neither is Riv, Bowey or McVee.

Woey’s passing is just sublime.

Sometimes the portion will start with a free kick on the full on the half back or a kick out from a behind.

The start of each portion of the “Match Sim” involves an uneven number at the stoppages either a ball up or throw in. Matchups vary as does the “team” with the uneven number at the stoppage changes.

Some other matchups. Schache on Tomlinson. Lever on Jefferson. Adams on JVR.

Goody very happy with Kolt who was hard up on the boundary in the forward pocket with not a lot of space hitting up Spargo on the chest with a beautiful pass.

Match Sim starting with a boundary throw in on the wing. Max/KFW Trac/Sparrow Langdon/K Brown Laurie/ANB & viney alone.

Max has total aerial supremacy in the middle of the ground. Rarely drops a mark. Playing on KFW.

Verrell now running laps whilst the main group does the proper Match Sim rather than the full ground drill they’ve been doing. Both drills had contact but Verrell doing laps now.

For a “ruckman” he has very clean skills. Doesn’t look awkward at all. Good mark. Haven’t seen too much in game stuff from him so can only go by limited viewing at training.

Although I am a fan of that theory I just got the impression that it was just a bit of warmup/brushing off the footy cobwebs stuff.