SaberFang

If his foot is stuffed... IF... the club would be keeping it under wraps. Fact is, the poor guy has sat out a lot of footy over the years and his body needs to be conditioned back into the game. I'd gladly ease him back into AFL with a 10 game season if it meant next year we got 20 games with him. Preferable to stuffing his foot again and going back to square one.

He was having so much fun with that bottle of water!Clearly the guy respects his body, even on holidays.

Saw him at Falls a few weeks back. He's a big unit, has a great size on him and really stands out in a crowd. Hoping he has a huge influence at our clubs, I think he'll kill it.

Didn't see Viv but doesn't mean he wasn't there.

Dawes, Salem, Kent, Dom, Toump and Frawley all practicing set shots at goal. Dawes has fantastic accuracy, hardly missing a shot.

Today's rehab group is Tappy, Hoges, Jones, Gawny, Dawes, Jamar. Clark running around the boundary of the rehab oval. All looking fairly sprightly.

Boys being very vocal in the middle now doing handball drills. Great to hear. Fairly big crowd today.

I definitely think from a list management perspective, we need to start solidifying long-term replacements for Clark, because I can't see him getting a full season for us without being injury prone.

Ten News will also have a feature tonight on our training at Casey. Getting some great exposure for the club and our sponsors this year. Will be even better once we announce our captain.

Great photos!! Excellent work Six

I'm sure he'll be crying into his giant pile of millions we had to pay him out for.

That's Billy Stretch, training with us for a few weeks and a potential father son selection for us at this years draft.

The man tried his best. Didn't work out. His disastrous reign led to one of the best things to happen to our club in years: Paul Roos. Can't complain about that. Without Mark Neeld that would never have happened.

Well he needed same-day surgery so I'm thinking it was pretty serious.

Well we all knew Dawes would miss pre-season after his surgery. Hogan's just out of action for a few weeks, and they're being cautious with Clark after his pre-Christmas injury. Can never be too careful at training. Just look at the Crows and Van Berlo, he won't even play this season after going too hard at training. That's the last thing the trainers want for Mitch.

Bingo. We need to know where our salary cap's at next year and beyond, so we know how much we can start offering our big guns. The club can lock in potentially great players at a lower cost if they are unproven. If these two have break out years and kill it on the field in 2014, they'll cost us more to re-sign after the season, leaving less money for the big contract re-signings like Chip.

He'll be gutted he can't get out in the 40° sun to work on general fitness with the boys, but as above, more time in the gym to keep building his body.

Is he even allowed to train with us? doesn't that violate some rule with future draftees, which Essendon was also doing last year?

Seeing some great camaraderie watching vision of our time trials. Watts collapsed at the finish line and Crossy goes over to him, grabs him by the arm and helps him up. Lots of team work, great to see.

I'm surprised Chapman wanted to go there at all, but then there's the Bomber Thompson connection and it kinda makes sense I guess.

Agreed, would be nice if they could find a bit of extra money to get a photographer or videographer in a few times a week to take training photos. I assume the boys are in Tuesdays/Thursdays doing gym work as well? Some behind the scenes stuff would be a real treat, and great publicity.

I'd rather a properly rested Dawes easing into the season mid-year, than a rushed Dawes getting injured round 1 and sitting out the rest of the season.

Looks like Ten News has a story on training starting back up today for the Dees (and other filthy clubs we won't utter), probably around 5:40pm.

I had to double take the other day when I saw a few of our new recruits partying it up at Falls Festival in Lorne. Happy to report they looked pretty well behaved, drinking water right before midnight NYE. Was going to ask for a photo but didn't want to be that guy.

Headed down for an hour to watch the boys. JKH was an absolute standout from where I was watching (doing drills with Harmes, who had some sloppy missed marks from easy kicks). JKH consistently goes hard at the ball, has a speedy pace, very clean hands, and a nice kick about him. Couldn't find much to fault him over. Would love to see him in round 1 next season. Dom Barry had a few sloppy disposals and botched marks as well.