kev martin

I assume he must have been able to complete full training Thursday, and Tuesday training was just a recovery stretch and walk. I also guess, any imaging of the injury must have not shown any hot spots. If that training pattern is repeated, how will Hibbo keep fitness without a full workload? Achilles problems are a fluctuating injury and he has been managing it for a few years now. Could also be the selectors are playing games, but why, when West are forced to choose from the underdeveloped players.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/teams/training-times The above link for when the MFC post open trainings. They haven't been posting lately. I have been using guess work. At the moment the pattern seems. Monday or Tuesday (if a Sunday game) on Gosch's, sometime after 9.30am. Last Tuesday they trained at 11.00 am. Then they have their main training out at Casey, Thursday 9.30am, or on Wednesday if the game is on Friday. They will do a captains run on Gosch's at 9.30am, the day before gameday, if playing in Melbourne. Goodluck Billy.

Seemed happy to be back into his regular routine and hanging out with AMW, and the rest of them. At one stage he was dancing around and shadow boxing the stations post, ala Tim Cahill (soccer world cup).

No sightings of him!

Lever's problem did look minor. BBB in runners, moving without obvious restrictions, probably just his individual program, which he has been on for a while now. Gawn looked a bit forlorned (I think he likes the company) running by himself at about 60% effort, but he was getting the kilometres done.

No, didn’t see him.

Yep, full training.

Got down to Gosch's for this morning's run. Taj was being put through a fair bit of running. He also had a small amount of time kicking and marking. Max ran more than 10 laps. At one stage, he tried a drill with direction changes, that didn't last long. The rehab also had Farris-white, K.Turner, BBB, Lever and Hibbo in it. Hibbo looks in trouble, probably his achilles. Left training after 20 minutes. Lever appeared to have a right hip complaint. He joined the main group after they finished their running. Schache was in full training, he also spent time after the session, marking the high ball. No Harmes. Kossie looked happy. The session was mainly about stretching the legs and having some fun. After some run throughs, they separated into 4 stations. Short kicking drill, with movement either left or right behind the mannequin after marking. A game of keep the soccer ball in the air. A handball game with a precision target to finish the action. The final one was competitive handball, finishing with a 40-meter pass to a leading forward. That was it. A few stayed back, working on their goal kicking. Grundy, Petty, Tracc, Moniz-wakefield, Oliver and a couple of others who I can't recall.

He was in the rehab group at Saturday's training.

Great game Clarry, was getting hit by the Swans at every opportunity. Loved his steal when the Swans, Ladham I think, attempted a handball. I thought moments defined us, hard ball wins, defensive structure and changing the angles of attack to create marking chances. Started winning the centre clearances. Took our opportunities, when the Swans couldn't (looking at Buddy). Great tackling in our forward 50. Swans had trouble getting any rhythm and couldn't slice us apart, except for a few plays. Swans also made many stupid errors, brought on by our pressure and contest. They couldn't play a manic style of footy and we seemed composed most of the time. Good teamwork MFC, working for each other.

I thought it was Sparrow who started winning centre clearances and then others joined in, kept us rolling out of there.

Hoping we are setting ourselves to dominate on the "G". Make it our fortress Dee's.

Well played Casey, forced it onto our own terms. I am amazed that Sydney couldn't or wouldn't put more into Tomlinson and Howes.

Perhaps they have rested him and sent to the MCG as an emergency.

Sydney played well in the 1st quarter, then our backline and ball movement killed them.

Sestan is prepared to do the defensive forward stuff. I haven't seen much of K.Turner. Laurie fallen out of the game. Dunstan needs to kick his goals. Great game by Tomlinson and Howes.

Who pulled the plug?

I'd like to see Jefferson take a screamer of a mark. Good conditions to get the timing right.

For those wanting to watch both games at the ground, travel and finishing times leave for very little hope. Casey finishes aroud 2 pm, leaving 1 1/2 hrs to travel 50 km into town and gain entry to the G. Is there anyone trying to do this? Can't do it on public transport. They really aren't encouraging the supporters! One positive, I would get into Casey for free with my membership, LOL.

I assumed it has something to do with the contracts they agreed to with Casey Council.

They are playing Sestan on the wing. Must want him to run. Oops sorry, saw the mullet of another player (76, McCrae) and thought it was Sestan (playing high half-forward).

No wind, the Casey players must be loving it. Where's the crowd? The contract with Casey council makes for an empty outer. Are there many in the stadium? Great to have live coverage, but the players get very little from supporters in these home games. Could have been a curtain raiser to the big show! Good game so far, Jefferson and Sestan are dangerous. Keep at it. Tmac, Tomlinson and Laurie, doing well.

Laurie is playing much more consistent footy, amazing how an endorsement at the higher level helps his confidence and application.

Last week was a wake-up (I hope) for us. For 3 1/2 quarters we were hammered after handling the ball like a bg bar of wet soap. Happy we have a beauty of a day. Would like to see a positive response that shows that they hate losing. Hit them hard at the coal face, the engine room, the stoppages. Dynamic, risk taking seems to be the way to go. C'mon Dees, control the momentum, take the opportunities, mark everything, dominate with our transitioning game from defence to offence and vice-versa, and adjust the backline so they don't get easy forward 50 marks when they don't blast it in. Go Dees

I was thinking about putting in that Tracc and Clarry nearly came to blows. The reality is that they share too much brotherly love. Clarry was strapping up a boot and Tracc began smothering him, what a pest, lovely moment.