kev martin

Looks like an in club easter party for players, down at Gosch's. It may start at 12. Easter eggs all over half the paddock, with plenty of the players and staff's, family around.

Seeing Geelong chasing was enjoyable while it happened. C'mon Hawks, fight your way back in it.

Newcombe is not too bad. Breust is good.

I like watching Geelong having to chase. I see their best game when frontrunners. Nervous, spiteful, errors, and a born to rule syndrome (entitled).

Chanel 7 maximising advert time, so we don't get a clear look at the centre bounce. Or, is it the replay that goes into the ball up time and the hope that the small box in the bottom right corner will suffice for a few seconds.

Yep Viney is. Comes from a family that is the fabric of AFL. All his life he must have eaten, slept and dreamed footy. He is the one that knows when the game is on the line, and I have seen him get us over the line and turn the momentum, from a very early age. These ones had extraordinary skill levels. Viney may over estimate his ability at times, but footy IQ, he has it in spades.

We are getting our inside 50's efficient, and great how we lock it in there. Forwards are working up field and supporting the backs. We are good at winning the crucial moments. Great pressure, defence and tackling. The core players know each other's game, allows them to connect, have confidence, play to strengths and to get out of trouble. Our set shots are more accurate, thanks coaches. We are breaking the lines with our running, hanballs, supportive play, and the 20/30 meter handballs. Seems we are playing in front and getting to the ball first. JVR's fitness looks fine. Tmac getting to the right area without BBB there, creating one on one's with less pack formations and more space. Hope they keep giving Petty some time up forward. Loving our second halves, no fade outs or complacency so far. We seem super fit, well done trainers. Getting plenty of junk time/time on goals. Oliver running end to end, super fit. Unlike Collingwood, who say they are still building, we are there and can now focus on the finer aspects of the game. Max in the coaches box with a pen, getting plenty of learnings, which can help his on field leadership qualities.

Watching the replay off the "AFL live" app, now. I can cast it to the TV (the web site doesn't allow casting). They put it on under 24 hrs from the end of the game. [Too cold and wet for me to head to pub viewing yesterday. Plus, I don't particularly like being around people on their drug (alcohol), I usually end up being the mate of the inebriated, who doesn't give me space or continues to want my time during play. Then there is the grog bravado's, who fill the place with noise and energy, ok if you are one of them. Ostracised, and bored if not on that "high" and building level. Sometimes no alternatives.] Single person household, so the subscriptions to stream or package, a bit too costly for me living within my financial means. The app replays all the games.

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?