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Viney

His drive and leadership is incredible. Was quick back on to his feet encouraging the others during their recoveries on the ground.

Jack Viney 6 min 41 sec Clarry approx 7 Mins. Salo, trac, riv in between.

Sharp and TMac streets in front of their respective groups. Times were in the 6.40s for an earlier group of talls - 2 km time trial I'd assume?

Goes by the name Toby (when he and Kalani were called over the the main group).

That's nothing compared to the horrendous bathroom incident that Hawthorn's guernsey conjures.

Fantastic content and access. Fell off my chair when Langford listed Braveheart as his favourite film. I probably would have said the same at his age, but that was nearly 30 years ago! 🤣

... and then Goody knocked on his front door!

Thanks @Demonland, happy to contribute some pictures to supplement the fantastic writeups many on here provide. (you may well have seen me - I was the one in the MFC polo with the white wide brimmed hat, camera with white lens, mostly hovering around the fence not far from the players' area).

You got it 🤣

Some very good players have made it via the VFL pathway. Fritta springs to mind. Good luck to young Noah Yze if that's something he pursues.

And lastly:

And some more:

Here are a few other photos from today's training:

In this drill, Sharp and Langford were being instructed to work on very fast swatting hand movements to try to evade or disrupt the tackle.

Might've been this one? Great to see TMac looking so good out there. I think I heard Clarry at one point give him some plaudit along the lines of "Just keeps getting better with age". 😃

He did seem to flub quite a few kicks, including a shot at goal that went wide, to his very audible frustration later in the session. But gee-wiz he looks sensational when he's running with the ball, and he had a hell of a lot of it today in the full-field ball movement work.

Langford looks a pretty serious customer!

Here are a couple of pics of Jefferson from training today. Slotted some nice goals, and got really encouraging advice from Turner at one point - absolutely fantastic to see from Disco. Here's a snap of Daniel Larusso as well for good measure...

In recent years we've had some talls cycle through our list that didn't like the contest. To the extent that we either wouldn't select them, or in one instance didn't play them when selected as sub. I wouldn't be surprised if the thinking around this pick is as much around providing an assist to the development of some of our younger talls via Casey as well as being a senior footy-ready body if we cop some injuries.

Damn