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My friends got a general admission ticket and unsure what happens now? Can they still get in with it? It’s so confusing what to do 

Absolutely loved it. I love how we are called naarm for these two rounds.

Absolutely love it!

Kings birthday goals.

Nick Nick Daicos to be humbled and the melbourneeeeeeeee chant to explode pies fans heads. Hate the filth  

Out: Sparrow, Spargo, Tmac and Tomlinson 

In: Lever, Harmes, Schache/BBB and Hibberd/Disco and then send Petty forward 

5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Jordon dropped..

Bizarre decision. 

 

I don’t get it… 

For me he leaves at the end of the year and I don’t blame him. Definitely deserved his spot this week

17 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

100% agree. The 3rd tall is the Ruck pinch hitter. 

We also need to get some games into Turner, should be our 3rd tall of Petty plays up forward.

Yep agree. 
May struggled one on one with out the help of Lever. Lever obviously now having to do more one on one himself. Bring in Turner to take Pettys spot and lever back to roaming around. 

Anyone heading to the sporting globe richmond to watch the game?

2 minutes ago, Chook said:

I'll have Petracca Oliver Pickett thanks

Second this 

Hopefully not an on going thing this year or for the rest of his(Mays) career 

Makes me want us to make a play for McKay at years end

7 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Saturday lunch beers are now on

can tell footy is back. I’ve been stress free for months and now hearing all these outs prior to round 1 is stressing me haha

Fritta is the only one out of the three I wanted to play this weekend. Feel more confident with him in the forward line

Waiting patiently all day having some bevs, then head over to the G with the fam. Can’t wait!!

JVR round 1

Blake Howes mid year and I’m going to throw a Smokey out there…. Deakyn Smith to take over from Hibberd at one stage 

13 hours ago, Demonland said:

He didn’t appear to be hampered in any way during training. He was very angry when he came off and I thought it was because it appeared that he copped a cheap shot in the guts as well as a knock. I’m pretty sure he was talking on the boundary line with Selwyn Griffiths who didn’t seem too concerned about any ailments that might sideline Trac. 

The way he acted when he came off seems to me that he does feel like while training and it’s annoying him. Hopefully doesn’t get any worse during the season 

42 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Watching vision on 9 news of Petracca, it would appear that the knock was to the knee and being downplayed by many trackwatchers here. It looked like the knee he has had issues with in the past. Brayshaw also having his elbow checked out. Same elbow he wore a guard on for a period 

I was standing on the sidelines where Trac ran off and he was [censored]. He said “I just want to be able to train properly” in a angry way. Definitely more to it I feel 

Is training today at gosch’s? 
Thinking of heading over if they are

47 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Half back Brayshaw makes me feel a little bit ill.

Get Bowey and Rivers in. We need speed and flair from half back.

Harmes, Sparrow, ANB, Spargo and even Gus and Hunter competing for one less spot in the 22. Left over is the sub.

Similarly it’s too tall and JVR, Brown, T Mc and even Grundy are competing for 3 spots. JVR had a great start to summer. Tommy moving well. BBB apparently very up and about in the recent match sim. Grundy settling in. It will be a good battle for spots.

Last year Goody was obsessed with players eventually getting better whilst playing in the best 22 when there was players worthy of coming in and having a crack in the same position. Grundy/Gawn, Tmac, Brown and Rooey is too tall yes but I hope if one or two are left out of the best 22 we can learn to bring in one of them if they’re playing well in the 2nds and someone in the 1s isn’t. It was driving me nuts last year! He was obsessed with keeping the same team every week which I get a tiny bit but if someone is now in their third/fourth week and they’re playing average well they need to learn it’s not acceptable and you will be replaced 

Lever or Trac for me in the next handover 

43 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

I've been to 3 or 4 sessions this year and two things are clearly evident to me:

1. The players and the coaches are really holding each other to account. Before, during and after drills there is always lots of animated discussion, finger pointing and head nodding. They obviously have very clear objectives of what they want to achieve in drills/match sim and they are not scared to have difficult conversations when needed.

2. There's a real urgency in everything that they do. Whether it's the intensity in a drill, the delivery of an instruction or the willingness to fix mistakes, everything seems to happen at a million miles an hour. 

I'm much more confident that the mindset of the whole club is in a better place than it was at any time during 2022. 

I noticed that too when I went to training on the 9th of Jan. we lacked that last year after having it in 2021. Which I do get it, they did just win the premiership and it happens. 
This year we have a couple of players with points to prove/last crack at it 

Grundy - point to prove/at the back end of his career.

Schache- last chance at it. If this doesn’t work out for him he’s career is done. 

Melks- Last chance

Tomlinson - Last chance with us

Chandler-most likely last chance with us  

I know last year we had a few players in the same position but I don’t think the other players were really motivated but I think they’re hungry again. Lever looks like a man on a mission and he gets really annoyed when he stuffs up and you can see it in his face he wants to make up for a mistake and that’s just at training. May is an competitive beast and hates losing

Maxy looks to have found a new twinkle in his eye with Grundy’s inclusion. Tomlinson trained like a man that will not accept being in the 2’s anymore. JVR looked like a young man who knows it’s his time to shine. 
 

To me at training it was like they had last year off and they’ve missed it so much and never want to be away from footy again.. if that makes sense. 

Pre season team

B:     Lever  May  Rivers

HB:  Gus  Turner Salem

C:   Hunter Oliver Langdon

HF: ANB  Jvr   Spargo 

F: kozzy Petty Fritsch 

R: Gawn Trac Viney

int: sparrow Grundy Harmes Bowey

sub Tmac

I’d like to see Petty up forward for a preseason game and see how Turner hold his ground down back. 

If it doesn’t work then in round 1  you can have Turner out, Petty back in defence and tmac up forward with Gawn/grundy eventually coming in during the game. Need to start getting Turner in there to learn off Lever and may because he can eventually replace May. 

46 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

I got down to training today. We settled on the fence. Choco Williams came over for a chat. My two boys played soccer with Leo and Bella McDonald, kids of Tom. It was good to be back.

There was no Oliver, Petty, Pickett or Lachie Hunter today. Goody and Ooze were MIA. Troy Chaplin seemed to be calling the shots. Kye Turner and Kynan Brown (son of Nathan) joined the main group. Trent Burgoyne was on a modified program. Joel Smith and Andy Moniz-Wakefield were in re-hab. Gus Brayshaw did a lot of things with the main group, but is on some sort of modified program. James Harmes was wearing a green hat signifying that he was a ‘non-contact’ player.

First up was the dreaded 2km time trial. The players were split into 4 groups of similar running ability. The two more able groups went first. Adam Tomlinson led the top group from start to finish, looking very fit in beating home Nibbla in second place. JJ came third, closely followed by Ed Langdon. For those interested in times, I timed the third group. Rick Lever won this group in a time of 6:30, Bailey Laurie not far behind him in 6:36. Josh Schache won the big fella’s group, ahead of a fast finishing Gawn. Ben Brown really impressed me. He hammered home behind Max and looked the best he has since late 2021. Brodie Grundy seemed to labour, which is not surprising considering his injury problems. The young blokes struggled. Will Verral in particular, took over 8 minutes to complete his 2kms and he had Jack Viney for company on his last lap, with Vin yapping to him the whole way home.  

The warm up drills were focused on quick ball movement and hitting short targets under pressure. One ball movement drill I found fascinating was red v whites. The whites (defenders) would move the ball up the line. The reds would receive the ball at half back and sling shot the ball forward through quick hands and feet into the corridor. The forwards would all set up high across half forward. They would then lead far and wide, especially back into the open spaces of the forward line towards the goal square. There were no indiscriminate kicks inside 50. Each kick, be it long or short, was towards a leading Brown, McDonald or Fritsch, mostly moving back into an empty forward zone. This was very different to our long kicks into pockets last year.

I won’t ramble any further. I’m happy to answer any questions.

I definitely saw ooze there

14 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

The 4 unsighted as above. Lots of players in different numbers making it confusing.

Brayshaw mostly doing some kick to kick and repeat jogging with Adams and Verrell.

May and Harmes were in more drills then pulled out for light stuff.

Burgoyne, Deak and Joel Smith on light duties. Joel did some solid repeat sprints. AMW on the watt bike.

For a solid period they split in to 3 groups. Group A did a drill from the half forward flank working through token pressure 4 on 1 to then hit up 2 leading forwards v 2 defenders with another defender dropping back covering leading lanes. Some good hit up kicks in this.

The other 2/3rds rotated through a bigger drill using about half the ground. A long kick out of the backline went to the 2 rucks (Max and Grundy had some good marking contests) from which the emphasis was on super quick transition back inside 50 and using the switch or diagonal as much as possible.

T Mc, Brown, Schache, JVR all prominent.

It wasn’t even numbers or full pressure but the speed on the ball from the mids/backs/high half forwards was really impressive. Some nice kicks to leads and up over the defenders too.

JVR had a ball bounce off his hands and Jefferson arced across from his own lead, swooped on the crumb to gather it in the air, straightened and finished with ease. It was a bit like a taller right footed Fritsch with the touch of class.

Kynan Brown looked comfortable mixing it in traffic and like he has some zip in close. Kye Turner looks a similar size to our other tall backs, seems to have good athleticism and didn’t do anything that stood out too much. But the defenders weren’t tasked with any true competitive drills. 

I noticed a couple of very clean Bill Laurie moments and he’s certainly changed his shape. Howes had a beautiful spearing kick to Ben Brown’s chest at one stage too. 

 

Great report

JVR with out a hair cut in Pettys number took me a while to realise who it was.

Max was taking great marks in the forward line but he’s kicking worries me

After the drills at the end of the session they did some running and Benny brown, Jefferson and Kyah Farris-White led the way. Was really surprised after the session they had and everyone else looking cooked. One stage Farris-White led by about 10 metres from The group. Pig pulled out of the running towards the end with some sort of complaint 
 

Really liked the way Rivers was training also. Seems to have some spark back.

Kozzy, Petty, Hunter and Oliver I haven’t seen

also Goodwin I haven’t seen

Brayshaw, May and Harmes in rehab from the seniors 

Isaac keeler?