demonwithin

At the end of 2023 and 22 full seasons of AFL since 2000- 19 times we will have played Geelong at State Government Stadium. 21 home games to Geel in that time….the big three playing at Geel in the same period ? .- ESS 1, Carl 3 Coll 0 Ffs 🤦‍♂️ 

Can't complain that the Twitter writer isn't positive. Not sure glimpse is the right word!! Very poor - kicked first goal inside a minute and kicked three for the rest of the game. They were far too strong around the ball big heavy set players smashed their opponents. The forward line played four talls for 80% of the game and it just didn't work. Could not hold the ball down there and they waltz out when they felt like it. Terlich and Lumumba got plenty of it but got caught it turned it over especially Terlich. The only positive I thought was Mitch King who looked OK in the ruck and got better the longer the game went. Max King struggled unfortunately. Weideman I think I am right had one kick one mark for the day late in the last Qtr. They way they kicked it to him was putrid. Count on one hand how many kicks hit targets. Quite disappointing the day to be honest.

7.4 to 4.2 Williamstown in front at half time

Seagulls right on top

7.3 45 to 3.1 19

Willy getting on top early in the second.

4.2 26 to Casey 3.1 19

3 straight to 2 straight Casey in front. No18 for Willy just took an absolute screamer to kick their second. 16 mins and last two MFC to add are Hulett and Mitch King. Baker has 2 of the 3 goals for scorpions

Terlich kicks the second after a four bounce effort from half back. Add stretch and Michie to list of MFC players. 2 goals to nil 7 mins in 

Goal to Casey in first minute

Hasn't started yet just out of the rooms. No team sheets left but so far I can see Weideman, Neal Bulleen, Mak King, Mitch white, Terlich, hunt, & Lumumba

Formatting please!

I'm not smart enough to know how to format it better from the table it came in !!!!

Will have another crack

It does look terrible

Imagine if that poor excuse for a journalist on AFL.com who was real clever showing a side we apparently missed out on, did some research. Rather then showing blokes who were picked 16 picks later how about try the next pick as that shows who the next club thought was the one we missed out on. Makes a whole different story

2006

12. James Frawley (Jack Riewoldt at No.13) - Jack Riewoldt Rich

30. Ricky Petterd (Kurt Tippett, 32) - Clayton Collard Freo

46. Colin Garland (Robbie Gray, 55) - Kyle Riemers Ess

62. Isaac Weetra (Tyson Goldsack, 63) - Tyson Goldsack Coll

2007

4. Cale Morton (Patrick Dangerfield, 10) - Jarrod Grant Foots

14. Jack Grimes (Callan Ward, 19) - Robbie Tarrent Nth Melb

21. Addam Maric (Scott Selwood, 22) - Scott Selwood WC

53. Kyle Cheney (Cale Hooker, 54) - Cale Hooker ESS

66. Tom McNamara - Kepler Bradley Freo

2008

1. Jack Watts (Nic Naitanui, 2) - Nic Nat WC

17. Sam Blease (Luke Shuey, 18) - Luke Shuey WC

19. James Strauss (Hayden Ballantyne, 21) - Tom Swift WC

35. Jamie Bennell (Steven Motlop, 39) - Ashley Smith WC

51. Neville Jetta (Michael Walters, 53) - Jordan Jones WC

64. Rohan Bail - Rhys Okeefe Carl

2009

1. Tom Scully (Dustin Martin, 3)

2. Jack Trengove (Ben Cunnington, 5) - Dustin Martin Rich

11. Jordan Gysberts (Daniel Talia, 13) - Kane Lucas Carl

18. Luke Tapscott (Nat Fyfe, 20) - Benjamin Griffiths Rich

34. Max Gawn (Allen Christensen, 40) - David Astbury Rich

50. Jack Fitzpatrick (Taylor Duryea, 69) - Troy Taylor Rich

2010

12. Lucas Cook (Brodie Smith, 14) - Seb Tape Gold coast

33. Jeremy Howe (Luke Parker, 40) - Patrick Mc carthy Carl

50. Troy Davis (Paul Puopolo, 66) - Dean Mc Donald Rich

53. Tom McDonald - Jordon Schroeder Geel

2011

36. Rory Taggert (Jack Newnes, 37) - Jackk Newnes St K

52. Josh Tynan (Lachie Neale, 58) - Alex Woodward Haw

54. James Sellar (Cameron Sutcliffe, 71) - Matthew Arnott Rich

2012

4. Jimmy Toumpas (Ollie Wines, 7) - Jake Stringer WB

26. Jack Viney - James Stewart GWS

48. Dean Kent - Joshua Prudden WB

52. Matt Jones - Martin Gleeson Ess

68. Dean Terlich - Michael Osborne Haw

Probably not the best place to be for Jetta to finish, assuming he wants to be re-drafted or drafted by another club.

I originally thought the same thing but watching him he was giving it everything and not everyone can be running machines. We have had many blokes that run like the wind in pre season and can't get the pill when it matters.

could say the same for Tappy .................................. Nah positive thoughts for 2014 time to turn the corner !!!

Went down for a look. Quite a few players stayed inside (or I assumed they did).

Absent from the outside stuff were Clark, Toumpas, Watts, Jamar, Dawes, Tapscott, Barry, Kent, Clisby, Brynes, Blease

Frawley, Terlich, Gawn joined in stages. Viney did 95% as did Hogan and Michie

Spencer and McDonald did laps

Tyson and Garland did lap after lap running. Tyson pulled away from Garland on every lap so I reckon he ain't far away from full training

Bail, Grimes, Vince, Cross, Dunn & Jetta broke away and did some timed lap running that was exhausting. Bail led them from Cross, Grimes, Vince Dunn & Jetta

Strauss run laps on his own

Nicholson did a very small amount of training

Roos and all the coaching staff were in the middle.

Solid session from where I sat went about 1and 1/2 hours if they started at 9.30am

Got down there for about 90 mins this morning. Hopefully if I forget anyone others that were there may post.

Without going any further the highlight by far was seeing Mitch doing some 1/2 pace run throughs for about 30 mins and then kick to kick with Dawes for about 20 mins. Was using both feet with his kicking. Even better was when he was finished he stayed out on the track to watch the guys do a full length training drill. Itching to join in he was.

The only player i couldn't see out there was Grimes but everyone else was out doing something.

Evans, Dawes and Hogan did laps as did Dunn. Sylvia and Trengove with Gillies and two others did about 80% of the work I saw.

The new draftees were doing 3/4 pace run throughs on the far side of the ground before they joined in some of the ball work drills. They along with Tynan and Barry then went to athletics track for fitness training.

Plenty of those 150 - 200 m sprints with the majority of the group doing those. Standouts Mc Donald, Nicholson, Howe, Jones, Watts, Blease (relative to where he has been) Magner.

Couple of full length kicking drills with fast ball movement with hands to carry the ball some beautiful foot skills on display from Jimmy Toumpas and Dom Barry doing this drill that got Neeld excited. Toumpas looks like an absolute jet. Everything he did looked athletic, smooth and with control. His kicking was superb.

Then some full length drills where basically it was "chaos calls" by the coaches and working really hard on transition from defence to attack or vice versa. Guys i noticed included Howe, Jones, Taggert, Blease and Jetta.

Viney was involved in everything to today but was really blowing hard afetr the 200m sprints. looked quite distressed however motored on for the rest of the 90 minutes I saw.

Jack Hannath trained the whole session.

Any questions happy to try and answer

They were still hard at when I left.

I was in the store this week and had the same conversation. It has been agreed verbally and we were waiting for the company to sign off. It is their standard operation that a number of different people in the organization have to sign off and that is the delay. Any day now they hope to have the signed documentation

That was the point they made that players forgot to support him on field. Players play, coaches coach etc was trotted as well and that Neeld was going to quickly haul anyone into line who steps out.

Was on 3AW. Not a lot said. Harped back top the Bailey sacking and that the players had too much say re Cameron Schwab etc. Brother of soon to be football director stated that all Brad Green has done wrong was complain about the working conditions last year after being asked his opinion. Clearly they indicated it was very much Bailey and the players vs CS and the admin.

Niall thinks they will go with co captains of Grimes or Trengove with a senior player. Only name he mentioned was Beamer and that was asking teh question whether he is up to it. He wasn't sure.

No facts given, no proof given just a hunch

Quality radio. talk bout quite news week (aside from the tennis)

thanks for rushing home and giving us a great account of what took place tonight.Very much appreciated.

Fortunately (for things like this) don't live too far away from Casey hence the quick turnaround

Just got home from Casey.  training started at 4.00pm and at 6.40pm a number of players were still on the ground.

Memories of what they did

Bail & Gysberts walked laps. Gysberts had like a sleeve fron hip to just below the knee. Only padding on Bail was around the ankles.

Wona went off earlier and didn't see him again. Not sure what he did

Sylvia, Tapscott, Jurrah and Tommy Mac did run throughs all day and didn't join the main group. None of them looked injured or concerned so I reckon for LJ and Col in particular it may have been their "light" training session.

A different group of about 10 - 12 did some of their own training away from the main group as well. It did look like the majority in there were the drafted and rookie guys. It also had a couple of the long term injured from last year (Gawn etc)

Plenty of running, sprints agility runs etc

The main group did a half ground sprint 20 sec break 30 metre sprint 10 second break another 30 metre sprint. 1 min and then same again. Did this about 5 or 6 times. Most impressive here was Scully as others tried to keep up.

Then into some footy drills including kicking practice, handball keepings off games. Then into ground groups (Forward, Middle, Back).

Backs played two on two with the defenders trying to touch teh ball on the way through. Plenty of switching in this drill.

Mids rucking setup and then sprint away from contests.

Forwards continuous leading hitting targets front and centre work.

Most of the drills were over sustained periods hence over 2 hours on the track

Observations

Scully - superb!

Moloney, Petterd, Dunn - plenty of encouragement to others.

In fact in  one on one contest where ball was kicked to Moloney, Kelvin Lawrence spoiled beautiful with great closing speed. Ball moved away and Moloney turned and high five and plenty of well done encouragement.

Howe - good size looked promising;

Trengove - muscled up but looked more agile than  when I last saw him 3 weeks ago (if that makes sense);

Rivers - Looked really good;

Lawrence - silky smooth mover;

Blease - pleasing;

Maric - up the front in most drills;

Bennell - Looked super;

Davey - Looked fit;

Campbell - great size;

Spencer- looked pretty good as did Stef Martin;

Gawn - Bloody big;

Cook, Davis & McDonald - all good sizes and need beef but wouldn't look out of place (esp Davis);

Nicholson - Looked quite accomplished and certainly not out of place.

Very few injured players

Btw did I mention Scully - What a Jet.

Ask any questions and I will try answer best I can.

Hi All,

I was there yesterday as I am every week. I am still hurting now and it was really hard to sit there and take it.

The one burning question I have is who under Bailey is a better player now then before he started ?

I can think of one (maybe two if I am being generous) but I would be interested to see what Demonland posters think

I read somewhere, (think it was 'ology a few days ago) that Tapscott had a crack in his hip bone or cartilage..

Havent heard anything since tho.. only about his family situation.

Has anyone thats been to training recently seen him run? Do normal sprints and endurance etc..

Or has it just been tennis-ball stuff the whole time?

Last time i saw him running and training would have been mid Jan I think.

The three sessions I have been to since has been the stationery drills with tennis balls.

Martin blue or white? How did Aussie go?

Thanks for the report.

Martin was in the blue ( i was surprised and it may kill off my theory that the whites were the team for Sunday !)

Great report demonwithin. Thanks.

Did Davey appear unhampered ? Did he train freely ? (ie. no concerns from the weekend).

I like your view on the rehab group and quite pleased with Blease's report.

I reckon he is an interesting one HT. He was wearing the bike shorts which he has done since a scare a couple of weeks ago. He only played a half on Saturday

My gut feel is he has a little niggle and that has reduced his intensity at training. I have no doubt he was flying before Xmas.

I personally wouldn't play him Sunday.

thanks for the report.

Were they in blue or white?

Scully and Trengove were white can't recall Gysberts sorry