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I headed in to watch the training this morning and most of the drill descriptions have been covered but here's a couple observations. Maxy and Melksham walking several laps have a chat, stopping occasionally to watch the rest training. LOTS of turnovers in the match sim stuff, they did seem very quick on the adapting from turnovers and either setting up or taking advantage of it though so silver linings. Kozzy looked really good, if there's any sites out there putting odds on for non petracca/Oliver Melbourne bnf winner let me know because he's looking primed for a breakout midfield year. Ended by splitting into defenders doing some drill at the other end while everyone else (including tmac and petty?) were doing goal kicking practice. The defenders group looked quite small as if it wasn't all the defenders so maybe they still want to get a bit of goal kicking practice into potential swing men. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it. Happy to answer any questions about specific players but these were the main things I noted.

I headed in to Gosch's to check out training this morning and got there about 11 for the second half of training. Heres my observations Were doing some full ground match sim style stuff when I rocked up. Then split into talls and non talls. Talls were doing a contested marking drill in front of me while the shorts/medium sized players were doing some sort of 1 on 1 groundball thing on the other side I couldn't really see. Talls contested marking consisted of 1v1 in a box each running to an opposite corner of the box then coming back together judging a high kick and trying to mark. There were two groups of this going and the one in front of me had Harry Petty, Max Gawn, Jake Melksham, Tom Campbell, Will Verrall and Trac came over about halfway thru for the medium/short drill. After this there was a bit of full ground match sim stuff starting from a ball up on a wing and transitioning forward. Pickett playing in the mid was the biggest standout for me with some great play and a very nice fend off at one point. Other noticeable things were Roo near the pocket I was in getting a bit frustrated they didn't kick it to his side, instead kicking it to the closer pocket to the ball up where jeffo had his mark spoiled a couple times in a row. And Jack Viney ended up on the end of a few shots at goal (two from in front further out and one snap from the pocket) where he kick 1/3 of them including hitting the post from a snap that he probably should be kicking :( Last up was a mids vs forwards goal kicking competition where everyone gets one shot from each angle/type of kick including a couple where they we getting handball receives/groundball gets. Mids seemed to be winning this comp which doesn't seem like a great sign for our forward line but oh well I guess having goal kicking mids doesn't hurt. Usual suspects in most of the line groups, only thing I noticed was both Jake Bowey and Caleb Windsor training with the backs on the other side of the ground. So maybe Bowey not going to the wing this season? Then they changed into runners and did some running conditioning stuff, everyone appeared to be on a slightly different program. Kolt headed back to the rooms while everyone else seemed to do some amount of running/sprints

Apologies I have no clue how picks work but how does 83 become 55-65?

"Jacob van Rooyen and Josh Schache built on their forward chemistry ahead of the ball" Looks like this will probably be our starting tall forward line-up until Petty returns

Choco came over for a chat He seemed very impressed with McAdam, pencil him in for a round 1 (or opening round 🙄) appearance Kosi on a different program because he just got back from SA and they don't want to overdo him. When I asked about TMac training with the backs he suggested I was an opposition scout 😂 and didn't go into any more detail. He confirmed #46 is Noah Yze training with them

Cannot believe I'm saying this but Ben Brown looked really good. Took a strong contested mark and another on a lead

Forwards vs defenders now Defenders start with the ball then work it out to miss who turn over then practice a forward entry Defenders: may, TMAC, Judd, bowey and disco? (I can't tell) Forwards: McAdams, jvr, Laurie, sesten and brown Similar thing happening on the other side of the ground but I'm too far to see any detail

Currently doing ground ball gets or marks with tackling pressure. Notable absences - kosi and Fritta doing some running together. Oliver doing some running. And Gus doing a seperate drill with a trainer in the dreaded fluro cap

Doesn't help when they're swapping shirts to confuse us, pretty sure I saw Viney in #35 just before but who knows

Pretty sure I just saw billings in #33 getting called JB so maybe him and Fullarton have swapped jumpers

Kosi and Fritta doing some running seperate to the group.

Split into two groups doing a drill working the ball up the wing to a leading target with some defenders. Leading targets started brown, Jefferson, jvr and sestan. Now schache, McAdam, brown and someone wearing #14 I don't recognise

Tyla hanks is here. Not sure if she's helping out with the session or just watching.

Oliver kicking to Fritta on a lead, both clearly doing a modified program to main group. Salem wandered off somewhere also not with the main group

Time trials done. All going over to get a much needed drink. They picked a rough day to do time trials, might only be 10am but in the sun it's bloody hot