Ghostwriter

Firstly… 🥶🥶🥶 All the players are out on the park and they’ve hit the ground running. Full-on, intense training, and not a soccer ball in sight 😝 They all look INCREDIBLE Super fit and full of infectious energy. They’re in groups of various sizes doing drills. There’s this one drill I’ve never seen before but it’s a ripper. Two players handballing to each other low and fast and only a few feet apart and when the ball is partway between them a trainer clips the ball with a piece of hard plastic thereby sharply changing the direction of the ball. Then they do it with two balls in motion. Blink at your peril 😁

JvR’s first milestone… 50 games. We made this week’s banner as well as next week’s (vs Adelaide) two weeks ago and left a space across the top of both lest he doesn’t line up this weekend. We have a printed strip acknowledging his 50th which will be stuck down prior to the match. It’s Kolt’s 20th birthday on Saturday (gameday) and hopefully he’s named in one of the sides (VFL if not AFL) because we have some Happy Birthday Kolt posters printed, and inflated “20” balloons. We don’t do the birthday thing with every player but we have a couple of cheer squad gals who’re massive Kolt fans and this is their doing 🤗 If he doesn’t play on Saturday we’ll keep the posters for next year and get an inflatable “1” to replace the “0” — Ghosty… bringing you the MFC news that matters 😜

Home and Away is full of 💩 though

It’ll be different this time. You’ll see. Please don’t ask me why since I have nfi why. All I know is, it will be different. We’ll come home with a win. ♥️💙

Yep. It’s a double-peg kinda night, DZ

You mean this??! Btw, well said, R (B) G

I do but I shan’t elaborate, there’s a reason they’re called unmentionables 🤭

I certainly will, Ditcha. I’ll enjoy both games, and the lucky socks are on the clothesline as we speak 😅

Living up to your username, I see. 😉

A few of them have told me they get one day off per week, eg. Clarrie, Shane, Luker.

I’ll be at this match cheering the Casey boys on. Straight from the airport to the ground, but will miss the first quarter since it’s such an early start time. The best part of this is that I get to see two wins for the price of one! 😉

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Except he’ll be wearing his #34 guernsey we’ve been saving for him ♥️💙

Kalani with his teammates ♥️💙

Calm down ffs! They’re not hugging at all. Keith the physio is banging shoulders with Charles to test his scapula. You’re gonna give yourself a hernia if you keep this up.

Nah defs not you, big spook. Unless you sometimes morph into a pompous know-it-all who has no tact. I’d never seen him there before and I haven’t seen him there since.

Salo and Fritta oftentimes spend their downtime together and they’ll go for a run along the beach for example.

I don’t think either Goody or Layzie said this

In theory, sure. But at the risk of going around in circles, it’s the goal kicking during matches that’s the problem.

How do we know that they’re not practicing as much as they should be? We see a brief captain’s run and a brief flush run each week. There’s a main training session two days before gameday at Casey (or Gosch’s if the upcoming match is interstate). We know they train in other ways: pool, gym, indoor skills training, etc. They only get one day off per week. How do we know they’re not practicing goal kicking somewhere? And if they are, clearly it’s not for all to see. Reminds me of the flush run immediately following our loss to the Saints, (7.21.63, in case anyone has forgotten). This old guy approaches me and starts pontificating about how to fix our atrocious goal kicking. Tbh I tuned out five minutes into it but snapped back to attention when I heard him say “I addressed this with three of our coaches as they came out of AAMI.” I asked how his advice was received. He said, “Well, Mark Richardson (not a coach and not named Mark but whatevs) was polite but in a hurry, Mark Williams (at least he got this right) listened to me but didn’t say anything, and the other one was downright rude (guessing this was Chunk :D). I’m quite sure fans like this guy are a big part of the reason goal kicking practice is “behind closed doors.” If you’re reading this and recognise yourself as the person about whom I’m talking, apologies, but I’m just telling it like it is.

No running. Didn’t even take his tracksuit off. Just throwing balls to the others. Goody had a long chat to him and he seemed really happy after that.

How is it that you know this works but the professionals on big money don’t? Ie. if this really is a solution, why don’t the experts put it into practice?

You think they don’t know how terrible they are in front of goal? Maybe they have “done enough” in terms of accuracy during training sessions but like I said, gameday is a whole different thing. How do you think they should train for that? Not rhetorical, it’s a genuine question.

The fact that they were kicking accurately this morning tells us that it’s kicking for goal in-game that’s the problem. And that’s a psychological problem, not physical.

I believe this is what has sped up Spargs’ recovery… Because a good hug fixes everything. 🤗