McQueen

Is the letter J any part of the theme?

I’m on the money again! 🤟

My suspicion on Monday was groin related based on the type of rehabilitation exercises.

Is there any source of information or just conjecture?

What a great day. Watched the boys go around at Casey. Caught up with an old girlfriend at the Botanical Hotel (had a chat with Gil there too) and slipped back to her place in South Yarra for some dessert. Reckon I’ll sleep well tonight. 😊💪

I do apologise. It was far worse watching though I’ll give ya the tip.

Just looks smooth. Handles the ball cleanly and his skills are looking classy. Also like the way he covers the ground.

As mentioned previously, rehab consisted of Max Gawn, J Smith, AMW (looks laboured in his running) and Jake Lever. Max put in about 45 mins of light running and short passes without any venom in the kicking action and then disappeared into the rooms. I overheard Caitlin Nobes telling Tom Brown that Gawn’s hammy isn’t too bad. She also politely asked the CH 7 cameraman to not broadcast any of the recordings he’d done prior to her coming over. Adams and Verall doing some conditioning work and skills/positioning activities but did not join main group. All coaches in attendance apart from Choco Williams. Chaplin particularly vocal and demonstrative. Warm ups consisted of handball keeping’s off drills and then some end-to-end full ground overlap drills. Skills were okay in this but without any pressure I wasn’t expecting to see so many missed kicks and ordinary handballs. Main offender was Bailey Laurie in my opinion but there were several others. Match SIM then started with blues and whites. I couldn’t discern who was the first and second string groups were and they eventually switched it up anyway. Highlights - Jefferson has great hands and a well timed leap. He received praise from teammates and coaches on a few occasions. Pickett OMG he is sublime. Just cruises effortlessly when he has the ball and then cranks up his attack on the opponent when he doesn’t. Viney is in for a career best year based on what I saw today. In everything. Chandler will play plenty of footy this year if he can translate his training form into the heat of a game. Tomlinson was terrific down back and fair ripping it into anyone who was not doing what was required. Hibberd also very creative and was the main architect with switching the play across half back. BBB also performed strongly this morning and moved well. Howes looks a player. Lowlights - Laurie I thought was poor. Mainly handballs at teammates feet. Harmes lacked involvement in the match sim. Melky pulled out of match sim and ran a few 200m and was in discussions with staff about some niggle. Oliver was in real discomfort with that hand. He was point to the top part of his hand just below the wrist. I was thinking the worst given the carry on he was animating. Once he returned to the field he went straight back into match sim and got nicely winded but the hand seemed to be okay. Watch this space. Summary: Overall I was relatively impressed with the session. Grundy was moving well and the forward entry looked sharper with an obvious focus on neat entry into the 30m hotspot. There was a few Joe the Goose goals during the sim so it may be something in planning to create more of those opportunities. Melbourne traffic sucks. If I was a player I would quickly start to loathe the drive to Casey. No snakes seen. Any questions let me know and I’ll try to provide insight. Cheers 🍻

Howes trained fully. Lever was restricted to the bike and walking grandstand stairs. I’ll get back soon to you legends with a proper run down.

Oliver back on field.

When you’re clutching your arm, bent over on your knees with you face in the turf grimacing in pain I would think not

Clarry has sustained a hand injury. Didn’t see the incident but he was in considerable pain and has left the ground. 😩

Gus is training.

Gawn, AMW and J Smith in rehab group. Max running medium pace laps unhindered.

Righto, I’ve committed to making the journey to Casey tomorrow. 🤞🤞 they let me in.

Did we not play him on the wing early days? I thought the knock was ‘too slow’ back then so I’m assuming any HHF role would negate any requirement to steam back and defend when needed - endurance aside.

I’ll feel left out otherwise.

Well I’m totally sure you struggle with having a sense of humour.

They’re having punch ups at Essendon. That’s intense. Culture going to a new level there. 😂

Thanks for that. Being over from Perth, if a drive out Casey results in no access I’ll be [censored] [censored] off!

I emailed the club today and they stated in their response that Wednesday was the only ‘open’ session next week. From this vague communication, I will assume that both Monday and Friday will be at Casey and are classified as ‘closed’ sessions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bravo. Rehydration is so important. 🍻

How many pints did you manage afterwards mate? Sounds like an exhausting morning.

Once they find out who I am I’m sure the club will pull out all stops to provide me with every detail and a cheese platter for my visit.