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The holiday break comes to an end for the Melbourne list on Monday at 9.30am when the team returns to Gosch's Paddock. Training is also scheduled for the Paddock on Wednesday and Friday at the same time of 9.30am. I'm told that Monday is the day when a number of players who were in rehab or on lighter training regimes come back into full training. The next month will be vital for the coming season - we need close to the full complement available and on the track for the season ahead. I hope to be able to head down for one session either this week or perhaps the following Monday when the team trains at Casey Fields.

Roos not there today. I was told he went to Sydney. Not training- Clark Frawley, Gawn and Viney and I think that was it. Riley and Kent were doing a fair bit of work on the side. Running and boxing, enjoying the sun I think. Also in rehab: Byrnes, Clisby, Dawes, Jetta and King. Trenners left early. They trained for about an hour with the balls and then they did the tan and runs up Anderson Street hill. During training they split up into groups of about 7 or 8. The groups went to different stations. One was a shepparding type drill, one a snap shot at goal drill, a keeping off drill and kicking to a leading player drill. People can see what they went from this if you know what I mean. Watts' skills are awesome, he looks to me to have lifted his intensity. I found it really funny watching Spencer left foot snap for goal. Although his kicking in the leading drill was pretty good. McDonald did a bit of softer tackling drill with spencer at one stage. McDonald must be close to full body drills. Cross, Jones, Toumpas and Vince all train very well. Strauss and Michie were in the group with the younger guys. Both looked good. JKH is very quick and a hard trainer, if he gets games in the preseason and goes well he could play round 1. I think there will be lots of competition for spots though so it will be tough for him. On the whole training was pretty good but it's not a game. Rawlings took training today.

Thought I would kick off the thread about today's training with this item from melbournefc.com.au on our preseason training so far which highlights our two JT's: Trengove, Toumpas impress on the track We need these two to step up and bolster our on ball stocks.