Training 12.01.09

[-CG-]

There were some ins and outs for the restricted group at training this morning. The group was made up of Hentschel, McLeod, Douglas and Rutten. Porplyzia and Dangerfield did a fair bit of stuff with the main group but also sat out a couple of things.

First of all the main group was working in pairs and kicking the ball around the oval over a fair distance. This was good to see as everyone was competitively going for the ball.

The next task, again using most of the oval, involved a player marking the ball and one on the mark but then a supporting player would run past. The player with the ball would then run towards the man on the mark before passing to the player by his side. Craig praised Sellar for the use of his voice.

Porplyzia was taking marks above his head and Walker had a slight run in with a trainer, just for laughs, much to the amusement of the stand in.

Following this drill, the group was sectioned up and were mainly working on the far side of the oval. Closer to the spectators though, there were four sets of pairs kicking the ball around. The defenders were marked in orange tops with the match ups being Jacky v Petrenko (O), Gill v Gallman (O), Cook v Schmidt (O), Otten v Kite (O). All groups switched defenders once or twice except for Cook and Schmidt.

Most of the far group then swapped with the above group and the match ups were Vince v Knights (O), Mackay v Moran (O) v Jacky (O), Goodwin v Symes (O) and Johncock v Edwards (O).

During this, Dangerfield was picking up balls off the ground and running across the oval before disposing to one of the trainers or coaches. A couple of his kicks were wayward, although it was good to see him practicing. Porplyzia spent some time goal kicking.

Next up the players did some fartlek training I believe. This involved the players running around the oval at various speeds at different sections.

After a quick break it was straight back into training with some goal kicking practice on the menu. Most shots at goal were taken on the run as the players shared the ball around the centre half forward line. A midfield was then brought into play with only a selection of forwards and defenders, Gill v Gallman, Walker v Schmidt and Sellar v Stevens. Both players in the match ups had a go at attacking and defending.

Tippett must've been feeling pretty spent, especially because he shared his breakfast with the group part way through the drill.

The next drill was the same as one that was completed on Thursday, with three runners handballing the ball down the outer wing before passing to a waiting player who had to share the ball around with his teammates back in the other direction and avoiding the three defenders. The ball would eventually be passed up forward. The match ups in the fifty-metre arc were Gill v Kite, Sellar v Stevens and Walker v Schmidt.

As training began to wrap up the main group played the game with the tennis ball. Basically two teams are aiming to get the ball in a box at their opposing end of the rectangle. Bickley was in charge of this one and alternated play with a tennis ball and footy. When a footy was used the players would have to run between two cones to score.

At one point, Gallman ran down Petrenko from behind but couldn't bring him to the ground so Petrenko was struggling, with his shirt stretched out by Gallman to just reach the box. Gallman let go and Petrenko was right in front of the box but he still missed. Sellar also had a moment where he just missed the box from virtually standing above it.

While this was going on Dangerfield, Porplyzia and van Berlo were kicking the ball to each other.

The final warm down drill saw the whole group kicking the ball around the oval without any specific match ups, but first there were a handful of defenders in the midfield plus two match ups in the forward line, Sellar v Walker and Stevens v Edwards.

During this, a group of 4-5 players came over just in front of the crowd and were working with Viney on defending at ball ups.

A few players decided to stay behind to practice some shots on goal and as usual, Sellar was doing some extra work one on one with a coach.

Overall, it was the cleanest of sessions, with a number of miss kicks, dropped marks and the like. None of the first year players were out on the track and I also happened to see Johncock with his shirt off. There certainly isn't a beer belly there; in fact I thought I might have even seen some definition! But he was moving well during the fartlek training and was encouraging other players.

[bickley26]

Thanks for that. Very informative

[KingsCrow]

Originally Posted by -CG-

Craig praised Sellar for the use of his voice.

hahaha. Good ol Sellar



Good write up again.

[Riggy1]

Originally Posted by -CG-

Overall, it was the cleanest of sessions, with a number of miss kicks, dropped marks and the like. None of the first year players were out on the track and I also happened to see Johncock with his shirt off. There certainly isn't a beer belly there; in fact I thought I might have even seen some definition! But he was moving well during the fartlek training and was encouraging other players.

I beleive the first year players are in melbourne, to find out not to take drugs or gamble, I think they may miss tomorrow as well but should be back for thursday

Plus great report. You should be able to give Katrina Gill a run for her money for journalism

[Porps_is_HOT_loz]

Originally Posted by -CG-

While this was going on Dangerfield, Porplyzia and van Berlo were kicking the ball to each other.

You f**king legend CG, this is another great writeup.
Was McKernan doing alright?

And also, that bit that i highlighted, my favourite 3 crows players

[SAAndy]

Good job

[cmndstab]

Excellent work, thanks for that CG

Tippett working himself to the point of throwing up..... I like the sound of that. Hopefully he is pushing his fitness up as much as he can.


Dangerfield has really intrigued me this preseason. More than any other player, he seems to be doing different stuff from the group despite not being really injured. It seems each week he's doing something different. I wonder what the story there is?


Edit: If it's just that they have identified that his disposal is an area of weakness and have devised a training routine around that, the club deserves kudos.

[WALL-e]

Cheers CG, any players notable impress or dissapoint, any standouts, or just an average sort of training with nothing too different apart from Tippetts Wheatbix and Johncocks abs of steel.

[-CG-]

Originally Posted by Porps_is_HOT_loz

Was McKernan doing alright?

First year players weren't there

Originally Posted by cmndstab

Dangerfield has really intrigued me this preseason. I wonder what the story there is?

Edit: If it's just that they have identified that his disposal is an area of weakness and have devised a training routine around that, the club deserves kudos.

I thought he may have been on lighter duties due to his whip lash still?

Originally Posted by wall_ryan

Cheers CG, any players notable impress or dissapoint, any standouts, or just an average sort of training with nothing too different apart from Tippetts Wheatbix and Johncocks abs of steel.

Haha yeah no one really stood out. Reilly, Goodwin, Edwards, Shirley, Doughty and Mackay were moving quite smoothly. I'm really excited about Mackay, there always seems to be one or two things he does each session which catch my eye.

Gill has also been working hard, as have the other forwards in Sellar, Stevens, Walker and Hentschel (besides today).

[cmndstab]

Originally Posted by -CG-

I thought he may have been on lighter duties due to his whip lash still?

I did consider this, and in this instance it's probably right, but I've been to training five times and from memory, he's been doing 1) not there yet, 2) on the bikes, 3) running/picking up the ball, 4) with the main group, 5) doing his own thing with a trainer. It seems like every time I see him he's doing something else.



You're not the only one who's been impressed by Mackay's training form either. He sticks out like a beacon out there. He's going to back up 08 and then some this year I reckon.

[Symesy15]

Originally Posted by -CG-

Tippett must've been feeling pretty spent, especially because he shared his breakfast with the group part way through the drill.

Oh YUM!! haha.

Good write up CG

Are you going to Thursday's session?

[sirdaan]

I wandered down to have a look for a while as well today. I didn't stay for the whole session, as I had my fix after watching the session for about 2 hrs. I'm not that great at picking faces out of the crowd at a training session like that, particularly fairly new players. I did notice though that at the end of the drill before the fartlek running 3 players chat to the trainers and then head back indoors for a swim as they were holding their hamstrings. I only recognised 2 of the players. One was definitely Griffin who was limping noticeably and I think another of them was Armstrong. I couldn't pick who the other one was.
Thompson also copped a knock to the head but was able to continue with the group after being patched up.
Maric and Douglas and another player left fairly early into the session also... in a car they had parked by the supporters. Anyone know what the go was there?

[Riggy1]

Originally Posted by sirdaan

I wandered down to have a look for a while as well today. I didn't stay for the whole session, as I had my fix after watching the session for about 2 hrs. I'm not that great at picking faces out of the crowd at a training session like that, particularly fairly new players. I did notice though that at the end of the drill before the fartlek running 3 players chat to the trainers and then head back indoors for a swim as they were holding their hamstrings. I only recognised 2 of the players. One was definitely Griffin who was limping noticeably and I think another of them was Armstrong. I couldn't pick who the other one was.
Thompson also copped a knock to the head but was able to continue with the group after being patched up.
Maric and Douglas and another player left fairly early into the session also... in a car they had parked by the supporters. Anyone know what the go was there?

Maric must still have blurred vision from training on 8.1.09

[-CG-]

Cook and Johncock


Patrick Dangerfield


Michael Doughty


Tyson Edwards


Jarrhan Jacky


Mackay and Edwards


Jared Petrenko

[Porps_is_HOT_loz]

Originally Posted by -CG-

First year players weren't there

Haha, sorry mate.
I must of missed it