2015 pre-season thread.

[SUNS]

Who is that goddess in your avatar toxic

Her name is not Mrs Bigun, so what do you care?

 

[toxic]

Who is that goddess in your avatar toxic

Not sure but she is smokin!

 

[Iva Bigun]

Her name is not Mrs Bigun, so what do you care?

She could be the next Mrs Bigun.......................................who am I kidding

 

[Sunny_]

Looks like Raines has injured his knee. Hope it's nothing major!

http://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/news/2015-01-08/back-to-business

 

[Ben Drever]

Looks like Raines has injured his knee. Hope it's nothing major!

http://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/news/2015-01-08/back-to-business

Jeez... Lets hope for good news..
Most professional and best trainer at the club.. And already possibly a major injury..
Wernt even meant to be doing all the drills.. Was meant to be doing the time trials etc.
Happened yesterday. You'd think if it was just a knock or PCL they would of released the findings today.

 

[Sunny_]

GC SUNS ‏@GoldCoastSUNS 15m15 minutes ago
Dan Gorringe finishes first in the time trial, ahead of @kolodjashnij28 and @joshglenn34. Hot work out there!

 

[Sunny_]

Raines has done his PCL. A let off!

http://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/news/2015-01-09/andrew-raines-injury-update

 

[Experimental]

Looks like Raines has done his PCL. *.

Andrew Raines’ pre-season preparations have taken a blow after scans revealed the AFL journeyman has damaged the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.

Gold Coast’s midfield recruit, who has been training strongly for the SUNS since his recruitment to the club via the rookie draft, was assisted from Wednesday’s session after going down during a combative training drill.

He was immediately assessed by club medical staff, with scans later confirming the full extent of Raines’ injury.

General Manager - Football Operations, Marcus Ashcroft said it was an unfortunate start for Raines on the Gold Coast.

“Unfortunately the results of Andrew’s scans have confirmed he has damaged his PCL,” Ashcroft said.

“Our medical staff will determine the most appropriate course of action to treat the injury in the coming days.”

The 28-year-old tagger has notched 123 senior appearances, having played for Richmond and the Brisbane Lions in his 11 years in the AFL.

EDIT: fffuuuuuu Sunny_

 

[Sunny_]

PCL is still a decent injury, but better than the ACL at least.

 

[Ben Drever]

If its low grade he might be ok in 4 weeks.. If not could be 12
Still the boys will miss his leadership and commitment at training for the pre season

 

[Sunny_]

Nicholls did his PCL in round 7? Or 8? And only just resumed full running before Christmas. But that's when the PCL was completely torn. Seems like the timeline really varies.

 

[Ben Drever]

Nicholls did his PCL in round 7? Or 8? And only just resumed full running before Christmas. But that's when the PCL was completely torn. Seems like the timeline really varies.

I've put him down to His a big man who wakes up witha new injury daily..

 

[Iva Bigun]

GC SUNS ‏@GoldCoastSUNS 15m15 minutes ago
Dan Gorringe finishes first in the time trial, ahead of @kolodjashnij28 and @joshglenn34. Hot work out there!

That is huge for Gorringe, lets hope he has a great year and decides to stay or at the very least ups his trade value.

I must admit that I am a little concerned that a guy 6,10 can win the 2km, the guy who came second is in his second preseason and the guy who came 3rd is in his first. The guys who are in there 5 preseason should be smashing them.

Has anyone set a personal best, if not we a re clearly not training hard enough

 

[Sunny_]

Just because you're tall doesn't mean you can't run fast. I'm not sure guys like Swallow and Prestia ran either.

Gorringe has always been an athletic freak. It's just this is his first pre-season where achilles and ankle problems haven't floored him. At the moment he's training himself into the round 1 side though.

 

[TheSunGod]

If its low grade he might be ok in 4 weeks.. If not could be 12
Still the boys will miss his leadership and commitment at training for the pre season

 

[Iva Bigun]

Just because you're tall doesn't mean you can't run fast. I'm not sure guys like Swallow and Prestia ran either.

Gorringe has always been an athletic freak. It's just this is his first pre-season where achilles and ankle problems haven't floored him. At the moment he's training himself into the round 1 side though.

Fair call on Gorringe, what's you view on the other 80% of the squad that are in their 5th pre season? They shouldn't be beaten by 1st and 2nd year players

 

[Sunny_]

Fair call on Gorringe, what's you view on the other 80% of the squad that are in their 5th pre season? They shouldn't be beaten by 1st and 2nd year players

Perhaps if all they did was 2km TT running, maybe. Otherwise it doesn't really work like that. Especially in the AFL environment, you are going to have endurance kings that come in and dominate. Happens at clubs everywhere where young kids (like Kade) can slip in and suddenly come top 3. They're just damn good natural runners.

 

[Ben Drever]

In the photo there was only 10 of them running.. And the only couple experienced were rischa and harbrow Gorringe and Shaw who should be running better if he wants to be in the top 22, the rest were less then 3 yrs experience

 

[Sunny_]

I saw Gaz run, and he's done 10+ pre-seasons. Never goes that well despite his obvious ability to play football. Just not a runner.

 

[Ben Drever]

Yet his last qtrs are usually his best!!
You don't see Gaz shanking kicks and hunched over on all 4s like all the guys who beat him in the time trials :/

 

[Sunny_]

Gaz sets a PB on his time trial. Some other updates too.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-01-10/gazzas-pb

 

[Ben Drever]

Gaz sets a PB on his time trial. Some other updates too.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-01-10/gazzas-pb

So much for spending more time in the forward line if he keeps smashing out PBs in the time trials!!
Andrew Raines not having surgery out for 8 weeks

 

[TARGETMAN]

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[TheSunGod]

Why is it that we only ever run 2 km time trials whereas other clubs always run 3 km trials? Are our guys not up to it? Is it too hot up here? Are our conditioning team behind the eight ball?

 

[scottjr]

Why is it that we only ever run 2 km time trials whereas other clubs always run 3 km trials? Are our guys not up to it? Is it too hot up here? Are our conditioning team behind the eight ball?

Think only Port are doing the 3 ks ( and always have ) not sure why?