Tigers Pre-Season 2015 - Open Training Friday @ Lavington

[DrMike]

Bloody hell I thought he was Ivan for a second.

I wonder if we can start a petition for him to shave the sides and turn it into a mullet

RFC_Official ?

 

[NZ_Tiger]

Bloody hell I thought he was Ivan for a second.

Same. I thought the great man had developed a sudden receeding hairline.

 

[TerraTiger]

Stumbled on training this morning while walking the dog. My observations:

• running laps (rehab) = Lids, Conca, Elton, Dea, Lloyd, Cory Ellis
• Most intense in the drills = Jack. Was really pushing in terms of his skills, running in link-up work
• Most vocal with instruction = Morris and Newman. Morris in particular really vocal to the new guys and explaining positions and patterns
• Ty - very vocal with encouragement
• Skills looked sharp - but don't they always this time of year?
• Drills - 15 mins of close in contested work (2 groups of 2 teams using handball only to break free to coaches standing about 40 m apart, leading patterns and kicking skills 30-40m kicks to forwards. Coaches vocal with calls of "corridor" so I'm thinking/hoping less emphasis on extremely wide leading (however I may well be wrong), basic skills with paired off guys kicking 35 meters both feet, small group of ruck/contest work..... others stuff too
• At one stage Dusty did some form of time trial. Ran laps with a coach calling his split times. Did 3 or 4 laps. The coach being very vocal.
• Reece Machenzie is huge! Took a few good grabs in the leading drill (fumbled a couple of others) but his size is impressive
• While, as mentioned above, Lids running laps, I don't think much is holding him back. The was running very quick laps, looked to be 80% intensity and in another drill for rehab group was sprinting flatout multiple times. Could be anything, but perhaps some minor niggle that is best managed by avoiding contact

....anyway, that's what I observed. Any specific questions I'm glad to try to answer with PM or on this thread if general enough.

Terra

 

[Hank Heavenly]

Who's 'Jacky Chan' has improved the most this off-season?

 

[RFC_Official]

Liking what I'm seeing from Matt McDonough to date. Looks fit and trim, and is kicking a few goals in match simulation so far.

 

[Groupie_]

Liking what I'm seeing from Matt McDonough to date. Looks fit and trim, and is kicking a few goals in match simulation so far.

foot skills better ?

 

[Stylo]

foot skills better ?

His foot skills were always good

 

[Groupie_]

His foot skills were always good

yeah but are they better

 

[The Rusty Trombone]

Stumbled on training this morning while walking the dog. My observations:

• running laps (rehab) = Lids, Conca, Elton, Dea, Lloyd, Cory Ellis
• Most intense in the drills = Jack. Was really pushing in terms of his skills, running in link-up work
• Most vocal with instruction = Morris and Newman. Morris in particular really vocal to the new guys and explaining positions and patterns
• Ty - very vocal with encouragement
• Skills looked sharp - but don't they always this time of year?
• Drills - 15 mins of close in contested work (2 groups of 2 teams using handball only to break free to coaches standing about 40 m apart, leading patterns and kicking skills 30-40m kicks to forwards. Coaches vocal with calls of "corridor" so I'm thinking/hoping less emphasis on extremely wide leading (however I may well be wrong), basic skills with paired off guys kicking 35 meters both feet, small group of ruck/contest work..... others stuff too
• At one stage Dusty did some form of time trial. Ran laps with a coach calling his split times. Did 3 or 4 laps. The coach being very vocal.
• Reece Machenzie is huge! Took a few good grabs in the leading drill (fumbled a couple of others) but his size is impressive
• While, as mentioned above, Lids running laps, I don't think much is holding him back. The was running very quick laps, looked to be 80% intensity and in another drill for rehab group was sprinting flatout multiple times. Could be anything, but perhaps some minor niggle that is best managed by avoiding contact

....anyway, that's what I observed. Any specific questions I'm glad to try to answer with PM or on this thread if general enough.

Terra

Sounds like some of those running drills have been designed to improve the players speed and fitness.

 

[RFC_Official]

foot skills better ?

Foot skills have always been good. One of the most skillful two sided players we have IMO.

 

[Groupie_]

Foot skills have always been good. One of the most skillful two sided players we have IMO.

make sure dimmer give him 22 games then !

 

[Bobsleder]

Foot skills have always been good. One of the most skillful two sided players we have IMO.

Do you think he can get the small forward role against the current crop of contenders for that position, come round 1?

Skillful and quick - hope he gets a good go at playing in the forward line this year.
With Lloyd in rehab at the moment, surely that's got to help his case for the small fwd role.

I see Knights, Lennon and Gordon fighting it out for the high half forward role. Surely Gordon can advance to a wing with his running ability if he continues to progress.

McDonough has the ability to go through the middle as well, so potentially he can take a fwd/mids spot and take over a spot in the rotations there - needs to push past the likes of Foley and Petterd

 

[RFC_Official]

Do you think he can get the small forward role against the current crop of contenders for that position, come round 1?

That I don't know...but he's a good mark overhead for his size. He was kicking nearly two goals a game for the last few weeks of VFL once he was playing permanently there, I just think he will make it.

 

[JR82]

Stumbled on training this morning while walking the dog. My observations:

• running laps (rehab) = Lids, Conca, Elton, Dea, Lloyd, Cory Ellis
• Most intense in the drills = Jack. Was really pushing in terms of his skills, running in link-up work
• Most vocal with instruction = Morris and Newman. Morris in particular really vocal to the new guys and explaining positions and patterns
• Ty - very vocal with encouragement
• Skills looked sharp - but don't they always this time of year?
• Drills - 15 mins of close in contested work (2 groups of 2 teams using handball only to break free to coaches standing about 40 m apart, leading patterns and kicking skills 30-40m kicks to forwards. Coaches vocal with calls of "corridor" so I'm thinking/hoping less emphasis on extremely wide leading (however I may well be wrong), basic skills with paired off guys kicking 35 meters both feet, small group of ruck/contest work..... others stuff too
• At one stage Dusty did some form of time trial. Ran laps with a coach calling his split times. Did 3 or 4 laps. The coach being very vocal.
• Reece Machenzie is huge! Took a few good grabs in the leading drill (fumbled a couple of others) but his size is impressive
• While, as mentioned above, Lids running laps, I don't think much is holding him back. The was running very quick laps, looked to be 80% intensity and in another drill for rehab group was sprinting flatout multiple times. Could be anything, but perhaps some minor niggle that is best managed by avoiding contact

....anyway, that's what I observed. Any specific questions I'm glad to try to answer with PM or on this thread if general enough.

Terra

cheers for the update. hopefully Lids achillies isn't playing up, any word RFC_Official?
any hints as to which line the newbies will be on? fwd/mid back etc?

 

[RFC_Official]

cheers for the update. hopefully Lids achillies isn't playing up, any word RFC_Official?
any hints as to which line the newbies will be on? fwd/mid back etc?

The new guys are all training as you'd think:
Lambert/Menadue/Short - Mids
McKenzie/Butler - Forward
Drummond/Castagna - Back
Soldo - Ruck

Ellis yet to do main training.

 

[Michaels]

The new guys are all training as you'd think:
Lambert/Menadue/Short - Mids
McKenzie/Butler - Forward
Drummond/Castagna - Back
Soldo - Ruck

Ellis yet to do main training.

How is young soldo going with the demands of AFL compared to basketball?

Has there been noticeable skill improvement and physicality etc?

 

[Bojangles17]

Cheers terra love a good track watchers report

 

[AstroboyUK]

To know if they'd be any good you'd have to draft a few adjectives.

Are you suggesting there are some un-nyouns in that group?

 

[JR82]

The new guys are all training as you'd think:
Lambert/Menadue/Short - Mids
McKenzie/Butler - Forward
Drummond/Castagna - Back
Soldo - Ruck

Ellis yet to do main training.

great work on the update, just curious as to how they are going etc but also don't some Supercoach research. if Lambert is upgraded he's a lock, Drummond at HBF is an interesting one also.
thanks again & any updates etc are more than welcome

 

[JR82]

Liking what I'm seeing from Matt McDonough to date. Looks fit and trim, and is kicking a few goals in match simulation so far.

whose that at 2:03 in the training vid from today (monday) that slides in to get the ground ball and gives off the quick handball? hard to pick up who it is as he's behind other players & not facing the camera. Gee Drummond/Vlastuin look alike!

 

[Stylo]

whose that at 2:03 in the training vid from today (monday) that slides in to get the ground ball and gives off the quick handball? hard to pick up who it is as he's behind other players & not facing the camera. Gee Drummond/Vlastuin look alike!

Pretty certain that's Lennon, great to see. He's really bulked up a lot.

 

[theflea]

Stig can you confirm that Lids is fine and is just being managed?

 

[GoTigers2015]

Who was wearing no 23 in training?

 

[TigerMoz1973]

Do you think he can get the small forward role against the current crop of contenders for that position, come round 1?

Skillful and quick - hope he gets a good go at playing in the forward line this year.
With Lloyd in rehab at the moment, surely that's got to help his case for the small fwd role.

McDonough has the ability to go through the middle as well, so potentially he can take a fwd/mids spot and take over a spot in the rotations there - needs to push past the likes of Foley and Petterd

Sounds like it's time to give McDonough a good shot at the forward pocket. See how he goes in the pre-season games and make him earn it. If he makes it to round 1, the first four games could set his confidence up to take on the brutal matches that will follow. When I saw this kid train in Pakenham 2 years ago he had skills. Hopefully now he has the smarts match.

Depth: Seems to be a fair reserve with most positions now. A certain steely resolve amongst the players demeanour also. Hope they're recruiting just as well off field to further enable the players to develop mentally. That's one of our great weaknesses now but it seems to be trending in the right direction.

I can't help but wonder though if the team would get tougher, quicker if Ivvy was steering the ship. I guess we got the next best thing... he helps guide the man who steers the ship.

 

[TerraTiger]

Who was wearing no 23 in training?

I saw about 2 or 3 guys wearing #23. I think they may have been recycling jacko's old gear. The greenie in me hoped so.