Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

[Chip Scab1]

Nice pair of shoulders on Thredgold. Much more physically advanced than what Whitlock and Goad were. Probably even now.

And such long arms. The lad has the reach of a 7+ Footer.

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

God this persistent chat is dull.

All good.

Perhaps we can wait another five years to win six games a season.

Agree - we are at a stage where talk of W/L's is 'dull' - who the faaarkkk are these people?

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

See this is the problem, why is Nick being the relief ruck such an issue? He doesn’t have a monopoly on the forward line.

I compare it to basketball. Especially modern basketball.

There’s plenty of elite players that are ill suited to contending sides. They are terrific players, fantastic offensive players, all stars, but are defensive liabilities and disrupt the total system.

Nick is a very good player, but has developed some bad habits that absolutely kill our forward structure. The main one being he always looks to play behind his defender and over the top as that’s his best whine at hitting the scoreboard.

He is poor in the air and we are a side with zero creative ball movement inside 50. He kills space for our other forwards.

I’m simply saying I’d rather try an alternative system where he feels his role is no longer to kick goals and it forces him to move towards our ball carriers.

I just want him at CHF and he’s easily the most suited to the second ruck physically.

It's a pretty easy concept to understand - no need to dumb it down further to the nuffies. Keep the analysis going.

 

[Its a Process]

Agree - we are at a stage where talk of W/L's is 'dull' - who the faaarkkk are these people?

It was more in reference to linking Clarko’s fate to Trembath doing some ruck training.

It’s effing December. We all want/hope/expect improvement this year. It doesn’t need to be stated in every post.

 

[backtothedraft]

It was based on GR’s comment regarding Trembath training with the rucks…..

Trembath is a 193cm 20 year old forward. And he’s our best and only shot of actually marking the 30 inside 50’s kicked as high as humanly possible 25m out from goal.

He has no business being the relief ruck in the first year they enforce center bounce jumping.

Larkey is 200cm and a senior body, with a big engine AND clearing him out of deep forward actually improves our structure, he can chop X out.

I think it’s good coaching to ensure most players of decent size develop some basic ruck craft whether they intend to be utilised or not. Given the ruck nomination rule has been removed there might be demand for a number off players to spontaneously step in for a one of contest from time to time. Hardly worth the carry on..

 

[CBSlogger]

Is it just me or are the guys that have spent more time at other clubs than North generally more jacked? Parker, JK, Darling, even Banch

 

[Chip Scab1]

It was more in reference to linking Clarko’s fate to Trembath doing some ruck training.

It’s effing December. We all want/hope/expect improvement this year. It doesn’t need to be stated in every post.

If we see Trembath in the Ruck, as a 2nd year 3rd tall, I'll crawl into a hole.

I still maintain we should play Comben at CHF for a bit, no reason he can't be a mark and handball to a faster, better skilled player running past mobile CHF.

Is it just me or are the guys that have spent more time at other clubs than North generally more jacked? Parker, JK, Darling, even Banch

Who was the last ripped player not called boomer we had? John Blakeys (1994) Andrew Swallows maybe for a season or two.

 

[DuckYeah]

Is it just me or are the guys that have spent more time at other clubs than North generally more jacked? Parker, JK, Darling, even Banch

Are you trying to say our S&C isnt up to standard?

 

[LB2Snake]

curtin would have been fantastic for us.
There's nobody like him in the league.

We could’ve had Curtin and O’Sullivan if we’d traded the Dursma pick no?

 

[giantroo]

Any word on FOS and his ankle/foot?

Looked to be out there training today

 

[Chip Scab1]

We could’ve had Curtin and O’Sullivan if we’d traded the Dursma pick no?

Who's to say we wouldn't have had to trade him to the Crow already, due to him missing Magic Mountain?

He was poor during the finals this year, that's probably close to what he would have been for us, prior to wanting out (probably) this year (that's what I keep telling myself anyway).

 

[Sphynx]

Best throw him to the wolves in the ruck then

I also don't think Trembath should be playing in the ruck either tbf. Sacrifice Jack Darling to the altar

I don’t think we should be playing all 3 personally, especially not with Curtis and Zurhaar.

That is a glacial forward line in modern terms and part of the reason our F50 pressure resembles a turnstile most games.


All these guys are mobile in their own right in isolation, but 5 of them together certainly is not.

It’s 2, possibly even 3, quick pressure forwards short…

Compare it to Brisbanes F50 setup in the GF. Logan Morris was the focal point (who is pretty much Trembath)

Ty Gallop played up the ground.

Then surrounding Morris they had Cameron, Bailey, Rayner, Lohmann and Ah Chee.

They virtually play without a deep key forward above 192 and they look dynamic because of it.

They’ve just recruited Oscar Allen, so you could argue that their intention is to play a two pronged mobile tall forward setup with their smalls/mediums filling up the rest.

 

[pupstar]

I don’t think we should be playing all 3 personally, especially not with Curtis and Zurhaar.

That is a glacial forward line in modern terms and part of the reason our F50 pressure resembles a turnstile most games.


All these guys are mobile in their own right in isolation, but 5 of them together certainly is not.

It’s 2, possibly even 3, quick pressure forwards short…

Compare it to Brisbanes F50 setup in the GF. Logan Morris was the focal point (who is pretty much Trembath)

Ty Gallop played up the ground.

Then surrounding Morris they had Cameron, Bailey, Rayner, Lohmann and Ah Chee.

They virtually play without a deep key forward above 192 and they look dynamic because of it.

They’ve just recruited Oscar Allen, so you could argue that their intention is to play a two pronged mobile tall forward setup with their smalls/mediums filling up the rest.

Were do you think they plan to play Hipwood next year.

 

[Karanicolas]

How is Mikunda looking? Is he keeping pace with the senior players during the drills?

 

[Its a Process]

I don’t think we should be playing all 3 personally, especially not with Curtis and Zurhaar.

That is a glacial forward line in modern terms and part of the reason our F50 pressure resembles a turnstile most games.


All these guys are mobile in their own right in isolation, but 5 of them together certainly is not.

It’s 2, possibly even 3, quick pressure forwards short…

Compare it to Brisbanes F50 setup in the GF. Logan Morris was the focal point (who is pretty much Trembath)

Ty Gallop played up the ground.

Then surrounding Morris they had Cameron, Bailey, Rayner, Lohmann and Ah Chee.

They virtually play without a deep key forward above 192 and they look dynamic because of it.

They’ve just recruited Oscar Allen, so you could argue that their intention is to play a two pronged mobile tall forward setup with their smalls/mediums filling up the rest.

Big O played forward as well in the GF.

 

[shinboner magic]

Were do you think they plan to play Hipwood next year.

Reserves because he’s shit

 

[marklovesbeer]

 

[Roos1991]

If we see Trembath in the Ruck, as a 2nd year 3rd tall, I'll crawl into a hole.

I still maintain we should play Comben at CHF for a bit, no reason he can't be a mark and handball to a faster, better skilled player running past mobile CHF.

Who was the last ripped player not called boomer we had? John Blakeys (1994) Andrew Swallows maybe for a season or two.

Taz went alright. Maj.

 

[Ura]

Alright, keen to here the predictions: how does Brayden George find a spot in the seniors?

Surely there’s an alternative to “waiting around for Zurhaar to get injured”?

Wing. We are screaming for a good winger. His booking kick is a weapon that we don’t have in surplus. As a forward I think he maybe a little to limited in using it.

 

[hotchilli]

It was based on GR’s comment regarding Trembath training with the rucks…..

Trembath is a 193cm 20 year old forward. And he’s our best and only shot of actually marking the 30 inside 50’s kicked as high as humanly possible 25m out from goal.

He has no business being the relief ruck in the first year they enforce center bounce jumping.

Larkey is 200cm and a senior body, with a big engine AND clearing him out of deep forward actually improves our structure, he can chop X out.

The centre ball up rule is likely to play better for Trembath over Larkey. I daresay the 5cm shorter he is to Larkey is more than made up with by his superior vertical leap.

 

[iloveireland]

The centre ball up rule is likely to play better for Trembath over Larkey. I daresay the 5cm shorter he is to Larkey is more than made up with by his superior vertical leap.

I worry about his knees

 

[JGreezy]

I don't think that Larkey can play 2nd ruck. He's not that guy.

 

[hotchilli]

I worry about his knees

Darling who played 2nd ruck for pretty much the entire year attended 73 centre bounces across 22 games, under 4 per game on average.

 

[Shinboner1]

I don't think that Larkey can play 2nd ruck. He's not that guy.

Can't play 2st ruck either haha

 

[Heaps of fun]

Larkey is one of the most accurate kicks in the history of football and his range is within 40m. It really isn't stupid to play him close to goal.