Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

[muttley45]

Does anyone know the results of Clarko's surprise 2K time trial yesterday ?

 

[marklovesbeer]

Glad Logue got a head cut. Was getting bobo the clown vibes before.

Came in to post something similar. Looks much better.

 

[Passmore]

Wing only. Does his best work kicking the footy inside forward 50.

The problem with Peter Bakos on a wing is it'll take him until qtr time to get up and down the ground once.

Hard to find a spot to hide the little campaigner.

 

[year of the roo]

I don't mind what role Caleb Daniels plays.

In the VFL.

 

[giantroo]

 

[RightWingRoo]

With the amount of Pies fans up here and the reduced capacity, should be a full house.

 

[King Corey]

The annual false dawn preseason win or conpetitive loss over Collingwood.

Wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Krakouer Bonar]

can toby pink **** off

A training incident. Nobody at fault here. But the tic-ridden dribblers need to blame someone.

 

[BlueanWhiteKanga]

A training incident. Nobody at fault here. But the tic-ridden dribblers need to blame someone.

Take no notice, if Pink wasn't training hard then he'd still be telling him to **** off. Literally a no win.

 

[maddiemelb]

Does anyone know the results of Clarko's surprise 2K time trial yesterday ?

I know the first five.

1. Bailey Scott
2. Luke Urquhart
3. Luke McDonald
4. Griff Logue
5. Harry Sheezel

 

[The Nostradamus]

I know the first five.

1. Bailey Scott
2. Luke Urquhart
3. Luke McDonald
4. Griff Logue
5. Harry Sheezel

no dyl stephens is surprising

 

[roos_tt29]

Glad Logue got a head cut. Was getting bobo the clown vibes before.

I dunno...his best footy for the Dockers was when he had longer hair

 

[roos_tt29]

Toby Pink channeling his inner Kayne Turner.

Injuring a somewhat important player in an unnecessary training contest.

You play as you train.

Unfortunately you risk this when you train hard.

No issue with Pink going hard - he should be.

Good to hear Larks is ok though.

 

[year of the roo]

A training incident. Nobody at fault here. But the tic-ridden dribblers need to blame someone.

I'll allow it.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Duursma still a bean pole.

 

[BrownPaperBag]

We're still going to need to hold onto some of them to balance maturity with drafting 3-5 young guys.
Lmac, Darling, Corr and CCJ I think are fairly obvious ones. Parker another who might retire or has one more year.
Depends on what you can bring in during trade or FA with mid 20 yo players, as well as Jy and Duursma decisions.
I'd say they keep Pink and Logue (if he performs) and make a call on one of them end of next year.
If Hansen Jnr and Harvey get cut, then you probably hold onto JK and Banch as depth.
River will get moved to the rookie list I would think, but needs to show some progress in the VFL.
Might mean a Powell or Fisher stays on the list if Simpkin and Scott go to keep some maturity on the list.
I don't think we'll be short of players to cut and those who are out of contract are likely first to go.

There is no way lmac gets cut. He cops a lot of shit on here , some of it is unfair. In a lot of cases he’s the only one cracking in with no one to give it off to. I’m not saying he’s a world beater but he is fine as a squad player.

 

[maddiemelb]

no dyl stephens is surprising

I don’t think he was training/participating.

 

[The Nostradamus]

I don’t think he was training/participating.

that makes sense then

 

[ferball]

Caleb Daniel can be a very very solid contributor and a best 22 guy for us. The problem is we mis-used him horribly.

Get him out of deep defense, and stop him doing the kick ins. Get him solidly on the HBF/wing area and use his good kicking to hit up targets moving forward in transition. He'll be good in that role.

This is fairly accurate but one of his and McKercher's biggest issues kicking out is lack of targets that are moving. McKercher has the pace to find extra time and space. Until we fix that then whoever kicks the ball in will face issues.

 

[ferball]

tic-ridden dribblers

This is brilliant.

 

[King Hansen]

Imagine melting over the unconfirmed positional change of a 20 gamer moving 35meters up the field, in the middle of December....

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

I know the first five.

1. Bailey Scott
2. Luke Urquhart
3. Luke McDonald
4. Griff Logue
5. Harry Sheezel

Urqhart and Logue are real positives.

 

[Jonnoo]

Pink looks at Larks holding his knee and walks off. Ice cold.

(probably should have shown a bit of concern).

 

[Themanbun]

The Larkey incident isn't Pink's fault. However perhaps the bananas setting up the match sim will stand further back next time as it was entirely due to their proximity to the boundary that caused Nick to twist the way he did.

 

[Roo316]

Duursma still a bean pole.

Genuinely looks to have regressed physically, must have used tarryn’s private personal trainer…