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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    That's really not so good. Caleb, and everyone above him, are high because they take their teams kick-ins and play a distributor role in the backline. Caleb really should have a higher number of effective kicks than he does because he kicked-in more often than anyone other than Luke Ryan. He...
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    Yes, I am. The aim is to run and gain territory to increase your options. But you have to run forward and past players, you can't crab sideways and look for short options like Daniel does. You end up going nowhere and bringing more opponents into the zone. I don't really blame Caleb for this...
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    To me, Daniel offers very little as a defender. To justify playing him back there he has to hurt the opposition when we have the ball, he has to offer a lot more than ball retention. Good rebounders don't just wait for their teammates to provide options, they create them by running at the...
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    This is fair enough, Daniel wasn't really the problem himself, it was the gameplan (of which he was a central part) that was the real issue. We were ineffective at getting the ball out of our defense because we slowed things down and tried to retain possession rather than counter-attack. Too...
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    Na. Daniel was a half-forward when they won the flag. He had a couple of good years in defense and then the game changed, making him largely useless in the role. Firstly, the use of higher or full ground zones took away the space for those accurate 30m passes of his. Secondly, the way to...
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    Player Watch #12: Jy Simpkin [Part II] - staying at North in 2026 + won't feature in leadership group as Larkey set to be named captain

    Settle down? I suggested Jy can run, which he clearly can. How can you get worked up over that? You have gone so far down this rabbit hole of bs that you can't remember what started you off.
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    Player Watch #12: Jy Simpkin [Part II] - staying at North in 2026 + won't feature in leadership group as Larkey set to be named captain

    They aren't saying that he consistently hits that speed, just that he did once. At least this should put to bed the nonsense about Jy being a plodder. He is one of our best runners for both endurance and top speed.
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    AFLW #?:Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner - selected with Rd2(#37) in 2025 AFLW Draft - Welcome to NM, KLWT.

    It's Ben Jacobs revisited.
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    Player Watch #23: Blake Thredgold - selected with R2(#26) in the ND - Welcome to North Melbourne, Blake

    I'm so confused. That must mean Dinkers is huge.
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    I prefer 1 v 1 to what we have been doing. You get contests and layers to your defense to buy time for the support to arrive. Of course, if the other team runs harder, you are still cooked. Whilst that Geelong game will be the one that haunts us this off season and hopefully leads to change...
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    Sorry, I misinterpreted you. But I think I still disagree. We were actually okay once we got it forward, especially inside 50, we just couldn't get it there enough. I saw the main issue being how slowly we tried to get the ball out of defense. That is, fiddling around sideways and not using...
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    Training 2026 Pre Season & Training Reports

    Err no. We are dead last for getting ball from D50 to F50, but only 13th for D50 to score. The stats show that we are awful at the launch and transition bit, and not so bad when we manage to get the ball forward.
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    List Mgmt. Bryce Lewis departs Arden Street

    Knowing this had happened, how did the club decide to give Walsh life membership this year? Who's next? Bard? JHF? Caroline Wilson?
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    Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

    I was mostly talking about the mistakes of the previous offseason where I think we addressed the wrong issues and failed to develop a competitive gameplan. From the outside it looks like we aren't making the same mistakes this time. I'm optimistic for next year. We haven't lost anyone...
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    Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

    We definitely have many issues, but we didn't solve any of them and brought in a couple of new ones by bringing in players who couldn't find a role at their former club.
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