Training 2019 Training - pics, reports etc

[Macca43]

Hope you have something for us tomorrow Macca is getting tiresome not knowing and the club obviously aren’t going to be forthcoming.

Unfortunately Murphster I have nothing new. I am taking it as a positive that after a weekend away with Willo's folks that my source hasn't come back with talk of his season being over (or his career for that matter) and I think the logic of me getting no information points to the conversation to have gone "How's Tom?" "Yeah Going well" and then moving on but it still leaves the matter of him hardly being sighted at training in a month.

 

[Funk]

JAB your emphasis on fitness levels impacting skills and the flow on effects is spot on IMO. Looking holistically at the list , having AR on board brings the fitness levels up of every player- the old saying " a rising tide lifts all boats" applies here, where his impact will be on 42 players- even Ed has said as much, that AR has smoothed out his running and he has become less "cluncky" . So that is a MASSIVE lift just there- the fact that the whole list is collectively becoming fitter. In a game of inches, every little 1% improvement counts. If that 1% comes from the existing players - even those that we would have judged to be very fit in 2018 eg Kreuzer, Murphy, Cripps, Ed etc then the lift comes from every competitor. Of course many of the younger players are really going to surge under AR and the improvement wont just be incremental, but astounding. I am anticipating this sort of improvement from players such as SPS, DOW LOB, Fisher etc.

The second aspect is our recruiting. It seems to me that more recently we have brought in players such as LOB and Walsh, cottrell that have elite aspects to their running. Add that to the curnows, Murphy , cripps and we are starting to form a nucleus of players that will go all day. You need some elite runners to take the pressure off the rotations, so that the less fit players can be given the rotations that they need- but again, having AR means that these less fit players dont need as much protection as they used to. Looking at players such as Jack, Dow, SPS, Fisher, who's fitness seems to have really come on this preseason.
We still have some fitness problem areas though to key players- Marchbank, Williamson, Pickett, Setterfield.

Spot on.

The other massive benefit of increased fitness (apart from actually getting to contests) is improved skill execution and decision making once they do make it there.

Fatigue has a serious detrimental affect on these.

 

[thylacine60]

Growing up is hard, Surrey.


... might try it myself one day.

and how would we recognize you?

 

[Mr_Plow]

Gone is the gut, no more guts McGovern.

 

[passmark]

and how would we recognize you?

I'll change my BF name to Pastit.

 

[bmaurizio]

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Gone is the gut, no more guts McGovern.

Mitch, Charlie and Harry will keep most defences honest, if we're so lucky to get Fasolo and or Garlett firing, add a few stints form Marc Murphy too, we may win more than 6 -8 games. Can't wait, hard to keep a lid on it.

 

[Aphrodite]

Training gallery 18th Feb ...


http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2019-02-18/gallery-february-18

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[TerryWallet]

The lack of tape on the players in that full gallery is striking if you have been watching Carlton players for the last however many years.

Elastoplast has been sakced.

 

[Bluezer]

Stocker looks a good size. Haven't really seen much of him in the club training reports so pleasantly surprised.

*I think thats Stocker in the last photo right?

 

[Jeremias]

Stocker looks a good size. Haven't really seen much of him in the club training reports so pleasantly surprised.

*I think thats Stocker in the last photo right?

Sure is.

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[Mr_Plow]

Stocker looks a good size. Haven't really seen much of him in the club training reports so pleasantly surprised.

*I think thats Stocker in the last photo right?

He's continuing to trim down quite a bit, looks great.

Has had a low key pre-season in terms of not much media attention from the club, just going about his business doing running (and lots of it apparently).

 

[thylacine60]

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Gone is the gut, no more guts McGovern.

might just be the timing of the shot syncing with the curvature of the earth........

 

[Mr_Plow]

They've stripped all the excess weight off Setterfield, well done Russell and co.

Will give Will the best chance to play consistent football and avoid injury.

 

[Aphrodite]

Stocker looks a good size. Haven't really seen much of him in the club training reports so pleasantly surprised.

*I think thats Stocker in the last photo right?

 

[Blue and Blue]

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Gone is the gut, no more guts McGovern.

Much promise this one shows...hmmmm yes...excited we should be

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[thylacine60]

They've stripped all the excess weight off Setterfield, well done Russell and co.

Will give Will the best chance to play consistent football and avoid injury.

kick through the ball setters, ffs........

 

[Mr_Plow]

kick through the ball setters, ffs........

I'd rather not hear that line...

How about: how the heck did Setters find Harry in the middle of that chaos?

 

[thylacine60]

optimism is a guarded emotion here

 

[Sharks On A Plane]

Ben Silvagni is going to be an absolute beast after a few preseasons.

 

[thylacine60]

Stocker looks a good size. Haven't really seen much of him in the club training reports so pleasantly surprised.

*I think thats Stocker in the last photo right?

how good is it some are struggling to recognize our players? broom-sweep-good things..........

 

[Heres Waite]

Wow, that photo of Ben Silvagni tackling Ed Curnow is awesome. For a kid in his first pre-season, he looks massive!

 

[Mr_Plow]

Ben Silvagni is going to be an absolute beast after a few preseasons.

When SOAP is optimistic about a player, you know that player is the real deal.