Training Pre-season training updates 2026.

[stormskye]

Brisbane won’t make the GF this year. Bookmark it

I hope so mate. Geeze they have a strong team on paper especially if they can get Allen on the park like they did Daniher

 

[Jen2310]

Training yesterday-

Rehab
Moore, but he has started participating in some drills before doing some running. Progress

Howe- did some light handball drills before heading indoors

Reef

Nick made an appearance - 2 days after the origin game. he can’t help himself

No DC.

Swadling participated after not playing in the intraclub on Friday. Some of his kicking- geez. Sublime

It was a solid session with some skills and match sim divided into 3 sides and they would rotate like a red robin tournament

 

[BennyGan]

do you think there is a good chance Tyan Prindable plays this year or more likely he spends the year in the VFL?

 

[stormskye]

Training yesterday-

Rehab
Moore, but he has started participating in some drills before doing some running. Progress

Howe- did some light handball drills before heading indoors

Reef

Nick made an appearance - 2 days after the origin game. he can’t help himself

No DC.

Swadling participated after not playing in the intraclub on Friday. Some of his kicking- geez. Sublime

It was a solid session with some skills and match sim divided into 3 sides and they would rotate like a red robin tournament

Swadling is the one I’m most eager to see in the VFL. Just a “vibe” that he’s going to be a player for us, Have high hopes for him. He’s listed as elite on both sides, is that a fair assessment from what you’ve seen?

 

[BillyElliott]

do you think there is a good chance Tyan Prindable plays this year or more likely he spends the year in the VFL?

I think there's a great chance he debuts this year.

Based on nothing but hope & excitement. (And some positive training reports!)

 

[NMBB]

Freeman Scharenberg Stephenson all being busts was a massive massive blow.

Impact has reverberated down the ages - onfield and right here

 

[Horaceg]

Swadling is the one I’m most eager to see in the VFL. Just a “vibe” that he’s going to be a player for us, Have high hopes for him. He’s listed as elite on both sides, is that a fair assessment from what you’ve seen?

From what I’m reading, sublime kicking and racks up the possessions,……..me to, starting a movement.

 

[ksardog]

Training yesterday-

Rehab
Moore, but he has started participating in some drills before doing some running. Progress

Howe- did some light handball drills before heading indoors

Reef

Nick made an appearance - 2 days after the origin game. he can’t help himself

No DC.

Swadling participated after not playing in the intraclub on Friday. Some of his kicking- geez. Sublime

It was a solid session with some skills and match sim divided into 3 sides and they would rotate like a red robin tournament

one thing i don't understand about this drill in the first 5-10min of footage, why don't they kick to a moving target. get one of the players or coaches to lead up or to the side. i get the idea is to release a player from stoppage to kick to a player up the field, but kicking to a stationary target means nothing

 

[cfc19902010]

Brisbane won’t make the GF this year. Bookmark it

Will be interesting with players who have left , players coming in and the Neale Payne scandals
I have them there in last 4 probably
After that who knows

 

[stormskye]

From what I’m reading, sublime kicking and racks up the possessions,……..me to, starting a movement.

That’s what I’m most interested in to see. Whether he can continue to be an accumulator in the VFL as opposed to his WAFL games. Elite on both sides he’s ahead of Allan and HDM already

 

[Pistol Night]

Impact has reverberated down the ages - onfield and right here

Missing out on Bont was another shitshow. We were all over him at pick 6 apparently and the Dogs only warmed to him late. He was a bolter that we'd identified and those ****s swooped. Imagine Bont in our 2018,2022,2023 and 2025 finals teams. ****

 

[Big Bryza]

There's so much to like in this write-up but gee, Pendles is a real worry.

There's no doubt that Pendles' brain and foot-skills remain elite but his glacial slowness is a big liability and very difficult to hide. He can probably still play short bursts in the centre square, or maybe somewhere in the forward line but he could leak a lot of goals in defence. Opposition sides will certainly try to isolate him against faster, more agile opponents.

IMO Pendles should have already retired but now we're stuck trying to nurse him to Boomer Harvey's games played record. If he gets there, I hope he hangs up his superhero cape shortly thereafter.

Now Howe should have hung them up. But Pendles? Really? He's still got it, considering he's turning 47 this year.

 

[Big Bryza]

Every team? A really slow 38 year old? I must not have been watching - just as you suggest.

Despite what you may think, I love Pendles. I have the number 10 on a jumper that I bought in the 2009 season. I never thought anyone would overtake Peter Daicos in my affections but Pendles is neck and neck with him. BUT, I hate seeing him shown up and embarrassed by lesser players, who can only dream of being the player that he was at his peak. We've already seen it several times in each of the past two seasons. I think we'll see it more frequently this season. That's why I wish he had retired.

Anyway, I hope your assessment is more correct than mine. I genuinely do. I look forward to you calling me out about it - not that you'll need much encouragement!

This is laughable. Give multiple examples of the several times Pendles has been shown up and embarrassed by 'lesser' players in the past few seasons. Yeah, we're all shitty that he cooked himself in the prelim, but let's not write him off just yet.

 

[Apex36]

Well if that’s your tactic, then if I was Fagan, I’d try to get Charlie Cameron onto him. Good luck, Pendles!

(Or Zac Bailey. Or Cam Rayner. Or Kai Lohmann. None of them are good match-ups for us.)

I’m not really sure that you understand how our defensive setup works if you think that’s going to be an issue, and I sure as shit don’t believe for a second that Fagan would be stupid enough to send one of his best attacking small forwards to cover a guy who will just drag him away from the contest. Especially given that small forward is pretty suspect defensively anyway.

 

[Apex36]

So you see Pendles playing as a largely unaccountable backline distributor? Alongside one (or perhaps both?) of our other two largely unaccountable backline distributors, in J Daicos and Houston?

Are IQ and Maynard taking two opponents each?

I would imagine that over the course of the game we’d be seeing Pendles and Josh rotating between half back and the middle assuming Josh isn’t used full time in the middle this year.

Once again, I really don’t think you understand how our team defence works if you’re running on a 1v1 matchup scenario.

 

[Scodog10]

That’s what I’m most interested in to see. Whether he can continue to be an accumulator in the VFL as opposed to his WAFL games. Elite on both sides he’s ahead of Allan and HDM already

The high end numbers were at Colts level. His league numbers were decent, but at about the same level as Prindable when he got a VFL shot last year.

 

[Ted Parker]

My report might come later tonight though short as I’ve only taken my phone on this trip.
I’m on the plane heading to Bali.

 

[stormskye]

Actual footage of LuckyLee after his pendles comments

 

[ClaytonM]

Swadling is the one I’m most eager to see in the VFL. Just a “vibe” that he’s going to be a player for us, Have high hopes for him. He’s listed as elite on both sides, is that a fair assessment from what you’ve seen?

I would just like to see someone in the 2s knocking the door down for promotion. A solid 10-12 game block where he demands promotion. Can't remember the last player who really has done that in their first couple of years at the club (excluding Nick who bypassed that bit).

 

[LuckyLee]

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I’m not really sure that you understand how our defensive setup works if you think that’s going to be an issue, and I sure as shit don’t believe for a second that Fagan would be stupid enough to send one of his best attacking small forwards to cover a guy who will just drag him away from the contest. Especially given that small forward is pretty suspect defensively anyway.

Huh? If Pendles is in the backline, I doubt opposition forwards are going to try to defend/negate him. I expect that they'll be trying to exploit his defensive vulnerabilities, particularly by trying to get into space behind him. They'll be doing whatever they can to make Pendles think/play defensively, not the other way around, IMO.

Anyway, let's see what happens. You speak with such aggressive certainty but really neither of us knows whether playing Pendles primarily in defence will work or not. You think it will. I don't. That's fine. Its an opinion forum, after all. Time will tell.

 

[LuckyLee]

Actual footage of LuckyLee after his pendles comments

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Yep. Apparently I shot Bambi.

 

[nickyds35]

Swadling is the one I’m most eager to see in the VFL. Just a “vibe” that he’s going to be a player for us, Have high hopes for him. He’s listed as elite on both sides, is that a fair assessment from what you’ve seen?

What's the catch or knock on him?

 

[manicpie]

I would just like to see someone in the 2s knocking the door down for promotion. A solid 10-12 game block where he demands promotion. Can't remember the last player who really has done that in their first couple of years at the club (excluding Nick who bypassed that bit).

Nows your chance to lock in Anderson, he'll play at least that many games this year

 

[Ted Parker]

Are you able to provide examples of Zorko and Whitfield being exploited in 2025?

Zorko ~ Round: 7 Venue: Gabba Date: Thu, 17-Apr-2025 - we exploited him by shutting him down, then he lost the plot. 20 possessions were his 2nd lowest tally for the season, besides the 17 he had against GCS and the 19 he had against us in R22.

Whitfield ~ I can't recall him being beaten in 2025. The only game he didn't impact is when he went off with concussion against the Suns in Round: 16. They were afforded to rest him their following Round, which was a bye, then effectively another bye round when they took on WCE the week after. He returned against the Cats and racked up 32 possessions, receiving 3 coaches votes.
So much of GWS play goes through him off the HBF. How he only earned 1 vote in the 2025 Brownlow tally shows how out of balance towards the midfielders the voting is. Bloke missed 3 games and still had 659 disposals for the season (inc. 1 final)! That is Zorko level of the past 2 seasons.

 

[lyfsux]

My report might come later tonight though short as I’ve only taken my phone on this trip.
I’m on the plane heading to Bali.

You have had plenty of time between Sep and Dec to have holidays Jen
This is definitely the wrong time of year to be off to Bali
Naughty naughty Miss Jen