Training 2018 Preseason Thread

[Lore]

It's not preseason just yet, but apparently the offseason is a pre-preseason for our players this year:

Worsfold said the next two months would play a crucial role in ensuring the foundations are laid for another shot at the September action.

“In the big picture stuff – we’re not as good as we need to be,” he told The Footy Panel.

“Our gains to get better start straight away. It starts with how the players look after themselves this week.

“They’re away from the Club for the next eight to ten weeks but they’re not on leave as such.

“As an elite athlete what you do when you’re not in the full time program is going to dictate how good you are when you come back into our full time program.

“That’s the challenge we want to see the players step up to now.

“In late November when they turn up ready to start training again they need to be ready to go flat out and if they’re not, they’re going to get left behind.”

...

“We challenge our players to take ownership of how good they want to be and the real absolute test for them is this next eight or ten weeks.

“We’ll know exactly what their work rate is when they come back, we measure every step they take and we measure their heart rates in every drill they do but we don’t have any contact with them over the next eight to ten weeks.

http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2017-09-15/dons-raise-the-bar

The Worsfold is in town and he's starting to put his stamp on things.

 

[DapperJong]

Yeah, no more remotely related saga excuses now.

 

[Runk]

See Matthew Lloyd & Tim Watson. That's how you do it. You don't cancel Mad Monday. You don't berate your team that's been through 12 kinds of hell.
You do this. This is what I want to hear.

 

[Jesse Custer]

Is Francis training yet

 

[Capt Hindsight]

Is Francis training yet

Considering he did his hamstring in the VFL elimination final against Footscray, I'd say only light rehab at the moment.

 

[DapperJong]

Is Francis training yet

Word is he is running to Adelaide.

 

[Howard Moon]

Word is he is running to Adelaide.

so, how could you be the most boring poster on the site with sharpness like that?

 

[DapperJong]

so, how could you be the most boring poster on the site with sharpness like that?

Some people get bored when they get burned, Howie.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Good the year of welcoming back the players is over time to get serious.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Word is he is running to Adelaide.

via Loxton in the riverland

 

[eth-dog]

Bang

 

[akiva]

I hope Woosha makes them all go to the GF and then tells them to leave a 3/4 time!

 

[blitzer]

2018 slogan should be:

"Smashing through every barrier"

We need something more uplifting after years of "Let's all get together and be friends and cuddly"

 

[Lore]

2018 slogan should be:

"Smashing through every barrier"

We need something more uplifting after years of "Let's all get together and be friends and cuddly"

I feel like this belongs in a membership thread, but what are the current slogans of the other clubs?

I think Adelaide is "We Fly As One"... but I forget all the others

 

[calyam]

Where are the pics of Laverde looking huge and news that Langford is training the house down?

 

[Old Campaigner]

Where are the pics of Francis looking huge and news that Francis is training the house down?

 

[Jesse Custer]

I could do with 8 to 10 weeks off myself right now... oh what I would do with you...

 

[calyam]

I'm genuinely terrified that we will see pics of Francis looking huge.

 

[Lore]

I'm genuinely terrified that we will see pics of Francis looking huge.

I'd be more terrified if there weren't any though.

 

[ghostdog]

I'm genuinely terrified that we will see pics of Francis looking huge.

If you mean fat-huge, that is also my fear. Langford and Laverde I can see putting in work, but I fear Francis goes back to mum and dad's and gets hooked in to mum's cooking (no offence Francis's mum), and it's all over red rover.

 

[84859300]

I can't wait to be driving around <insert suburb here> and seeing <insert player here> at the park, actively involved in improving their goal kicking accuracy by kicking at trees, drone flyers, little kids, or I don't care what.

 

[SherbertLemon]

Now, which players are training the house down? Can't wait to find out.

 

[Old Campaigner]

More importantly, who is wearing a hat?

 

[Lore]

Well there's your first 'training the house down' photo for the pre-preseason fellas.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

I hope Woosha makes them all go to the GF and then tells them to leave a 3/4 time!

Just like Sheeds made them watch the '99' GF between North and Carlton and then the rest is history.