Training 2022 Training Reports

[Wray27]

He said he doesn't look like he is conditioned as what a 5th year player should and that he looks like he has a similar body type to when drafted - he doesn't view players like this as being very successful.

He said the same about Valente.

Hmm. Looks Ok to me

 

[Bluto]

He said he doesn't look like he is conditioned as what a 5th year player should and that he looks like he has a similar body type to when drafted - he doesn't view players like this as being very successful.

He said the same about Valente.

I listened to the pod, mostly enjoyable. But he's off the mark at least when it comes to Brodie and his body being an attitude/biological issue. GCS slimmed him down to his draft weight-ish last year (he was massive the year before) to help run out games.

Fringe Sun turns heads after shedding kilos, improving fitness

Gold Coast midfielder Will Brodie returned to pre-season training in the best physical condition of his life

www.afl.com.au

 

[DragoDelph]

He said he doesn't look like he is conditioned as what a 5th year player should and that he looks like he has a similar body type to when drafted - he doesn't view players like this as being very successful.

He said the same about Valente.

Is exactly what I thought with him coming from Gold Coast.
I think their conditioning program needs a lot of work, haven't been able to run out a season yet. And can't blame it all on being young kids anymore.

Think he'll come good now he's in a system with harder workers, he can see what it takes.

 

[freoextra]

Preseason training report #2
Rehab Group
Cox, Aish, Wilson, Taberner, Sturt, Amiss and Fyfe
Cox, Aish and Wilson ran and look fine, Sturt also joined main training for a short time.
Tabs and Fyfe the main rehabbers doing the least. Tabs was fine with kicking and he and Fyfe spent a lot of time together goal kicking. Fyfe one handed when marking for the whole session but some good marks! He does not look as trimmed (sickly) as the photo in The West.

Missing
Hamling and Young

Time Trial over 4 years
Pearce amazing! What an athlete but only ran the first two.
Logue smashed all runners in the final run leaving some a half oval behind.
The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs. Darcy has a long long way to go to match Gawns running ability. Very surprised at Brodie’s real lack of a tank, nearly passed by Darcy on occasions, perhaps poor training standards at Gold Coast, for a young guy to be barely able to keep up with Mundy and a ruckman was a surprise.

Training
Good session on skills with small groups mainly 5 on 5 battles with in close and under pressure disposal being trained.
Extended out to full oval training from kick out through to kicking on goal.
Good voice and enthusiasm throughout - skills look good for such an early time.
Benning and Johnson in full training and both have good skills but have a lot of size to put on before serious debut consideration.

Exciting
Erasmus and O’Driscoll.
Both of these boys attack all drills like their lives depend on it and genuinely explode out of packs - joint winners of the 2nd training the house down award. The change in O’Driscoll‘s size and the improvement in kicking skills was remarkable from last year. Erasmus just wants to be at the front of every drill and his skills were impressive, has the size and skills to debut early - really early.

 

[freoextra]

Lobb MIA?

trained fully

 

[GingerDocker]

Preseason training report #2
Rehab Group
Cox, Aish, Wilson, Taberner, Sturt, Amiss and Fyfe
Cox, Aish and Wilson ran and look fine, Sturt also joined main training for a short time.
Tabs and Fyfe the main rehabbers doing the least. Tabs was fine with kicking and he and Fyfe spent a lot of time together goal kicking. Fyfe one handed when marking for the whole session but some good marks! He does not look as trimmed (sickly) as the photo in The West.

Missing
Hamling and Young

Time Trial over 4 years
Pearce amazing! What an athlete but only ran the first two.
Logue smashed all runners in the final run leaving some a half oval behind.
The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs. Darcy has a long long way to go to match Gawns running ability. Very surprised at Brodie’s real lack of a tank, nearly passed by Darcy on occasions, perhaps poor training standards at Gold Coast, for a young guy to be barely able to keep up with Mundy and a ruckman was a surprise.

Training
Good session on skills with small groups mainly 5 on 5 battles with in close and under pressure disposal being trained.
Extended out to full oval training from kick out through to kicking on goal.
Good voice and enthusiasm throughout - skills look good for such an early time.
Benning and Johnson in full training and both have good skills but have a lot of size to put on before serious debut consideration.

Exciting
Erasmus and O’Driscoll.
Both of these boys attack all drills like their lives depend on it and genuinely explode out of packs - joint winners of the 2nd training the house down award. The change in O’Driscoll‘s size and the improvement in kicking skills was remarkable from last year. Erasmus just wants to be at the front of every drill and his skills were impressive, has the size and skills to debut early - really early.

I can see you being real popular 'round these parts.

 

[Eski3]

Missing
Hamling and Young

According to social media Hamling's dad passed away which would explain his absence. Poor bloke

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

Preseason training report #2
Rehab Group
Cox, Aish, Wilson, Taberner, Sturt, Amiss and Fyfe
Cox, Aish and Wilson ran and look fine, Sturt also joined main training for a short time.
Tabs and Fyfe the main rehabbers doing the least. Tabs was fine with kicking and he and Fyfe spent a lot of time together goal kicking. Fyfe one handed when marking for the whole session but some good marks! He does not look as trimmed (sickly) as the photo in The West.

Missing
Hamling and Young

Time Trial over 4 years
Pearce amazing! What an athlete but only ran the first two.
Logue smashed all runners in the final run leaving some a half oval behind.
The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs. Darcy has a long long way to go to match Gawns running ability. Very surprised at Brodie’s real lack of a tank, nearly passed by Darcy on occasions, perhaps poor training standards at Gold Coast, for a young guy to be barely able to keep up with Mundy and a ruckman was a surprise.

Training
Good session on skills with small groups mainly 5 on 5 battles with in close and under pressure disposal being trained.
Extended out to full oval training from kick out through to kicking on goal.
Good voice and enthusiasm throughout - skills look good for such an early time.
Benning and Johnson in full training and both have good skills but have a lot of size to put on before serious debut consideration.

Exciting
Erasmus and O’Driscoll.
Both of these boys attack all drills like their lives depend on it and genuinely explode out of packs - joint winners of the 2nd training the house down award. The change in O’Driscoll‘s size and the improvement in kicking skills was remarkable from last year. Erasmus just wants to be at the front of every drill and his skills were impressive, has the size and skills to debut early - really early.

Awesome report mate.

Personally, the day Darcy isnt last is the day we have a problem because some dude needs to be on the scrap heap. He just isnt that type of player but seems to run out games fine regardless.

Brodie is the concern, shouldnt be getting beaten by Lobb but he was a freebie so not bothered whether he makes it or not

 

[Tbonefreo]

The forums whipping boy

Acres by a long shot I believe. Will need to be getting 25 and 2 weekly to redeem his squibbyness

 

[freodog]

The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs.

DROP HIM!!!

 

[sherrif]

Preseason training report #2
Rehab Group
Cox, Aish, Wilson, Taberner, Sturt, Amiss and Fyfe
Cox, Aish and Wilson ran and look fine, Sturt also joined main training for a short time.
Tabs and Fyfe the main rehabbers doing the least. Tabs was fine with kicking and he and Fyfe spent a lot of time together goal kicking. Fyfe one handed when marking for the whole session but some good marks! He does not look as trimmed (sickly) as the photo in The West.

Missing
Hamling and Young

Time Trial over 4 years
Pearce amazing! What an athlete but only ran the first two.
Logue smashed all runners in the final run leaving some a half oval behind.
The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs. Darcy has a long long way to go to match Gawns running ability. Very surprised at Brodie’s real lack of a tank, nearly passed by Darcy on occasions, perhaps poor training standards at Gold Coast, for a young guy to be barely able to keep up with Mundy and a ruckman was a surprise.

Training
Good session on skills with small groups mainly 5 on 5 battles with in close and under pressure disposal being trained.
Extended out to full oval training from kick out through to kicking on goal.
Good voice and enthusiasm throughout - skills look good for such an early time.
Benning and Johnson in full training and both have good skills but have a lot of size to put on before serious debut consideration.

Exciting
Erasmus and O’Driscoll.
Both of these boys attack all drills like their lives depend on it and genuinely explode out of packs - joint winners of the 2nd training the house down award. The change in O’Driscoll‘s size and the improvement in kicking skills was remarkable from last year. Erasmus just wants to be at the front of every drill and his skills were impressive, has the size and skills to debut early - really early.

Great work freoextra.
I popped down briefly last week and spoke to a training watcher that barely misses a session and has some good inside info. He said that O'Driscoll got a personal trainer pretty much a week or two after our season finished and his hard work was showing in his preseason training already as he did really well in the repeat 1km runs too. In my opinion there is a place in the team for an elite running tagger who uses the ball well to free Serong of tagging duties.

I've also got a mate at Hale who said that their biggest problem with Erasmus and their sports program was competition from sport teachers for him to play for them. Basically throughout his schooling he was so good at every sport that he chopped and changed all over the place. He said Hale struggled to work out how t0 use him at athletics carnivals because he was both their best distance runner and sprinter for most of his time there. He said that he would wing 100 metre events (including some interschool wins against elite boys schools) without any preparation as he was too busy with team sports outside of school. g against other elite boys schools at inter school.

 

[sherrif]

No aish cox or Wilson?

They were in rehab according to one of the training reports.

 

[more_of_bito]

Preseason training report #2
Rehab Group
Cox, Aish, Wilson, Taberner, Sturt, Amiss and Fyfe
Cox, Aish and Wilson ran and look fine, Sturt also joined main training for a short time.
Tabs and Fyfe the main rehabbers doing the least. Tabs was fine with kicking and he and Fyfe spent a lot of time together goal kicking. Fyfe one handed when marking for the whole session but some good marks! He does not look as trimmed (sickly) as the photo in The West.

Missing
Hamling and Young

Time Trial over 4 years
Pearce amazing! What an athlete but only ran the first two.
Logue smashed all runners in the final run leaving some a half oval behind.
The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs. Darcy has a long long way to go to match Gawns running ability. Very surprised at Brodie’s real lack of a tank, nearly passed by Darcy on occasions, perhaps poor training standards at Gold Coast, for a young guy to be barely able to keep up with Mundy and a ruckman was a surprise.

Training
Good session on skills with small groups mainly 5 on 5 battles with in close and under pressure disposal being trained.
Extended out to full oval training from kick out through to kicking on goal.
Good voice and enthusiasm throughout - skills look good for such an early time.
Benning and Johnson in full training and both have good skills but have a lot of size to put on before serious debut consideration.

Exciting
Erasmus and O’Driscoll.
Both of these boys attack all drills like their lives depend on it and genuinely explode out of packs - joint winners of the 2nd training the house down award. The change in O’Driscoll‘s size and the improvement in kicking skills was remarkable from last year. Erasmus just wants to be at the front of every drill and his skills were impressive, has the size and skills to debut early - really early.

great report thanks for posting.

Brodie bottom 3 in time trial.

 

[Taylor]

Frederick looked to come in second in the last one too. Not sure why he was running in that one, but he looks in amazing shape.

My expectations from him this season know no limits.

 

[Bigger]

Yair, why was Freddo with the old buggers? He's only third year, isn't he?

He appears to have muscles on his piss.

 

[sherrif]

Frederick looked to come in second in the last one too. Not sure why he was running in that one, but he looks in amazing shape.

My expectations from him this season know no limits.

He could be super, super important next season. A line breaking wingman rounds out our midfield nicely and gives the coaches more options with how they use Clark. Serong said in an interview that Freddy was the player he thought would breakout this year after seeing him train.

 

[Superkoops]

No cox, didn't notice Aish and Willo jogging laps.
Lobb trained.
Fyfe looking good , in rehab group.
Might have just been me but as a group they all look trimmer. ( ok, not the younger ones).
Most of the under 4s moved off the ground and the main group did some somewhat light drills.
A tip for any one picking teams, think the need for speed. It's obvious that we will be trying to do.
Almost every drill is about getting the ball to a runner and moving straight down the guts at speed. Hope there is a plan B.
I've got to get back to work now.

The picture I remembered of Aish was running laps on Friday.

 

[Superkoops]

Yair, why was Freddo with the old buggers? He's only third year, isn't he?

He appears to have muscles on his piss.

Freddy wasn’t ready for the previous time trial. He is back to full training now and did the time trials today.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

I can't believe Pearce won 2 heats. Amazing for a 2m player

Pearce is an athletic freak. If they did 20m sprints he’d go very close to winning those too. Just about every one on one ends up with him running off with the ball and leaving his opponent for dead.

 

[FD2646]

Preseason training report #2
Rehab Group
Cox, Aish, Wilson, Taberner, Sturt, Amiss and Fyfe
Cox, Aish and Wilson ran and look fine, Sturt also joined main training for a short time.
Tabs and Fyfe the main rehabbers doing the least. Tabs was fine with kicking and he and Fyfe spent a lot of time together goal kicking. Fyfe one handed when marking for the whole session but some good marks! He does not look as trimmed (sickly) as the photo in The West.

Missing
Hamling and Young

Time Trial over 4 years
Pearce amazing! What an athlete but only ran the first two.
Logue smashed all runners in the final run leaving some a half oval behind.
The bit they never tell you - Darcy, Mundy and Brodie last 3 in all runs. Darcy has a long long way to go to match Gawns running ability. Very surprised at Brodie’s real lack of a tank, nearly passed by Darcy on occasions, perhaps poor training standards at Gold Coast, for a young guy to be barely able to keep up with Mundy and a ruckman was a surprise.

Training
Good session on skills with small groups mainly 5 on 5 battles with in close and under pressure disposal being trained.
Extended out to full oval training from kick out through to kicking on goal.
Good voice and enthusiasm throughout - skills look good for such an early time.
Benning and Johnson in full training and both have good skills but have a lot of size to put on before serious debut consideration.

Exciting
Erasmus and O’Driscoll.
Both of these boys attack all drills like their lives depend on it and genuinely explode out of packs - joint winners of the 2nd training the house down award. The change in O’Driscoll‘s size and the improvement in kicking skills was remarkable from last year. Erasmus just wants to be at the front of every drill and his skills were impressive, has the size and skills to debut early - really early.

I made it down with my Mrs and the dog for the last half hour or so and can confirm the above. Was very impressed with O'Driscoll and was also pleasing to see Sonny in full flight again. Both O'Driscoll and Sonny were short of a preseason last year, so to see them in full flight already is awesome. Good also to watch Alex Pearce take on Amiss in some semi casual marking drills, which were about body positioning more than anything else. Erasmus also looks the goods and it was also good to see Fyfe and Tabs having shots on goal.

Lastly, I really liked seeing the drill transitioning the ball with speed out of full back to the wing, back inside the middle and hitting a leading forward. For early pre-season, it was impressive. On the downside, Mr Acres still needs to improve his kicking.

 

[SiempreFreo]

That’s my knock on him. He has one game out of four when he’s elite, and the other three are okay/good/dog sh*t

More feedback from Members Meeting: Peter Bell was asked about Rory Lobb's future with the club by one fairly irate member. Belly's response was in diplomat-speak but he did use keywords like 'play consistently to the standard we know he's capable of'.

 

[more_of_bito]

Has Will Brodie

23

Will Brodie

Age

27

Ht

190cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.0

5star

K

8.2

3star

HB

10.8

5star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.9

5star

CL

4.1

5star

D

14.0

3star

K

4.0

1star

HB

10.0

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.0

2star

CL

3.0

4star

D

13.8

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

5.4

5star

CL

2.8

5star

finished the time trial yet? Asking for a mate.

 

[freoextra]

I can see you being real popular 'round these parts.

Just retired, so reporting now possible. Good group of friendly supporters down at training if anyone is interested.

 

[SiempreFreo]

I made it down with my Mrs and the dog for the last half hour or so and can confirm the above. Was very impressed with O'Driscoll and was also pleasing to see Sonny in full flight again. Both O'Driscoll and Sonny were short of a preseason last year, so to see them in full flight already is awesome. Good also to watch Alex Pearce take on Amiss in some semi casual marking drills, which were about body positioning more than anything else. Erasmus also looks the goods and it was also good to see Fyfe and Tabs having shots on goal.

Lastly, I really liked seeing the drill transitioning the ball with speed out of full back to the wing, back inside the middle and hitting a leading forward. For early pre-season, it was impressive. On the downside, Mr Acres still needs to improve his kicking.

Onya FD and your happy dog looks pleased and impressed too

 

[Superkoops]

Mr Acres still needs to improve his kicking.

The West Perth training watchers for 2023 or 2024 will also be saying that. As sure as the sun rises.