Training 2025 Pre Season and Training Reports Thread

[Dogs_R_Us]

When our season starts.

I'm not mentally prepared for footy. The stress of winning and the stress of losing

 

[fred cook]

Don't tease us...

Anyone more insider traders regarding the Bont returning round 3? He at this stage is 46 to 1 to win the brownlow

 

[St 07]

Not worth the risk

Definitely not. Hold him back a week and lets see if he can help us tear Collingwood to shreds.

 

[RWnBluey]

Bont aiming for round 3

Aiming for round 5 v Brisbane.

Straight from the horse’s goat’s mouth.

 

[Graeme Cook]

Jamarra trained today and I must say in a short-term scratch match looked really sharp took 2 great marks and kicked really well.
Shouldn't be long unless Bevo's stubborn I'd give him two 2nds matches and bring him back round 5.

 

[Graeme Cook]

Further news the Bont only walked laps.

 

[dogwatch]

Jamarra trained today and I must say in a short-term scratch match looked really sharp took 2 great marks and kicked really well.
Shouldn't be long unless Bevo's stubborn I'd give him two 2nds matches and bring him back round 5.

There was a post elsewhere to say he played in defence. Is that correct?

Great to hear he looked sharp today but you say it was a short match so stamina would not have been a factor. Would he be conditioned enough for 100 minutes?

 

[Golden_6]

Jamarra trained today and I must say in a short-term scratch match looked really sharp took 2 great marks and kicked really well.
Shouldn't be long unless Bevo's stubborn I'd give him two 2nds matches and bring him back round 5.

I think he needs a month of full training & schedule commitment. That's not Bevo being stubborn.

Even if he's fit and playing well in the VFL, at some point he has to commit to the full time schedule to be available for senior selection. He can't just take a couple of days off every few weeks if we want to keep integrity of selection in place.

 

[TiAn_]

Happy for this pre-season to end shortly.

 

[lachy]

I think he needs a month of full training & schedule commitment. That's not Bevo being stubborn.

Even if he's fit and playing well in the VFL, at some point he has to commit to the full time schedule to be available for senior selection. He can't just take a couple of days off every few weeks if we want to keep integrity of selection in place.

Get annoying people getting on Bev's back for something if anything he should have been more stubborn say last September.

When will our supporters get it through their heads it is as simple as JUH working out how important being a professional footballer is to him

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[Dougs Wing]

When our season starts.

Just a suggestion but could the name be changed to Training reports? Does it need to be closed?

 

[Mutt]

Just a suggestion but could the name be changed to Training reports? Does it need to be closed?

Good idea. Consider it done.

 

[Dazb86]

Happy for this pre-season to end shortly.

Agreed what a ****ing nightmare.

 

[RedWhite&Blue]

It seems like every second year since the flag we have lost an elite player… Jamarra is almost the last straw. He will walk to another club and turn his career around and we’ll get nothing for him like every other time we lose elite talent. So ****ing frustrating

 

[lachy]

It seems like every second year since the flag we have lost an elite player… Jamarra is almost the last straw. He will walk to another club and turn his career around and we’ll get nothing for him like every other time we lose elite talent. So ****ing frustrating

Can cut the crap and hyperbole at some stage. We have lost 1 elite player in the now 9 years since the flag. That is Dunkley who remained professional right till the end.

We bag opposition supporters yet we have some of the most whinny, sooky wo is me supporters in the league.

And it is not just this poster there are many.

For all we have against us we have grown to be a very competitive team over a sustained time. A drop off in injuries soon and we arenup to our necks in this season



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[Doggy Dan]

Can cut the crap and hyperbole at some stage. We have lost 1 elite player in the now 9 years since the flag. That is Dunkley who remained professional right till the end.

We bag opposition supporters yet we have some of the most whinny, sooky wo is me supporters in the league.

And it is not just this poster there are many.

For all we have against us we have grown to be a very competitive team over a sustained time. A drop off in injuries soon and we arenup to our necks in this season



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You are right, of course, but it is mighty frustrating. Just as we seem to have the tools to progress something goes off the rails. As with anything expectation is the thief of joy. The expectations we’ve had on Tom Boyd, Dunkley, Smith and now Jamarra have been that they would become club and competition defining talents for us. We’ve used huge draft capital to bring them in and all have just flittered away.

 

[Doggy]

You are right, of course, but it is mighty frustrating. Just as we seem to have the tools to progress something goes off the rails. As with anything expectation is the thief of joy. The expectations we’ve had on Tom Boyd, Dunkley, Smith and now Jamarra have been that they would become club and competition defining talents for us. We’ve used huge draft capital to bring them in and all have just flittered away.

JUH hasn't even gone anywhere and is contracted until the end of 2026

 

[doggiesin08]

You are right, of course, but it is mighty frustrating. Just as we seem to have the tools to progress something goes off the rails. As with anything expectation is the thief of joy. The expectations we’ve had on Tom Boyd, Dunkley, Smith and now Jamarra have been that they would become club and competition defining talents for us. We’ve used huge draft capital to bring them in and all have just flittered away.

I've made a similar point elsewhere, but I think the bigger impact has actually been the unexpected declines (often injury linked) of:

• Bruce - 4 years younger than Tom Hawkins but retired a year earlier
• Keath - quickly went from borderline AA quality to completely off the cliff
• Crozier - 2 x top 10 B&F's and then completely out of sorts post contract extension
• Hunter - we didn't get unders based on his output at the end with us, but at 30 years old as a former B&F winner (as a 23 year old) he should still be near his prime
• McLean - I rated him super highly as the high HFF / rotating agile mid before his injuries
• Smith (of the Clay variety) - big game performer who retired at only 25 years old
• Daniel and Macrae and - the game just went past them, but from their All Australian level performances you wouldn't have projected how little they would contribute by the time they hit 27/29 years old

Obviously we've been helped by the father-son and NGA pickups and some very opportunistic trades (particularly Treloar), but I think its actually quite impressive that we've remained as competitive as we have with those losses on top of the others being discussed.

 

[cherrypie]

I've made a similar point elsewhere, but I think the bigger impact has actually been the unexpected declines (often injury linked) of:

• Bruce - 4 years younger than Tom Hawkins but retired a year earlier
• Keath - quickly went from borderline AA quality to completely off the cliff
• Crozier - 2 x top 10 B&F's and then completely out of sorts post contract extension
• Hunter - we didn't get unders based on his output at the end with us, but at 30 years old as a former B&F winner (as a 23 year old) he should still be near his prime
• McLean - I rated him super highly as the high HFF / rotating agile mid before his injuries
• Smith (of the Clay variety) - big game performer who retired at only 25 years old
• Daniel and Macrae and - the game just went past them, but from their All Australian level performances you wouldn't have projected how little they would contribute by the time they hit 27/29 years old

Obviously we've been helped by the father-son and NGA pickups and some very opportunistic trades (particularly Treloar), but I think its actually quite impressive that we've remained as competitive as we have with those losses on top of the others being discussed.

Tom Boyd is still only 29

 

[Mofra]

Sounds like Marra is training.
Even better, Cleary is on the track. Hope he recovers well.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Stopped by very briefly at training this morning and JUH was out on the ground and participating in the drills and from what I could tell seemed fully engaged in proceedings.

Make of my 5 minutes of observations what you will.

 

[Bald]

No criticism of any posters here but just a personal view.

I’m very much looking forward to being able to respond with “and?” to posts of Jamarra at training. I hope the boy gets through his current situation and being at training regularly is the norm.

 

[Golden_6]

Stopped by very briefly at training this morning and JUH was out on the ground and participating in the drills and from what I could tell seemed fully engaged in proceedings.

Make of my 5 minutes of observations what you will.

From all reports, every time he's at training he's looked very good and engaged.

This issue is that an AFL environment is more than just turning up for training twice a week for a couple of hours.

 

[ossie_21]

Stopped by very briefly at training this morning and JUH was out on the ground and participating in the drills and from what I could tell seemed fully engaged in proceedings.

Make of my 5 minutes of observations what you will.

That’s it, we are winning the flag

 

[dogwatch]

From all reports, every time he's at training he's looked very good and engaged.

This issue is that an AFL environment is more than just turning up for training twice a week for a couple of hours.

True, but at least it's progress. Given all the recent hoo-ha and speculation it's way better than the alternative.