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Bombers Training (18/6)

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Colin D'Cops

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Good afternoon ladies & gents. Not a heap to report on from training this morning, but will give a bit of a rundown on a few players who featured in today's session. Hurley, Daniher & H.Slattery I didn't visibly see out on the ground today; along with Hille, Bellchambers, Laycock & Gumbleton obviously after their injury set-backs. Magin & Carroll were running along the boundary during today's session.

Fletcher looks to have overcome his fibula injury, and looks set to take on the Dees. Was punching the ball 20m today and was moving around quite freely. Trained whole session.

Welsh trained the whole session and looked like a man on a mission. After making that conclusion at Windy, getting back and seeing on the EFC website he is using Rama as his inspiration to comeback in a successful manner seems 100% correct. Was running the lines nicely on a few drills but isn't quite 100% yet naturally.

Prismall trained the entire session and looked comfortable digging into the drills. Got his hands dirty a few times, seemed to move freely and after his first match back for the Bombers against the Crows; I suspect he's only a match or two away from his best.

Neagle was moving freely and had no sign of niggling injuries for once. Had about half a dozen shots on goal, and nailed every one of them through the middle from about 50. His kicking is unarguably brilliant, just needs to get that work-rate up in a match to get a few touches and stamp his authority on a match or two.

Winderlich & Reimers both trained the entire session but didn't run it out strongly I thought. Were good early on in the morning, but seemed to die off a bit towards the rear end of it.You could say the same thing for McVeigh, but he looked like he was just out their relaxing a little this morning so not sure what to take away from that.

Noticed a few disposable errors coming from the boots of T.Slattery & Dyson this morning, but their enthusiasm was visible so they're on the right track.

Lovett & Dempsey seemed to kick and mix a lot with each other, creating a little bit of a 'brotherhood' feel. Don't mind that, creates some doubts into oppositions minds when messing with a Bomber. Both trained as expected, and would expect both to play & play well.

McPhee was mentoring TysonSlatts throughout a few of the drills, teaching him different variations of certain drills. Nice to see a bit of communication within the group there.

Pears & Hooker both trained well, and again impressed me. Hooker looks a fairly big unit if you compare him to what he looked like last year, and looks to have nailed down a few of his disposal issues. Pears again looked all class, nothing but praise for him. Good on both feet, looked sharp.

Lloydy was Lloydy. Trained well, kicked well and presented well. Will be hoping for some nice delivery into the forwardline tomorrow, so he can put his name back up in lights where it belongs.

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If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me in this thread. Will attempt to give you a detailed, honest answer.
 
Fantastic report thanks Great Source! It's great being able to read these reports as living so far away I don't get to see too much.

How did Lucas look? Played his best game of the year last round, hopefully he can come into some good form now
 
Great OP GreaT SourcE :thumbsu:

Didn't like the thought of McVeigh just kickin back. I honestly think he needs to work a little harder, but he's a pro, so I'll trust that he knows what he's doing & that it only takes a game or two to get to his best.

Good to see all the boys get through training nicely, particularly Welsh.

How awesome is it to have LOVETT back?.... I honestly think he's a link in our chain. I missed his blinding speed a lot. :D

He'll tear Melbourne a new one.

And with Fletcher back in, the defence just writes itself...
 
How did Lucas look? Played his best game of the year last round, hopefully he can come into some good form now

Lucas looked solid. Didn't look to be really hitting the track hard today like usual, but I suspect he's gearing up for a big match against the Dees.

How awesome is it to have LOVETT back?.... I honestly think he's a link in our chain. I missed his blinding speed a lot. :D

Having Lovett back, fit & firing; is a massive plus to our team as you said. Breaks lines, kicks goals and can get the team up and firing with a few bits of inspiring play. Looking forward to him tearing it up tomorrow night. :thumbsu:
 

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Worth noting that I didn't notice Houli out on the track this morning either.
 
GS, just wondering how Stants went? train well, kicking etc

I don't think he trained the whole session. Was in and out a few times I think, but did the majority of the drills from memory. Kicking was good at training as usual when under no pressure, and looked to be moving okay.
 
Prismall trained the entire session and looked comfortable digging into the drills. Got his hands dirty a few times, seemed to move freely and after his first match back for the Bombers against the Crows; I suspect he's only a match or two away from his best.

Great to hear that he is training well, but I don't expect his best until next year.

GS : Did you notice how D.Myers went? Did he look confident out there? How were his skills? Did he train with the main group?
 
Didn't notice Myers out on the track to be brutally honest Daffo.
 
Really shows how much the bloke has fallen off the radar that we don't even bother to look out for him anymore. He is really struggling this year.

Thanks:thumbsu:
 

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I heard from my cuz in who lives in essendon that Stanton has a virus.

You mentioned that he looked ok. how early did he leave the track ?
Did he look sluggish or fatigued ?

would be a massive out if he didnt play.. lets hope he's ok.
 
You mentioned that he looked ok. how early did he leave the track ? Did he look sluggish or fatigued ?

He left the track a little earlier than the rest, but no more than about 5 minutes earlier. He looked a little sluggish, but didn't look to be worrying him majorly. Would be surprised to see him miss this week.
 
Am I missing something here? Lovett played last round.

Haha, true. It looked like that, so I won't blame you. I should word my posts better.

I meant him playing really good footy while showing no signs of over-the-top aggresiveness.

It's good to see him with a clear mind, mature-wise.

As for the other post, same thing. He's a massive in for us when he's got his head screwed on and he's showing good signs. I expect him to have a field day on Melbourne. :thumbsu:
 

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i was there - only the squad of 25 (22 + 3 emerg's) trained as is the usual the day before a match. so of course guys like daniher, myers, hurley etc were not out there. the squad of 25 looked fine to me - was only a 45-50 minute session going thru some drills.
 

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