Training Pre-season Training 2017

[Happy Mastenator]

I'm not a tunners fan, but that's a shit way to go out. Good luck to his recovery.

 

[flyinghi64]

That sux for the poor guy.
No messing around with the reporting and update.
Keys reports then the club is all over it.

 

[matt_bas]

https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/fe...tunbridge-after-training-injury-ng-b88326644z

Pretty much accurately covers what happened

Did you send the west your report

 

[Avalor]

Confirmed ACL. Poor bugger! Most unfortunate for Tunners.

 

[ChampRevesby]

Poor bloke, take him out the back, he's done.

 

[Keys]

So aside from the knee injury to Tunbridge, the seriousness of which is TBA :

• No Waterman on the training track today, same as Friday. Naitanui the only other player not to put in an appearance.
• Rotham left training early but didn't look to be in any discomfort
• Barrass didn't do any running again but did some marking practice instead which was stopped when Nico called out something along the lines of that's enough, you haven't been well. Others like Karpany and Snadden didn't do the end of session runs either so maybe there's a bit of a bug going round. That's purely a guess though
• More contested drills today then previous sessions - there weren't anymore done after Tunners injury. That may have just been coincidence though.
• Rioli did very well in the contested work getting the ball out to a team mate
• Conversely Lamb copped a rebuke from Simpson for sticking one arm out at the ball
• Jetta voluntarily did some extra running at the end - looked like he had to ask permission from one of the trainers first though
• Venables didn't participate again but it looked like they were stepping up his running. He's a pretty fit looking dude and looks like he'll build up a strong body once he has a couple of preseasons under his belt
• Mitchell left training about 15 minutes before the rest so there was no after school class for Duggan today. (Mitchell has his brownlow thing tomorrow which might explain his slightly earlier departure)

Not much else of note to report without repeating myself from previous sessions

Gotta feel for Tunbridge - it won't surprise me if it does turn out to be an ACL, hopefully it isn't, because it's hard to see how he keeps his spot if it is. I still think there's a half decent footballer there and he's a good size but it looks like his body isn't going to allow him to find out what he's capable of. I didn't see exactly what happened but it just looked as simple as one of the other players taking him to ground in a tackle and as they were finishing up the drill the players started walking back to the middle Tunbridge was lying on the ground holding his leg

 

[matt_bas]

Confirmed ACL. Poor bugger! Most unfortunate for Tunners.

Sauce?

 

[Dark Sharks]

Likely a bitter end to his AFL dream, got to feel for tunners.

 

[Keys]

Did you send the west your report

Mark Duffield was sitting five feet away from me when it happened and it was 30m at most from where we were so he was onto it straight away

 

[RookiePick]

Weeks worth of "Stunner" jokes in the toilet on this ACL news

I really hoped he would get a run at it this coming year and we could at least make a fair assessment of his abilities. I can't see him making it back to AFL level from here unfortunately.

 

[WCErevival]

Up on AFL site as an ACL. That's a quick confirmation

 

[SpaceClef]

Rioli did very well in the contested work getting the ball out to a team mate

Conversely Lamb copped a rebuke from Simpson for sticking one arm out at the ball

 

[nameless]

Sucks for tunners I was one who liked what he could potentially bring.

No doubt the club will support him, probably given too many chances now, but I'm not against a rookie contact for him in 2018.

 

[bombard]

Poor bugger.

 

[Godfather32]

Well it is Tunners. They probably had the story ready to go months ago

The way his luck has been they probably had an obituary ready

 

[Avalor]

Sauce?

In both papers - Perth Now and the West.

 

[Biggie]

Gutted for him.

 

[Seadog]

Poor bastard. He was really looking forward to this year as well, he gained a bit of confidence at the back end of last year. Looks like he will never get a clear run at it.

 

[lmach]

A race for the ages

 

[2006_Eagles]

A race for the ages

Go Frenzal go

 

[SpaceClef]

A race for the ages

"He tried to make a bit of a fool of myself"

 

[kerr87]

A race for the ages

I hear the 100m sprint is still going

 

[nameless]

A race for the ages

If you watch it at 2x speed, it's a little more impressive...

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Go Frenzal go

Was the jockey still conscious?

 

[2006_Eagles]

Was the jockey still conscious?

The rider was conscious