- Apr 20, 2015
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Hey guys, so myself and Matt headed down to training today, was overall a nice day apart from standing right where about 50 flies were i reckon! got a bit warm but luckily i brought sunscreen because i burn easy!
Anyway to the point!
Players in Attendance: (order of arrival) Howe, Blair, Ramsay, Fasolo, Mackie, Sidebottom, Maynard, Crocker, Lynch, Daicos, Smith, Pendlebury, Thomas, Broomhead, Adams, Keeffe, Crisp, Oxley, White, McLarty, Wills, Dunn, Mayne, Elliot, Aish, Treloar, Brown, Cox, Goldsack, Sinclair, WHE, Scharenberg, Schade, Varcoe, Greenwood, De Goey, Phillips, Kirby, Grundy, McCarthy, Moore, Sier, Wells.
Absent:Reid, Langdon
Limited Participation: Wells, Sier, McCarthy, Treloar, Elliot, Pendles, Goldsack, Oxley, Aish
As McLarty arrived he came over and had a chat, one of the nicest blokes in footy i have met, seriously an absolute gentleman, introduced himself to us. I did have to repeat a few things to him so the hearing is definitely effected but a top bloke.
They started by coming out and just doing short kick to kicks with each other just to free the legs up.
They then all got called in and then proceeded to do the warm up. This consisted of different stretches and different run throughs. At this stage Wells, Sier, McCarthy were the only ones doing walk/jog laps. Treloar joined them after the warm up was complete.
The rest of the group all spread throughout the whole oval and just did a lot of random running and kicking with a few applying pressure, i still think this was part of the warm up.
They then went to a drill where the focus was to hit the leading player leading inside 50 which i was happy to see because if i recall correctly our inside 50 entry % was quite poor this year. Skills were pretty decent apart from a couple stuff ups.
The next drill was called 'outnumber to trans'. This is where Pendles, Greenwood, Oxley, Elliot and Goldsack came off and started doing laps. A drill where they were divided in half and it was basically like a game to be honest, with the focus on getting numbers to the contest and spreading well. There was no goal kicking in this drill though. Sinclair appeared to hurt his hand and came over to get it looked at, I later found out by asking him that Adams stepped on his forearm/Wrist area and it hit a nerve and his arm went numb for a bit, it must of come good though because he was ok for the rest of the session.
Next was 'Core development 1'. This drill there was 4 sepeart groups.
- rucks and some mids were in one working on the centre bounces and clearances, blair and adams were the 2 main mids for most of the time doing it with Grundy, Cox, White, Lynch and Moore each taking turns in the ruck.
- Another was a goal kicking group with the forwards which is self explanatory.
- 1v1 core work, some of the exercises included having 1 on 1 marking contests, 1 on 1 ground ball contests and also an exercise where 2 players were lying on their stomachs looking at each other with ball in the middle with both players hands on the ball and they had to see who would win the ball.
- last group looked like a defensive structure drill where they had to work the ball through and out of defence.
At this stage Tom Langdon did make an appearance but he was in fully casual clothes which tells me he is still a fair while away. I overhead someone ask him how he is feeling and he said not great and pointed and said got some back issues now. So thats frustrating!
Next was 'core development 2'. Wells left the field here, asked how his injury was coming along and he said its coming along good. Pendles, Treloar, Greenwood and Aish were over the far side doing a bit of sprint work. This exercise had 3 groups:
- Bucks kicking to leading forwards (he has still got amazing skills) they would come out and take the mark then swing back around and bucks would do a high kick onto the speccie bag and they would take a speccie. Hoskin-Elliot the stand out, he can get up!
- Another group was all about clearing the ball out of conjestion and getting it into space.
- The last group was 1 on 1 def v fwd and a player was standing outside the 50 and delivering it to the fwd with the defender obviously trying to stop it.
They then had a drink break and went into some Goal Kicking. Again self explanatory!
A lot of players then left and the ones that stayed were: Ramsay, Sidebottom, Howe, Kirby, Fasolo, Thomas, Keeffe, WHE, Sinclair, Blair, Phillips, Dunn, White, Varcoe, Smith, Crisp.
They all were stuck doing running now. A lot of run throughs which consisted of a mixture of sprinting, striding and jogging.
After this was done Keeffe and Thomas both left and then the rest were stuck with doing pure sprints, Sinclair was leading the way with the sprints with Ramsay just behind him, Kirby is also quite quick!
After that it was the end of training, players came and signed autographs, took photos and went down into the rooms.
Stand outs from what i noticed (keep in mind it is hard to watch them all!)
Adams: looks really solid and really fit, won a lot of the ball in those drills where they were split up. Was using the ball a lot better than what i have seen in the past as well.
Ramsay:Its just good to see Ramma out there again, and he completed full training as well! Looking fit and uses the ball well, i wasnt aware he was as quick as what i saw! Was only just losing to Sinclair in the sprints and i mean just. If he has an uninterrupted pre season i reckon he will be in round 1.
Mayne:This is from what i saw in the goal kicking drills, he is a dead eye, very nice technique and was splitting the middle with most of his kicks, i am very bullish that under a less defensive focused game plan like we all know Ross Lyon is about Mayne can kick 30-40 goals! He also lead well in the drills and is pretty quick off the mark.
Thanks for reading guys, as i said its hard at times to look at everything, there is a lot going on but here is what i got. Will definitely be back for another session in the new year as i want to get the new jumpers they have in the store! They look great! Cheers guys
Anyway to the point!
Players in Attendance: (order of arrival) Howe, Blair, Ramsay, Fasolo, Mackie, Sidebottom, Maynard, Crocker, Lynch, Daicos, Smith, Pendlebury, Thomas, Broomhead, Adams, Keeffe, Crisp, Oxley, White, McLarty, Wills, Dunn, Mayne, Elliot, Aish, Treloar, Brown, Cox, Goldsack, Sinclair, WHE, Scharenberg, Schade, Varcoe, Greenwood, De Goey, Phillips, Kirby, Grundy, McCarthy, Moore, Sier, Wells.
Absent:Reid, Langdon
Limited Participation: Wells, Sier, McCarthy, Treloar, Elliot, Pendles, Goldsack, Oxley, Aish
As McLarty arrived he came over and had a chat, one of the nicest blokes in footy i have met, seriously an absolute gentleman, introduced himself to us. I did have to repeat a few things to him so the hearing is definitely effected but a top bloke.
They started by coming out and just doing short kick to kicks with each other just to free the legs up.
They then all got called in and then proceeded to do the warm up. This consisted of different stretches and different run throughs. At this stage Wells, Sier, McCarthy were the only ones doing walk/jog laps. Treloar joined them after the warm up was complete.
The rest of the group all spread throughout the whole oval and just did a lot of random running and kicking with a few applying pressure, i still think this was part of the warm up.
They then went to a drill where the focus was to hit the leading player leading inside 50 which i was happy to see because if i recall correctly our inside 50 entry % was quite poor this year. Skills were pretty decent apart from a couple stuff ups.
The next drill was called 'outnumber to trans'. This is where Pendles, Greenwood, Oxley, Elliot and Goldsack came off and started doing laps. A drill where they were divided in half and it was basically like a game to be honest, with the focus on getting numbers to the contest and spreading well. There was no goal kicking in this drill though. Sinclair appeared to hurt his hand and came over to get it looked at, I later found out by asking him that Adams stepped on his forearm/Wrist area and it hit a nerve and his arm went numb for a bit, it must of come good though because he was ok for the rest of the session.
Next was 'Core development 1'. This drill there was 4 sepeart groups.
- rucks and some mids were in one working on the centre bounces and clearances, blair and adams were the 2 main mids for most of the time doing it with Grundy, Cox, White, Lynch and Moore each taking turns in the ruck.
- Another was a goal kicking group with the forwards which is self explanatory.
- 1v1 core work, some of the exercises included having 1 on 1 marking contests, 1 on 1 ground ball contests and also an exercise where 2 players were lying on their stomachs looking at each other with ball in the middle with both players hands on the ball and they had to see who would win the ball.
- last group looked like a defensive structure drill where they had to work the ball through and out of defence.
At this stage Tom Langdon did make an appearance but he was in fully casual clothes which tells me he is still a fair while away. I overhead someone ask him how he is feeling and he said not great and pointed and said got some back issues now. So thats frustrating!
Next was 'core development 2'. Wells left the field here, asked how his injury was coming along and he said its coming along good. Pendles, Treloar, Greenwood and Aish were over the far side doing a bit of sprint work. This exercise had 3 groups:
- Bucks kicking to leading forwards (he has still got amazing skills) they would come out and take the mark then swing back around and bucks would do a high kick onto the speccie bag and they would take a speccie. Hoskin-Elliot the stand out, he can get up!
- Another group was all about clearing the ball out of conjestion and getting it into space.
- The last group was 1 on 1 def v fwd and a player was standing outside the 50 and delivering it to the fwd with the defender obviously trying to stop it.
They then had a drink break and went into some Goal Kicking. Again self explanatory!
A lot of players then left and the ones that stayed were: Ramsay, Sidebottom, Howe, Kirby, Fasolo, Thomas, Keeffe, WHE, Sinclair, Blair, Phillips, Dunn, White, Varcoe, Smith, Crisp.
They all were stuck doing running now. A lot of run throughs which consisted of a mixture of sprinting, striding and jogging.
After this was done Keeffe and Thomas both left and then the rest were stuck with doing pure sprints, Sinclair was leading the way with the sprints with Ramsay just behind him, Kirby is also quite quick!
After that it was the end of training, players came and signed autographs, took photos and went down into the rooms.
Stand outs from what i noticed (keep in mind it is hard to watch them all!)
Adams: looks really solid and really fit, won a lot of the ball in those drills where they were split up. Was using the ball a lot better than what i have seen in the past as well.
Ramsay:Its just good to see Ramma out there again, and he completed full training as well! Looking fit and uses the ball well, i wasnt aware he was as quick as what i saw! Was only just losing to Sinclair in the sprints and i mean just. If he has an uninterrupted pre season i reckon he will be in round 1.
Mayne:This is from what i saw in the goal kicking drills, he is a dead eye, very nice technique and was splitting the middle with most of his kicks, i am very bullish that under a less defensive focused game plan like we all know Ross Lyon is about Mayne can kick 30-40 goals! He also lead well in the drills and is pretty quick off the mark.
Thanks for reading guys, as i said its hard at times to look at everything, there is a lot going on but here is what i got. Will definitely be back for another session in the new year as i want to get the new jumpers they have in the store! They look great! Cheers guys
