Training report

[rosejam]

seeing as you guys appreciated my last report

I just did another training report for my blog

basic highlights were

Notable absentees
Brendon Goddard
Raphael Clarke
Jason Gram

Highlights
Koschitzke and King looked to be carrying injuries of some description
Ball and Armitage looked very fit
Riewoldt seemed to ease into the session
Maguire is huge

Structure of training
Came out and did some light kick to kick
Did some jogging (one lap)
Stretches
Run through work
Stretching
Some light contested run through work with forwards leading on the end

more here:ContestedFooty

 

[wiesel_99]

seems like a light training session, is this typical after the weekend?

 

[John Bonney]

seeing as you guys appreciated my last report

I just did another training report for my blog

basic highlights were

Notable absentees
Brendon Goddard
Raphael Clarke
Jason Gram

Highlights
Koschitzke and King looked to be carrying injuries of some description
Ball and Armitage looked very fit
Riewoldt seemed to ease into the session
Maguire is huge

Structure of training
Came out and did some light kick to kick
Did some jogging (one lap)
Stretches
Run through work
Stretching
Some light contested run through work with forwards leading on the end

more here:ContestedFooty

Thanks James ,read your blog terrific analysis,keep the reports coming.
Much appreciated.

 

[rosejam]

seems like a light training session, is this typical after the weekend?

i'd imagine it was because they played friday... and it was an open session.

 

[StFly]

nice report, not much of the younger brigade there like choo choo, Zac, Khan and the like or just didn't pick them out and focused on certainties instead?

 

[rosejam]

nice report, not much of the younger brigade there like choo choo, Zac, Khan and the like or just didn't pick them out and focused on certainties instead?

choo choo was good has some silk about him.
dawson was there...
couldn't pick khan.

and yeah focused more on what I could.

 

[bubblegoose]

Thanks for the individual player breakdown rosejam, appreciate the effort. Cheers

 

[dan0z]

good work mate

 

[wiesel_99]

Zac Dawson. Remember anything?

 

[rosejam]

Zac Dawson. Remember anything?

Looked okay. Don't think he'll play unless someone in the backline goes down with an injury though. Bit of a project player I think, although reports were he has done much better the last two games.

 

[wiesel_99]

Saintsational has a thread on the same thing with some photos and another match report. http://www.saintsational.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50320

I managed to make it down to my first session in a couple of years and here's a few observations...

I mostly noticed the younger blokes...

Steven looked pretty good if somewhat lazy, he seems to be included in the senior group rather than the youngsters, good sign for him IMO...

Heyne can do some very nice things but can make some very simple things look hard also, I pray he turns out to be a Steve Johnson rather than a Charlie Gardiner.

Choo Choo (Rocky, Rocko)has a heap of potential, I would say he had a kicking efficiency of around 80%, when he would weigh up a kick the player he would be kicking to rarely had to move, he is also a pretty consistent set shot. However he doesn't seem to get a lot of distance in his kicks, he seemed to struggle to get past 40m, sometimes he would try and boot the hell out of it and it would just come off the side of the boot, chances are other people will have noticed him shank a few and I believe this is why. One positive is that he is quite hard on himself and seems to want to get the best out of himself.

I hope McEvoy makes it because if he does he is leadership group material, he really took charge a few times today, he even helped out Rhys Stanley a little bit.

Luke Miles has some great pace, but he seems to have some confidence issues, he doesn't look like he is willing to break a pack and demand the ball.

Eljay Connors looked alright to me today, I saw him drop a couple of marks but his skills were ok from what I saw.

I had a few words with BJ after the session, he just had a corkie apparently, who knows what that means

Somebody was going crazy on a bike upstairs and looked EXTERMELY fit, I believe it was Baker.

Milne was Milne.

Sam Fisher took it pretty easy from what i saw, he didn't seem to have any sense of urgency, he was probably instructed to take it easy this session.

Kosi was doing a lot of running and looked like he does normally, I've always thought he runs weird.

Xavier was looking very good, he looked fit, energetic and upbeat, judging by that effort he is just about 100%

I would like to finish up with a bit of a rap for Alistair Smith, he probably impressed me most this afternoon. I believed that he was an athlete first and a footballer second, but after today I believe he is a competitor first and everything else next. He DEMANDED the ball, he was on of it no the most vocal player out there and he really surprised me. In one of the little training exercises they were practicing how to kick it to a contest in a zone, there were 3 attacking players and 2 players playing a zone defence, the point of the exercise was to hit your man in the zone but he would actually wait for players to make their leads or go out wide because he NEEDED to hit his target, everytime he was an attacker he'd give a loud clap when one of his team mate won the ball. He eventually got a speaking to from who I assume was Leigh Tudor about the point of the exercising being to try and kick it in the hole in the zone. But it was just so great to see a guy that really loves to compete and win. His skills were good enough and we all know he has the fitness and speed to play AFL, I now know he's got the attitude, I really hope he can develop into a good young player, I believe he may just need to put a bit of development into his decision making and ability to read the game but IMO he could very well have a future.

 

[roosaints]

What's the go with Rafa? He hasn't played the last couple games and now missing training?

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Always said that Smith looked like a footballer.

Good to hear he's doing well at training.

 

[contestedfootball]

What's the go with Rafa? He hasn't played the last couple games and now missing training?

Slight hamstring is the word.