It was my day off today, I was at the gym when the guys came out to train, so went and watched as much as I could.
The most noticible absentee was David Hille - what that means is any ones guess. The rest of the squad besides the known injuries was there (Unless I of course I missed not notcicing someonne else missing - I wasnt exactly checking off a list or anything.)
Tried my hardest to figure out who Ant555 was - no one in the crowd had the ANT name on their back so figured he was absent as well....
OK I kept a close eye on Matthew Lloyd. He started off being tested by running, he ran a few 150metres at about 3/4 pace. He went back into the rooms, but must have passed as he came back out to join the rest of training.
While he trained, I felt he made sure he kept within himself. He did run at times, but he was never flat out sprinting. He looked ok running in that you could not tell that he was injured at all. At the end of the session he was having shots at goal from about 45 to 50 metres. He was kicking goals but he did not quite have the same penetration as he normaly has. I would say he was ensuring that he did not overextend himself.
Will he play on Friday? At the start of the session I was thinking NO. By the end I was starting to think that maybe he can. If he does play I would expect his opponent to run off him a lot...
To be honest, he could play as long as you expect that he will not sprint flat out. On that basis I would probably give him one more week to be on the safe side.
As for everyone else, there was no standouts (good or bad) or anything that I noticed that we did not already know about any of the players.
With McVeigh out I would say that JJ will take his place, JJ trained to his normal level.
One part of training that I liked was when we spent a couple of minutes practising standing on the mark. It was funny, Alwyn Davey was a player kicking the ball, but he had an imaginary ball in his empty hands...looked very funny!
PS It was also different not having Sheeds lurking around!
PSS I noticed that Andy the property guy (guy who picks up the footballs at training and at matches) actually took part in training, in that he played the full back role on other players in one drill....never seen him that active at training before.
Sorry the report is not in as much depth as Ant covers, was a case of I just happned to be around and took a quick look...
The most noticible absentee was David Hille - what that means is any ones guess. The rest of the squad besides the known injuries was there (Unless I of course I missed not notcicing someonne else missing - I wasnt exactly checking off a list or anything.)
Tried my hardest to figure out who Ant555 was - no one in the crowd had the ANT name on their back so figured he was absent as well....
OK I kept a close eye on Matthew Lloyd. He started off being tested by running, he ran a few 150metres at about 3/4 pace. He went back into the rooms, but must have passed as he came back out to join the rest of training.
While he trained, I felt he made sure he kept within himself. He did run at times, but he was never flat out sprinting. He looked ok running in that you could not tell that he was injured at all. At the end of the session he was having shots at goal from about 45 to 50 metres. He was kicking goals but he did not quite have the same penetration as he normaly has. I would say he was ensuring that he did not overextend himself.
Will he play on Friday? At the start of the session I was thinking NO. By the end I was starting to think that maybe he can. If he does play I would expect his opponent to run off him a lot...
To be honest, he could play as long as you expect that he will not sprint flat out. On that basis I would probably give him one more week to be on the safe side.
As for everyone else, there was no standouts (good or bad) or anything that I noticed that we did not already know about any of the players.
With McVeigh out I would say that JJ will take his place, JJ trained to his normal level.
One part of training that I liked was when we spent a couple of minutes practising standing on the mark.
It was funny, Alwyn Davey was a player kicking the ball, but he had an imaginary ball in his empty hands...looked very funny!PS It was also different not having Sheeds lurking around!
PSS I noticed that Andy the property guy (guy who picks up the footballs at training and at matches) actually took part in training, in that he played the full back role on other players in one drill....never seen him that active at training before.
Sorry the report is not in as much depth as Ant covers, was a case of I just happned to be around and took a quick look...
