Training 2023 Preseason + training discussion

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To me he is a mature body because it takes a while for players to develop the tank to run out AFL games on the wing where almost all their running is positional and unrewarded. There's a reason that the time trials for the first to four year players are won by different guys to when the entire squad returns, usually. There are the occasional freaks.

Someone has to run the 15km a game between the arcs and a mark in space doesn't care too much about the size of the player - but they need their body to have seen enough summers to maintain it.

I think we can play Aish or another more creative and reliable under pressure player on the skinny side and O'Driscoll has the potential to be really something special, but we still need a player to fill the worst role in the side covering distance and I think that's Wagner.

I'd rather play our better players closer to the action, even if they have the physical ability to play on the far wing.

Sure, mature in that sense. But it is not just a running game. He will still need to be in contests on the ground and in the air. Attend stoppages. Help out in defence with intercepts/spoils. Can't just run around by himself all day at AFL level.
 
Sure, mature in that sense. But it is not just a running game. He will still need to be in contests on the ground and in the air. Attend stoppages. Help out in defence with intercepts/spoils. Can't just run around by himself all day at AFL level.

I agree, and almost all of those things you've mentioned require him to be able to run contest to contest and the better his ability to run the more valuable he will be - same with Blake Acres. No coincidence his best form came after the hardest preseason work.
 
Previous pre seasons I posted reports under an alias and sent them by correspondence to other posters.

This season I will be posting them through here as myself instead.

I appreciate the posters who posted them for me. My original bigfooty account I don't have anymore but my style will still be exactly the same and looking forward to putting them up very shortly.
 
Previous pre seasons I posted reports under an alias and sent them by correspondence to other posters.

This season I will be posting them through here as myself instead.

I appreciate the posters who posted them for me. My original bigfooty account I don't have anymore but my style will still be exactly the same and looking forward to putting them up very shortly.
JMT??
 
Previous pre seasons I posted reports under an alias and sent them by correspondence to other posters.

This season I will be posting them through here as myself instead.

I appreciate the posters who posted them for me. My original bigfooty account I don't have anymore but my style will still be exactly the same and looking forward to putting them up very shortly.
Good to hear.

I do like the way the mods have dealt with training reports. In the end they are an actual eyeball insight that many of us can't have enough of. Agree or disagree is irrelevant. They are opinions based on observation and have been the best part of this Board.

All welcome and all appreciated.
 

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Loving the new training shirts - black with Purple shoulders, Looking very sharp!

Is there any chance of a playing Jumper in the same style. Maybe Purple from the shoulders down to the bottom Chevron (still white) then the bottom half the Jumper in black or dark Charcoal.
 
Just because Wagner is a "mature body", doesn't mean he replaces Acres physically. Wagner is small (listed as 75kg which is in Colyer territory). Big guns don't matter, he will still get monstered by the big boys at AFL level and this was one of his problems when delisted twice before.

We already have Brayshaw and Serong as our two prime mids and they aren't big. I would have no problem with another short player if they have attributes like Bolton (extreme speed/leap/x-factor) or Neale (brick shithouse and elite ball winner). But Wagner is mostly an elite distance runner, and we would become a very short side between the arcs with our persistance in playing 4 x small forwards that work up the ground.

I would group Wagner/Henry/Colyer together as smallish wing options that should only play if there is a large injury toll. It doesn't matter if Wagner is a decent player in his own right, the team balance is more important. Geelong wouldn't select Parfitt in the best 22 once the finals started.

I think Wagner would be a better fit for our side down back, where our shortest player is 185cm and a small defender would work OK. He'd probably be just trailing Wilson on the depth chart.
As soon as I saw Colyer, you lost me. Absolutely not.
Think Fremantle will be exposed on the wings given the short depth. Geelong have tall yet pacey wings as well as exploiting the runners with Blicavs. Fremantle have none. Acres will be a bigger loss then Logue tbh.
Expecting too much from Wagner, Worner and Johnson.
 
Previous pre seasons I posted reports under an alias and sent them by correspondence to other posters.

This season I will be posting them through here as myself instead.

I appreciate the posters who posted them for me. My original bigfooty account I don't have anymore but my style will still be exactly the same and looking forward to putting them up very shortly.
well...................get a move on then!! :p:tearsofjoy:
 
Better kick than Langdon used to be at his time in Freo.

The Dees (read Mark Williams) taught Langdon how to kick.
If teaching Ed Langdon how to kick is a kicking efficiency for 2022 of 62.2% for his 23 games in 2022, sure. For a guy who kicks it 58 percent of the time, that means he turns it over almost half the time he does so. Mark Williams may be good coach, but he can't work miracles.

My Nanna still better I reckon.

 

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