Play Nice 2020 Pre-Season Training

[estibador]

No evidence that those helmets help prevent concussions anyway. They don't stop the brain crashing into the skull.

 

[G Mus]

No evidence that those helmets help prevent concussions anyway. They don't stop the brain crashing into the skull.

In fact they increase the risk taking behaviour of the helmet wearer

 

[mightymouse75]

I love how people use the word woke these days. Such dardy things.

 

[Superkoops]

Jeez ease up on Dardy. He is entitled to take his break. Players have been coming back in drips and drabs the last week. I’m sure if his skin folds and fitness aren’t up to scratch he will quickly be given a reality check.

At the end of the day none of us know what his rig was like before he went shirtless and played some ball. I remember seeing some pictures mid season last year and the year before thinking he wouldn’t be at the top of the skin fold ladder.

Let’s just leave the criticism. I don’t mind people saying they aren’t impressed with his physical fitness/physique but leave it at that.

Training watchers can get an idea of how he tracks at training in terms of covering the ground and him blowing etc.

 

[Superkoops]

I love how people use the word woke these days. Such dardy things.

What does it even mean. I’ve not heard my teenage daughter use this word. I woke up yesterday and had breakfast.

 

[Clems Knee]

What does it even mean. I’ve not heard my teenage daughter use this word. I woke up yesterday and had breakfast.

I think it means awake.

 

[Taylor]

Generally speaking if you want to build a political movement without people putting too much thought into it before it gains momentum you motivate the young people to start spreading it, empowering them with new terms and means their parents don't understand.

I loved seeing Justin effort/pace setting with Brennan Cox.

 

[wayToGo_]

woke precedes wake

eg. "I was woke to the imminent death of this thread after someone used the term woke."

 

[Taylor]

Brandon Matera is doing a good job of putting his off season training on his social media.

 

[dropbear101]

Generally speaking if you want to build a political movement without people putting too much thought into it before it gains momentum you motivate the young people to start spreading it, empowering them with new terms and means their parents don't understand.

I loved seeing Justin effort/pace setting with Brennan Cox.

Nah you make people angry/unhappy about something.

 

[malpaso]

McCarthy doesn't have to even be at training and you guys are already giving him shit. I'd take him in the team over Cox (different players I know) or Sturt as of right now. It'll be funny seeing you lot change your opinion of him when he boots 30+ goals this year.

He is THE best set shot kick in our team and it isn't even close.

I'll take Walters every day of the week.

 

[malpaso]

What does it even mean. I’ve not heard my teenage daughter use this word. I woke up yesterday and had breakfast.

Some kind of enlightenment however it's generally used to reference leftist, PC activists that sit on social media and call out everything that annoys them.

 

[mightymouse75]

etc



What's woke?
If you're not woke you're asleep?
Are you a pollie?

If you are not woke you are a boomer

 

[beelzebob]

Dardy going to show you fools who is boss this year

 

[MadMundy]

If you are not woke you are a boomer

ok boomer

 

[Taylor]

Yet, millennial girls on the weekend..

 

[fnerd]

An interesting comment from Sturt when someone asked if he was going to wear a helmet. He said that after a year between concussions, the brain resets itself. So if he gets another concussion, It would be like his first one again and his previous problem with them shouldn't have an effect.

Tell that to paddy McCartin

 

[Steinfreo]

What does it even mean. I’ve not heard my teenage daughter use this word. I woke up yesterday and had breakfast.

It's a right wing buzz word boomers use to feel relevant, dont worry about it.

 

[Paracleet]

It's a right wing buzz word boomers use to feel relevant, dont worry about it.

It's passed through a convoluted evolution pretty rapidly. But yes mostly now I see it being used as a pejorative term by conservatives against people with even the most banal and mild of left wing positions.
It's also very much American and shows that modern political advisors spend too much time on twitter consuming US politics. Then they write a speech sticking the word in the prime ministers mouth and act surprised when no-one knows that the #$%^ he is talking about.

 

[Righteo]

Can we not do this? This board is filled with enough ill-informed tribalism as it is.

 

[Taylor]

Lets keep this to football.

 

[Nothing]

Lets keep this to football.

This thread is not the place for that sort of talk.

 

[Taylor]

We have a new coach, a new plan (Maybe, kinda think if we play the same but keep our team fit that we play finals anyway). McCarthy could be anything.

 

[gaskin]

I don't know how many of you slagging Cam off actually go to the games, but he makes lead after lead and gets ignored quite a bit in favour of going long to Hogan, Tabs, or Lobb in a 2-3 on 1. I don't know what he is expected to do if the ball is not going to him. How about we wait and see how Cam looks with midfielders who can actually hit up a leading forward with some semblance of a forward structure. That is assuming all the skill work pays off.

How many of you have actually seen him train? I'm guessing none. He works damn hard on the track and by no means has a poor work ethic or lack of drive to succeed. If he was lazy or didn't work hard, he wouldn't still be on the list. How about you realise that if the coaches had a problem with any of this, they would have tried to remedy it years ago. How do you know he hasn't been working hard in the off-season getting himself ready? You don't. How do you know he hasn't been in at the club working in the gym? You don't. Does it not occur to you that the players are given a strict workout regime they have to stick to during the break so they don't lose much fitness and come back overweight? This overreaction, because he has decided to take the leave entitled to him and enjoy himself before getting back into one of the most grueling work environments in the country for the next 10 months, is nothing short of idiocy and people looking to have a whinge for the sake of having a whinge. How about you give it a ****ing rest or take it to the whipping boy thread.

 

[MadMundy]

I don't know how many of you slagging Cam off actually go to the games, but he makes lead after lead and gets ignored quite a bit in favour of going long to Hogan, Tabs, or Lobb in a 2-3 on 1. I don't know what he is expected to do if the ball is not going to him. How about we wait and see how Cam looks with midfielders who can actually hit up a leading forward with some semblance of a forward structure. That is assuming all the skill work pays off.

How many of you have actually seen him train? I'm guessing none. He works damn hard on the track and by no means has a poor work ethic or lack of drive to succeed. If he was lazy or didn't work hard, he wouldn't still be on the list. How about you realise that if the coaches had a problem with any of this, they would have tried to remedy it years ago. How do you know he hasn't been working hard in the off-season getting himself ready? You don't. How do you know he hasn't been in at the club working in the gym? You don't. Does it not occur to you that the players are given a strict workout regime they have to stick to during the break so they don't lose much fitness and come back overweight? This overreaction, because he has decided to take the leave entitled to him and enjoy himself before getting back into one of the most grueling work environments in the country for the next 10 months, is nothing short of idiocy and people looking to have a whinge for the sake of having a whinge. How about you give it a ******* rest or take it to the whipping boy thread.

This, 100% this. The guy puts in more effort than a lot of them, he's a bloody hard worker. But of course that doesn't fit into the circle jerk narrative this board has on McCarthy, and that's literally all it is, a circle jerk of hating him because it's the "cool" thing to do.