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Play Nice 2020 Pre-Season Training
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It really is sad that we have to make explicit changes to pre-season training to actually develop our skills. It's a long time coming. I'm very excited to get down and watch them train.
It's a bit hard to determine the overall focus and plan from a two-hour introductory session.
What's positive though - is the acknowledgement that we must improve our skills. Ross was more concerned with effort over skill, and as Sweetback highlights, If there's a mental shift towards skills, players will know they can only be in the team if they're skilled. A belief of being skilled (hopefully will come in time) could also be a psychological edge.
Will be interesting to hear how the session goes on Wednesday. Thanks for all the reports! All information (even what appears as trivial) is greatly greatly appreciated!
What's positive though - is the acknowledgement that we must improve our skills. Ross was more concerned with effort over skill, and as Sweetback highlights, If there's a mental shift towards skills, players will know they can only be in the team if they're skilled. A belief of being skilled (hopefully will come in time) could also be a psychological edge.
Will be interesting to hear how the session goes on Wednesday. Thanks for all the reports! All information (even what appears as trivial) is greatly greatly appreciated!
It’s not like effort and skill need to be mutually exclusive. Why would you not try to benefit from finding some balance of the two? It was a weird blind spot of Ross’s.
‘The dynamic of training has shifted’
Andrew Brayshaw has welcomed a new focus on skills at Fremantlewww.fremantlefc.com.au
Andrew Brayshaw has welcomed a new focus on skills at Fremantle the club’s first to fourth year players commenced pre-season training on Monday.
The talented young midfielder feels his biggest upside in 2020 could come from improving his ball use and said it was also the case for most of his teammates.
“I think for myself and as well as the group, it’s that skills piece,” Brayshaw said.
“I think I can win the ball pretty well, if I can improve how I use that. That will really make a big difference so that would be my focus this year.”
Fremantle have revamped their pre-season training schedule under new senior coach Justin Longmuir, with one day a week set aside for players to focus on their individual traits.
“We’re all really excited. It seems that the dynamic of training has shifted a bit,” Brayshaw said.
“There’s a lot more focus on skills and one of our sessions (each week) is purely going to be on personal skills and craft, so I’m really looking forward to that on Wednesday.
“For us to execute our game plan, we need to be hitting our skills and with what Justin is bringing, I think we should be able to do that.”
Longmuir addressed the group for the first time in Fremantle’s lecture theatre before the group went out for their first pre-season session.
Brayshaw said Longmuir has already made a good impression.
“He’s a really friendly guy and I think he wants the best out of each and every player,” Brayshaw said.
“I’ve only briefly known him but I think he wants the best for Fremantle and he is driven to be the coach that takes us to our first premiership.
“There’s a new sense of confidence in the group and having a new face in is pretty good. I think the boys really enjoyed their training session today and they’re looking positively towards the year.
“With a fit and available list this year, I think anything is possible for us.”
Catch us if you can! Youth to make most of head start
Freo's first to fourth year players want to get as much of a head start as they can on their senior teammates
Fremantle’s first to fourth year players made their return for pre-season training on Monday with the aim to get as much of a head start as they can on their senior teammates, according to Andrew Brayshaw.
Ahead of the morning’s training session, new senior coach Justin Longmuir told the group they would not be waiting to get stuck into their preparations for 2020.
The five-plus year players are set to return in a fortnight on Monday 18 November.
“Justin touched on it in our group meeting this morning, we really don’t want to wait for the senior boys to get back to do much, we want them to be chasing us when they come,” Brayshaw said.
“We’re going to dig in for the next two weeks before they come and work really hard.
“There’s a lot of game plan we’ll be going over as well with the new coach and we want the senior boys to be chasing us.”
After nine wins for Fremantle in 2019, Brayshaw expects any improvement to come from Freo’s younger core.
“I think there’s 22 of us that are back at training already and that’s where the majority of growth is going to come from for our team to move forward,” Brayshaw said.
“We’ve got blokes like Fyfey (Nat Fyfe), Dave (David Mundy) and Sonny (Michael Walters) but it’s us young guys who have to step up and bring the team up as well.”
While Monday’s session was only officially for the first to fourth year players, a number of senior players took part in at least some of the session, including Rory Lobb, Joel Hamling, Michael Walters and Stephen Hill.
“It’s great, obviously they’re not required to be there but they come out and show their faces and it really helps the other boys,” Brayshaw said.
If he can get through a full pre-season, young midfielder Andrew Brayshaw is hopeful he can step into a full-time inside midfield role in 2020.Bigger Brayshaw to have ‘red hot crack’ at midfield role
Andrew Brayshaw is hopeful he can step into a full-time inside midfield role in 2020
Brayshaw, who turns 20 on Friday, feels he’s reaching the fitness and strength required to handle the rigours of the AFL contest.
There could be extra competition for spots in the middle alongside Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe, with Brayshaw also expecting fellow 2017 draftee Adam Cerra to make the step up.
“I think, touch wood no injuries, we get a strong pre-season into us and, hopefully, we can both be in there,” Brayshaw said.
“I’ve put on a bit of weight. That was probably the main thing when I first came to the club, I was hovering just over 80kg and I’m about 85kg now.
“I’ve put on a bit of size, most of that through my core and upper body.
“I think physically, I can try my hardest and work inside with the big boys. My fitness is pretty much been there since day one, so I’ve just been building on that and my speed as well.”
After being hampered a year prior due to his broken jaw, Brayshaw said it would be crucial to get through a full pre-season.
“Given what happened the year before, last year I came back not in the condition I wanted to be,” Brayshaw said.
“I was a little bit overweight and hadn’t been able to complete all of my program.
“About three weeks ago I was going for a run and felt really good and thought, ‘this year hopefully no injuries, I can give it a red hot crack’.
“It’s amazing how much difference not being injured can have on a player, so touch wood, this year nothing bad happens.”
Hey Van Dyke, I totally appreciate the post, but I think we should handle this differently this year.
When it comes to articles from crap pubs (i.e. the West) people should post the articles similar to what you did here. When it comes to the Freo website and other "friendly" posts people should post just the link, so people can click on it. We all know the industry is driven by clicks (as opposed to accuracy or fairness).
The more clicks the training reports and interviews get, the more they will do them. We need to feed the good beasts and starve the bad ones.
So, I say to all, post links to the articles we want to support and give them the clicks. fu** the rest.
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I get what youre saying, but he had surgery at the end of the season and then had to hang about for the Brownlow and Grand Final etc. He basically started his break at the same time as the Richmond players.
He deserves a rest after carrying 21 players for big chunks of last year.
I think it worked as a motivator. And I love the philosophy of players not relying on their skill and talent alone. It just got a little carried away. It was perceived that you would get a spot in the team if you were able to chase, tackle and stand in a zone.
Ross was an incredible motivator and leader. He was able to get people to work hard and follow. As you say though, in modern football you need the right balance between skill and effort.
Fyfe appears to be a Lyon disciple about 'hard work' so I hope he keeps instilling this across the team and the younger blokes, while we shift our focus to skills. I think the leadership from Mundy, Fyfe and Walters will be invaluable for the team over the next year or two.
The phrase that we were trying to improve our ball movement was thrown out last year. Saying we’re trying to improve our skills is nothing but saying to the fans and media what they want to hear really.
We’ll see by about 2/3 of the way through the year whether anything’s changed. Given the last few years and where we’ve been at the halfway point I’m not going to be too positive about us improving until we don’t fall away like a deck of cards after the bye.
We’ll see by about 2/3 of the way through the year whether anything’s changed. Given the last few years and where we’ve been at the halfway point I’m not going to be too positive about us improving until we don’t fall away like a deck of cards after the bye.
Yep great. Well done Sean.
Gee Sam Sturt looks like he's beefed up quite a bit. Last year I couldn't tell the difference between him & Duman size wise. Hopefully on his way to becoming Fyfe sized.
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Wondering more about Hamling. He is only in the 4th year at Freo but has been on an AFL for 8 years now. Similar for Lobb. But good on them.
But probably no reason not to show up at training unless you are overseas or catching up with friends and family. Players need to keep your fitness up anyway.
ah good reporting there!!!
thanks...all aboard the optimism train now for another exciting pre-season hahaha
I think I remember one year someone came back early who then had to go later for a wedding or something. A sort of training credit.
Club just responding to disgruntled feedback, it’s lip service to the fans - seems to have worked everyone is eating it up
Apparently Wednesdays are the personal skill sessions. If there is a real difference and not just a PR difference, it will be apparent then.
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Or, the new coach has come in, identified that the team can win the ball at stoppages, can get the ball inside 50, but can’t transition the ball well enough to get meaningful shots on goal & has made the call to improve skill execution.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
And we will get the first indications of a real change tomorrow. Or we will see that the difference isn’t really that great.
Well at least we are going to try, rather than just saying do work on your skills in your own time if you feel like it, but I'm not fussed if you look like little league as long as you try. What sort of BS is that?
I would have thought it was easier to work on your fitness by yourself and concentrate on skills with your teammates at training sessions. (ie I’m agreeing with you, I think).
But it’s all very well to say we are going to do something different. I’m looking forward to seeing clear differences in our programme. At the moment it’s just words.
At the moment it'd just early. We also need to take into account that many of the players are not naturally good kicks so the level of correct training or time to recruit good kicks may take a bit of time. I just hope to see a little bit of overall improvement that makes us look less amateurish. Considering where we have come from, especially last year, it shouldn't be too difficult. But not necessarily expecting miracle's,.
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Still rehabbing from the shoulder op I think. I recall Bell saying he will be back running soon but no contact training until after Christmas...
There’s also a limited number of times per week you can kick a footy as well as keep running volume up to a modern football standard, we don’t want 10 guys out with groin and hip issues e.g Essendon trying to teach Daniher to kick by volume
Not sure all the skills training will revolve around kicking. Being a one touch player, finding the best target by hand in congestion, choosing the best option etc etc. Some players are weaker in these aspects than others.
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