Training 2023 Pre Season

[Remboy]

Do you think Ross knows that Big footy exists? I'd love to see a journo ask Ross for his views on something that was raised here. Would be good for a laugh.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Do you think Ross knows that Big footy exists? I'd love to see a journo ask Ross for his views on something that was raised here. Would be good for a laugh.

If i was Ross , i'd read big footy.
I'd go to training and do some really oddball stuff, then come on here and see all the weird stuff you lot conclude about it.

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

If i was Ross , i'd read big footy.
I'd go to training and do some really oddball stuff, then come on here and see all the weird stuff you lot conclude about it.

This site would be like

 

[SaintsSeptember]

"OK guys, today i want everyone named Jack to wear a moonboot. "

"OK boss, but why, our feet and legs are fine"

"Don't you worry about that".

 

[Joffaboy]

"OK guys, today i want everyone named Jack to wear a moonboot. "

"OK boss, but why, our feet and legs are fine"

"Don't you worry about that".

RTB: Skipper, come here.
Steele: Yeah what boss
RTB: I want you to walk around looking serly, muttering to yourself and getting angry, especially near to where those nuffies are standing watching training. Surely one will report to BigFooty you aren't up to it.
Steele: OK Ross, the sad arses on that forum will fight about it for ages.
RTB: I'll put the best posts up on the projector next team meeting for a laugh and bonding session.

 

[SteeleSaints]

Getting back to footy - did anyone attend training this morning?

 

[ESDR]

Will there be main training this Friday?

 

[MOLTEN GANGLANDS]

hahaha man this place is a cancer, a discussion emerges around the leadership of our captain and now we're all "fighting about it", bunch of drama queens

 

[Hubnester]

Does anyone know when we have to make a call on Eyre and Stocker? Is it assumed we're going to sign on both?

hahaha man this place is a cancer, a discussion emerges around the leadership of our captain and now we're all "fighting about it", bunch of drama queens

 

[Parkysp]

Infact, it will be the shorter sharper handballs that will be noticeable immediately

Well that's a lot of my angst at games that would be gone.

I was at a game in the past couple of years and described our handballing to my wife who is still learning the game...

"We don't know when to handball it, we don't who to handball it to, we don't know the space to handball it into for the advantage of the receiving player and we don't know the strength to put on it but it's always too little or too much. What they do seem to think is that just getting rid of it ends their responsibility"

It was so frustrating to watch.

If that is being addressed by the new coaching staff then that fills me with some hope that we can improve in a number of areas.

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

RTB: Skipper, come here.
Steele: Yeah what boss
RTB: I want you to walk around looking serly, muttering to yourself and getting angry, especially near to where those nuffies are standing watching training. Surely one will report to BigFooty you aren't up to it.
Steele: OK Ross, the sad arses on that forum will fight about it for ages.
RTB: I'll put the best posts up on the projector next team meeting for a laugh and bonding session.

Josh Battle I’m gonna get you to go to a new position this week: The Wing! And on the opposite wing we’re putting cooper Sharman

 

[Hubnester]

Well that's a lot of my angst at games that would be gone.

I was at a game in the past couple of years and described our handballing to my wife who is still learning the game...

"We don't know when to handball it, we don't who to handball it to, we don't know the space to handball it into for the advantage of the receiving player and we don't know the strength to put on it but it's always too little or too much. What they do seem to think is that just getting rid of it ends their responsibility"

It was so frustrating to watch.

If that is being addressed by the new coaching staff then that fills me with some hope that we can improve in a number of areas.

The sloppy handballs that go 1 metre behind the free player streaming past used to kill me.
Constantly destroyed our momentum and it felt like it was happening every week. Tidy that up and we're probably instantly a goal better per game.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

The sloppy handballs that go 1 metre behind the free player streaming past used to kill me.
Constantly destroyed our momentum and it felt like it was happening every week. Tidy that up and we're probably instantly a goal better per game.

My pet peeve is when a ball is coming in, the player could clearly run a bit faster and mark it, but instead he chooses to let it bounce on the ground first.

If something goes wrong, you don't have the mark , so you can't go back and take it.
It actually takes a long time for a ball to bounce then take possession. So a player who was previously in space is now in heavy traffic.

 

[Mighty_sainter]

The sloppy handballs that go 1 metre behind the free player streaming past used to kill me.
Constantly destroyed our momentum and it felt like it was happening every week. Tidy that up and we're probably instantly a goal better per game.

Dunstan was one of the main culprits. I remember a game against the doggies maybe 2 years ago when we got thrashed and every single one of our handballs were at feet or worse the ground which would cause a turnover where as the dogs were so quick and precise with every handball which made there ball movement look so good.

 

[sammm]

The sloppy handballs that go 1 metre behind the free player streaming past used to kill me.
Constantly destroyed our momentum and it felt like it was happening every week. Tidy that up and we're probably instantly a goal better per game.

not sure how skillful we will be, when for many years it hasn't improved much.

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

Well that's a lot of my angst at games that would be gone.

I was at a game in the past couple of years and described our handballing to my wife who is still learning the game...

"We don't know when to handball it, we don't who to handball it to, we don't know the space to handball it into for the advantage of the receiving player and we don't know the strength to put on it but it's always too little or too much. What they do seem to think is that just getting rid of it ends their responsibility"

It was so frustrating to watch.

If that is being addressed by the new coaching staff then that fills me with some hope that we can improve in a number of areas.

 

[Hubnester]

not sure how skillful we will be, when for many years it hasn't improved much.

We can only hope it's something the current coaches have identified and are putting time into. Clearly wasn't a priority in the past.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Dunstan was one of the main culprits.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Does anyone know when we have to make a call on Eyre and Stocker? Is it assumed we're going to sign on both?

Yes I’ve assumed we are.
But I should know.

 

[austinnn]

Well that's a lot of my angst at games that would be gone.

I was at a game in the past couple of years and described our handballing to my wife who is still learning the game...

"We don't know when to handball it, we don't who to handball it to, we don't know the space to handball it into for the advantage of the receiving player and we don't know the strength to put on it but it's always too little or too much. What they do seem to think is that just getting rid of it ends their responsibility"

It was so frustrating to watch.

If that is being addressed by the new coaching staff then that fills me with some hope that we can improve in a number of areas.

That handball comment was so true. I was staggered that professional footballers could be so inept at a fundamental skill.

When it's one or two players, that's poor recruiting, but when it's across the board like it seemed to be at our club, it's got to be the coaching.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

not sure how skillful we will be, when for many years it hasn't improved much.

The skill of selection should sort that out.

 

[saintmike65]

Will there be main training this Friday?

Yep…get there around 9.30!

 

[MOLTEN GANGLANDS]

Does anyone know when we have to make a call on Eyre and Stocker? Is it assumed we're going to sign on both?

hahaha ok, Im just going off the meta posts about "someone saw steel muttering to himself and now all the nuffies are questioning his leadership" kinda crap. The reality is, steele is a bloody good player and leader, but he isn't the vocal type of leader that a reiwoldt or voss or buckley were, more in the harvey mould. I have no real understanding of what is best, only a gut feel, and my gut feel has always been that wilkie would be a better captain, a more vocal and demanding leader. That doesn't mean I think steele sucks or he's not doing a good job even, just an opinion. But if RTB thinks steele's the man then I'm down with it. I'd be very surprised if he lost the captaincy

 

[Dr Spaceman]

hahaha ok, Im just going off the meta posts about "someone saw steel muttering to himself and now all the nuffies are questioning his leadership" kinda crap. The reality is, steele is a bloody good player and leader, but he isn't the vocal type of leader that a reiwoldt or voss or buckley were, more in the harvey mould. I have no real understanding of what is best, only a gut feel, and my gut feel has always been that wilkie would be a better captain, a more vocal and demanding leader. That doesn't mean I think steele sucks or he's not doing a good job even, just an opinion. But if RTB thinks steele's the man then I'm down with it. I'd be very surprised if he lost the captaincy

He's looking very stressed in the face of wall to wall Big Footy speculation

 

[MOLTEN GANGLANDS]

He's looking very stressed in the face of wall to wall Big Footy speculation

yeah he's lost a ton of weight. That's what extreme anxiety will do to you (((