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because I have a different opinion to you of his abilities perhaps?
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Don’t rate him or best 22?
When I say depth I mean he’s not in the best 22, but close..
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certainly thereabouts I'd agree......
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To say my heart glistened with joy today would be an understatement. A certain number 18 ran maybe a dozen 150s. Unless he has a set back I have no idea how he isn’t playing by round 4/5.
General observations first: they’re definitely managing workload on several players (as they should). MCG and Martin in particular (didn’t train). Pretty good list out there today. Weiters may have finished a bit early but was on the track chatting and seemed ok. Young didn’t show. As usual no cunners and as usual (for the 14th year in a row) Marchy was doing laps. Kennedy not out there. Honey and Philp also missing.
Skill level was good, albeit seemed a 3-4 pace session.
Some guys are just better than everyone else. They know it. We know it. The other guys know it. Charlie and Crippa are just too good. I don’t know how to explain this clearly but at this stage last year I was worried about Charlie and now I’m worried about afl defenders. He was easily the third best endurance runner there today. Just outstanding. And his kicking. My lord. He’s too good. It’s incrdible to think that 18 months ago the talk was Charlie would be on managed loads for life and never quite be the same. Crippa was in third gear and was still better than everyone else.
Lochie Obrien take a bow. If a player in the afl can beat him over 150-200 I’d love to see them. He’s stronger than I’ve seen him and his running is the best I’ve observed. He has said a big **** you to the world in the off season and he’s just primed. Good luck taking the wing spot off him. If he doesn’t get a game we are flying.
Speaking of flying. Zac Williams. He just gets the ball whenever he wants. Never fumbles. Another the game is just too easy for.
Not sure Harry could have taken it any easier for a guy who completed a 2.5 hour session.
Was terrific to see Saad completing multiple 50m sprints flat out today at the end of the session. He seemed to be carrying soemhting at the end of last year but no sign of that.
Midfield is clear to me- 4 man rotation of Cripps, Doc, Cerra and Hewett. Hewett looked terrific. Very agile (no sign of lingering back issues). He was (for him) explosive and looked great. May have shed a kg or 2.
Acres ran well (maybe 5/6 best) and showed he’s straight in and adds to us.
I wasn’t impressed with Carroll. His kicking is very meh and despite all the pictures of his biceps over summer he doesn’t look strong enough. Lingering question marks for me and can’t see his place unfortunately.
Motlop has definitely gotten fitter and Durdin looked very damaging in match sim.
They played 3 x 20 min quarters with umpires. Was obviously very friendly.
Don’t quite see a spot on the wing for hollands yet but he looks a nice type.
Binns was the second best runnner (behind lob) on the day and end to end gut runs. Not a good kick and not sure the body strength is there but will do well at vfl this year.
Kemp was there and invisible for some reason.
More later. Maybe.
General observations first: they’re definitely managing workload on several players (as they should). MCG and Martin in particular (didn’t train). Pretty good list out there today. Weiters may have finished a bit early but was on the track chatting and seemed ok. Young didn’t show. As usual no cunners and as usual (for the 14th year in a row) Marchy was doing laps. Kennedy not out there. Honey and Philp also missing.
Skill level was good, albeit seemed a 3-4 pace session.
Some guys are just better than everyone else. They know it. We know it. The other guys know it. Charlie and Crippa are just too good. I don’t know how to explain this clearly but at this stage last year I was worried about Charlie and now I’m worried about afl defenders. He was easily the third best endurance runner there today. Just outstanding. And his kicking. My lord. He’s too good. It’s incrdible to think that 18 months ago the talk was Charlie would be on managed loads for life and never quite be the same. Crippa was in third gear and was still better than everyone else.
Lochie Obrien take a bow. If a player in the afl can beat him over 150-200 I’d love to see them. He’s stronger than I’ve seen him and his running is the best I’ve observed. He has said a big **** you to the world in the off season and he’s just primed. Good luck taking the wing spot off him. If he doesn’t get a game we are flying.
Speaking of flying. Zac Williams. He just gets the ball whenever he wants. Never fumbles. Another the game is just too easy for.
Not sure Harry could have taken it any easier for a guy who completed a 2.5 hour session.
Was terrific to see Saad completing multiple 50m sprints flat out today at the end of the session. He seemed to be carrying soemhting at the end of last year but no sign of that.
Midfield is clear to me- 4 man rotation of Cripps, Doc, Cerra and Hewett. Hewett looked terrific. Very agile (no sign of lingering back issues). He was (for him) explosive and looked great. May have shed a kg or 2.
Acres ran well (maybe 5/6 best) and showed he’s straight in and adds to us.
I wasn’t impressed with Carroll. His kicking is very meh and despite all the pictures of his biceps over summer he doesn’t look strong enough. Lingering question marks for me and can’t see his place unfortunately.
Motlop has definitely gotten fitter and Durdin looked very damaging in match sim.
They played 3 x 20 min quarters with umpires. Was obviously very friendly.
Don’t quite see a spot on the wing for hollands yet but he looks a nice type.
Binns was the second best runnner (behind lob) on the day and end to end gut runs. Not a good kick and not sure the body strength is there but will do well at vfl this year.
Kemp was there and invisible for some reason.
More later. Maybe.
Just a little taste. Sure we can warm them up on the QLD camp. After a mild summer earlier, the last few days have been genuine baking Qld summer swelter. I don’t have aircon but ceiling fan and two others directly on me and still sweating today.
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Only problem is that he isn't a good kick
If Levi could improve his goal kicking then TDK hopefully can as well…
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I think TDK looks far more comfortable as a number 1 ruck, and getting stronger should be his main goal so he doesn't get manhandled by the big-bodied rucks. I'm yet to see anything from him to suggest that he is a forward. Yes he can take a grab but that doesn't make someone a forward. Liam Jones was the same but also wasn't good enough up forward.
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Can someone archive this please (paywall)
Its funny because kicking was one of his main strengths when drafted and looked great early but went off completely in the back half of last year. Maybe an example of a player forgetting to continue working on their strengths?
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Is he so bad?
All in his head. Yips. Kicking is fine, just has had some shockers in front of goal. Kicked some great instinctive goals over his journey in both grades.
Trying too hard most likely with too much time to think for set shots. Might have to adopt the “routine” of our other talls.
There is a key there somewhere which will improve with self belief.
There were a number of top ups from the magoo's taking part in the session. The bloke with #7 on his back was my man Heath Ramshaw - this kid can seriously play. The other top ups who really caught the eye were Cincotta and Parksy - who was pretty unlucky to get delisted imo.
Good session today though, much more intensity than last week. Just a few points off the top of the head:
- Doch with the mids as others have said, Kemp down back sometimes as the loose, Acres with the midfield crew - looks like he may get time at centre stoppages, but looked really good. He'll make an impact this year. Ed looks like an old warhorse out there.
- our draftees are still skinny kids learning the game. Binnsy works bloody hard, and Hollands showed glimpses of why we took him, but you would think they both need time to develop. Lem also put himself in good positions during match sim, but also needs time. Cowan the most advanced out of them - reckon we'll see him at some stage this year.
- LOB should have the other wing spot round 1 sewn up - looked really good today, and his running capacity is off the charts. Reckon he's put in a lot of hard work to get himself cherry ripe. Dow on the other hand pretty disappointing in the running drills - for a player who's fighting for his spot on a list, I thought he would also have done the hard yards to improve his running capacity as a mid.
- just to reiterate one of my earlier posts this week - Mots and Durds are going to be weapons for us over the next few years. Loved their work today as small forwards. Both are so dangerous, and are starting to work better as a duo, and at the feet of the talls.
- great to see Georgie back in full training - looked great!! Cunners still in the rehab group, but looks like their ramping his load up a little more. Plow, Kennedy, Philp not out there, but Young did some light work - great to see him out there. Martin also doing some light work. Walshy also did some strides over on the far side of the ground - and I'm pretty sure it was him watching the match sim from the sidelines looking like he was just itching to get out there.
There's probably more, but others have probably covered most of it.
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There's lots to get through so I'll try to keep it summarised 
3 hour session
Gov, Philp, Kennedy, Boyd and Cottrell I couldn't see. Plowman was there but didn't train. At least 8+ training on lighter duties - Young, Martin, Fog, Walsh, Marchy, Honey, Cunners, Akuei.
Forwards - Durdin and Motlop impressive, lock them in to kick 60 goals between them. JSOS looked really fit. Charlie is a beautiful kick and at times was pushing higher up the ground to set up transition. He is an absolute machine and a freak of nature.
Mids - Walsh running at 50-75%, will be surprised if he isn't playing by rd 2-3. Hewett is a bull - getting plenty of hard balls, standing through tackles and fending off opposition too. Looks like the back injury is well and truly behind him (literally and figuratively ). LOB had plenty of nice moments. Carroll was disappointing, has bulked up but really poor by foot.
Doc, Acres and Hollands all involved with centre stoppage craft work, definitely will be used for bursts in the middle.
Rucks - Mirkov ready to debut in 2023, was really impressed with him. Pitto completed most of the session with the main group + match sim. TDK will win MOTY some time soon.
Defenders - S. Durdin took some nice spoils and intercept marks, confident with him filling in for Weiters/Young if need be.
At least 5 or so VFL/train on players filling in (Cincotta the only one I could clearly identify) - they wore number 7, 9, 30, 31 (Luke Parks) and 49.
2 seperate running groups for 200m sprints, winners = SOS, Harry, Saad in first group / 3x LOB in second group (Charlie often 2nd)
Cowan, Hollands and Binns all impressive, Lemmey will take time.
Match sim - 18v18, 20min halves
Blue For - Harry, Charlie, Durds, Mots, JSOS
Blue Mid - Pitto, Binns, Hewett, Cripps, Cerra
Blue Def - Weiters, Doc, Williams, Newman
Orange For - Owies, Fog, at least 3 VFL players/other top ups
Orange Mid - TDK, LOB, Hollands, Ed, Fisher, Carroll, Dow
Orange Def - Kemp, S. Durdin, Saad, Parks (VFL top up)
^^ obviously a couple I missed and couldn't see
* At times Dow was defending C. Durdin and Carroll was on Motlop. Interesting...
Orange was winning 6-20 at HT, Blue won 50-38 at FT
Bit of running at the end...
400m with the blue team only, Binns lead by 10m, then Charlie by 30m well in front, followed by Acres, Doc and JSOS about 10m in front of the rest of the blues.
400m with 4 orange players, LOB (about 50m ahead) then Carroll/Fisher/Dow close together in that order.
Overall, very impressed. GO BLUES!
(bit off topic but after watching the last few open trainings I've made some changes to my best 22, Hollands --> LOB, Owies --> TDK)
3 hour session
Gov, Philp, Kennedy, Boyd and Cottrell I couldn't see. Plowman was there but didn't train. At least 8+ training on lighter duties - Young, Martin, Fog, Walsh, Marchy, Honey, Cunners, Akuei.
Forwards - Durdin and Motlop impressive, lock them in to kick 60 goals between them. JSOS looked really fit. Charlie is a beautiful kick and at times was pushing higher up the ground to set up transition. He is an absolute machine and a freak of nature.
Mids - Walsh running at 50-75%, will be surprised if he isn't playing by rd 2-3. Hewett is a bull - getting plenty of hard balls, standing through tackles and fending off opposition too. Looks like the back injury is well and truly behind him (literally and figuratively
). LOB had plenty of nice moments. Carroll was disappointing, has bulked up but really poor by foot.Doc, Acres and Hollands all involved with centre stoppage craft work, definitely will be used for bursts in the middle.
Rucks - Mirkov ready to debut in 2023, was really impressed with him. Pitto completed most of the session with the main group + match sim. TDK will win MOTY some time soon.
Defenders - S. Durdin took some nice spoils and intercept marks, confident with him filling in for Weiters/Young if need be.
At least 5 or so VFL/train on players filling in (Cincotta the only one I could clearly identify) - they wore number 7, 9, 30, 31 (Luke Parks) and 49.
2 seperate running groups for 200m sprints, winners = SOS, Harry, Saad in first group / 3x LOB in second group (Charlie often 2nd)
Cowan, Hollands and Binns all impressive, Lemmey will take time.
Match sim - 18v18, 20min halves
Blue For - Harry, Charlie, Durds, Mots, JSOS
Blue Mid - Pitto, Binns, Hewett, Cripps, Cerra
Blue Def - Weiters, Doc, Williams, Newman
Orange For - Owies, Fog, at least 3 VFL players/other top ups
Orange Mid - TDK, LOB, Hollands, Ed, Fisher, Carroll, Dow
Orange Def - Kemp, S. Durdin, Saad, Parks (VFL top up)
^^ obviously a couple I missed and couldn't see
* At times Dow was defending C. Durdin and Carroll was on Motlop. Interesting...
Orange was winning 6-20 at HT, Blue won 50-38 at FT
Bit of running at the end...
400m with the blue team only, Binns lead by 10m, then Charlie by 30m well in front, followed by Acres, Doc and JSOS about 10m in front of the rest of the blues.
400m with 4 orange players, LOB (about 50m ahead) then Carroll/Fisher/Dow close together in that order.
Overall, very impressed. GO BLUES!
(bit off topic but after watching the last few open trainings I've made some changes to my best 22, Hollands --> LOB, Owies --> TDK)
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I certainly recall him nailing some great goals.....
A bit hit and miss, he’s action and routine needs work, definitely room for improvement…
Apparently we'll be doing a scratchy against the Pies late Feb.
Yep, a little bewildering…
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