Training 2024 Pre-Season

[Barrels]

The Custodian is a good cafe on south Road…nice coffee!

Tax Agent Espresso in Bentleigh does great coffee… not sure if it’s open though.

As an added bonus, you’ll never see George there… he’s never paid tax in his life.

 

[Saintbloke]

Tax Agent Espresso in Bentleigh does great coffee… not sure if it’s open though.

As an added bonus, you’ll never see George there… he’s never paid tax in his life.

Best coffee in Melbourne, but I think they close around 1pm

 

[jimmytigs]

Couple or 4ths perhaps

was referring to the names,maybe there was an Elwood around 100 years ago,but more likely the nfl,Boston would have to be a first for the afl/vfl

 

[Saints TV]

The video on Saints Instagram seemed to show Pou back on the track today. Can anyone confirm?

Yep


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[Saint Watto]

The video on Saints Instagram seemed to show Pou back on the track today. Can anyone confirm?

Can confirm g_TRAIN.

My eyes aren't as good as they used to be but you have to look twice to confirm that it is actually the Pou running around.

He looks a different person to this time last year.

He's leaner.........more muscular and he appears to be channeling his inner Surf Coast look with the lighter hair.

LOL.

 

[Saint Watto]

It was also great to see "Frankie" Peckett in the crowd today"

I don't want to harp on my eyesight again but I

had to look twice to realize that it was him.

I haven't seen Frankie for Donkey's years.

He looked in great nick.

You could have thrown a jumper on him and pushed him onto the oval.

I assumed that his son Elwood was on the oval as when a group of players were doing 400's and approaching the area.....Frankie raced to the fence for a bird's eye view.

 

[sasaint]

We need to talk Keeler.
I consider him the second most talented player taken in the Pou draft.
Though to be fair to Van Es and Hotton, we have seen very little of either.
With Pou, he shares tremendous upside and X factor.
Skilled, exciting.
But I really don’t know if he is suited to either KPF, KPD or Ruck.
Yes, that’s what his physique and under age career would suggest.
However, I fear that we will not see his true potential if he is pigeonholed into these roles.
As I watched him today, it struck me that his key qualities are: mobility, agility and evasiveness.
He is not naturally physically strong nor bulky.
Though the last two characteristics are attainable through hard work.
And might allow him to play the KPF, KPD and ruck roles.
But is the physicality and bulk going to be at the expense of his mobility, agility and evasiveness?
He did a wonderful sidestep in the middle of a pack this morning, worthy of any evasive midfielder.
I would hate to see us take him down a more traditional development route and then miss out on seeing a unique player.
Maybe that is the issue that saw him drop down the rankings and for Adelaide to pass on him?
He’s a round peg needing a round hole, is this where Carroll earns his wages?
Because I can see him being an absolute weapon and very hard to negate.
Given the right development.
Thoughts?

Are you saying he should play Basketball?

 

[sunny3193]

The video on Saints Instagram seemed to show Pou back on the track today. Can anyone confirm?

Confirmed

 

[Diehard Saint]

Imagine a cop drama where you and I are partners (swoon), Joffa and Gringo are also detectives but are our oppo as per standard cop drama.
Mowman is a recently retired source of wisdom and humour that we visit for insights at the corner bar.
Captain Risqué runs the evidence room check-ins, Cursing Fijian is the Lieutenant, Diehard runs tactical intelligence.
I’m sure there’s more characters that will come to mind, yes the juices are really flowing now

Hey, I’m up for it….whatever “tactical intelligence” is…


( my kids used to complain that I was too good at law enforcement. Didn’t do them any harm.)

 

[Diehard Saint]

In Ken Hinkley we trust

It’s a pain when you want to sack the guy but you keep winning

 

[sobraz]

The video on Saints Instagram seemed to show Pou back on the track today. Can anyone confirm?

Did a bit of work with the mids in a drill transitioning from defence in to attack. Full contact drills at the feet of high impact pack contests from long balls coming in.

Tried to do a bit too much on occasion but the amount of skill the boy has (and his size considering his age) is immense. Once he understands the balance between when to take the first option and when to do more, he will be unstoppable. Bont level unstoppable imo.


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[sobraz]

We need to talk about Mitchito.
Kid is Kouta reincarnated.


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[sunny3193]

Around 11ish this morning, the players split into four groups.
Located at FF, FB, and either wing.
Then they ran anti clockwise laps for three minutes, with a three minute recovery.
They were doing the third of these when I left.
Young Everett (a Collingwood six footer) and a young Peckett (taller to my eye) ran in these groups and understandably struggled. These laps were full on.
The exceptions to the above were:
Roma and TC who ran 90 second periods with a 90 second recovery.
And Zac Jones and Marcus Windhager, who just ran laps without any recovery.
Eventually Jones completed his requisite and practiced handballs. Windhager however, just kept running and overtook the groups.
He did this one time in front of the grandstand and I’m thinking: “Oh, you’re just trolling now “
TL;DR
These guys are fit!

 

[Saint Watto]

We need to talk about Mitchito.
Kid is Kouta reincarnated.

A great analogy there sobraz.

How exciting is that possibility....!!!!!

When on song.....the "Golden Greek"......not you George.......haha.....was a sight to behold.

He certainly tore us apart several times.

 

[StFly]

We need to talk Keeler.
I consider him the second most talented player taken in the Pou draft.
Though to be fair to Van Es and Hotton, we have seen very little of either.
With Pou, he shares tremendous upside and X factor.
Skilled, exciting.
But I really don’t know if he is suited to either KPF, KPD or Ruck.
Yes, that’s what his physique and under age career would suggest.
However, I fear that we will not see his true potential if he is pigeonholed into these roles.
As I watched him today, it struck me that his key qualities are: mobility, agility and evasiveness.
He is not naturally physically strong nor bulky.
Though the last two characteristics are attainable through hard work.
And might allow him to play the KPF, KPD and ruck roles.
But is the physicality and bulk going to be at the expense of his mobility, agility and evasiveness?
He did a wonderful sidestep in the middle of a pack this morning, worthy of any evasive midfielder.
I would hate to see us take him down a more traditional development route and then miss out on seeing a unique player.
Maybe that is the issue that saw him drop down the rankings and for Adelaide to pass on him?
He’s a round peg needing a round hole, is this where Carroll earns his wages?
Because I can see him being an absolute weapon and very hard to negate.
Given the right development.
Thoughts?

Arguably I like him to learn as a true CHF, this'd give liberty to roam and ruck chop out for duality of say forward of centre and a KP role aspect. I say this as he could do essentially what Membrey does in sticks to a KP status up forward, gets used as release option down the line, sometimes goes in defense and sometimes is used as that bigger body in ground level contest, only that'd then allow a 2KP to remain forward of centre when Keeler comes on. This is also why Heath rotates forward currently, we know we miss that true CHF body type and plug gap that Keeler would fill in a perfect world.

This is also why I felt like Keeler was us sticking a fork in the Bing+Ming instance, as Keeler + Ming up forward does what they'd do, essentially provides Row with chop out and then with Battle previously, could actually transition full ground wise in the end. I watched a bit of the NT and sure, it's raw and you know, Keeler exited TF outta me when I saw him line up, he just had that big guy that wasn't dopey and actually rather brilliant feel to him as opposed to a he's just doing things cause he's tall like a few of them. As a bonus, I loved his ball drop and kicking action, was true and simple.

 

[g_TRAIN]

I guess he needs to work on his strength and body work but man I loved when Keeler was in the ruck for Sandy.

He roves to his opposition ruck and then sprints away from everyone. Bloody good to watch.

I would also be hesitant putting him down back because he's gifted with natural attacking flair that few have (Just look at his highlights package)

 

[George]

We need to talk Keeler.
I consider him the second most talented player taken in the Pou draft.
Though to be fair to Van Es and Hotton, we have seen very little of either.
With Pou, he shares tremendous upside and X factor.
Skilled, exciting.
But I really don’t know if he is suited to either KPF, KPD or Ruck.
Yes, that’s what his physique and under age career would suggest.
However, I fear that we will not see his true potential if he is pigeonholed into these roles.
As I watched him today, it struck me that his key qualities are: mobility, agility and evasiveness.
He is not naturally physically strong nor bulky.
Though the last two characteristics are attainable through hard work.
And might allow him to play the KPF, KPD and ruck roles.
But is the physicality and bulk going to be at the expense of his mobility, agility and evasiveness?
He did a wonderful sidestep in the middle of a pack this morning, worthy of any evasive midfielder.
I would hate to see us take him down a more traditional development route and then miss out on seeing a unique player.
Maybe that is the issue that saw him drop down the rankings and for Adelaide to pass on him?
He’s a round peg needing a round hole, is this where Carroll earns his wages?
Because I can see him being an absolute weapon and very hard to negate.
Given the right development.
Thoughts?

My thoughts are that you need to post more

 

[PoppedCorn]

I know, right?! Sub-par gifs really clog it up.

 

[StCicatriz]

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10 laps would be ~5km... think ross might onto something

 

[borderbarry]

Who is going to be our CHB and our CHF this year?

 

[sunny3193]

My thoughts are that you need to post more

Treat em mean, keep em keen.

 

[saintmike65]

A great analogy there sobraz.

How exciting is that possibility....!!!!!

When on song.....the "Golden Greek"......not you George.......haha.....was a sight to behold.

He certainly tore us apart several times.

Love your signature posts Saint Watto, exagerated use of full stops and exclamation marks are now legendary!

 

[Diehard Saint]

When are the new injuries coming?

Never.
Because no one is actually opening a thread for them.
(Worth a try, whatever works)

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Who is going to be our CHB and our CHF this year?

Wilkie and King

 

[Dard Ball Get]

We need to talk Keeler.
I consider him the second most talented player taken in the Pou draft.
Though to be fair to Van Es and Hotton, we have seen very little of either.
With Pou, he shares tremendous upside and X factor.
Skilled, exciting.
But I really don’t know if he is suited to either KPF, KPD or Ruck.
Yes, that’s what his physique and under age career would suggest.
However, I fear that we will not see his true potential if he is pigeonholed into these roles.
As I watched him today, it struck me that his key qualities are: mobility, agility and evasiveness.
He is not naturally physically strong nor bulky.
Though the last two characteristics are attainable through hard work.
And might allow him to play the KPF, KPD and ruck roles.
But is the physicality and bulk going to be at the expense of his mobility, agility and evasiveness?
He did a wonderful sidestep in the middle of a pack this morning, worthy of any evasive midfielder.
I would hate to see us take him down a more traditional development route and then miss out on seeing a unique player.
Maybe that is the issue that saw him drop down the rankings and for Adelaide to pass on him?
He’s a round peg needing a round hole, is this where Carroll earns his wages?
Because I can see him being an absolute weapon and very hard to negate.
Given the right development.
Thoughts?

He won't bulk up to the point of losing agility, those days are long gone.
Super talented natural footballer in the forward-ruck position, sounds like another mercurial tall we had quite recently...

Previously I would have been certain the coaches would derail his trajectory, however have full trust the current crop know what they're doing. Praying for Paddy (Ryder not Mattress) 2.0.