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Thanks for the reports gents, well done and keep them coming
 
Barrels said:
Here we go…

WARM UPS and DRILLS
  • Butler and Hunter running laps.
  • No Jones or Dow. Or Sincs.
  • Hammer with a massive head bandage again. Might indeed have had his ears pinned. 🤣
  • Crouch knee still heavily strapped.
  • Hayes in general warmup.
  • Hastie tall and slim, but oddly bandy-legged. Kinda runs like Stuv. Beautiful by foot.
  • Pou doesn’t mark the ball as much a rip it out of the air!
  • Not sure who the blokes in 37, 40, 46, and 48 are. Turns out 40 is Darby Hipwell… he is an absolute nugget.
  • Garcia is a ripper. Built, moves well, and is classy.
  • Keeler clearly training in defence, despite my disbelief before Christmas.
  • Moose doing 400s at a decent clip.
  • BJ remain a hard task master (and, frankly, a bit of a dick)…
  • Henry, Pou, Garcia, and Hotton training with the mids.
  • Schoonermonster in proper training. No more running blocks.
  • Full ground drill focusing on precise and fast ball movement. Stocker being used as probably the main distributor from defence; Ross stopped the drill twice cos he was shitted off with something (couldn’t hear him.)
  • Cordy is not great by foot. Or running. But just… gets things done.
  • Chito big daddy-ed Schoonermonster in a marking contest. Too strong.
  • Butler, Hunter, Hayes, Van Es, and Moose (?) off to one side in the yellow rehab bibs. Butler, Hunter, and Hayes doing ball movement/leading drills. Van Es running only. Moose doing repeat sprint-type running (clearly working on getting him from contest to contest).
  • Chito on Battle in competitive leading drills is basically Godzilla v Kong.
  • Doogs even yells at the umps in drills… 🤣
  • Keeler on King in the leading drill… outmuscled, sure, but makes Max look stodgy and static. Jeeeeeesus.
  • Allison playing as a leading forward. Not showing much, unfortunately.
  • Titanic torching Schoonermonster on sheer athleticism.
MATCH SIM (1st third):
  • Reds v Blues. Reds seem more “Best 22”, but Crouch, Higgins, and Ross in the Blues for example. Byrnes, Stocker, and Bonner in Red. Wilson in Blue.
  • Pou starting in the middle for Red.
  • Wilson just MURDERED Hill on the lead. OOF from the set shot… 😬
  • Red’s tranisition is awfully quick, leads to a snapped King goal from a handball.
  • Doogs raging about something anyway. Bloke is a madman.
  • Hammer torches Doogs and Wilkie, who are too busy directing traffic to watch him. Poor from both. Goals from an absolute dogs breakfast shank. 🤣
  • Red goals again on a quick inside 50 transition from half back. Emphasis on RAPID ball movement is very noticeable.
  • Allison goes over the mark to give away a 50 to Pou. Goals from the set shot.
  • Skunk limping after a heavy tackle. Jogging it off, but not happy.
  • Hotton goals for Blue from an inside out snap after some very quick hands from Allison out of the marking contest. First good sign from Matty.
  • Collard TORCHED Stocker on the lead, but Nas floated in front to spoil. Collard is ridiculously quick.
  • Ro drops an uncontested mark on the last line, mopped up, got smothered by Wilson, ball ends up with Hastie who misses the set shot for Blue.
  • Real focus on wingers staying wide and keeping their shape. Soccer-like. Really seems to help with movement in transition.
  • Unsurprisingly, Collard has the body strength of a sleepy toddler.
  • Higgins has been superb as a (very) high half forward. He and Crouch keeping Blue in it between them.
  • Nas misses right from a free for Red.
  • Skunk moving ok now.
  • Wood misses a set shot from 25 out. Goal kicking needs serious work across the board if this is the genuine standard.
MATCH SIM (2nd third):
  • Titanic, Stocker, and Byrnes into Blue. Webster, Wilson, and Higgo in Red. Higgo’s back is heavily strapped.
  • Hunter, Butler and Hayes back out and joining Moose in running laps. Hayes doing more walking than the others… has a noticeable hitch to his stride.
  • Pou has WONDERFUL hands in close.
  • Higgo plays for the free in a marking contest with Stocker (some things don’t change 😉) and is rewarded. Goals for Red.
  • Zlugger on Max. Keeler now on Skunk.
  • Schoonermonster on Wilson and McLennan on Chito are weird matchups.
  • Wilson picks the wrong option in an I50. Hilly let him know ALL about it.
  • Stocker has been very good for Blue.
  • Henry lovely inside out to Ro. Goals.
  • O’Leary (Sandy) has been good for Blue. Had a quick chat to Tony Brown about him; they like him a lot.
  • Pou beats Hastie on the deck to snap another for Red. Just a bit too big for the newbie.
  • Hastie and McLennan trying to cover Pou together. He’s just too good. Marks on the lead and kicks another for Red.
  • Hilly misses a Max lead. No word on how Wilson feels about it… 🤣
  • Chito has position on Keeler and shifts him easily. Misses a speculative shot from 50.
  • Comes straight back in from the restart. Zlugger clumsy and gives away a free to Chito who misses from 30m directly in front.
  • Higgo with a superb chase across and smother on Schoonermonster to deny Blue an easy transition.
  • Max too strong for a scragging Zlugger. Marks and is also given the free. Goals from 15m out. Red really running away with it. 5 goals to bugger all in this period.
  • Zlugger now onto Chito, Keeler to Max, McLennan on Skunk, and Schoonermonster still inexplicably on Wilson.
  • Hastie with a scrubby pass to Schoonermonster that drifts OOF. Lazy marking sees Higgo pop it over the top to Chito unmarked in the square who goals.
  • Immediately out of the ruck to Pou who slips a banana on the run wide. 6.4 to doughnuts in this stanza.
  • Campbell comes down heavily from a bit of friendly fire in a marking contest… Titanic took the grab… he seem ok.
  • Henry very involved that quarter, moves beautifully.
MATCH SIM (Final third):
  • Hayes and Moose STILL running. Both absolutely gassed.
  • Hunter and Van Es on the bikes.
  • Wholesale changes… Max, Ro, Wood, Steele, Hill, and Chito now in Blue, Higgo back in Blue. Campbell, Allison, Hotton, Hipwell (Sandy), O’Leary (Sandy), Collard, and Garcia in Red.
  • Wood off-balance snap in marked on the line by Doogs. Doogs still angry about… everything.
  • Titanic slips free inside 50 and marks unopposed on the lead. Doogs loses it at Wilson for not tracking back. Titanic goals.
  • Red transitions well from defence and Hipwell goals from 20m out on the run. Doogs less angry.
  • Hotton and Garcia very good in close. Beat Steele to the ball.
  • Allison now loose in defence. Lovely long pass to Skunk’s advantage.
  • Max beats Doogs and a covering Bonner on the lead. Misses left from 40m from the set shot.
  • Henry now at half forward instead of the middle.
  • Titanic easily shifts 46 from behind, 10m out. Marks, plays on, and goals. Great lob to advantage by Higgo.
  • Wilkie easily nudges Max out of the way up on the wing. Just a superb defender.
  • Pou stretches to outmark Schoonermonster at high half forward. Absolutely primed for 2024.
  • Collard shanks the banana set shot OOF.
  • Superb chip shot pass from Windy to Byrnes at full speed. Ronnie misses right from distance.
  • Super grab going back with it by Skunk, leads to a dribbler goal to Collard for Red.
  • Garcia slices Blue apart from a free, over the top with a long dagger to Henry on the lead. Goal to Red.
Match sim looks over. Time for the group 200s…

Reckon I’ll call that a day.

NOW GIMME MY ******* BADGE, George, YOU BALD BASTARD.
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Ffs George give the campaigner a badge
 
Barrels said:
Here we go…

WARM UPS and DRILLS
  • Butler and Hunter running laps.
  • No Jones or Dow. Or Sincs.
  • Hammer with a massive head bandage again. Might indeed have had his ears pinned. 🤣
  • Crouch knee still heavily strapped.
  • Hayes in general warmup.
  • Hastie tall and slim, but oddly bandy-legged. Kinda runs like Stuv. Beautiful by foot.
  • Pou doesn’t mark the ball as much a rip it out of the air!
  • Not sure who the blokes in 37, 40, 46, and 48 are. Turns out 40 is Darby Hipwell… he is an absolute nugget.
  • Garcia is a ripper. Built, moves well, and is classy.
  • Keeler clearly training in defence, despite my disbelief before Christmas.
  • Moose doing 400s at a decent clip.
  • BJ remain a hard task master (and, frankly, a bit of a dick)…
  • Henry, Pou, Garcia, and Hotton training with the mids.
  • Schoonermonster in proper training. No more running blocks.
  • Full ground drill focusing on precise and fast ball movement. Stocker being used as probably the main distributor from defence; Ross stopped the drill twice cos he was shitted off with something (couldn’t hear him.)
  • Cordy is not great by foot. Or running. But just… gets things done.
  • Chito big daddy-ed Schoonermonster in a marking contest. Too strong.
  • Butler, Hunter, Hayes, Van Es, and Moose (?) off to one side in the yellow rehab bibs. Butler, Hunter, and Hayes doing ball movement/leading drills. Van Es running only. Moose doing repeat sprint-type running (clearly working on getting him from contest to contest).
  • Chito on Battle in competitive leading drills is basically Godzilla v Kong.
  • Doogs even yells at the umps in drills… 🤣
  • Keeler on King in the leading drill… outmuscled, sure, but makes Max look stodgy and static. Jeeeeeesus.
  • Allison playing as a leading forward. Not showing much, unfortunately.
  • Titanic torching Schoonermonster on sheer athleticism.
MATCH SIM (1st third):
  • Reds v Blues. Reds seem more “Best 22”, but Crouch, Higgins, and Ross in the Blues for example. Byrnes, Stocker, and Bonner in Red. Wilson in Blue.
  • Pou starting in the middle for Red.
  • Wilson just MURDERED Hill on the lead. OOF from the set shot… 😬
  • Red’s tranisition is awfully quick, leads to a snapped King goal from a handball.
  • Doogs raging about something anyway. Bloke is a madman.
  • Hammer torches Doogs and Wilkie, who are too busy directing traffic to watch him. Poor from both. Goals from an absolute dogs breakfast shank. 🤣
  • Red goals again on a quick inside 50 transition from half back. Emphasis on RAPID ball movement is very noticeable.
  • Allison goes over the mark to give away a 50 to Pou. Goals from the set shot.
  • Skunk limping after a heavy tackle. Jogging it off, but not happy.
  • Hotton goals for Blue from an inside out snap after some very quick hands from Allison out of the marking contest. First good sign from Matty.
  • Collard TORCHED Stocker on the lead, but Nas floated in front to spoil. Collard is ridiculously quick.
  • Ro drops an uncontested mark on the last line, mopped up, got smothered by Wilson, ball ends up with Hastie who misses the set shot for Blue.
  • Real focus on wingers staying wide and keeping their shape. Soccer-like. Really seems to help with movement in transition.
  • Unsurprisingly, Collard has the body strength of a sleepy toddler.
  • Higgins has been superb as a (very) high half forward. He and Crouch keeping Blue in it between them.
  • Nas misses right from a free for Red.
  • Skunk moving ok now.
  • Wood misses a set shot from 25 out. Goal kicking needs serious work across the board if this is the genuine standard.
MATCH SIM (2nd third):
  • Titanic, Stocker, and Byrnes into Blue. Webster, Wilson, and Higgo in Red. Higgo’s back is heavily strapped.
  • Hunter, Butler and Hayes back out and joining Moose in running laps. Hayes doing more walking than the others… has a noticeable hitch to his stride.
  • Pou has WONDERFUL hands in close.
  • Higgo plays for the free in a marking contest with Stocker (some things don’t change 😉) and is rewarded. Goals for Red.
  • Zlugger on Max. Keeler now on Skunk.
  • Schoonermonster on Wilson and McLennan on Chito are weird matchups.
  • Wilson picks the wrong option in an I50. Hilly let him know ALL about it.
  • Stocker has been very good for Blue.
  • Henry lovely inside out to Ro. Goals.
  • O’Leary (Sandy) has been good for Blue. Had a quick chat to Tony Brown about him; they like him a lot.
  • Pou beats Hastie on the deck to snap another for Red. Just a bit too big for the newbie.
  • Hastie and McLennan trying to cover Pou together. He’s just too good. Marks on the lead and kicks another for Red.
  • Hilly misses a Max lead. No word on how Wilson feels about it… 🤣
  • Chito has position on Keeler and shifts him easily. Misses a speculative shot from 50.
  • Comes straight back in from the restart. Zlugger clumsy and gives away a free to Chito who misses from 30m directly in front.
  • Higgo with a superb chase across and smother on Schoonermonster to deny Blue an easy transition.
  • Max too strong for a scragging Zlugger. Marks and is also given the free. Goals from 15m out. Red really running away with it. 5 goals to bugger all in this period.
  • Zlugger now onto Chito, Keeler to Max, McLennan on Skunk, and Schoonermonster still inexplicably on Wilson.
  • Hastie with a scrubby pass to Schoonermonster that drifts OOF. Lazy marking sees Higgo pop it over the top to Chito unmarked in the square who goals.
  • Immediately out of the ruck to Pou who slips a banana on the run wide. 6.4 to doughnuts in this stanza.
  • Campbell comes down heavily from a bit of friendly fire in a marking contest… Titanic took the grab… he seem ok.
  • Henry very involved that quarter, moves beautifully.
MATCH SIM (Final third):
  • Hayes and Moose STILL running. Both absolutely gassed.
  • Hunter and Van Es on the bikes.
  • Wholesale changes… Max, Ro, Wood, Steele, Hill, and Chito now in Blue, Higgo back in Blue. Campbell, Allison, Hotton, Hipwell (Sandy), O’Leary (Sandy), Collard, and Garcia in Red.
  • Wood off-balance snap in marked on the line by Doogs. Doogs still angry about… everything.
  • Titanic slips free inside 50 and marks unopposed on the lead. Doogs loses it at Wilson for not tracking back. Titanic goals.
  • Red transitions well from defence and Hipwell goals from 20m out on the run. Doogs less angry.
  • Hotton and Garcia very good in close. Beat Steele to the ball.
  • Allison now loose in defence. Lovely long pass to Skunk’s advantage.
  • Max beats Doogs and a covering Bonner on the lead. Misses left from 40m from the set shot.
  • Henry now at half forward instead of the middle.
  • Titanic easily shifts 46 from behind, 10m out. Marks, plays on, and goals. Great lob to advantage by Higgo.
  • Wilkie easily nudges Max out of the way up on the wing. Just a superb defender.
  • Pou stretches to outmark Schoonermonster at high half forward. Absolutely primed for 2024.
  • Collard shanks the banana set shot OOF.
  • Superb chip shot pass from Windy to Byrnes at full speed. Ronnie misses right from distance.
  • Super grab going back with it by Skunk, leads to a dribbler goal to Collard for Red.
  • Garcia slices Blue apart from a free, over the top with a long dagger to Henry on the lead. Goal to Red.
Match sim looks over. Time for the group 200s…

Reckon I’ll call that a day.

NOW GIMME MY ******* BADGE, George, YOU BALD BASTARD.
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OxSaint said:
Who is Titanic?
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You must be new around here.

It’s Sharman, who along with Byrnes and Allison features heavily in the commentary of Cairnsman and CaptainRisky 😃

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Would love someone to provide who exactly is in the rehab group?
michaelcos said:
On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile a
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Dr Spaceman said:
Sorry, but we're much more into speculation and wild guesses around here :cool:
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Don’t know about Jones but Van Es had an operation on his ankle last year. He was well into his rehab but still feeling some discomfort. Went back under to have a pin, which was causing the problem, removed. So basically had to go back to square one.
 
Saintos The ITK said:
Ffs George give the campaigner a badge
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Did it within 30 minutes of him posting, big shot. All the rotund operator has to do is add it to his viewable badges

Dard Ball Get aka 'The Karate Kid' can help him out, he's a master at it
 
beside the seaside said:
F***

Calf awareness scares me. We've seen these injuries ruin entire seasons. Hope they can get on top of this asap.
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If 2 weeks ago they were confident of round 1 and him playing a the second practice match - and the only update is he isn’t playing v North. I’m not yet worried.

Round 1 is a month away.

Thats roughly 6 weeks from when he stopped training. You would imagine it gets sorted quick smart
 
stavro#4 said:
If 2 weeks ago they were confident of round 1 and him playing a the second practice match - and the only update is he isn’t playing v North. I’m not yet worried.

Round 1 is a month away.

Thats roughly 6 weeks from when he stopped training. You would imagine it gets sorted quick smart
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Calves just seem to have a habit of lingering as injuries. If he was going to play the second practice match and now he isn't then it's at least worse than they first thought. The club has been very coy about it too.

Really hope you're right mate and he's back for round one, but I'm concerned.
 

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beside the seaside said:
Calves just seem to have a habit of lingering as injuries. If he was going to play the second practice match and now he isn't then it's at least worse than they first thought. The club has been very coy about it too.

Really hope you're right mate and he's back for round one, but I'm concerned.
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Not necessarily.

It could be that they don’t want to take any risks.

If it was bad - he would have been ruled out for round 1
 
This place is ****in nuts
 
tim_saints said:
Good to hear, hopefully just being cautious with him, would be a lovely sight to see him named come round 1, very important player to have fit.
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Love me some Hayes
Times running out for the big fella tho, needs an injury free run at it for a couple.of years


luca77 said:
Can someone stream the f'ing thing so I can write a report and get me a badge?
Hopefully then I'll be allowed to give opinions as only an (extremely) precious few are apparently allowed to do.
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I think the prob was the comment saying pou has not been mentioned much.
He would be top 5 mentioned this pre season on here
That's gonna get flamed


borderbarry said:
When are the two practise matches. Not much is being written about them.
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There's the thread on the bombers one borderbarry

Autopsy - Match Simulation, 2024: St.Kilda v Essendon

This thread will serve as the preview, gameday and autopsy thread. Probably be live streamed on the club website but that's still TBC. Been to the last couple and it's a different experience at RSEA, great place to watch footy. Positive the club will put on a big event and membership/merch will...
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CaptainRisky said:
And ?
Dunstan got picked up too and were is he now
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gringo2011



Great training reports people's
Especially u Barrels
 

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