Training 2024 Preseason Training Thread

[Wahooti Fandango]

The issue in the past was it wasn't being credited I believe.

BB rip stuff from BF all the time.

 

[Beerfish]

BB rip stuff from BF all the time.

Oh well.

 

['51 Bewick]

Im ready to go if there’s a bigfooty vs blitz fight in the hangar parking lot coming up.

Oh no! I'm scared I'll beat myself up.

 

[andleanback]

Jack peris involved with preseason training, another good signing for the vfl

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Oh well.

 

[Keystone agony]

Nik Cox playing back on small forwards halleluyah

Apparently looked very good

 

[ghostdog]

I highly recommend opening the Blitz page and reading today's training thread. Several excellent quality reports and, up to around the 180 post mark, really good quality discussion for the most part - probably the best I've seen it anyway.

 

[Milanista28]

Watchers seem to be happy with Baldwin, Reid and McKay. Back half has got great competition for spots if they all stay fit.

 

[Keystone agony]

Mackay extremely good

No surprise to me

 

[ant555]

Had a look. Solid session.

McKay very good down one end. Baldwin good at the other end.

Reid going well. Hope he can prove me wrong.

Cox looked comfortable playing half back in a genuine sim. Knows how to play half back and it shows in his confidence.

Bryan looked good. Took some good marks.

Tsatas kicked the footy okay today and his tackles and pressure was okay.

Gresham looked dangerous forward. Good work rate.

Stringer did the lot and played a little midfield in the sim.

Hind was good. Kicking was excellent.

All of the midfielders looked okay.

 

[jdstorm]

Best takeaways for me (after reading blitz reports )is health/depth + McKay/Gresham living up to expectations

It’s Essendon vs Essendon so hard to make full sense of it but apparently training was at a good intensity level.

Matchups were stars vs stars, afl players vs AFL players.

Confirmation bias takes
Peter Wright is more of a CHF than FF. (McKay towelled him up)

Stringer is looking good as a mid/HF (Martin less so at HB but might be a contract year Jake issue)

SF an issue. (Hopefully Sheil and/or Perkins can have an impact as smaller front half players)

 

[TheUnicorn]

That black training kit is nice. ( Could just be Langford though )

 

[Old man fletch]

That black training kit is nice. ( Could just be Langford though )

Looks great.

Think Tsatas would look good in it too, better than the GWS colours ppl have pointed out plenty of times

 

[Godzke]

That black training kit is nice. ( Could just be Langford though )

Adonis

 

[Keystone agony]

Had a look. Solid session.

McKay very good down one end. Baldwin good at the other end.

Reid going well. Hope he can prove me wrong.

Cox looked comfortable playing half back in a genuine sim. Knows how to play half back and it shows in his confidence.

Bryan looked good. Took some good marks.

Tsatas kicked the footy okay today and his tackles and pressure was okay.

Gresham looked dangerous forward. Good work rate.

Stringer did the lot and played a little midfield in the sim.

Hind was good. Kicking was excellent.

All of the midfielders looked okay.

Great news and signs all the players i wanted to hear good things about

I assume Reid played next to Mackay meaning Baldwin was on the ither team, maybe a loose B team of sorts would i assume? Or did they even it up a bit

The videos show J.Kelly with the Mackay group as did Ridley

Kako?
Daveys? Off Half back for Alwyn?

Can Bryan be the number one ruck if Draper aint right ahead of Goldy? With only 25% chop out from 2MP or does he need a Draper or Goldy atleast next to him? Or is Goldy definitly in poll position?

Glad to hear a full session for Jakey. Maybe its mid Jan start and into round 1 mid march so more of a 2 month block. Stoked to hear still midfield bits

 

[fishardansin]

That black training kit is nice. ( Could just be Langford though )

That is the definition of smouldering eyes.

 

[jmoo wan]

I highly recommend opening the Blitz page and reading today's training thread. Several excellent quality reports and, up to around the 180 post mark, really good quality discussion for the most part - probably the best I've seen it anyway.

i’d rather someone just rip it iff and post it him here

 

[Maxabillions]

Had a look. Solid session.

McKay very good down one end. Baldwin good at the other end.

Reid going well. Hope he can prove me wrong.

Cox looked comfortable playing half back in a genuine sim. Knows how to play half back and it shows in his confidence.

Bryan looked good. Took some good marks.

Tsatas kicked the footy okay today and his tackles and pressure was okay.

Gresham looked dangerous forward. Good work rate.

Stringer did the lot and played a little midfield in the sim.

Hind was good. Kicking was excellent.

All of the midfielders looked okay.

Does it look like the game plan has changed from last year?

 

[ghostdog]

Does it look like the game plan has changed from last year?

There's an excellent description there of one of the ball movement drills where the backline is encouraged to move up quickly, filling the space of the flankers who have pushed up hard, dragging their opponents with them and opening up the corridor about 70m from our defensive end. One of the reminders yelled by one of the coaches during this, maybe it was Jacobs(?), was that "we're a front half team." Redman and Durham apparently did well with this. A Durham kick to Tsatas in the corridor sounded like something special.

 

[ant555]

Does it look like the game plan has changed from last year?

Hard to pinpoint that right now. Looks like the focus is on defensive positioning and better forward half pressure. To be honest I do not see the plan changing a lot from what they did last year other than trying to intercept in the back half a bit further up the ground and increasing the forward press. As the personal change we will most likely see quicker movement. Martin playing some half back is a sign they are looking to have better distribution out of the back half. I still think it will be basics first again until the get the team defense solid enough to then start taking more risks. People will have to be patient.

 

[ant555]

There's an excellent description there of one of the ball movement drills where the backline is encouraged to move up quickly, filling the space of the flankers who have pushed up hard, dragging their opponents with them and opening up the corridor about 70m from our defensive end. One of the reminders yelled by one of the coaches during this, maybe it was Jacobs(?), was that "we're a front half team." Redman and Durham apparently did well with this. A Durham kick to Tsatas in the corridor sounded like something special.

That is not new. We did at at the start of last year and it worked until opposition sides worked out they could just run a heavy midfield zone or play more one on one style to shut down the ball movement and force us down the line to a contest which is still a genuine weak area of our game. There is a genuine focus on the team defense for sure but from what I watched yesterday it is more fine tuning and getting the basics right than anything new. Crawl before you walk stuff.

 

[Yoda_]

who are the three NGA boys training with the senior squad? Ryan Eye I believe is one, may have seen a pic of Amin Naim, who id the third?

 

[Maxabillions]

There's an excellent description there of one of the ball movement drills where the backline is encouraged to move up quickly, filling the space of the flankers who have pushed up hard, dragging their opponents with them and opening up the corridor about 70m from our defensive end. One of the reminders yelled by one of the coaches during this, maybe it was Jacobs(?), was that "we're a front half team." Redman and Durham apparently did well with this. A Durham kick to Tsatas in the corridor sounded like something special.

Hard to pinpoint that right now. Looks like the focus is on defensive positioning and better forward half pressure. To be honest I do not see the plan changing a lot from what they did last year other than trying to intercept in the back half a bit further up the ground and increasing the forward press. As the personal change we will most likely see quicker movement. Martin playing some half back is a sign they are looking to have better distribution out of the back half. I still think it will be basics first again until the get the team defense solid enough to then start taking more risks. People will have to be patient.

Cheers. All sounding pretty positive so far but not going to get my hopes up too much just yet!

 

[eth-dog]

who are the three NGA boys training with the senior squad? Ryan Eye I believe is one, may have seen a pic of Amin Naim, who id the third?

Jayden Nguyen, there's a photo of him in the background in the Cox thread

 

[TheUnicorn]

The full black is just so good, I need it.