Training 2024 training updates.
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- Oct 2, 2016
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Hardly a training report, but I was having a stroll around Burnley Park in Richmond this morning and coming in the opposite direction towards me is a bloke, a girl & a German Shepherd. What’s noticeable is the bloke is a bloody big unit and that he has a noticeable limp.
As we passed I said “good luck with recovery Dan”, and Dan McStay said thanks.
As we passed I said “good luck with recovery Dan”, and Dan McStay said thanks.
I feel like this story needs a punch line about the german shepherd
Think we all know a basketball background is the only useful sport to have played growing up
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Behind the scenes of an intense pre-season session in Regional Victoria
Go inside an intense day of pre-season training, as Collingwood hit the road for its 2023 Community Camp in Gippsland.
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The older players probably don't have to be there. Pendles, Steele, Howe, Jamie, etc. I don't think Darcy's there either.
The older players don't have to return to training until after Xmas, I thought.
Jamie appeared to be at the dentist today though I think and I have not seen Moore in the footage from Morwell. I think it was said that some of the oldies had it off before Christmas.
When out for some exercise I generally walk on a footpath that borders one end of the football oval we trained at today.
Spewing that I didn't happen upon the lads and I wonder if given the training today wasn't advertised whether it took place earlier than the timestamps on the social media posts suggest.
If the timestamp is accurate I was in the vicinity around 2pm so either they were finished or somehow I missed them due to the trees and lay of the land obscuring my view.
Son of a bitch.
Spewing that I didn't happen upon the lads and I wonder if given the training today wasn't advertised whether it took place earlier than the timestamps on the social media posts suggest.
If the timestamp is accurate I was in the vicinity around 2pm so either they were finished or somehow I missed them due to the trees and lay of the land obscuring my view.
Son of a bitch.
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This makes sense, because if we sign one we have one fewer list spot available, and hence have to send an additional person away from training, right? Because it’s two train-ons for each list spot?
So it’s good business, if you want to look at as many players as possible for as long as possible, not to sign anyone for as long as possible.
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The flip side is that if you have too many trialling as mids for example it impacts preseason as you've got to give them mid time in match Sim - otherwise what's the point. Getting the decisions made early means that you can have a more settled preseason with players receiving more prep in specific roles as well as more one on one time with development coaches.
The Royal Sampler
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Fair point, better to get as much of this exposure as possible before the most senior players have to come back.
The Royal Sampler
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Bloody favouritism, I tell ya!
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Don't Elliott and Moore also do shorter full time preseasons?
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They need to give the players long enough to increase the chance of making the right decisions, but the shorter the long enough is the better. At the moment it won't matter as a fair few will be on modified preseasons due to age, previous injury history or post season ops, having the extra bodies for match practice will be a good thing, but in the new year - the longer players have training in their likely 2024 role - the better.
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