Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

Remove this Banner Ad

What's the expectation for Barrass re: games for the year?
A lot of talk about how bad his back is and how it will require constant maintenance, but so far I've not heard anything over the pre-season about where he's at with it.
Some track watchers mentioned that Barrass had told fans at training before the break that essentially the extent of his back issues were overblown and that it requires no special treatment outside of the typical body management a player around 30 would deal with.

That said, he's never played more than 19 games in a season in his career. So I'd expect he will be managed throughout the year to try and make sure he's right for a potential finals campaign.
 

Log in to remove this ad.

Gee whiz Ramma has bulked up a heap…

View attachment 2201161
I think this is the best shape out players have looked in a pre season for a long time.

So many players (Ramma, Newk, Ginni, Blank, Lewis, Scaife, etc) are all looking noticeably stronger and leaner. Even old heads like Gunners look as good as I've ever seen.

I think our conditioning team are absolutely killing it the last three years, they have been producing super fit players and keeping our injury list at very low levels as well

Kudos to you fitness team!
 
Some track watchers mentioned that Barrass had told fans at training before the break that essentially the extent of his back issues were overblown and that it requires no special treatment outside of the typical body management a player around 30 would deal with.

That said, he's never played more than 19 games in a season in his career. So I'd expect he will be managed throughout the year to try and make sure he's right for a potential finals campaign.
What worries me is in his highlights after taking a mark or spoil he spends quite a bit of time on his back on the ground.
 

Remove this Banner Ad

Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

Remove this Banner Ad

Back
Top