Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

[The Talent Scout]

Starts round 1.

And plays the full game!

 

[Gasometer]

Starts round 1.

….missed tackles?

 

[speedy]

Last year it was “sick of losing”, this year its “standards are being driven”.

It’s all talk. It doesn’t matter how ripped they look in still photos, or how they play against each other in match sim.

It means nothing until we show something against other teams. Long wait ahead until we can measure ourselves.

I’d rather the women’s league have totally different seasons, even though it’s unfair on the girls.

 

[shinboner magic]

Last year it was “sick of losing”, this year its “standards are being driven”.

It’s all talk. It doesn’t matter how ripped they look in still photos, or how they play against each other in match sim.

It means nothing until we show something against other teams. Long wait ahead until we can measure ourselves.

I’d rather the women’s league have totally different seasons, even though it’s unfair on the girls.

Yeah but if they said nothing , we’d have ppl saying why are we so quiet

 

[hotchilli]

Last year it was “sick of losing”, this year its “standards are being driven”.

It’s all talk. It doesn’t matter how ripped they look in still photos, or how they play against each other in match sim.

It means nothing until we show something against other teams. Long wait ahead until we can measure ourselves.

I’d rather the women’s league have totally different seasons, even though it’s unfair on the girls.

Don’t talk realism, we are still in pre-season optimism mode.

 

[Johnny99]

Wat is it with Corr and his finger? Didn’t he do it last season as well?

It was the finger on the other hand.

 

[king of the road]

It was the finger on the other hand.

Otherwise known as his foot… Did his toe pretty badly one year too.

 

[I Wouldnt But Greenwood]

Welcome to the official new North Melbourne. We have added mature good talent to the spine.

Darling will take a key defender from double teaming Larkey, which will lead to more Larkey goals.

Parker leadership in the middle can not be underestimated, a captain in a GF last season. He will help the boys lift & control games.

Caleb Daniel allows Mckercher to play on a wing (norths Errol Gulden), Daniel has exceptional kicking skills & is a knowledgeable backman.

These additions to our spine adds 5 extra wins.

 

[amaz199]

These additions to our spine adds 5 extra wins.

That means only 8 wins, delist!

 

[Scottroo]

10 wins I think, we will come along way this season

 

[shinboner magic]

10 wins I think, we will come along way this season

What about after the bye

 

[Intothewind]

What about after the bye

After the bye we tank for draft picks

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[speedy]

The off season is a great tonic….



For some.

 

[amaz199]

Having an optimistic outlook is better in my book.

Having zero expectations means you can't hold the group accountable for shit performances. Then again for some this makes it easier to swallow but I reckon it hurts more.

 

[speedy]

Having an optimistic outlook is better in my book.

Having zero expectations means you can't hold the group accountable for shit performances. Then again for some this makes it easier to swallow but I reckon it hurts more.

I have plenty of expectations, you can keep the optimism… I want to see it.

It’s time to demand improvement next year or heads should roll. No excuses left. 3 pre-seasons under the new regime, we have experience and games into the kids.

 

[Roos1991]

Anyone have any sense for how much of an improvement there's been in training standards pre-break? Hearing good things but I've also caught a couple of clips of St Kilda and the Bulldogs and they look bit more intense than us.

 

[LETSGOKANGAS]

That means only 8 wins, delist!

Sad that an 8 win season would be hailed as an exceptional year for North.

 

[Arthur Cloke]

Every year we hear the same rubbish that we've never been fitter, we've never trained harder....blah blah blah.

Honestly, the footage I've seen so far, it looks like the guys are just going through the emotions.

Sure, they may be training hard. But are they training any harder than any other AFL club? That's the question to ask yourself.

Mid 2025 is going to be a great time to assess where you guys are truly at. All you'll need to do is look at the ladder & you'll immediately know how well the team is tracking.

 

[Gasometer]

It’s the same old same old…7 years ago it was pics of Magoo looking like the Hulk when the cat didn’t know one end of a football to the other

You all need to take a cold shower. All of you.

As Denis used to say, preseason anything is like taking your sister to the Dance

 

[DuckYeah]

Caleb Daniel allows Mckercher to play on a wing (norths Errol Gulden)

Kerch will still play half back/mid rotation. Daniel will help Kerch drive the ball in attack.

I dont know where this talk of Kerch on a wing comes from. FOS and Butcher Scott will be on the wings.

 

[Disco Dew]

As Denis used to say, preseason anything is like taking your sister to the Dance

I don’t have a sister so I’d have to take someone else’s. Doesn’t seem too bad…

 

[Gasometer]

I don’t have a sister so I’d have to take someone else’s. Doesn’t seem too bad…

If your taking your brother then

 

[Shinboner1]

Anyone have any sense for how much of an improvement there's been in training standards pre-break? Hearing good things but I've also caught a couple of clips of St Kilda and the Bulldogs and they look bit more intense than us.

Overall the AFL is getting better by the year.
North could be better than 2024 and still not comparable

 

[Arthur Cloke]

Overall the AFL is getting better by the year.
North could be better than 2024 and still not comparable

You're right Joe.

 

[ferball]

Anyone have any sense for how much of an improvement there's been in training standards pre-break? Hearing good things but I've also caught a couple of clips of St Kilda and the Bulldogs and they look bit more intense than us.

I don't think our issues are intensity or fitness. They're above the shoulders - composure in ball use, ability to change momentum and deal with momentum swings against us, confidence in each other and a proper transition game and connection between the forward line and up the field (ie knowing when and where to move and when and where someone will move.)

This will naturally improve with age and experience and time playing together.

This year three of our four most experienced players arrived in the off season. So three of our squads four most experienced players are new players, the fifth is Aiden Corr, who arrived here later in his career.

Of the top five only three have played 200 games. Lmac, Parker and Darling.

Jy is our sixth most experienced player. Has 152 games and hasn't missed alot of footy either. 10 or 12 games since his first year I reckon. Half a season at most. Just less than half a season in his first year.

Six players on the list with 150 games. Half of them ring-ins. (One spent half his career elsewhere.) Darcy Tucker is on 149 games, but he's only been here for a couple of seasons anyway.

X is 17th on the list of games played - behind Paul Curtis FFS!!! (And Dylan Stephens. LOL)

But to put it in perspective our 18th most experienced player is ...




Harry Sheezel!




Hasn't even played two full seasons!

Eighteenth most experienced player on the list.

That is where we are at.