Training 2025 Pre-Season Training - reports, pics etc

[windows1]

Thanks Windows. Much appreciated.
I agree with your thoughts on Hudson O'Keeffe.
He stood out to me in one of the earlier training videos.
So much so I had to check who it was.

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I will be pretty stunned if within a couple of years he isn’t afl ruck ready

 

[bradfisher14]

Ben C has developed a ‘competent’ kicking action where he has a low ball drop, gets boot to ball quickly and punches low 40m passes. Looks effective.

Jesse was a highlight. He looks way fitter than he has ever before. They didn’t do a lot of running but he was really not far off Ollie in the short stuff they did.

 

[Dramoth]

Ok well a little preseason treat for ya.

Old Windows made his way down to Latrobe today. To ‘study’ the squad of course.

Observations in random order. Firstly no big declarations to make mainly due to (a) no really serious running drills and (b) no more extended match sim.

Now that the dampener is out of the way, and presuming you didn’t change channels…..

WOW Holy Shit! Never seen the squad basically all there! I think only Fantasia missed. Sure there were several expected names on modified programs but unlike in the past where you’d see guys just standing around hand balling, every player on a modified program looked to be on it for precaution sake only. And as for the modified groups- it seemed to be very individual based not so much one sized fits all.

Just an awesome start to preseason.

Modified group 1: Charlie, MCG and Acres. MCG seems to be in that for good now. They’ve worked out how to get him through. Charlie seemed totally fine, at his absolute powerful best. May I say Acres is quite a fine runner……and Charlie torched him. All 3 no issues at all. They only really did running drills. Reports MCG looked fat in others’ posts in past weeks were invalidated. Looked totally fine and I was very close to him.

Modified group 2 SOS TDK Cotts doc C Durdin. Did a lot of footy drills. Doc did more of the simulation stuff than the others. Sos TDK and Durdin just did the footy drills and running but no real sim. Again totally precautionary and seemed fine. Tom seemed totally unhindered but his fitness a little off what he was at this time last year. Will get it back by end of preseason.

The younger players had the usual load mgt stuff. Didn’t really get to see Jagga in the situations he excels in but he looked good.

Ben C has developed a ‘competent’ kicking action where he has a low ball drop, gets boot to ball quickly and punches low 40m passes. Looks effective.

The big 4 mids - Walsh Cripps Hewett and Cerra (horray!!!) seemed in top condition and certainly took no backward steps on the younger guys. Walsh dumped Jagga unceremoniously at one point. Maybe even a little dirty (just a ‘welcome to the big time’ thing).

Jesse was a highlight. He looks way fitter than he has ever before. They didn’t do a lot of running but he was really not far off Ollie in the short stuff they did. Lord as well excelled there. I did feel Lij was a bit behind where he was this time last year.

I was impressed by Hudson O’Keefe’s added size. He’s a great athlete and prospect. One to watch.

HOF does not really have the body that will fill out to ‘big unit’ status and is very skinny.

Saad’s pace looked better than this past season. Cerra was really in great free moving shape. Wonderful to see. The one on one battles with Walsh were a treat and I have to say Cerra had the edge there.

Pretty hard to determine much by way of positions just yet as they really didn’t do a lot of simulation full ground.

Happy to take questions but don’t ask about positions.

How is Lemmey looking now? We've seem the training pics and videos, along with the video of him driving in with Ollie and he looks like he's finally filling out properly.

 

[windows1]

How is Lemmey looking now? We've seem the training pics and videos, along with the video of him driving in with Ollie and he looks like he's finally filling out properly.

He looked fit to me. Good running. Strong enough. Let’s see.

 

[windows1]

Adam Saad mate told me last week that he is super fit, no injury concerns, ready to rampage again.

That’s good. He was fast…..and his endurance is still rubbish! But I’m happy with that!

 

[Soapy V]

I will be pretty stunned if within a couple of years he isn’t afl ruck ready

I’d be stunned if he doesn’t play next year

 

[Soapy V]

Ok well a little preseason treat for ya.

Old Windows made his way down to Latrobe today. To ‘study’ the squad of course.

Observations in random order. Firstly no big declarations to make mainly due to (a) no really serious running drills and (b) no more extended match sim.

Now that the dampener is out of the way, and presuming you didn’t change channels…..

WOW Holy Shit! Never seen the squad basically all there! I think only Fantasia missed. Sure there were several expected names on modified programs but unlike in the past where you’d see guys just standing around hand balling, every player on a modified program looked to be on it for precaution sake only. And as for the modified groups- it seemed to be very individual based not so much one sized fits all.

Just an awesome start to preseason.

Modified group 1: Charlie, MCG and Acres. MCG seems to be in that for good now. They’ve worked out how to get him through. Charlie seemed totally fine, at his absolute powerful best. May I say Acres is quite a fine runner……and Charlie torched him. All 3 no issues at all. They only really did running drills. Reports MCG looked fat in others’ posts in past weeks were invalidated. Looked totally fine and I was very close to him.

Modified group 2 SOS TDK Cotts doc C Durdin. Did a lot of footy drills. Doc did more of the simulation stuff than the others. Sos TDK and Durdin just did the footy drills and running but no real sim. Again totally precautionary and seemed fine. Tom seemed totally unhindered but his fitness a little off what he was at this time last year. Will get it back by end of preseason.

The younger players had the usual load mgt stuff. Didn’t really get to see Jagga in the situations he excels in but he looked good.

Ben C has developed a ‘competent’ kicking action where he has a low ball drop, gets boot to ball quickly and punches low 40m passes. Looks effective.

The big 4 mids - Walsh Cripps Hewett and Cerra (horray!!!) seemed in top condition and certainly took no backward steps on the younger guys. Walsh dumped Jagga unceremoniously at one point. Maybe even a little dirty (just a ‘welcome to the big time’ thing).

Jesse was a highlight. He looks way fitter than he has ever before. They didn’t do a lot of running but he was really not far off Ollie in the short stuff they did. Lord as well excelled there. I did feel Lij was a bit behind where he was this time last year.

I was impressed by Hudson O’Keefe’s added size. He’s a great athlete and prospect. One to watch.

HOF does not really have the body that will fill out to ‘big unit’ status and is very skinny.

Saad’s pace looked better than this past season. Cerra was really in great free moving shape. Wonderful to see. The one on one battles with Walsh were a treat and I have to say Cerra had the edge there.

Pretty hard to determine much by way of positions just yet as they really didn’t do a lot of simulation full ground.

Happy to take questions but don’t ask about positions.

Nice work Windows

Nice to see Cerra doing it on the track. Said he has never felt better

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Ben Campos ball drop looks the same in the pre season training vids as it did during the year. Turns it over as he's dropping it too much which leads to the odd helicopter.

Fixable in a pre season but will take some time to get up to a standard I'd consider good enough for AFL level.

Luckily for us he plays within himself so doesn't play as if he's an elite kick which means his retention rate is fairly good. He's like the reverse SPS.

 

[circusdevil]

He's like the reverse SPS.

A reverse SPS is .... SPS

 

[Love the Drake]

Did we ever train that way?

Why would we continue to do it on game day if we didn’t train that way?

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

A reverse SPS is .... SPS

We've broken the matrix!

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Why would we continue to do it on game day if we didn’t train that way?

Fear of turning it over going into the middle

 

[mjonc43]

A reverse SPS is .... SPS

Ben Campos ball drop looks the same in the pre season training vids as it did during the year. Turns it over as he's dropping it too much which leads to the odd helicopter.

Fixable in a pre season but will take some time to get up to a standard I'd consider good enough for AFL level.

Luckily for us he plays within himself so doesn't play as if he's an elite kick which means his retention rate is fairly good. He's like the reverse SPS.

Josh Dunkley?

 

[Soapy V]

Josh Dunkley?

That’s what I said. He reminds me of Josh Dunkley. The way he plays and kicks it

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Josh Dunkley?

My comparisons always been Rowbottom from the Swans but Dunkleys a good shout. Imo Dunkley has better closing speed than Ben but it's not far off

 

[BlueGum]

Ok well a little preseason treat for ya.

Old Windows made his way down to Latrobe today. To ‘study’ the squad of course.

Observations in random order. Firstly no big declarations to make mainly due to (a) no really serious running drills and (b) no more extended match sim.

Now that the dampener is out of the way, and presuming you didn’t change channels…..

WOW Holy Shit! Never seen the squad basically all there! I think only Fantasia missed. Sure there were several expected names on modified programs but unlike in the past where you’d see guys just standing around hand balling, every player on a modified program looked to be on it for precaution sake only. And as for the modified groups- it seemed to be very individual based not so much one sized fits all.

Just an awesome start to preseason.

Modified group 1: Charlie, MCG and Acres. MCG seems to be in that for good now. They’ve worked out how to get him through. Charlie seemed totally fine, at his absolute powerful best. May I say Acres is quite a fine runner……and Charlie torched him. All 3 no issues at all. They only really did running drills. Reports MCG looked fat in others’ posts in past weeks were invalidated. Looked totally fine and I was very close to him.

Modified group 2 SOS TDK Cotts doc C Durdin. Did a lot of footy drills. Doc did more of the simulation stuff than the others. Sos TDK and Durdin just did the footy drills and running but no real sim. Again totally precautionary and seemed fine. Tom seemed totally unhindered but his fitness a little off what he was at this time last year. Will get it back by end of preseason.

The younger players had the usual load mgt stuff. Didn’t really get to see Jagga in the situations he excels in but he looked good.

Ben C has developed a ‘competent’ kicking action where he has a low ball drop, gets boot to ball quickly and punches low 40m passes. Looks effective.

The big 4 mids - Walsh Cripps Hewett and Cerra (horray!!!) seemed in top condition and certainly took no backward steps on the younger guys. Walsh dumped Jagga unceremoniously at one point. Maybe even a little dirty (just a ‘welcome to the big time’ thing).

Jesse was a highlight. He looks way fitter than he has ever before. They didn’t do a lot of running but he was really not far off Ollie in the short stuff they did. Lord as well excelled there. I did feel Lij was a bit behind where he was this time last year.

I was impressed by Hudson O’Keefe’s added size. He’s a great athlete and prospect. One to watch.

HOF does not really have the body that will fill out to ‘big unit’ status and is very skinny.

Saad’s pace looked better than this past season. Cerra was really in great free moving shape. Wonderful to see. The one on one battles with Walsh were a treat and I have to say Cerra had the edge there.

Pretty hard to determine much by way of positions just yet as they really didn’t do a lot of simulation full ground.

Happy to take questions but don’t ask about positions.

Thanks Windows. Appreciate the effort to get there and report.

Any changes to the training regime evident yet? Drills, running, skills sessions, set ups?

 

[branedotorg]

Apologies in advance - this has no doubt been covered in earlier posts but assuming the scheduled IKON Park surface rip up / replacement starts today?

They started putting up bollards and chain link for the returfing yesterday, as they removed the last of the AFLW GF stuff. Doubt it'll be long before they're back on the new turf

 

[windows1]

Nice work Windows

Nice to see Cerra doing it on the track. Said he has never felt better

All good. I’ll head down once a week and give reports if people are keen.

Cerra just looked superb today. Was maybe the highlight in retrospect.

 

[windows1]

Thanks Windows. Appreciate the effort to get there and report.

Any changes to the training regime evident yet? Drills, running, skills sessions, set ups?

It was day one for the main group. Small shit maybe. I thought their basic plyometric drills in warm up were a little more sophisticated than I recall. They def didn’t do as much running as I recall. Let’s see if that changes. I quite like that. Not all the group need to get fitter. Many need more power and strength. So I’d be happy to hear that stuff is being done individually and away from the main group session.

Many stayed on for an extra skills session after training which was interesting. Don’t recall seeing that before.

 

[BlueTongue]

Does anyone know who the mystery players are in this clip?

From what I could see:
45 - ???
47 - Liam McMahon
48 - Denver Grainger-Barras
49 - ???

Not sure but 49 looked a bit of a go-er!

 

[HereComesJuddy]

Ok well a little preseason treat for ya.

Old Windows made his way down to Latrobe today. To ‘study’ the squad of course.

Observations in random order. Firstly no big declarations to make mainly due to (a) no really serious running drills and (b) no more extended match sim.

Now that the dampener is out of the way, and presuming you didn’t change channels…..

WOW Holy Shit! Never seen the squad basically all there! I think only Fantasia missed. Sure there were several expected names on modified programs but unlike in the past where you’d see guys just standing around hand balling, every player on a modified program looked to be on it for precaution sake only. And as for the modified groups- it seemed to be very individual based not so much one sized fits all.

Just an awesome start to preseason.

Modified group 1: Charlie, MCG and Acres. MCG seems to be in that for good now. They’ve worked out how to get him through. Charlie seemed totally fine, at his absolute powerful best. May I say Acres is quite a fine runner……and Charlie torched him. All 3 no issues at all. They only really did running drills. Reports MCG looked fat in others’ posts in past weeks were invalidated. Looked totally fine and I was very close to him.

Modified group 2 SOS TDK Cotts doc C Durdin. Did a lot of footy drills. Doc did more of the simulation stuff than the others. Sos TDK and Durdin just did the footy drills and running but no real sim. Again totally precautionary and seemed fine. Tom seemed totally unhindered but his fitness a little off what he was at this time last year. Will get it back by end of preseason.

The younger players had the usual load mgt stuff. Didn’t really get to see Jagga in the situations he excels in but he looked good.

Ben C has developed a ‘competent’ kicking action where he has a low ball drop, gets boot to ball quickly and punches low 40m passes. Looks effective.

The big 4 mids - Walsh Cripps Hewett and Cerra (horray!!!) seemed in top condition and certainly took no backward steps on the younger guys. Walsh dumped Jagga unceremoniously at one point. Maybe even a little dirty (just a ‘welcome to the big time’ thing).

Jesse was a highlight. He looks way fitter than he has ever before. They didn’t do a lot of running but he was really not far off Ollie in the short stuff they did. Lord as well excelled there. I did feel Lij was a bit behind where he was this time last year.

I was impressed by Hudson O’Keefe’s added size. He’s a great athlete and prospect. One to watch.

HOF does not really have the body that will fill out to ‘big unit’ status and is very skinny.

Saad’s pace looked better than this past season. Cerra was really in great free moving shape. Wonderful to see. The one on one battles with Walsh were a treat and I have to say Cerra had the edge there.

Pretty hard to determine much by way of positions just yet as they really didn’t do a lot of simulation full ground.

Happy to take questions but don’t ask about positions.

Another banger of a report my good man

 

[Dramoth]

He looked fit to me. Good running. Strong enough. Let’s see.

Wouldn’t mind getting some games into the boy this year. Gives him that taste of the big show and gives us supporters a look at the lad to see how he’s going.

 

[marcmurphy3]

Not sure but 49 looked a bit of a go-er!

Phillips

 

[swuzzlebubble]

What's the schedule for upcoming training days?

 

[Red Bull]

What's the schedule for upcoming training days?