Training 2025 Pre-Season

[Mr_Moogle]

Maybe I've got this wrong but I've never thought of Curtin as gangly. He's tall but he's evenly built. I always thought gangly meant players like Gollant who are tall and unusually skinny.

 

[GreyCrow]

One soccer club in England has an AI camera set up to live streams their matches

In one game the camera kept mistaking the bald referee's head for the ball and there was just footage of him for the whole game

That's why we can't do video review work at our training sessions

Everybody watching the bigscreen nekminnit a fly lands on Nicks head

 

[Mostyn]

No he wasn't

We were developing him as the deepest tall defender playing on the opposition's stay at home key forwards until there was a public outcry

Then we moved him to HBF and later midfield/forward

Young players need stability while they find their feet and we didn't provide that whatsoever. Seemingly we had a new plan for him every 5 minutes. Pretty dismal effort from our coaching team overall. He showed a few good signs in spite of them, not because of them.

I'm hoping this Brisbane guy has a clue. I suspect he has.

Hr played the equivalent of two games deeper in defense to work on his one-on-one defensive positioning, which had shown itself to be an issue.

Part of developing as a young player is working on the lesser areas of your game.

Stability is fine, but it's not all rote learning of a single role. It's developing the different areas that need development.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Hr played the equivalent of two games deeper in defense to work on his one-on-one defensive positioning, which had shown itself to be an issue.

Part of developing as a young player is working on the lesser areas of your game.

Stability is fine, but it's not all rote learning of a single role. It's developing the different areas that need development.

Absolute lies

Why do you bother with this rubbish, honestly?

Curtin played full back because he was the tallest player available

The week after, Butts returned from injury via the SANFL and Curtin shifted up field. A coincidence of course.

Magically he'd solved the need to work on his defensive issues deep in defence that very week.

There is no planning or thought or development. We react to what's immediately in front of us every single week.

 

[Milo Cyrus]

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I'm hoping this Brisbane guy has a clue. I suspect he has.

My fingers are crossed too. Will need a bag of miracles to transform Pepsi nuts.

 

[Cromulant]

Go see Scorpus Fyfe post. He's either a mid or we again wasted a top 10 pick because he's underwhelming as a kpd.

He's underwhelming after a handful of games, well I never.

 

[Big Dub]

Except these are talls. We drafted Curtin to be a mid, right?

Curtin wasn't drafted as a mid. He was the All Australian CHB. Which was a little misleading, as he was the best playmaking defender in his draft year, not a traditional key defender. He occasionally got stints on the ball. Before his draft year, he played a fair bit as a medium forward (before his 12cm growth spurt).

In WAFL seniors, he played on the last line of defence as a playmaker. I still think this is where he will play his best football, at least early.

He is a tall. They take longer. I don't think it's a positional thing.

He's also a kid in his first year of AFL.

 

[George Kramer]

Absolute lies

Why do you bother with this rubbish, honestly?

Curtin played full back because he was the tallest player available

The week after, Butts returned from injury via the SANFL and Curtin shifted up field. A coincidence of course.

Magically he'd solved the need to work on his defensive issues deep in defence that very week.

There is no planning or thought or development. We react to what's immediately in front of us every single week.

You know why