Training 2025 Pre-Season

[AFC979810]

There's also teams taking the foot off the gas when they are decently in front at half time so we "win" the second half mounting a comeback against reduced opposition

For example in the final round we "won" the last quarter against Sydney but were down 49 at 3QT. Won the 4th against Gold Coast, down 29 at 3QT. Won the 4th against Melbourne, down 28 at 3QT. Won the 4th against Hawthorn, down 33 at 3QT. All these games we lost

Its modern day footy.

Gold Coast we came roaring back and lost by 6. Melbourne we got within a goal before losing by 15. Hawthorn we got within 18 points in the last.

You are acting like these games were over and the only reason we finished stronger is because the other team put the queue in the rack. That didnt happen at all in the GC, Melbourne and Hawks games. Terrible posting.

 

[Scorpus]

Its modern day footy.

Gold Coast we came roaring back and lost by 6. Melbourne we got within a goal before losing by 15. Hawthorn we got within 18 points in the last.

You are acting like these games were over and the only reason we finished stronger is because the other team put the queue in the rack. That didnt happen at all in the GC, Melbourne and Hawks games. Terrible posting.

No, I'm acting like those teams were up by 5-6 goals with a quarter left and that had a material impact on how easy it was to mount a comeback. Most of our 4th quarter wins were in these sorts of losses or games we won from a good position at 3QT.

Our record against teams with a modest lead at 3QT was poor and we even saw a few of our own leads slip

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Looks a pretty handy team to me,
No way should have they come anywhere near last

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Shocking team

Fogarty was a kid , Talia was done , Lynch done , Sloane battling and toiling . Frampton and Mcasey in the key posts at either end

No speed in midfield

Davis , Atkins

Small forwards Murphy , C Jones and Stengle when he was a fringe player

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Did you look at the spine ....and our bench

You're looking at the current Fogarty .....not the struggling Fogarty of 4 years ago

You're looking at peak Talia ....not the injury riden Talia

1st Year McAsey ? .....Frampton LOL .....Brad Crouch, enough said

We also had Crocker starting in games

It was a horrible team

 

[Scorpus]

We also had Crocker starting in games

It was a horrible team

Bottom 4 side sure but 0-13 and only 3 total wins in the year bad with one of the worst percentages in modern AFL history?

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Disagree. Plenty for our club to be embarrassed about. A draftee running fast isnt one of them.

I’m with you on this one

Kids come in and dominate running at all clubs

They’ve just come off a ‘grand final ‘ like of fitness training for afl draft combine 2km time trial

They generally are doing managed training so are fresher and can just go at 100% at everything compared to the others who are grinding through more minutes

Happens at all clubs , good ones and bad ones and has 0 relevance on how our pre season is going ) , it could be going perfectly or horribly and this would have nothing to do with it

18 yo Clarke went and out and blitzed Essendon 2km time trial , does that mean they are having a horrible pre season ? We won’t know until round 6

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Bottom 4 side sure but 0-13 and only 3 total wins in the year bad with one of the worst percentages in modern AFL history?

I’m not saying it was a good season only that it was a hopeless side on paper

 

[George Kramer]

Shocking team

Fogarty was a kid , Talia was done , Lynch done , Sloane battling and toiling . Frampton and Mcasey in the key posts at either end

No speed in midfield

Davis , Atkins

Small forwards Murphy , C Jones and Stengle when he was a fringe player

Better than 0-13 and then that same team won 3-1 to finish the year. Better than the bottom ranked team below North.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Better than 0-13 and then that same team won 3-1 to finish the year. Better than the bottom ranked team below North.

Yep we seemed to come back from covid break about 7L behind the other teams which made it worse than it should have been

By end of season weren’t a bottom team

Regardless it wasn’t a ‘handy team on paper ‘ like the poster suggested

It was a shocking side

 

[BRL121]

Yep we seemed to come back from covid break about 7L behind the other teams which made it worse than it should have been

By end of season weren’t a bottom team

Regardless it wasn’t a ‘handy team on paper ‘ like the poster suggested

It was a shocking side

It was a handy team on paper only if they were all simultaneously at career peaks.

 

[kirky]

The other - and more likely* - argument is this indicates that we're using fitness (and by that, momentum) to try to counteract a lack of star-power in the team.

Which also is supported by the fact we're getting within two goals frequently but not quite able to climb over that hump (though, we have wasted a lot of opportunities).

* Considering the squad makeup in the last two years.

More likely we are coming from a long way back every time.

In both 2023 and 2024, we were down 5/6 goals against Collingwood @ G during the second quarter, ending up losing by less than a kick both times.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Yep we seemed to come back from covid break about 7L behind the other teams which made it worse than it should have been

By end of season weren’t a bottom team

Regardless it wasn’t a ‘handy team on paper ‘ like the poster suggested

It was a shocking side

Remember, it was also the year Runners were banished from the AFL ....this impacted young teams moreso than mature ....but also didn't favour sides with new coaches with new gameplans

 

[1970crow]

Remember, it was also the year Runners were banished from the AFL ....this impacted young teams moreso than mature ....but also didn't favour sides with new coaches with new gameplans

Based on Nicks' own explanation of where we went wrong early last season, it seems some coaches still struggle after 4 completed seasons.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Remember, it was also the year Runners were banished from the AFL ....this impacted young teams moreso than mature ....but also didn't favour sides with new coaches with new gameplans

Also didn’t favour coaches with little idea about game plan strategies either...

 

[adelaidecrows]

Its modern day footy.

Gold Coast we came roaring back and lost by 6. Melbourne we got within a goal before losing by 15. Hawthorn we got within 18 points in the last.

You are acting like these games were over and the only reason we finished stronger is because the other team put the queue in the rack. That didnt happen at all in the GC, Melbourne and Hawks games. Terrible posting.

They didnt put the queue in the rack, we just gifted them a fake advantage because we just had a habit of spending the first 3 quarters trying to stay in games by defending them to death rather then attacking and saving ourselves for an all out attack last quarter. Which funnily enough ended in a predictable disaster and our season reflected that.

 

[George Kramer]

Remember, it was also the year Runners were banished from the AFL ....this impacted young teams moreso than mature ....but also didn't favour sides with new coaches with new gameplans

Our senior players let us down that year, is that because of the lack of runners?

 

[Ham]

Are they back training today?


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[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Are they back training today?


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We need to allocate an oval in Adelaide to each poster to keep watch on

 

[Ham]

We need to allocate an oval in Adelaide to each poster to keep watch on

so I asked the twitter ai cause maybe it taps peoples phones

 

[1990crow]

so I asked the twitter ai cause maybe it taps peoples phones

That's a little concerning tbh (that AI knows).

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Isn't Thebarton a building site?

 

[Cromulant]

Isn't Thebarton a building site?

Nah we just knocked down some trees

 

[crows dude]

Isn't Thebarton a building site?

Well west lakes has been a building site for years yet we still trained on the oval.

 

[Mutineer]

Players return on Thursday according to Simeon Thomas-Wilson in the Addy.