Training Pre-Season 2023 (First game 18/3 v North)

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Even with that as a set shot routine he’d still kick straighter than Max King
 
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WEST COAST​

Return dates

First to four-year players – November 21

Others – December 5

Who is fit?

Star ruckman Nic Naitanui is coming off an injury-plagued eight-game campaign and knee surgery in August but has been hitting the track at McGillivray Oval with some of his teammates, training for more than an hour and working closely with a West Coast physiotherapist. The Eagles were confident at the time of his surgery that he would be ready for pre-season. West Coast’s top pick last year, Campbell Chesser, also took part in the session, along with Alex Witherden, Connor West, Greg Clark and Harry Edwards.

Luke Shuey, Dom Sheed and Tom Cole were part of a group training at the club’s base this week, along with second-year forward Jack Williams and mid-season draft pick Jai Culley.

A foot problem restricted Sheed to one game last season and Cole did not feature after having ankle surgery in February.

Who is starting on time?

The Eagles are expecting all players to be training early in the pre-season.

Who was in for surgery?

Naitanui (knee), Jake Waterman (knee), Jack Petruccelle (shoulder) and Alex Witherden (shoulder) all went under the knife during the off-season.

New faces

Ex-Melbourne speedster Jayden Hunt has been travelling in South America, including Chile, Peru and Bolivia, since being traded to West Coast.
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Bolivia, eh?
 

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Dark Sharks said:
What does that article about Chesser say in the Worst Australian?
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I wasn't able to paste the article for some reason, but this was the gist of it.
  • A lot of running work again, clearly a focus even in the heat.
  • Chesser looked on and was hitting targets left and right. Set for a huge 2023.
  • Chesser went up against Chesser in the ruck contests and I'd say that Chesser has the inside running at the moment.
  • Chesser looked a class above the other midfielders bar Chesser. Just knew how to find the footy and wouldn't miss a target all session. Chesser was very quiet and seemed to be taking direction from Chesser. Doesn't bode well for his captaincy credentials, maybe he doesn't want the gig?
  • Won't say too much about it in case I was just reading too much into it, but Chesser looked as though he'd enjoyed the Christmas break a bit too much. A few of the coaches pulled him aside and they were having quite an animated conversation before Chesser was sent to do laps for the rest of the session. Good news for Chesser, I suppose.
  • Chesser kicked on his right foot for 80% of the session, I reckon. Nice to see players working on their non-preferred so readily.
  • Chesser looked like he was doing a great job 'coaching' the younger forwards in between the drills. Chesser in particular seemed to be following him around.
  • Gee Chesser has some skills. He mainly jogged laps before spending the last half hour or so on set shots - curled a few beauties from behind the boundary line at the end for a bit of fun. Hardly saw him miss a kick.
  • What interested me the most was that Chesser split his time between the defenders and the forwards, could be seeing a swingman role in 2023. He was his usual dominant self down back in some match simulation drills before going head-to-head with Chesser in a forward role.
  • Chesser is very fast - Chesser was in most of the drills with him and couldn't keep up.
  • Chesser is pale as buggery and still doesn't really have the body shape you'd expect of an AFL player.
  • There was a big bloke who pulled up next to me and I could have sworn it was Chesser, but I'm sure I was wrong...
  • Chesser was the player picked to kick the goal at the end today and nailed it. Celebrations were huge.
  • No sign of Chesser, Chesser or Chesser. Couldn't tell you why.
 
Dark Sharks said:
What does that article about Chesser say in the Worst Australian?
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He won’t be 100% for day 1 of preseason, but is currently doing change of direction work at high speed so he’s not far off.

Says he’s hoping to be fully participating in match sim when that starts in January.

He was on the Bray and Ethan podcast with Bazzo recently which is where The Worst is getting it from, it’s their most recent episode if you wanted to listen
 
juicebox1201 said:
He won’t be 100% for day 1 of preseason, but is currently doing change of direction work at high speed so he’s not far off.

Says he’s hoping to be fully participating in match sim when that starts in January.

He was on the Bray and Ethan podcast with Bazzo recently which is where The Worst is getting it from, it’s their most recent episode if you wanted to listen
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This ankle has genuinely stretched to ACL levels of time out. I had it in my head that he would have been fully fit a few weeks after the season ended
 
Here’s the article from the West:

Prized West Coast draftee Campbell Chesser won’t be 100 per cent ready to go on day one of pre-season as he continues to recover from a serious ankle injury.
There were high hopes for Chesser after he was taken with pick 14 in the 2021 draft, but his first season at the nest was cut short when he sustained a season-ending injury in a pre-season belting at the hands of Fremantle in February.
Chesser, 19, was on track for an early season debut for the untimely injury which occurred in a marking contest.
“Initially I didn’t think it (the injury) was too bad, it had swollen up pretty quickly,” Chesser told the Bray and Ethan Podcast.
“Scans initially indicated it might be two months (on the sidelines) but then we got more scans towards the back end of that week and I realised I’d be out for the whole season.
“It was disappointing, but unfortunately for the team, I had a few boys in rehab with me - Oscar Allen, Tom Cole, Dom Sheed - all kind of similar injuries. It was great to learn off of them from a training perspective this year.”
Chesser and the rest of the first to fourth-year Eagles are set to return to training officially on November 21, but Chesser said he won’t be at his best when they hit the track.
“I won’t be 100 per cent training when we go back in mid-November, but I will be able to do most stuff,” Chesser said.
“I am changing direction now, at full speed kind of stuff. It’s just how much total volume my ankle can kind of handle.
“Everything is trending in the right direction, it feels good so hopefully when we start playing match sim and that kind of stuff, hopefully, I’m involved in that which would be good.”
West Coast coach Adam Simpson had been excited by what he’d seen of Chesser last summer before the untimely injury.
“Quite often speed comes with a poor endurance base but he has both and athletically that is rare,” Simpson told The West Australian in February.
“We are not going to hold him back. If he is ready he will play without putting the weight of the world on his shoulders.”
The Victorian product still signed a contract extension until the end of 2025 despite the injury.


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