Training Pre-Season 2025 - Freo vs Melbourne @ Rushton Park Mandurah - 1510PM Sunday 02/03/2025

[vidwhal]

Fremantle Dockers 2025 Intraclub #2
23-02-2025​

Here ya go peeps. It doesn't look as nice as the first Intraclub as I overblew the brightness and caused the clarity to suffer but it is in 60fps so hopefully that helps.

Cheers.

 

[Sherriff Incorporated]

He seemed to get better at it towards the end of the year though. Definitely started paying off and he’d get some really good looks i50.

For what its worth Im not low on Johnson its more I'm a fan of Erasmus and Reid in a big way. Erasmus is looking superb and Reid could be too good to leave out. Its only training form so far so Ill obviously wait and see.

 

[Purple Pills]

For what its worth Im not low on Johnson its more I'm a fan of Erasmus and Reid in a big way. Erasmus is looking superb and Reid could be too good to leave out. Its only training form so far so Ill obviously wait and see.

That a good problem to have

 

[Sherriff Incorporated]

Here's my promised training report from today's match sims. I watched about 2/3's of the match sims so didnt see everything. Many players were wearing hats making player identification even more difficult. A ton of players weren't involved. Narkle, Sturt, Walker, Luke Jackson, Sean Darcy were in the rehab group. All look close to return bar perhaps Sturt. Im really confident Walker and Jackson will join in training next week. With many other players in the gym or on bikes. Fyfe only came out briefly and did some very low impact work including kicking a tennis ball for 20 minutes.
Hot, humid conditions. Skills were really good in my opinion.
Some of the more interesting things in the match sims included:
Serong, Erasmus and Reid spending time forward.
Erasmus kicked an outstanding goal from the pocket when he was forward. Serong spent pretty much all of the second quarter as his teams deepest forward where he looked great flying for pack marks. Interestingly when forward he was manned by Draper who was superb in the match sims today playing on mostly smalls. Draper's poise and kicking were superb. Reid spent time playing as a roaming forward and kicked a couple of great goals. One was when he roved a pack and snapped on the left. He spent most of his time midfield where his kicking and gut running were excellent. He is very small but if training form is anything to go by he'll be in the team sooner rather than later.

Erasmus looks fantastic. His kicking and decision making was excellent and like I said he impressed when forward. Neil's gut running looks to have gone to a new level this preseason. NOD also looks to have taken his fitness and gut running to a new level too as was in everything today playing mostly onball.

Ollie Murphy shapes as a huge improver in 2025. He's noticbly stronger and looks to have improved his speed over short distances too. In one piece of play today he ran off his man (Voss) to stop a certain goal with a fantastic smother. I think he's a genuine prospect on our list.

Riddle continues to impress with his movement around the ground. He took a really strong mark and kicked a great goal today.

I hadnt noticed our other tall draftee. Charlie Nicholls before today but today I made an effort to watch him a bit closer and although he didnt win a lot of the football you can see some exceptional athletic traits that show why we rated him. His speed off the mark is exceptional and once he gains some muscle he shapes as another tall with high upside potential on our list. He would be about as quick as Sturt from what Ive seen so very, very quick for a big man. Charlie's definitely taller than his listed 197cm.

Aish and Brodie also looked good at training today. Both look like they've improved their running since last sseason. Aish in particular is looking very decisive with ball in hand.

Cox is another who's impressing with his attitude to training. He is super lean and looking the fittest Ive seen him.

Anyway thats my very positive report on the match sim.

 

[King Huskii]

Here's my promised training report from today's match sims. I watched about 2/3's of the match sims so didnt see everything. Many players were wearing hats making player identification even more difficult. A ton of players weren't involved. Narkle, Sturt, Walker, Luke Jackson, Sean Darcy were in the rehab group. All look close to return bar perhaps Sturt. Im really confident Walker and Jackson will join in training next week. With many other players in the gym or on bikes. Fyfe only came out briefly and did some very low impact work including kicking a tennis ball for 20 minutes.
Hot, humid conditions. Skills were really good in my opinion.
Some of the more interesting things in the match sims included:
Serong, Erasmus and Reid spending time forward.
Erasmus kicked an outstanding goal from the pocket when he was forward. Serong spent pretty much all of the second quarter as his teams deepest forward where he looked great flying for pack marks. Interestingly when forward he was manned by Draper who was superb in the match sims today playing on mostly smalls. Draper's poise and kicking were superb. Reid spent time playing as a roaming forward and kicked a couple of great goals. One was when he roved a pack and snapped on the left. He spent most of his time midfield where his kicking and gut running were excellent. He is very small but if training form is anything to go by he'll be in the team sooner rather than later.

Erasmus looks fantastic. His kicking and decision making was excellent and like I said he impressed when forward. Neil's gut running looks to have gone to a new level this preseason. NOD also looks to have taken his fitness and gut running to a new level too as was in everything today playing mostly onball.

Ollie Murphy shapes as a huge improver in 2025. He's noticbly stronger and looks to have improved his speed over short distances too. In one piece of play today he ran off his man (Voss) to stop a certain goal with a fantastic smother. I think he's a genuine prospect on our list.

Riddle continues to impress with his movement around the ground. He took a really strong mark and kicked a great goal today.

I hadnt noticed our other tall draftee. Charlie Nicholls before today but today I made an effort to watch him a bit closer and although he didnt win a lot of the football you can see some exceptional athletic traits that show why we
rated him. His speed off the mark is exceptional and once he gains some muscle he shapes as another tall with high upside potential on our list. He would be about as quick as Sturt from what Ive seen so very, very quick for a big man.

Aish and Brodie also looked good at training today. Both look like they've improved their running since last sseason. Aish in particular is looking very decisive with ball in hand.

Cox is another who's impressing with his attitude to training. He is super lean and looking the fittest Ive seen him.

Anyway thats my very positive report on the match sim.

Brilliant

 

[ROGS]

Here's my promised training report from today's match sims. I watched about 2/3's of the match sims so didnt see everything. Many players were wearing hats making player identification even more difficult. A ton of players weren't involved. Narkle, Sturt, Walker, Luke Jackson, Sean Darcy were in the rehab group. All look close to return bar perhaps Sturt. Im really confident Walker and Jackson will join in training next week. With many other players in the gym or on bikes. Fyfe only came out briefly and did some very low impact work including kicking a tennis ball for 20 minutes.
Hot, humid conditions. Skills were really good in my opinion.
Some of the more interesting things in the match sims included:
Serong, Erasmus and Reid spending time forward.
Erasmus kicked an outstanding goal from the pocket when he was forward. Serong spent pretty much all of the second quarter as his teams deepest forward where he looked great flying for pack marks. Interestingly when forward he was manned by Draper who was superb in the match sims today playing on mostly smalls. Draper's poise and kicking were superb. Reid spent time playing as a roaming forward and kicked a couple of great goals. One was when he roved a pack and snapped on the left. He spent most of his time midfield where his kicking and gut running were excellent. He is very small but if training form is anything to go by he'll be in the team sooner rather than later.

Erasmus looks fantastic. His kicking and decision making was excellent and like I said he impressed when forward. Neil's gut running looks to have gone to a new level this preseason. NOD also looks to have taken his fitness and gut running to a new level too as was in everything today playing mostly onball.

Ollie Murphy shapes as a huge improver in 2025. He's noticbly stronger and looks to have improved his speed over short distances too. In one piece of play today he ran off his man (Voss) to stop a certain goal with a fantastic smother. I think he's a genuine prospect on our list.

Riddle continues to impress with his movement around the ground. He took a really strong mark and kicked a great goal today.

I hadnt noticed our other tall draftee. Charlie Nicholls before today but today I made an effort to watch him a bit closer and although he didnt win a lot of the football you can see some exceptional athletic traits that show why we
rated him. His speed off the mark is exceptional and once he gains some muscle he shapes as another tall with high upside potential on our list. He would be about as quick as Sturt from what Ive seen so very, very quick for a big man.

Aish and Brodie also looked good at training today. Both look like they've improved their running since last sseason. Aish in particular is looking very decisive with ball in hand.

Cox is another who's impressing with his attitude to training. He is super lean and looking the fittest Ive seen him.

Anyway thats my very positive report on the match sim.

Agree with all of the above, only saw the first two quarters as soo hot
For me BOG was Noddy then Ras and Sharpy
Darcy looked OK in the rehab group but still has a bit of a limp (no knee bandage)
Davies wore a hat and matched up Jye
Fast freedy was just that

 

[King Huskii]

Agree with all of the above, only saw the first two quarters as soo hot
For me BOG was Noddy then Ras and Sharpy
Darcy looked OK in the rehab group but still has a bit of a limp (no knee bandage)
Davies wore a hat and matched up Jye
Fast freedy was just that

Lovely

 

[Minz]

Limp on Darcy
Training reports in the training thread…

 

[King Huskii]

Limp on Darcy
Training reports in the training thread…

Bloody Sepultura fans clogging up the thread

 

[Mr Cheese]

Here's my promised training report from today's match sims. I watched about 2/3's of the match sims so didnt see everything. Many players were wearing hats making player identification even more difficult. A ton of players weren't involved. Narkle, Sturt, Walker, Luke Jackson, Sean Darcy were in the rehab group. All look close to return bar perhaps Sturt. Im really confident Walker and Jackson will join in training next week. With many other players in the gym or on bikes. Fyfe only came out briefly and did some very low impact work including kicking a tennis ball for 20 minutes.
Hot, humid conditions. Skills were really good in my opinion.
Some of the more interesting things in the match sims included:
Serong, Erasmus and Reid spending time forward.
Erasmus kicked an outstanding goal from the pocket when he was forward. Serong spent pretty much all of the second quarter as his teams deepest forward where he looked great flying for pack marks. Interestingly when forward he was manned by Draper who was superb in the match sims today playing on mostly smalls. Draper's poise and kicking were superb. Reid spent time playing as a roaming forward and kicked a couple of great goals. One was when he roved a pack and snapped on the left. He spent most of his time midfield where his kicking and gut running were excellent. He is very small but if training form is anything to go by he'll be in the team sooner rather than later.

Erasmus looks fantastic. His kicking and decision making was excellent and like I said he impressed when forward. Neil's gut running looks to have gone to a new level this preseason. NOD also looks to have taken his fitness and gut running to a new level too as was in everything today playing mostly onball.

Ollie Murphy shapes as a huge improver in 2025. He's noticbly stronger and looks to have improved his speed over short distances too. In one piece of play today he ran off his man (Voss) to stop a certain goal with a fantastic smother. I think he's a genuine prospect on our list.

Riddle continues to impress with his movement around the ground. He took a really strong mark and kicked a great goal today.

I hadnt noticed our other tall draftee. Charlie Nicholls before today but today I made an effort to watch him a bit closer and although he didnt win a lot of the football you can see some exceptional athletic traits that show why we
rated him. His speed off the mark is exceptional and once he gains some muscle he shapes as another tall with high upside potential on our list. He would be about as quick as Sturt from what Ive seen so very, very quick for a big man. Charlie's definitely taller than his listed 197cm.

Aish and Brodie also looked good at training today. Both look like they've improved their running since last sseason. Aish in particular is looking very decisive with ball in hand.

Cox is another who's impressing with his attitude to training. He is super lean and looking the fittest Ive seen him.

Anyway thats my very positive report on the match sim.

Great, but what did you think of the triple J 100?

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[BREATHLESS_987]

Erasmus looks fantastic. His kicking and decision making was excellent and like I said he impressed when forward. Neil's gut running looks to have gone to a new level this preseason. NOD also looks to have taken his fitness and gut running to a new level too as was in everything today playing mostly onball.

This part does not surprise me in the slightest. I witnessed Ras training on his own - late December, during the squads Christmas break mind you, before 7am. Doing a mix of sprints and mid distance running at pace. He was absolutely torturing himself, to the point he was bent over heaving. It was actually pretty amazing to witness someone push themselves that hard without any coaches/teammates around.

 

[King Huskii]

This part does not surprise me in the slightest. I witnessed Ras training on his own - late December, during the squads Christmas break mind you, before 7am. Doing a mix of sprints and mid distance running at pace. He was absolutely torturing himself, to the point he was bent over heaving. It was actually pretty amazing to witness someone push themselves that hard without any coaches/teammates around.

He may or may not make it but it's hard to argue that he isn't 100% committed to being the best he can be

 

[MadMundy]

Have we received any word on Bolton's calf?

 

[FreoMatt]

Have we received any word on Bolton's calf?

The West saying it is an ankle injury not a calf. If correct that is a good result, but I don’t really trust the West reporters to get it right.


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[BettercallSaul]

Have we received any word on Bolton's calf?

The West saying it is an ankle injury not a calf. If correct that is a good result, but I don’t really trust the West reporters to get it right.


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He was working out on equipment just below us and he didn’t have any strapping on or appeared troubled by anything FWIW.

 

[Sully90]

he's a great tactical sub

I'd actually have him the other way around. Perfect player to start and give a role, then he's someone we can sub for a more dynamic player if need be.

 

[MadMundy]

Have we received any word on Bolton's calf?

The West saying it is an ankle injury not a calf. If correct that is a good result, but I don’t really trust the West reporters to get it right.


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Thank God, I need him tearing it up for us this year.

 

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WHO IMPRESSED​

MURPHY REID: The first-round draftee looks to be settling into life as an AFL footballer after a quiet start to pre-season. Reid, who has earned the nickname ‘Bruce,’ took a strong mark on the lead in the first quarter. Playing at half-forward, he finished with a few score involvements to his name and he made good decisions under pressure.

 

[greatgatsby]

I just reckon Johnson thinks he is stronger than he actually is. He is clearly being coached to take the tackle on and then release the handball, but he keeps taking the wrong tackle on from what I have seen both at training and within games the last year or so

I recall Fyfe while miked up at training a couple of years ago telling Johnson he was becoming the strongest guy at the club. Maybe that didn't work so well as motivation.

 

[eastfreo75]

I just reckon Johnson thinks he is stronger than he actually is. He is clearly being coached to take the tackle on and then release the handball, but he keeps taking the wrong tackle on from what I have seen both at training and within games the last year or so

100% agree.

Needs to either step the tackle, get rid of the ball or just hold the ball in.

Same goes with Fyfe as well. He just doesn't have his old strength in his shoulders to break tackles. So many times he got called for holding the ball. Time to adjust.

 

[eastfreo75]

I recall Fyfe while miked up at training a couple of years ago telling Johnson he was becoming the strongest guy at the club. Maybe that didn't work so well as motivation.

Johnson is in no man's land. Not quick or strong but in the middle. Because we have so many inside players, he needs to work on his gut running and the ability to hit targets.

 

[Jezzitizle]

He may or may not make it but it's hard to argue that he isn't 100% committed to being the best he can be

Sort of thing that makes you get right in his corner.

Those are the guys who will still be running hard at the end of a tight game.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

He may or may not make it but it's hard to argue that he isn't 100% committed to being the best he can be

Living the mantra. I hope he makes it, he's got a bit of mongrel in him and we need that.

 

[malpaso]

Have we received any word on Bolton's calf?

The West saying it is an ankle injury not a calf. If correct that is a good result, but I don’t really trust the West reporters to get it right.


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I'd imagine we don't want him playing in the match so have thrown up the injury flag..

 

[malpaso]

Johnson is in no man's land. Not quick or strong but in the middle. Because we have so many inside players, he needs to work on his gut running and the ability to hit targets.

Disagree, Johnson is strong and breaks tackles with his hips. Funny how Ras is TTHD and Johnson is now rubbish..
Both players are young, heaps of development coming..

 

[#1JohnHuttonFan]

I'd imagine we don't want him playing in the match so have thrown up the injury flag..

Was thinking the same thing. But then thought surely we wouldn’t have asked him not to play the indigenous game? It’s got to be pretty special for those guys you would think?