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how was sheed? is a lot bigger than what he was at the end of last season.
I tried to keep an eye on Dom (I'm his sponsor eep). As others have said he can be tricky to spot. Looked out for backwards cap and slight hunch. Nevertheless frankly he didn't stand out a whole lot dimensionally or in play. Not necessarily a bad thing but not very exciting. Can't say he looks a whole lot bigger, though I didn't really get a decent look at him last year after the pec layoff. Missed a gettable goal. Gosh I'm the worst sponsor. Will keep monitoring.
 
Actually, at one point during the intense sprints and 50/50s for the mids he lead the group back to the centre. Parto did that for another one of the iterations. Those two both looked pretty puffed after the next one though.
 

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nice write up JoshWoodenSpoon - I will try to add in my 10 cents worth although I did not see the full session

The runners:

Karpany spent the time running hard to build his endurance. I sense they are trying to build his tank as he was relentless in his 300 to 400 metre sprints and he was putting in

Lycett - ran laps - faster than before Christmas and hence at that pace showing a more pronounced limp.

Duggan was running under the clock with a trainer so not sure if it was stamina or precautionary
 

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Alrighty, expecting much of this to be interpreted as memes but so it goes.
Just going to be a roughly chronological ramble through things I jotted down.

Venables' body is comparable to that of AFL players.
Willie is pretty barrel-chested, quite a unit. Obviously not an extreme aerobic specimen but not especially chubby at the moment.
Sammy Buttman had a lively yarn to share about chasing someone down in the street? "Suck it up, bitch."
Scotty L running laps.
Cole is pretty slender.
Music playing as players warm up. "Imagine being in Brazil, this music's playing, you're drinking Corona, there's Brazilian girls around you in bikinis..." -Nico
Jetts is less skinny than I would have pictured.
Duggan walking/jogging (very low-intensity) with a trainer during the warm-up run-throughs.
Lamby motored past me and gave me a look on the way to the dunnies. Still trying to interpret it.
Matty Allen is a stocky customer.
Waterman's upper body is pretty developed.
Squad divided into groups and each tries to reach ten goals from set shots.
Sam Mitchell is ******* around with a footy at every opportunity.
Some quotes from Mitch:
"Snadden doesn't miss."
"Boots have you still got the yips?"
"Can we just get Willie to kick ten in a row?" (Not joking)
Followed by:
"Willie, don't ****en' let me down again."
Rotham is skinny but skillful.
Yeo sprayed one 35 degrees.
Karps just gathering water, kicking back balls, solo sprints around one boundary.
Wet weather prep. with esky ball. Gather and give hands.
Watson is rangey just has solid legs.
EZ looks fine, at least as big as Sexual. Perhaps light in the legs but overall not a worry.
Mutimer is really really big.
Duggan, who has yet to train, is now moved to the top oval. Still just jogging with a trainer.
Jake exhibits good hands on the deck.
Duggan leaves with boots off at 10.10am.
Lycett toiling through some runs still.
Cole, Lamb, DV, JK, Gov, Waterman out of the contact/tackling drills.
Waterman is taken for some contested marking coaching.
DV running laps.
Parto really good in traffic.
Cole/Lamb/JK goal kicking.
A match sim. kicks in.
Karps doing 20/30m running, being coached somewhat and doing side-to-sides on the top oval.
Some old cobb (hopefully not one of you) complains to me about things for 20 minutes.
Yeo gets reprimanded for not getting into position swiftly enough.
Vardy lays a great tackle on the wing.
Lamb cleans up beautifully at half back flank, spots a player in the corridor and delivers a superb, flat kick. Receives it back and dispatches it to the outer wing.
Lycett doing some tepid agility work.
Group splits between the ovals- mids + Vards + Joffa + Drew up top, defenders and forwards stay.
Cole doing some runs.
Mids playing a truncated game, focused around clearances. Placed in different parts of the ground by Hick's instruction.
Yeo performs pleasingly in this.
Moves to a more expansive, free-flowing kicking drill. At first two teams then conjoined.
Sammy Mitchell mixes up proceedings constantly- spoils when he has a mark to himself, grubbers kicks gruesomely etc.
After this, Vardy has ice on the inside of his left knee (not the prior ACL one). Said it wasn't and ACL feeling and really didn't seem at all dejected when talking to Venables. Not good but there wasn't much sense of despair so here's hoping.
1050 Willie and Tarir head off to watch, as the group reconvenes and a 9v9 foll-ground match begins, scores being taken.
Drewy lays a HUGE tackle on Masto and everyone rejoices.
Barrass won a great running contest with JK.
More players are added.
Giles with a swell contested grab and goal on a forward flank.
Mitch seriously vocal- yells at Lamb for not checking Dom closely enough, and at JK for not collecting the ball after a goal.
1100 Waterman joins Bayok and Rioli.
Francis, Redden and Yeo doing contested bodywork with Nico beside the game for 10mins, then are joined by Willie and Jake to run a few laps.
JD playing very well on Gov, has Schoey switched on to him.
Seems like there's some spice, and an incentive behind a win for either side.
Game #s dropped again.
Last drill. Mids separate from FWD/BACK.
Tarir/Willie back in mix.
Mids pair up and sprint forward from the centre. Then participate in a boundary throw in, contesting with their partners. Once resolved, each pair engage in 50/50 scraps for ground balls. After 10 or so, group is mustered through cones on the spring back, and then we repeat this twice more.
A pretty grueling exercise.
Closest contest to me was Redden and Shuey. Redden looked the fresher of the two and overall had Shuey's number. Was quick to encourage Boots once they were on the sprint back.
Meanwhile the F/B group were doing 30m sprints in pairs, then turning to have the forward lead to a kick. Then a 50m run (most took this very easy) to the goal square.
Nelson was very good in this matched up against Cripps.
SURPRISE EXTRA DRILLS
Eskies are back for some.
Redden, Mitchell, Mutimer, one or two more and WELLINGHAM roving to Gilesy and Drew. Wellingham not with the backs, who are doing 1 on 1 high contests with the forwards.
Rotham's kicking again excellent.
Franky seems to have participated in the whole session, haven't noticed Gorter.
Pretty much wraps up now, with Yeo kicking some balls out from the square and players gradually dispersing.

If anyone has any queries or wants specific player or drill information I will do my best to share it.
Brilliant, as i said earlier.. what a wild card Redden could be.
 
Goal kicking

There seemed to be a more competitive approach to this drill with players needing to keep score and report back at the end on their net score. There was quite some banter between the players and as Josh stated - some of the players were raising expectations.

Of the goal kicking, Mutimer was crap. I watched 6 of his shots and 5 missed from about 40 metres. Forgetting the score, his kicking had little follow through and was disappointing.

Three of interest - Shuey was sublime, McGovern was long and strong but copped a load from Mitchell when he missed one and Rioli looks so relaxed.

Funny to see that Masten under no pressure kicked longer and better than he does in the game.
 
JoshWoodenSpoon how was my boy Lewis?
Did pretty well.
As I said I was surprised that he isn't more slight (skinny calves admittedly).
I am a fan. Was played around the ball consistently, with some brief time as a back.
 
The 2 Second Drill

Players in an area about 75 m by 30 m and urged to get the ball to a target within 2 seconds. No hand passing - keep the ball off the deck and hit up short targets.

This went well with the exception of Brophy who seemed to need more like 5 seconds to think and then line up.

Shuey was brilliant in this and set the standard. No tackling so Masten also gave a good showing. MacKenzie was surprisingly accurate. Bayok looked to have poor composure and was a notable missed targets.

Wellers, Shuey and Masten seemed to spend a lot of time in the centre corridor in this exercise and showed clean skills
 
At Pace

There were 2 groups spending time kicking the ball up and a deliberate knock to ground, crumbing at pace and getting the ball off cleanly.

Again Shuey sets the standard but a couple who came to note were Rioli and Sheed - they seemed to excel in this exercise.

Add in that Redden excelled in this drill
 

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Tight in drills

Similar to the exercises before Christmas with close in and high pressure contact.

Of positive note were Nelson, Barrass and Watson

There were particularly tough on calling out for players not able to free themselves and being caught and criticism for players either taking on a tackle and failing and getting out a rubbish handpass
 

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Alrighty, expecting much of this to be interpreted as memes but so it goes.
Just going to be a roughly chronological ramble through things I jotted down.

Venables' body is comparable to that of AFL players.
Willie is pretty barrel-chested, quite a unit. Obviously not an extreme aerobic specimen but not especially chubby at the moment.
Sammy Buttman had a lively yarn to share about chasing someone down in the street? "Suck it up, bitch."
Scotty L running laps.
Cole is pretty slender.
Music playing as players warm up. "Imagine being in Brazil, this music's playing, you're drinking Corona, there's Brazilian girls around you in bikinis..." -Nico
Jetts is less skinny than I would have pictured.
Duggan walking/jogging (very low-intensity) with a trainer during the warm-up run-throughs.
Lamby motored past me and gave me a look on the way to the dunnies. Still trying to interpret it.
Matty Allen is a stocky customer.
Waterman's upper body is pretty developed.
Squad divided into groups and each tries to reach ten goals from set shots.
Sam Mitchell is ******* around with a footy at every opportunity.
Some quotes from Mitch:
"Snadden doesn't miss."
"Boots have you still got the yips?"
"Can we just get Willie to kick ten in a row?" (Not joking)
Followed by:
"Willie, don't ****en' let me down again."
Rotham is skinny but skillful.
Yeo sprayed one 35 degrees.
Karps just gathering water, kicking back balls, solo sprints around one boundary.
Wet weather prep. with esky ball. Gather and give hands.
Watson is rangey just has solid legs.
EZ looks fine, at least as big as Sexual. Perhaps light in the legs but overall not a worry.
Mutimer is really really big.
Duggan, who has yet to train, is now moved to the top oval. Still just jogging with a trainer.
Jake exhibits good hands on the deck.
Duggan leaves with boots off at 10.10am.
Lycett toiling through some runs still.
Cole, Lamb, DV, JK, Gov, Waterman out of the contact/tackling drills.
Waterman is taken for some contested marking coaching.
DV running laps.
Parto really good in traffic.
Cole/Lamb/JK goal kicking.
A match sim. kicks in.
Karps doing 20/30m running, being coached somewhat and doing side-to-sides on the top oval.
Some old cobb (hopefully not one of you) complains to me about things for 20 minutes.
Yeo gets reprimanded for not getting into position swiftly enough.
Vardy lays a great tackle on the wing.
Lamb cleans up beautifully at half back flank, spots a player in the corridor and delivers a superb, flat kick. Receives it back and dispatches it to the outer wing.
Lycett doing some tepid agility work.
Group splits between the ovals- mids + Vards + Joffa + Drew up top, defenders and forwards stay.
Cole doing some runs.
Mids playing a truncated game, focused around clearances. Placed in different parts of the ground by Hick's instruction.
Yeo performs pleasingly in this.
Moves to a more expansive, free-flowing kicking drill. At first two teams then conjoined.
Sammy Mitchell mixes up proceedings constantly- spoils when he has a mark to himself, grubbers kicks gruesomely etc.
After this, Vardy has ice on the inside of his left knee (not the prior ACL one). Said it wasn't and ACL feeling and really didn't seem at all dejected when talking to Venables. Not good but there wasn't much sense of despair so here's hoping.
1050 Willie and Tarir head off to watch, as the group reconvenes and a 9v9 foll-ground match begins, scores being taken.
Drewy lays a HUGE tackle on Masto and everyone rejoices.
Barrass won a great running contest with JK.
More players are added.
Giles with a swell contested grab and goal on a forward flank.
Mitch seriously vocal- yells at Lamb for not checking Dom closely enough, and at JK for not collecting the ball after a goal.
1100 Waterman joins Bayok and Rioli.
Francis, Redden and Yeo doing contested bodywork with Nico beside the game for 10mins, then are joined by Willie and Jake to run a few laps.
JD playing very well on Gov, has Schoey switched on to him.
Seems like there's some spice, and an incentive behind a win for either side.
Game #s dropped again.
Last drill. Mids separate from FWD/BACK.
Tarir/Willie back in mix.
Mids pair up and sprint forward from the centre. Then participate in a boundary throw in, contesting with their partners. Once resolved, each pair engage in 50/50 scraps for ground balls. After 10 or so, group is mustered through cones on the spring back, and then we repeat this twice more.
A pretty grueling exercise.
Closest contest to me was Redden and Shuey. Redden looked the fresher of the two and overall had Shuey's number. Was quick to encourage Boots once they were on the sprint back.
Meanwhile the F/B group were doing 30m sprints in pairs, then turning to have the forward lead to a kick. Then a 50m run (most took this very easy) to the goal square.
Nelson was very good in this matched up against Cripps.
SURPRISE EXTRA DRILLS
Eskies are back for some.
Redden, Mitchell, Mutimer, one or two more and WELLINGHAM roving to Gilesy and Drew. Wellingham not with the backs, who are doing 1 on 1 high contests with the forwards.
Rotham's kicking again excellent.
Franky seems to have participated in the whole session, haven't noticed Gorter.
Pretty much wraps up now, with Yeo kicking some balls out from the square and players gradually dispersing.

If anyone has any queries or wants specific player or drill information I will do my best to share it.
Nice work mate.
 
Alrighty, expecting much of this to be interpreted as memes but so it goes.
Just going to be a roughly chronological...snip .

Couple of things jump out of this excellent summary.

Firstly it seems we have a new captain and his name is Sam Mitchel. Campaigner seems to be here on a f**king mission, he's everywhere and I wouldn't be surprised if our midfield is transformed by his presence. Cannot underestimate what 1 quality on field general can do.

Wellingham in a roving role is why we recruited him in the first-place. Perhaps there's a sense one of more of the new additions can lock down a rebound defending role which could release Wella's up the ground. A circa 2015 Wellingham in the middle would be a beautiful thing...

From all reports seems Masten has been overtaken by about half a dozen fringe 22 types. IMO a sign we are genuine contenders next year will be if Masten plays more than 10 games at East Perth.

I really like Willie o_O
 
Mitchell's involvement is everything I wanted as soon as I heard about the-then rumoured trade. And stopped pinching myself.
LeCras permanent forward and Wellingham in the guts both sound excellent.
Yeo needs to stop teasing us.
I hope Vardy is OK.

EDIT: Shuey getting owned by Redden is drool-worthy. Not because I'm afraid Shuey has gone from Club Champion to East Perth player, but that Redden is finally ready to play.
 
Couple of things jump out of this excellent summary.

Firstly it seems we have a new captain and his name is Sam Mitchel. Campaigner seems to be here on a f**king mission, he's everywhere and I wouldn't be surprised if our midfield is transformed by his presence. Cannot underestimate what 1 quality on field general can do.

Wellingham in a roving role is why we recruited him in the first-place. Perhaps there's a sense one of more of the new additions can lock down a rebound defending role which could release Wella's up the ground. A circa 2015 Wellingham in the middle would be a beautiful thing...

From all reports seems Masten has been overtaken by about half a dozen fringe 22 types. IMO a sign we are genuine contenders next year will be if Masten plays more than 10 games at East Perth.

I really like Willie o_O
The Wellingham move is far form concrete it should be said. I only noticed him in that session (the last of the day) participating with a pretty select group. Took me a while to be confident it was him (had a cap on front-ways!), but he definitely wasn't with the backs at that point. Perhaps Asterix can affirm?
 

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