Training Pre-season Training 2017

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

I think if anything it would be an appraisal on the HBFers we have emerging. Cole, Rotham, Nelson, perhaps Watson and more will all be yearning for consideration in the coming years. With only Butler likely to fade from the mix soon after this year the ability to contort this mix is going to be important. I think, if anything, we'd be looking at occasional role for Wellers that means creating some space for him and letting him use his attack at the footy and pace, even of it's just to change up our dynamic for three or four centre bounces a game. Though this is inflating far too much for my liking based on a flimsy observation I may have made, so I'll probably leave it there.

 

[Tom_Thumb]

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

I wanted to give you more than one like for this, when Masten ( last of the terrible 5 ) goes back to WAFL we are rocking !!!

 

[SpaceClef]

Yeo definitely a feature in the middle.

Fml

 

[SpaceClef]

Good to see some more Willie love in here. He's a chubby ****er but he's clearly a natural forward and will dominate for years to come

 

[bUCKET__]

Loving the updates about Redden. You campaigners are ****ing grouse

 

[EagleShore]

Good to see some more Willie love in here. He's a chubby goose but he's clearly a natural forward and will dominate for years to come

A small forward who can crumb cleanly at pace...paramount.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

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?

Wellers played a more central role in the 2 seconds drill (i.e. kick only - make decision and off-load within 2 seconds) and was alongside Masten and Shuey. So in that sense, yes he was positioned more as a midfielder.

In terms of the other exercises that I saw, they were not really defined roles for midfield/forwards/defenders apart from some key hit up targets.

From a personal perspective, I would like to see him on the wing bringing run and carry. Like others said, I see the likes of Cole, Nelson, Butler and perhaps Yeo or Rotham playing that smaller defender role with pace to release Wellers forward. That said, he played more like a Clown Prince in his first 2 years and only found consistency when moved to defence.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Good to see some more Willie love in here. He's a chubby goose but he's clearly a natural forward and will dominate for years to come

They ran an exercise at pace whereby a 30 to 40 helicopter pass was contested and knocked to ground. The likes of Vardy, Giles, Barrass, etc were knocking it down to the ground and a coupld of instances Rioli looked the part crumbing and twice a clean pick up and once a roll and off-load. Could of been more that I missed but he looked smooth.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Get McDermott in the Aussie Tem

It aint cricket preseason dude. It's Cricket season. Geez, Keep on topic. Mods move this plz.

 

[2006_Eagles]

It aint cricket preseason dude. It's Cricket season. Geez, Keep on topic. Mods move this plz.

Cool your jets m8

 

[2006_Eagles]

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

Marsden got his name worn out?

 

[2006_Eagles]

 

[Benny 1234]

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.

Great post mate recently moved to Melbourne from Perth can't get to the sessions love reading the training info "the real ones" that is thanks a lot

 

[2006_Eagles]

Drew the real #TTHD?

Tackle The Homo Dead

 

[Abed]

Shred is looking a good size this preseason. Similar to Hurn in the upper body. Would like to see him permanently in the midfield this season. Hopefully he can stay on the track.

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[Suma Magic]

Hopefully Duggan is ok.

Thanks for the awesome training reports. Sounds like we're a lock to feature on Super Bowl Sunday.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Thanks for the awesome training reports.

No problem.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Cool your jetta m9

EFA

 

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

Great post mate recently moved to Melbourne from Perth can't get to the sessions love reading the training info "the real ones" that is thanks a lot

Glad to hear it and to provide my take when I get along. Hopefully it can be a more regular installment, I feel at odds with some of the drills and my evaluations therefrom.

 

[matt_bas]

matt_bas

Thoughts?

Pic or gtfo

 

[RookiePick]

Pic or gtfo

Do you want one with the dog filter or my junk?

 

[mattyc75]

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.

Pretty sure duggan trained for the whole session on Wednesday
Great write up

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[matt_bas]

Btw add me on Snapchathat boys it's @sedgyfergo.

Add me too. WellHung

 

[avishka5]

Add me too. WellHung

isnt it @mastowellhung ?

 

[matt_bas]

isnt it @mastowellhung ?

Nah is @almostaswellhungasmastos55