Training Preseason Training Thread - 2024/25

[Schmedit]

Can you give more details about your first sentence and how it all worked? Was Dumb Puke there, or did he attend via zoom? Did Tim Gepp conduct body cavity searches upon entry and exit of the facilities?

Give us more man!

2 groups of 10, ages 18-30, mix of guys and girls.
Full tour of club facilities which was a cool behind the scenes, then into a conference room for pizzas and a chat.

Was mainly about how the club can better connect with this demo, improve the membership/matchday experience. How this demo consumed content etc...

Pretty much everyone there was all in on song sucks, banner is better than inflatable eagle, club caters to the kids or the oldies and in-between is lost, GameDay experience could be improved and the club needs to up its social media game in regards to being more open with the players and behind the scenes.

No pykey or senior hierarchy there but was all recorded so I'm sure they'll get the message.

Highlight was fines wheel in the players locker room, $400 for stealing and a selfie with Geppys glasses.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Don't mind it.

 

[shoutsatclouds]

Is that Billy Brownless walking next Ginbey?

Strauchanie requested a trade to play alongside Harley.

Got papped with the wrong bloke...

 

[We_The_West]

Good to get down to training again. Solid session this morning - plenty of ball movement focused drills with regular sets of running to break it up. A little bit of contested work in the middle but mostly flowing drills practicing kicking and ball movement. The players came out just after 9:30 and began slowly trickling inside after 11, with everyone finished up by 11:45.

I counted roughly 26 on track with the following players unsighted: Ryan, Sheed, Hunt, Yeo, Kelly, Gov, Petch, Flynn, Cole, BWilliams, Edwards, Graham. Some more notes:

• Owies and Baker made their first appearances on the track. Both looked fine
• Burgiel trained
• Of those 26, Hutchinson and Jamieson did the least. To start they walked laps for about 15 mins, before heading to the grandstand to do some work on the stairs. Didn’t spot them anymore after around 10:20
• Got a close look at him and it looks to me like Hutchinson has added some size over the off season
• Harley and Long warmed up with the main group but otherwise completed a separate training session with a trainer - Reid obviously with his concussion, and I’d imagine Long is in the final stages of his recovery from his PCL surgery. They completed run throughs, agility work and some kicking and finished up around 11.
• Just on Harley - he does look a touch heavy, but to me it looks like it’s more extra muscle rather than him eating too many pies. He’s moving alright, although he dropped behind Long after a while with the running. I don’t think it’s much cause for concern as (a) Long is a very good runner and (b) he has plenty of time (4 months) to shed any extra kilos before the start of the season.
• And on Long - looks in good nick, seems to have added a little bit of size. Skills a bit rusty today but can probably be forgiven for that given the injury he’s coming back from.
• Brockman did the first hour with the main group before splitting off with a trainer and doing run throughs, agility work and tackling. Finished up around 11:15. He looks in good shape to me, if I were to guess he’s probably in the final stages of his recovery from the syndesmosis injury he had last season, rather than any issues with his fitness.
• Archer Reid seemed to sit out a couple of the drills but otherwise trained fully and looks okay
• Spotted some of the new coaches out there - Bello, Hurn and interestingly, Harry Taylor and Daisy Pearce were out there too wearing the coaches uniform.
• Liked what I saw from Hewett today - often saw him in the front half of the running groups, kicking looked sharp and was moving well.
• Also liking the look of Bazzo - looks an imposing size now, moving well and didn’t see him miss a kick all day
• Cripps continues to set the standard on the track - looks in really good nick and was regularly at the front of the running group
• As mentioned the group did sets of running regularly throughout the session, and you can often take a fair bit from the order they run in. At the front of the pack there was usually Ginbey, Dewar and Cripps, with Waterman, Duggan, Hall, Johnston and Hewett in that next group. Jack Williams was among the fastest of the taller players.
• Allen was the last on the track and finished with 10-15 minutes of set shot goal kicking practice
• They trained on Oval 2 today which made it much easier to watch - Oval 1 is having some work done on the turf.

Cheers for the write up!

Great to read that Dewar, Johnston, Hall, and Hewett are all impressing early on.

Bazzo and Williams TTHD is some bloody good news. Heard Duggan say on Backchat that Archer Reid was moving really well too.

Excited to see if Brockman can take the next step and really happy to hear how Mini has a blank canvas philosophy coming into the club.

 

[kane249]

2 groups of 10, ages 18-30, mix of guys and girls.
Full tour of club facilities which was a cool behind the scenes, then into a conference room for pizzas and a chat.

Was mainly about how the club can better connect with this demo, improve the membership/matchday experience. How this demo consumed content etc...

Pretty much everyone there was all in on song sucks, banner is better than inflatable eagle, club caters to the kids or the oldies and in-between is lost, GameDay experience could be improved and the club needs to up its social media game in regards to being more open with the players and behind the scenes.

No pykey or senior hierarchy there but was all recorded so I'm sure they'll get the message.

Highlight was fines wheel in the players locker room, $400 for stealing and a selfie with Geppys glasses.

Yeah Pykey or senior hierarchy weren't there at all...


"It's just an old creaky mirror and sometimes it sounds like it's sneezing, or coughing, or talking softly"

 

[Mattman93]

2 groups of 10, ages 18-30, mix of guys and girls.
Full tour of club facilities which was a cool behind the scenes, then into a conference room for pizzas and a chat.

Was mainly about how the club can better connect with this demo, improve the membership/matchday experience. How this demo consumed content etc...

Pretty much everyone there was all in on song sucks, banner is better than inflatable eagle, club caters to the kids or the oldies and in-between is lost, GameDay experience could be improved and the club needs to up its social media game in regards to being more open with the players and behind the scenes.

No pykey or senior hierarchy there but was all recorded so I'm sure they'll get the message.

Highlight was fines wheel in the players locker room, $400 for stealing and a selfie with Geppys glasses.

Was there any (correct) suggestion that the song should be entirely new, not just reverted back to some version of the old one which sucks anyway?

Personally I prefer the inflatable race to a banner and don't really care about our social media game, but at least they're trying to listen I guess.

 

[WCErevival]

Is Owies related to Razor Ray?

 

[Schmedit]

Was there any (correct) suggestion that the song should be entirely new, not just reverted back to some version of the old one which sucks anyway?

Personally I prefer the inflatable race to a banner and don't really care about our social media game, but at least they're trying to listen I guess.

Yes that was also a strong suggestion, was 50/50 old song to an entirely new song, but that was just my group though.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

**** no. Go back to the 2018 version. If they do a new one they’ll just **** it up even more.

 

[PremiershipNo4]

Was there any (correct) suggestion that the song should be entirely new, not just reverted back to some version of the old one which sucks anyway?

Personally I prefer the inflatable race to a banner and don't really care about our social media game, but at least they're trying to listen I guess.

I’m pretty sure you’d be in minority with the blow up pool toy.

 

[WestCoast05]

** no. Go back to the 2018 version. If they do a new one they’ll just ** it up even more.

Agreed. Or some very similar form of it. We know it works because ppl used to belt it out after a win.
Our heritage is 80s glitz, so we should embrace the heritage that we actually do have. From the theme song to the old logo we should embrace our history.

 

[Avalor]

I am another one who prefers the inflatable eagle's head.

 

[1sttermfadeout]

I like the uniqueness of the blow up race. would be pretty happy to keep it long term. I never got the fascination with a banner.

 

[EaglesVille]

Inflatable is a bit tacky
That old inflatable anchor that used to sit up top of subi for Dockers home games was cringe as