Training Training reports 2024

[North1411]

What about intensity in the forward 50. Particularly defensive intensity among the forwards. We were the worst in the league this year for tackles inside 50.

Have you seen at training any likely suspects among the forward line emerging with signs of pressure befitting an AFL team? (I take it Simpkin still trains with the mids, even though I would have him as the most likely competent pressure forward given his athletic profile?)

To be fair, it was not in there a lot. Hard to tackle inside 50 when the balls not there

 

[Wonderdog]

19. Griff

Structurally so important now that BMac has gone. Had a reasonable first year including pinch hitting in the ruck, but down back is his gig. Our best tall intercepting defender getting his knee right and him back in the team is a priority. He and Corr provide the height and experience to stabilise the backline with the other tall defenders being unknown quantities.

 

[Wonderdog]

20. Souva

A perfect example of letting big fellas develop their bodies and craft in the VFL before being regular AFL players. After 2 unconvincing games in his first 2 years he is now an All-Australian. Has improved each year and gets goals from his high work rate, leading and one-on-one play. A team leader he will get even better if we can develop a reliable tall sidekick.

 

[The_General#1]

We don’t have any outside of our vfl listed boys yet

Why we wouldn't bring in some kids that didn't get drafted is mind boggling.

 

[Mixed Results]

Jy was very dangerous as a small forward and got on the scoreboard quite a bit. Fisher looks real good as a small defender and rebounder.

Fisher being able to look after a Lincoln McCarthy or Brent Daniels type would help out our structure a lot.

I wonder if after promising signs we see Bergman, Goater, and Archer all relegated to the VFL to start the year.

I can easily picture a back six of Corr, Pink, Comben, McDonald, Fisher, and McKercher in round one. With Sheezel perhaps rotating in as well.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Why we wouldn't bring in some kids that didn't get drafted is mind boggling.

that and recently delisted afl players that might be worth a closer look at training and seeing if they gel with the group to try and fill the last list spot

 

[Passmore]

Why we wouldn't bring in some kids that didn't get drafted is mind boggling.

Kade Delarue would qualify as that. There is/was one other kid who's name escapes me.

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[The Nostradamus]

Kade Delarue would qualify as that. There is/was one other kid who's name escapes me.

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he's signed onto our vfl list and tbh will be lucky to get games at that level

be nice to bring in some others outside our vfl list as train ons like other clubs are doing that have a spot to fill

 

[Orange Peanut]

Why we wouldn't bring in some kids that didn't get drafted is mind boggling.

Brady's been stuck on hold with GWS for so long the good ones have been grabbed by other clubs

 

[The Nostradamus]

Brady's been stuck on hold with GWS for so long the good ones have been grabbed by other clubs

rumour has it brady didn't realise he needs to actually click the ring button after inputting the numbers

 

[The Brady Bunch]

Fisher being able to look after a Lincoln McCarthy or Brent Daniels type would help out our structure a lot.

I wonder if after promising signs we see Bergman, Goater, and Archer all relegated to the VFL to start the year.

I can easily picture a back six of Corr, Pink, Comben, McDonald, Fisher, and McKercher in round one. With Sheezel perhaps rotating in as well.

Just quietly, I wouldn't be surprised if Kal Dawson plays a fair bit of football early next season, just based on what I've seen at the last two training sessions. If he's able to wrap his head around team defence strategies and positioning, I feel that he's doing everything else right to push for selection.

 

[trooroo4life]

Headed down to training this morning. Shirt and shorts were an awful choice, very windy.

They started off with match sim, seemed to be about 10-15 minute quarters, wasn’t keeping track. Few players missing LDU didn’t play, but joined in with skills and running after. Seemed to be a good level of intensity. Xerri got a bake off Tom Lynch at one stage for sling tackling and dumping PC hard into the ground. Greenwood got a bake a few times from Clarko for his decision making, few expletives yelled across the ground. All in all it was ok, conditions weren’t great for a showcase on skills.

Some observations on individuals:

• Wardlaw: just an absolutely terrific footballer to watch. Was probably the standout for me today. His inside work was fantastic, plenty of fends and spins out of traffic. Looks great.
• Fisher: sprayed a few but was very vocal across half back getting everyone into position.
• Scott: likewise very, very vocal. Played defence all 4 quarters and looked very good rebounding from defence.
• Sheezel: rotated off half back into the middle repeatedly. To say he looks in great shape is an understatement. Has worked hard.
• Stephens: very impressive. Rotated through half back, wing and half forward. When he played on the wing he dropped back regularly as a loose behind the ball. Was clean in traffic and kicked it well.
• Goater: played back the entire sim. Few nice intercepts and used the ball pretty well imo. Clarko would call set plays at random times, everytime he called for a d50 set play it was Goats taking the kick.
• Phillips: very solid, probably up there with Wardlaw as the pick of the day.
• McKercher: first time watching in person, incredibly quick and a hard runner. Sprayed one kick a mile out of bounds but then from there on was super clean. Will be a weapon off half back, stocked up on a lot of one-twos and broke lines.
• Zurhaar hurt his ankle in the second, got strapped and came back on to start the 3rd.
• Ford, done an ankle or calf at the end of the second. Sat on the bench for rest of the day.

They then split them into 3 groups of 10 and divided the ground in half length ways (few boys that missed the sim joined in here LDU, Cooper, Free, CCJ etc). Two groups started and one had to transition and one had to get the turnover whoever lost had to sprint to the other half of the ground and get the turnover on the 3rd team and the loser just had to keep busting their arse across the ground repeatedly, impressive drill to watch. The players were absolutely cooked after this, especially the pink team who couldn’t get a turnover from about 6-7 run throughs at one stage.

And then end to end run throughs, first years were pulled from doing this. Similar to a beep test but they got to stop for 5/10 seconds at each end. They started dropping off one by one from where I was watching Stevo was the first to throw in the towel, was trailing the early runs. The far side of the ground was left to Sheez, Shiels and Tucker being the only ones still going with Shiels end up being the last man standing. And the side closest to me Kal Dawson and 2 vfl boys were the last standing in the second group (Downie was one, unsure the other).

Finished off with some goal kicking, but the wind was a nightmare so not worth looking into tbh.

Ask away on individuals..

Edit: there was a young lad playing they were either calling him Lordy or Lloydy. Whoever it was had some really nice moments. Don’t know if he’s a vfl listed player or not.

 

[zoomba23]

Headed down to training this morning. Shirt and shorts were an awful choice, very windy.

They started off with match sim, seemed to be about 10-15 minute quarters, wasn’t keeping track. Few players missing LDU didn’t play, but joined in with skills and running after. Seemed to be a good level of intensity. Xerri got a bake off Tom Lynch at one stage for sling tackling and dumping PC hard into the ground. Greenwood got a bake a few times from Clarko for his decision making, few expletives yelled across the ground. All in all it was ok, conditions weren’t great for a showcase on skills.

Some observations on individuals:

• Wardlaw: just an absolutely terrific footballer to watch. Was probably the standout for me today. His inside work was fantastic, plenty of fends and spins out of traffic. Looks great.
• Fisher: sprayed a few but was very vocal across half back getting everyone into position.
• Scott: likewise very, very vocal. Played defence all 4 quarters and looked very good rebounding from defence.
• Sheezel: rotated off half back into the middle repeatedly. To say he looks in great shape is an understatement. Has worked hard.
• Stephens: very impressive. Rotated through half back, wing and half forward. When he played on the wing he dropped back regularly as a loose behind the ball. Was clean in traffic and kicked it well.
• Goater: played back the entire sim. Few nice intercepts and used the ball pretty well imo. Clarko would call set plays at random times, everytime he call for a d50 set play it was Goats taking the kick.
• Phillips: very solid, probably up there with Wardlaw as the pick of the day.
• McKercher: first time watching in person, incredibly quick and a hard runner. Sprayed one kick a mile out of bounds but then from there on was super clean. Will be a weapon off half back, stocked up on a lot of one-twos and broke lines.
• Zurhaar hurt his ankle in the second, got strapped and came back on to start the 3rd.
• Ford, done an ankle or calf at the end of the second. Sat on the bench for rest of the day.

They then split them into 3 groups of 10 and divided the ground in half length ways (few boys that missed the sim joined in here LDU, Cooper, Free, CCJ etc). Two groups started and one had to transition and one had to get the turnover whoever lost had to sprint to the other half of the ground and get the turnover on the 3rd team and the loser just had to keep busting their arse across the ground repeatedly, impressive drill to watch. The players were absolutely cooked after this, especially the pink team who couldn’t get a turnover from about 6-7 run throughs at one stage.

And then end to end run throughs, first years were pulled from doing this. Similar to a beep test but they got to stop for 5/10 seconds at each end. They started dropping off one by one from where I was watching Stevo was the first to throw in the towel, was trailing the early runs. The far side of the ground was left to Sheez, Shiels and Tucker being the only ones still going with Shiels end up being the last man standing. And the side closest to me Kal Dawson and 2 vfl boys were the last standing in the second group (Downie was one, unsure the other).

Finished off with some goal kicking, but the wind was a nightmare so not worth looking into tbh.

Ask away on individuals..

How'd Comben and Powell look in match sim? If they played, that is

 

[the big lebowski]

Headed down to training this morning. Shirt and shorts were an awful choice, very windy.

They started off with match sim, seemed to be about 10-15 minute quarters, wasn’t keeping track. Few players missing LDU didn’t play, but joined in with skills and running after. Seemed to be a good level of intensity. Xerri got a bake off Tom Lynch at one stage for sling tackling and dumping PC hard into the ground. Greenwood got a bake a few times from Clarko for his decision making, few expletives yelled across the ground. All in all it was ok, conditions weren’t great for a showcase on skills.

Some observations on individuals:

• Wardlaw: just an absolutely terrific footballer to watch. Was probably the standout for me today. His inside work was fantastic, plenty of fends and spins out of traffic. Looks great.
• Fisher: sprayed a few but was very vocal across half back getting everyone into position.
• Scott: likewise very, very vocal. Played defence all 4 quarters and looked very good rebounding from defence.
• Sheezel: rotated off half back into the middle repeatedly. To say he looks in great shape is an understatement. Has worked hard.
• Stephens: very impressive. Rotated through half back, wing and half forward. When he played on the wing he dropped back regularly as a loose behind the ball. Was clean in traffic and kicked it well.
• Goater: played back the entire sim. Few nice intercepts and used the ball pretty well imo. Clarko would call set plays at random times, everytime he call for a d50 set play it was Goats taking the kick.
• Phillips: very solid, probably up there with Wardlaw as the pick of the day.
• McKercher: first time watching in person, incredibly quick and a hard runner. Sprayed one kick a mile out of bounds but then from there on was super clean. Will be a weapon off half back, stocked up on a lot of one-twos and broke lines.
• Zurhaar hurt his ankle in the second, got strapped and came back on to start the 3rd.
• Ford, done an ankle or calf at the end of the second. Sat on the bench for rest of the day.

They then split them into 3 groups of 10 and divided the ground in half length ways (few boys that missed the sim joined in here LDU, Cooper, Free, CCJ etc). Two groups started and one had to transition and one had to get the turnover whoever lost had to sprint to the other half of the ground and get the turnover on the 3rd team and the loser just had to keep busting their arse across the ground repeatedly, impressive drill to watch. The players were absolutely cooked after this, especially the pink team who couldn’t get a turnover from about 6-7 run throughs at one stage.

And then end to end run throughs, first years were pulled from doing this. Similar to a beep test but they got to stop for 5/10 seconds at each end. They started dropping off one by one from where I was watching Stevo was the first to throw in the towel, was trailing the early runs. The far side of the ground was left to Sheez, Shiels and Tucker being the only ones still going with Shiels end up being the last man standing. And the side closest to me Kal Dawson and 2 vfl boys were the last standing in the second group (Downie was one, unsure the other).

Finished off with some goal kicking, but the wind was a nightmare so not worth looking into tbh.

Ask away on individuals..

Great report thanks

Comben?

Thomas?

 

[trooroo4life]

Great report thanks

Comben?

Thomas?

Neither participated out on the ground I don’t think. A group of 7-8 came out from the gym across the road. Could have been in that group, couldn’t see them from where I was watching.

How'd Comben and Powell look in match sim? If they played, that is

Chom as above.

Powell was clean, started every bounce from memory. Was tasked with kicking off a few set plays from the middle. Used the ball well.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Headed down to training this morning. Shirt and shorts were an awful choice, very windy.

They started off with match sim, seemed to be about 10-15 minute quarters, wasn’t keeping track. Few players missing LDU didn’t play, but joined in with skills and running after. Seemed to be a good level of intensity. Xerri got a bake off Tom Lynch at one stage for sling tackling and dumping PC hard into the ground. Greenwood got a bake a few times from Clarko for his decision making, few expletives yelled across the ground. All in all it was ok, conditions weren’t great for a showcase on skills.

Some observations on individuals:

• Wardlaw: just an absolutely terrific footballer to watch. Was probably the standout for me today. His inside work was fantastic, plenty of fends and spins out of traffic. Looks great.
• Fisher: sprayed a few but was very vocal across half back getting everyone into position.
• Scott: likewise very, very vocal. Played defence all 4 quarters and looked very good rebounding from defence.
• Sheezel: rotated off half back into the middle repeatedly. To say he looks in great shape is an understatement. Has worked hard.
• Stephens: very impressive. Rotated through half back, wing and half forward. When he played on the wing he dropped back regularly as a loose behind the ball. Was clean in traffic and kicked it well.
• Goater: played back the entire sim. Few nice intercepts and used the ball pretty well imo. Clarko would call set plays at random times, everytime he called for a d50 set play it was Goats taking the kick.
• Phillips: very solid, probably up there with Wardlaw as the pick of the day.
• McKercher: first time watching in person, incredibly quick and a hard runner. Sprayed one kick a mile out of bounds but then from there on was super clean. Will be a weapon off half back, stocked up on a lot of one-twos and broke lines.
• Zurhaar hurt his ankle in the second, got strapped and came back on to start the 3rd.
• Ford, done an ankle or calf at the end of the second. Sat on the bench for rest of the day.

They then split them into 3 groups of 10 and divided the ground in half length ways (few boys that missed the sim joined in here LDU, Cooper, Free, CCJ etc). Two groups started and one had to transition and one had to get the turnover whoever lost had to sprint to the other half of the ground and get the turnover on the 3rd team and the loser just had to keep busting their arse across the ground repeatedly, impressive drill to watch. The players were absolutely cooked after this, especially the pink team who couldn’t get a turnover from about 6-7 run throughs at one stage.

And then end to end run throughs, first years were pulled from doing this. Similar to a beep test but they got to stop for 5/10 seconds at each end. They started dropping off one by one from where I was watching Stevo was the first to throw in the towel, was trailing the early runs. The far side of the ground was left to Sheez, Shiels and Tucker being the only ones still going with Shiels end up being the last man standing. And the side closest to me Kal Dawson and 2 vfl boys were the last standing in the second group (Downie was one, unsure the other).

Finished off with some goal kicking, but the wind was a nightmare so not worth looking into tbh.

Ask away on individuals..

Edit: there was a young lad playing they were either calling him Lordy or Lloydy. Whoever it was had some really nice moments. Don’t know if he’s a vfl listed player or not.

How’d Biggie and Finnbar go?

And what position did Zane play?

 

[The_General#1]

rumour has it brady didn't realise he needs to actually click the ring button after inputting the numbers

Hahaha. Seriously so many good players in the open market and we are not looking at any! We must have the perfect squad….

 

[trooroo4life]

How’d Biggie and Finnbar go?

Didn’t see Biggie out there now you mention it.

Finnbar and Hardeman have been hit by kangalotto so didn’t know who they were at first. But someone next to me asked Monkhurst who the “bald bloke who just spoiled the ball was” and he said it was Finnbar then had some really nice praise for him. Said he’s applied himself really well and has a bright future but will take time. Rucked against Xerri and played a bit down back too. They referred to him as Moose, will take plenty of time but was certainly involved quite a bit.

Zane played forward, was pretty quiet. But forward pressure was very solid. Again not really a day for the forwards I think the scores ended up 85-23 but the teams kept getting changed every quarter. Colby for example changed teams every quarter so he was always running the ball out from the same end.

 

[Orange Peanut]

They referred to him as Moose,

Did they say why?

 

[Rod Stroker]

Why we wouldn't bring in some kids that didn't get drafted is mind boggling.

Probably because we've already got enough kids on our list. We need some experience, so I suspect if we bring anyone in, it would be a player who's been AFL or VFL listed before.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Probably because we've already got enough kids on our list. We need some experience, so I suspect if we bring anyone in, it would be a player who's been AFL or VFL listed before.

Well worth getting some as train ons then (eg freo have Pat voss and others training with them to try get a list spot, he’ll play port Melbourne if they don’t sign him/no other afl club does)

 

[Rod Stroker]

And then end to end run throughs, first years were pulled from doing this. Similar to a beep test but they got to stop for 5/10 seconds at each end. They started dropping off one by one from where I was watching Stevo was the first to throw in the towel, was trailing the early runs

That doesn't sound good for a bloke who's been injury free with no surgery and had an uninterrupted pre season

 

[The Brady Bunch]

And then end to end run throughs, first years were pulled from doing this. Similar to a beep test but they got to stop for 5/10 seconds at each end. They started dropping off one by one from where I was watching Stevo was the first to throw in the towel, was trailing the early runs. The far side of the ground was left to Sheez, Shiels and Tucker being the only ones still going with Shiels end up being the last man standing. And the side closest to me Kal Dawson and 2 vfl boys were the last standing in the second group (Downie was one, unsure the other).

This training drill is repeat 100 metre runs that they have to complete inside 20 seconds or they drop out, followed by 10 sec break and then repeat. I don't know how many Kal Dawson ended up completing but it would have been at least 20. His group was still running well after Shiels and co stopped on the other side so a seriously impressive effort. Also worth noting that Xerri lasted until the previous 100 metres so he was effectively second of the AFL listed players.

 

[Rod Stroker]

any photos from today?

 

[trooroo4life]

Did they say why?

Negative, everytime he had the ball teammates were calling him moose.

This training drill is repeat 100 metre runs that they have to complete inside 20 seconds or they drop out, followed by 10 sec break and then repeat. I don't know how many Kal Dawson ended up completing but it would have been at least 20. His group was still running well after Shiels and co stopped on the other side so a seriously impressive effort. Also worth noting that Xerri lasted until the previous 100 metres so he was effectively second of the AFL listed players.

Did hear someone counting to 20 so that does make sense. Yeah, Dawson, Downie and whoever the other vfl lad was in their group definitely smashed those runs.