Training Friday 2/2/18 - Live Coverage

[Scorch]

The intraclub today was 3 20 minutes quarters with no time on and official AFL unpires. There was generalyy an interchange of only 1 player per side at a time. Here’s a breakdown of mu thoughts on the players:

• McGrath
  One of the best. On several occasions was strongly tackled immediately after gaining possession but managed to shug enough to get a good handball off to advantage. Is looking good.

• Bellchambers
  was the best of the ruckman and looks set for the number one ruck

• Parish
  Worked hard, got a lot of the ball and used it to advantage. Looks better than ever

• Langford
  Had a really good game. Was clean with the ball and used it well. Stood up in several tackles and was quick and precise with his decision making

• Smith
  BOG. Ran, defended, attacked, hard as nails and showed some aggro. there was one particular play where he kicked across ground from one back pocket and linked up in the play on the opposite wing, he couldn’t believe he got there so fast. will be a gun

• Stringer
  Didn’t think he did 2 much to be honest. He got a couple of good clearances and linked up the a few times. I’m not sure when he went off but didn’t see much of him after 1/4 time.

• JD
  Did some nice things without being dominating. Kicked very well for goal and shot a sublime pass to Laverde against the wind in the last

• Zerrett
  typical good Zerrett game. in everything as always

• Gleeson
  A little bit more quiet than he has been but didn’t do much wrong

• Goddard
  Played the sweeping role from defense and was solid as always

• Francis
  didn’t train

• Zaha
  Got a bit of the ball without really standing out, I didn’t think his disposal was great today

• Bags
  Didn’t train

• Typical Fanta game zipping around the side of packs. Always looks like something will happen when he is near it.

• Ridley
  was out on the second oval, seems to be stepping up the pace in his rehabilitation

• Green
  Was very good defensively, locked the ball in and created turnovers. Was in the right spot at the right time for his standard cheapies

• Stewart
  Didn’t get many clear possesions, got the ball a few times but either fumbled or was held up in a tackle. Was well beaten in ruck duels.

• Hurley
  Had a ripping duel with Hooker. Probably broke even, Hurley had some great clearances from defense

• Mutch
  Did quite well I thought, got a bit of the ball and was generally clean

• Jerrett
  Did some nice things but probably just didn’t get enough of it.

• Heppell
  Like Zerrett another typical hard working game, didn’t do much wrong

• Luey
  Beaten by both Belly and Draper in the ruck but won some ball around the ground. Might be a long year for Luey

• Myers
  Probably didn’t get enough of it but was a good strong body around the contest

• Houlihan
  Kicked the first goal and had some nice cameos. Was generally clean with the ball

• Stringer
  Didn’t get much of it but was impressive when he did, but wouldn’t have had him in the bests. Had one particular breakaway from a stoppage that was impressive.

• Hooker
  Had a great battle with Hurls, only kicked one from a gimme turnover 10 metres out but was particularly good fighting for and winning ground balls, often getting it out to advantage. Also won a few body on body battles with hurls in the last

• Redman
  I thought he did well, was very composed off half back, competed hard and used it well

• Brown
  Didn’t see to much of Brown, but effectively spoiled on a few occasions

• Ambrose
  Another solid, hardworking, unspectacular game with some ripping tackles

• Zerk
  Only played the first quarter or so before going to the second oval, didn’t do much

• Colyer
  Was on the sidelines in a moonboot

• Laverde
  was quiet the first quarter but was in everything in the last quarter and a half. Looked good in the air and on the ground

• Long
  Just did a few warm ups after training the game but didn’t play

• Guelfi
  Looked quite good, neat and composed without getting aheap of the ball

• Hartley
  had a good battle with Smack, took some nice defensive marks which was pleasing to see, didn’t do much wrong

• Clarke
  Got his hands on it but same problem with disposal under pressure. Hacked it away a couple of times and had a terrible handball that led to a goal

• Draper
  Very impressive. Was overall beaten in the ruck duels be belly but still competed well, and beat Luey, Followed up his work well around the ground and took 2 excellent contested marks. could well replace Luey as number 2 ruck

• Mynott
  Didn’t see too much of him

• McNiece
  was steady but had a couple of uncharacteristic kicking errors including one horrible turnover to hooker in the goalsqaure

• Tippa
  relatively quiet but as always makes thing happen when he is near the ball

• Smack
  worked really hard to contest and won the ball several time when the ball hit the ground. Overall a very good effort. One silly free kick against in the ruck to Draper though

• Irish
  Very good. Had a couple of scintillating runs from packs. One in particular he was in the middle of a pack of about 5-6 players, picked up a difficult ground ball and just took off straight through the pack. Look out in 2018

• Dea
  Was very good I thought. Always is good in the air against both bigger and smaller opponents and steady by hand and foot. Seems too good to be playing reserves but I don’t know who he would replace

Great summation Nackers!

[nackers]

Thanks Scorch, and great to catch up with you. Hope to see you again on one of your ‘work from home’ Fridays

[aboods]

This tagging thing is interesting. Will obviously help our guys deal with it.
Will be interesting to see if we’re more inclined to employ a tagger this season or if we’ll just be trying to get everyone to be more accountable

[Kruzin]

And a ghost watching jackets!

[Jake_Brady_10]

Not sure if heppell or the paddle pop lion …

[Black_Kavanagh]

Really?
Says to me that Woosha can’t even be stuffed coaching this farce of a concept. Mickey Mouse practice matches and nothing more

I will be ropeable if any of our players cop an injury in this money grabbing joke.

[wasaharvsfanasakid]

I said the exact same thing to Smith when he was walking the boundary last week, he had a bit of a chuckle over it.

Good call Nackers

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

Remember when Reimers tried to pick a fight with Scotty Lucas in one of his first training sessions? What an idiot.

Kyle allegedly had a “soft tissue injury” early days which allegedly occurred when he got through a plate glass window. Allegedly.

[BLOODSTAINED_DEVILS]

Really?
Says to me that Woosha can’t even be stuffed coaching this farce of a concept. Mickey Mouse practice matches and nothing more

I will be ropeable if any of our players cop an injury in this money grabbing joke.

And what if they get one in the JLT games, … or a intra club??

Same shitt, . these are really just more practice games.

I’m kinda thinking of them for the players like going out for a few rounds on a Par3 course to work on the short game,in between going for a proper 18 holes.

Also, … I don’t imagine the AFL just told the clubs, “you’re doing this and you’ll like it or lump it”.

I’m not sure, but have to assume all clubs said, “yep,… we’ll be in that” for it to go ahead, . soooo??

[chris_64]

Really?
Says to me that Woosha can’t even be stuffed coaching this farce of a concept. Mickey Mouse practice matches and nothing more

I will be ropeable if any of our players cop an injury in this money grabbing joke.

And what if they get one in the JLT games, … or a intra club??

Same shitt, . these are really just more practice games.

I’m kinda thinking of them for the players like going out for a few rounds on a Par3 course to work on the short game,in between going for a proper 18 holes.

Also, … I don’t imagine the AFL just told the clubs, “you’re doing this and you’ll like it or lump it”.

I’m not sure, but have to assume all clubs said, “yep,… we’ll be in that” for it to go ahead, . soooo??

I reckon it will be touch footy, teams taking turns to be witches hats.

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

If you want to put the lid back on a bit do a find and replace ‘Smith’ with ‘GWSs seventh best midfielder’

Remember when sydney picked up Hawthorn’s third best forward pocket and 9th best midfielder? What a stupid move!
Point is he was competing in an area of strength for them (easily the deepest midfield in the competition), but relative weakness for us. Which means we “paid” 7th-best-midfielder price for him, and he’ll be (IMHO) 3rd or 4th best for us. It’s a big win IMHO.

[Mr_Sunbury_1]

How blessed we are to have such dedicated posters who give us this sort of reporting. Well done to all involved.

[Aceman]

They are running a similar comp for the SANFL this year called Fast Football and a couple of clubs are refusing to enter the comp. The SANFL is threatening them with fines etc so one of the coaches has said he will play their U16’s in it if they are forced to participate.

[Warlock_Paul]

Half time… Smith smith smith smith smith is the word around… Tailors from around Essendon are heading down to bid for the opportunity to suit up the 2018 Brownlow medalist

A rather tall birdie, who has some contact with the Swannies, told me that Stevie J reckons Devon Smith was the most talented player he played with at GWS.

Let the good times roll.

[Dons-All-The-Way]

If you want to put the lid back on a bit do a find and replace ‘Smith’ with ‘GWSs seventh best midfielder’

Remember when sydney picked up Hawthorn’s third best forward pocket and 9th best midfielder? What a stupid move!
Point is he was competing in an area of strength for them (easily the deepest midfield in the competition), but relative weakness for us. Which means we “paid” 7th-best-midfielder price for him, and he’ll be (IMHO) 3rd or 4th best for us. It’s a big win IMHO.

Spot on. It is also smart trading too, and will pay off big time.

[jonovdp]

From that photo I cannot help think about Heppell leading us to the promised land.

Tell me a bearded EFC Captain who didn’t win a premiership.

[mdso]

Jobe Watson.

[swooper]

[jonovdp]

Lol
Call that a beard!

[aboods]

If you want to put the lid back on a bit do a find and replace ‘Smith’ with ‘GWSs seventh best midfielder’

Remember when sydney picked up Hawthorn’s third best forward pocket and 9th best midfielder? What a stupid move!
Point is he was competing in an area of strength for them (easily the deepest midfield in the competition), but relative weakness for us. Which means we “paid” 7th-best-midfielder price for him, and he’ll be (IMHO) 3rd or 4th best for us. It’s a big win IMHO.

Out of curiosity HAP, what would be your rankings of our top 7 mids in order?