Modern training is about a whole range of things.
Maybe if we stopped calling it the âmodified groupâ youâd be less pessimistic.
Call it the âMinimal Contact Groupâ instead.
Some blokes are rotated out of match sim or drills just to get more miles in their legs.
Others collected a minor knock / corkie or ankle (like Hurls when his leg fell off on Monday) - theyâd be absolutely fine to play a game, but thereâs no point aggravating it at this time of year.
The last reason Iâd posit would be rotational - mixing up the players involved in drills keeps things fresh, allows flexibility to be taught, and is a step up from yesteryear when blokes would train against the same teammates all the time, giving a false impression of where they were at.
Is it âcage!â and somebody leads to the cage, player kicks to the cage and then all other players in the area converge on the cage to keep the ball âcaged inâ if the ball goes to ground.