Today was the third major session.
And if it’s not compulsory it’s not a big deal, particularly with players from interstate.
The majority of players though have either trained or been in the gym.
After today only him, Shiel, Gleeson, Zaharakis, Stringer and the Irish boys haven’t been there
The diving videos he was posting are fairly epic
Influxodus of players who can kick.
Like.
Dont think i saw Stewart either today
Ah yes, him as well
Can you remember what number Eyre was in today?
No, they had different tops to everyone else, I don’t think they even had numbers.
Those who did train had an assortment on, Francis in 47, Ham 35, Hird 8, Caldwell 9 (he has been wearing 8), 2MP 20 etc.
…or maybe Leon Baker?
Thanks for all the reports. How did 2MP look?
I already feel in goods hands seeing photos of Reid and Cox.
The thought of them prowling our backline for 10 years or more makes me feel very confident and assured.
Hopefully that makes everyone else in the team walk taller.
I hope the club is doing all they can to help Francis.
He should be doing boxing (at a proper boxing gym with a boxing trainer) and swimming to improve his cardiovascular over the entire preseason.
He could also do with a running coach/mentor to help with motivation and sticking to his program.
Maybe with his sparring partner wearing a Woosha mask.
Sorry Clone_Hirdy but breaking a player sows the seed of doubt. Introducing the concept of I am not ready for this and eroding confidence. To compete the athlete must be supremely confident in their fitness, which is continually developed and built upon using the periodisation process. Players are taken to an edge and each week the edge is a bit more work, normally via game simulation or action reaction games to develop game understanding. At the same time skills are continually fine tuned to withstand the pressure of the game. The periodisation process is the key to the ultimate success, and teams that quaff the finals series early have a significant advantage because of it!
Zerk-Thatcher needs to have a big preseason. He’s got a bunch of kids coming from behind…Plus a fit Ambrose to compete with.
There’s a bit of pressure on him to do the work over the next few months.
Agree.
I was disappointed with him in 2020 so he’d want to have a good start to 2021
Anyone who’s been to the new(ish) digs comment on the exposure out there. I may be wrong but nearly every training report since we moved from Windy Hill describes a literally windy hill and it concerns me we train in adverse conditions when most games are not in adverse conditions - although we do our best to make them so.
I’d go Glenn Hawker
First thing we should have done is plant bloody great big cypress trees as wind breaks to the north and west. Nonetheless, it would still take 20yrs for this to have an effect.
Second thing would have been to build all the buildings to the north and west of the ovals, also to provide wind breaks. But, ours are to the west and the southwest.
He was good today and his body development tells me the last few months he has been working hard. Quite a lot stronger