Training report - Wednesday 2018-12-12

aboods · December 13, 2018, 12:53am

Why is that though? Hasn’t it been a few weeks? Surely they’d have some idea wouldn’t they?

Bomb_Doe · December 13, 2018, 12:55am

He did it Nov 30. Two weeks tomorrow.

The_New_Coleman · December 13, 2018, 1:04am

Today’s training report, with video:

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HarryJay · December 13, 2018, 1:07am

Definitely!
I remember Simon Madden going from a skinny beanpole who was very talented but didn’t have any body strength, to the ruckman he became.
Daniher, with good body strength in a marking contest, could be just awesome.

Deckham · December 13, 2018, 1:14am

He had scans. He has a fractured ankle, ‘non-displaced’ - which is the lesser of two evils. It will remain immobilized for a while, before slow, methodical movement begins - stretching ligaments, then rebuilding lost muscle slowly and full-range movement and strengthening. We are not likely to hear anything other than ‘on track, going as planned, in good spirits, etc etc’ for 3 or 4 months.

DonBomb · December 13, 2018, 1:31am

An excellent, insightful, fascinating report. Thank you very much @nackers

wannabe · December 13, 2018, 2:08am

I asked him on Family Day how his ankle was and he said “Not good. It’s broken. But I should be right for the start of the season”.

Speedy_Gonzales · December 13, 2018, 2:12am

Good news. Lucky it happened so early in preason and also not as severe as it could have been (ie. Gleeson).

Someone had mentioned it was a non-displaced fracture, not sure if he had surgery however to plate/pin it.

Scotty · December 13, 2018, 2:13am

Thanks Nackers, you’re a legend.

samwoods · December 13, 2018, 2:15am

not cool.

Houli_Dooli · December 13, 2018, 2:52am

Dr Google.

So it will take 6 weeks (4 more) really before he can do anything if everything goes well., So he wont be doing much until early february IMO, then its a race against time to get ready for season proper, I dont think we will see him until at least Anzac Day due to delayed preseason, and lack of conditioning. I mean what exercise can you do on a broken ankle apart from weights.

Scotty · December 13, 2018, 2:57am

Still a chance for JLT hopefully?

wannabe · December 13, 2018, 3:16am

Yeah he’s gonna be behind the pack a bit, the rest of the side will have had extra practice at all of the ball movement drills and have more conditioning so he won’t have the chemistry or the fitness the others have.

I know some blitzers will disagree but he wasn’t a lock for a spot in the senior team, so I doubt they will feel the need to rush him back either (like they would Hurley/Hooker, Zerret without playing VFL games).

So yeah, it’s a fair blow as he would have been thinking that he was primed to take the next step. We took him in the same draft as Parish, and Redman seems pretty confident in himself so I’d say it would be burning in his guts that other guys have been fast tracked and now he’s injured.

HirdMentality · December 13, 2018, 3:40am

Since googling Mason’s condition I’ve concluded that he has a malignant bone cancer, epilepsy and incurable gonorrhea

is_good_is_don · December 13, 2018, 3:43am

And vaccinations were the cause…

Razamanascus · December 13, 2018, 4:05am

Is the whole group doing these pool sessions? Or is it just the rehab group?

Nifty_Nev · December 13, 2018, 4:57am

nackers:

Training today at 8am in Ocean Grove in warm conditions with very little breeze.

Modified group of Parish, Daniher, Begley, Ambrose, Smack and McKenna did the warm ups and some running for about an hour before going across the road for a swim where they were joined by Dea, Bellchambers and Saad who didn’t run but did exercises on bikes and ropes.

Gleeson and Smith were absent while Redman was on the sidelines in his moonboot.

McNiece completed the whole session with the main group so appears to have overcome whatever niggle he had, and Fantasia completed the whole session just using one hand

Training started in an unusual fashion split into 2 groups, one group kicking while the other group played a game of keepings off alternating between a frisbee and a tennis ball. This was played in very competitively and in high spirits with lot of laughter an smiles. I’m sure this was put in there to break some of the monotony.

Later on another drill involved the groups having a ball thrown in to the ruckman of Clarke and Draper (which I thought Draper would win but Clarke pretty well broke even) who then tapped it to players on their group. The sole objective was for one side to get a single kick away which meant there was huge tackling pressure from both sides and again was played in great spirits. The were several loud roars when one side or the other managed to get clear enough to kick. Jok Jok again was in with the midfielders so I imagine that’s where they want him to play.

It was the first chance to see Mossie, Gown and Ham in action but most of the drills they were involved in were kicking and handballing drills without much pressure so it was hard to read too much into it except that Mossie is a very smooth mover (he certainly reminded me of Cyril) and all three of them were neat kicks, Mossie probably the best of them.

Mossie was involved in a drill with one on one marking teamed up against Dlarke. He was all at sea initially with Dlarke out positioning him easily, but after a bit of coaching and advice improved greatly the further it went which was good to see.

A reporter from Channel 7 was there to interview Langford and Zaharakis and we had a quick chat about training and I mentioned I was keen to see Mossie in action. He said he did a piece on him previously (I forget whether it was this year or last year unfortunately) where they film some action shots and interview him. He said normally when they do these they have to spend some time editing the action to show bits that make the player look good, but this is the first time there was no need for that as he completed everything perfectly. A very interesting insight.

The other thing about Mossie is he seems joined at the hip with Tippa, they were constantly together, often talking and laughing, and Mossie smiles A LOT.

The other interesting thing was the amount of people there to watch, much more than a standard training session at Tulla with maybe 200 kids there at different times (the oval was also right next door to a school which helped). It’s probably not a bad marketing idea to spread the sessions across different parts of the city and state occasionally to give different groups of supporters a chance to see them.

Overall it wasn’t a very strenuous session with much less competitive drills than normal.

The session finished around 10am with the players getting mobbed for autographs from the crowd.

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Nocturnal · December 13, 2018, 5:37am

Great work Nackers.

Not enough Mitch Brown love around here, had a good end to the season and doesn’t strike me as the guy that will take a back seat and let Daniher walk into his spot at CHF. Could be a good battle over pre season.

Captain_Jack · December 13, 2018, 5:46am

It isn’t only Joe Dan that Brown is competing for a spot in the forward line with, there is also SMack McNurnan, Zac Clarke and Stewart as well. Lots of competition for the those 2 tall spots. Get some popcorn folks, this is going to be an interesting contest. So much so that Hooker can now safely remain in the back half.

Speedy_Gonzales · December 13, 2018, 5:52am

As reliable & consistent as Mitch Brown played Daniher is an AA star of comp who will/can kick triple the goals for the year.

If Daniher is fit it’s not even a remotely close call & Brown will just be backup.

Neither is suited to deepest fwd having to wrestle a full back or contesting in a pack to ensure bringing ball to ground for smalls which is why Smack will be getting first dibs on the FF/2nd ruck also generally keeping JD out of ruck.