Training today in warm to hot conditions with no breeze at all.
Mutch, Houlihan, Zerk, Gown, Ham, Dlarke, Mynott, and McNiece were already training when I got there around 9.30. Mo22ie did some work boxing and then went out to do some runs on the second oval.
As I haven’t for some reason seen Ham too much this preseason it was a good chance to see more of him, and I agree with others that he definitly looks like he has a lot to work with. I can’t see too many problems with his game accept the obvious that he has a very light frame at the moment but has a lot of assets with pace, endurance, good hands and disposal by foot and hand.
Dlarke and Mynott seem to have developed a great friendship and healthy rivalry, they are always chirping at each other and trying to out do the other. This has also been a trait across the whole group to an extent this pre season.
They finished just before 11 when 23 players came out for the captains run, who I would presume are the players playing tomorrow.
They were:
McGrath, Parish, Langford, Daniher, Merrett, Shiel, Francis, Zakka, Baguley, Ridley, Laverde, Begley, Stewart, Brown, Ambrose, Guelfi, Hartley, Draper, Saad, Tippa, Smack and Jok
Smith and Hurley were also with them but were wearing runners and didn’t do any of the drills.
I take this to mean we will get to see Draper, Begley and Jok tomorrow, a great effort from Begley in particular.
The main session started in an unusual fashion with what looked like the players lying on their backs for a while doing either a meditation or visualisation session of about 5 minutes.
Afterwards it was just light drills before finishing with goalkicking.
I have though that Jok’s field kicking has been quite good from what I have seen this preseason, but I had a good look at his goalkicking and frankly it was terrible. I didn’t see him kick one (all from tight angles) and most missed by a considerable margin. The main problem was his ball drop which was all over the place, definitely something to work on.
