Wednesday, December 8th. 2021.
Arrival:. 9:19am
Departure 11.21am.
I went.
We trained .
It rained.
We kept training.
Jones and Lord ran laps.
Sun came out.
We kept training.
Hard yards for Tippa.
We kept training.
Rance instructing defensive positioning.
It rained again.
Merrett is vocal.
We kept training.
The father sons looked impressive.
I left.
Right. For all the less miserable sods, stand by . I’ll get around to something.
Respect.
Hey hey hey, no editing the original post.
Keep that sort of in-depth and lengthy stuff for when you get around to something.
I see we’ve entered the slam poetry phase of training reports.
clicks fingers
Is this report a rap?
If so please add time sig and hum the melody for us.
Needs a fark carlton somewhere in there for completeness
Fark Carlton. You happy now???
shades of Emily Dickinson
No mention of wind direction. Apart from that it’s ok I guess.
Reading training reports while watching Test cricket. I have reached Nirvana.
Gold.
As a teacher responded to a friend of mine who wrote a similar essay for her once (after she criticised him for not having enough facts):
You’ve got the facts. You’ve got no style. You’ve got the facts, but no style.
Who’s that taking the mark?
No rain south of the Yarra, sun has shone all morning
So does that lead to concerns St Kilda will lack experience in wet weather football?
Tell me more, tell me more
It’s going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons if the answer is
“Tex Wanganeen looked a class above, incredibly clean, and his first 3 steps are as quick as anyone. And Nyawi Moore was there and at 193 cm has amazing hands both at ground level and in the air, and is possibly the quickest player on the list”…
This is to training reports, what haikus are to poetry
Love your work Sal. 
Impressed with how you didn’t use any adjectives.
