Training 2024 Preseason Training Thread

[ghostdog]

JayDon on Blitz;

"Caddy is looking the goods and Reidy just took a screamer and bombed a long torp between the big posts."



...I should be working.

 

[dank420_]

Man if Reid comes good I will un-sack Crowe

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Man if Reid comes good I will un-sack Crowe

don't make me tap the sign

 

[dank420_]

don't make me tap the sign

literally at it's highest point

 

[EnolaGay]

literally at it's highest point

Known as the "apex marker" rather than "apex predator".

 

[D3K91]

That's pretty bloody exciting.

 

[Maxabillions]

JayDon on Blitz;

"Caddy is looking the goods and Reidy just took a screamer and bombed a long torp between the big posts."



...I should be working.

I think you might have missed the highlighted

 

[Maxabillions]

don't make me tap the sign

Is that real?

 

[Vindicater]

Is that real?

 

[ghostdog]

I think you might have missed the highlighted

View attachment 1884825

!!!???

F*** Blitz.

 

[I Remember Bluey]

Is that real?

Na, I reckon it's that bloody Filter thingy again.

 

[Beerfish]

He's like literally halfway up the tree!

 

[Mootsy]

How high is that?? he's not even getting a boost from a player even, lol.
He flew!

 

[MiguelM]

That's pretty bloody exciting PHOTOSHOPPED

FIFY

 

[ghostdog]

Rightio, take 2. MattPocock18 on Blitz;

"Training on another gloriously warm summer’s morn. Much smaller group today with some KPP’s not partaking, namely Stringer, Wright, Hunter, McKay, Cox and Reid. Given all are coming back from injuries of some sort, and they all look in pretty good nick, I don’t think there’s cause for alarm. None of the draftees were present, apparently they were there early, and they then went of to an AFL education seminar. Wanganeen came out towards the end, as did Shiel. Shiel started some light jogging. Draper had a very light session, mainly practising kicking with Rath. I’ll discuss that a little further later.
Today’s drills were designed around defensive structure in the forward half, trying to keep the ball in the forward 50. A couple of times, Stanton stopped the drill because the ‘defence’ switched the ball too easily and were able to escape, Stanton asked the team ‘what’s wrong, where are we positioned?’ He asked a player to explain what the probelm was, and the purpose. He called on Langford, who seemed to know what he was talking about and explained well. It’s a difficult drill to judge, because it was designed to be done at about 50% intensity, and was stopped when even one player went higher than that, because it put things out of sync. Hopefully the 50% intensity isn’t transferred into matches. There were some intercepts by the forwards, but also as I said, some good switches to escape the zone. Work in progress, I guess. One player I did notice well in the drill was JDavey, some reallly good pressure to harass and affect kicks. One kick from Durham from the back flank to the corridor was millimetre perfect to ADavey. If it weren’t it would have been intercepted. I like the boldness, especially if Davey can get behind the defence and use his pace.
After that, the group split into three, one of small forwards, one of midfielders, who seemed to be doing tackling work, trying the break tackles to keep hands free to give off handpasses, and boundary stoppages, and one of KPP up the other end (sorry, I couldn’t see who was there, I was pre-occupied with the small forwards), but there seemed to be a focus on 1v1 marking contests. In each group, the intestity was much stronger than in previous seasons, where I feel players have at times gone through the motions.
The small forward group included ADavey, JDavey, Gresham, Menzie and Hind (guessing they still want to have the flexibility of using Hind as a forward if they feel the need). It was often 2x 1v1 grappling for the footy, trying to get the ball off each other. The other one would do rapid fire groundballs (clean hands) with a development coach.
Then they would compete in a 3v2 (3 forwards, 2 backs) with a high ball coming in, one forward and one defender would compete, bring the ball to ground, and then the other 2v1 would either try to get the ball to the spare on the outside to score a goal, or if the defender got it, try to keep the ball in. They’d run into the hangar, run back out there again and repeat the rotation. It was getting towards the end of a long session, and they were starting to fatigue, especially the Daveys, and the group got told off a couple of times for stopping and allowing the defence to get the ball out, or not spreading when the attackers were about to score, but pleasingly they battled through the fatigue and did well. All of the players showed a real nose for goal, especially Menzie nd Gresham. Both of them were probably the best at getting into space and finishing the job. The Daveys are still a bit behind on endurance, but not too much of a concern, being their second year and all. I was pleased with those two especially for fighting through the fatigue. Jayden cramped up, and kept going. Good lad.
Oh, and, often the defenders in this drill were Hind and ADavey. Make of that what you will.
I stayed when I saw Tsatas coming out to do some kick to kick with Rath. I am pleased to say that Elijah’s kicking technique looks more simple. He seems to have stopped dropping his hip when he kicks, it looks more textbook. He does get right to left swing on his kicks, and missed a few early ones, but there was one kick he did which was great because you could hear Rath shouting “YES! YES! YES!”. Rath was pausing after every kick to give feedback, and at one stage Tsatas was giving his own feedback, gesturing a kicking action where he was moving to the side and kicking around his body a little (it could be that that’s the sort of kick he was having trouble with). A work in progress, no doubt, but its pleasing to see progress being made.
Just on Rath, I’m really pleased the club has committed the resources to allow him to work 1 on 1 with players that need his help (Draper, Tsatas, Parish etc.). It’s great for their development that eh can do one on one, because each player has a different need to fix their kicking. He seems very knowledgeable in terms of the feedback he was giving each of the players and how to help them improve. Drapes did a similar kick to kick, his ball drop was looking a lot better, and at large his action and actual look a lot smoother (but again, a work in progress). Speaking as a teacher, Iike that he’s involving players in the feedback, asking them to give their own feedback is just as important because it shows their level of understanding, hence why I was interested when Tsatas was talking through his kicking action. Also impressed that Tsatas has the confidence and willingness to learn/be vulnerable, these are really good attributes in a young player.
That’s all from me, I think I need to use the sun shades I complained about for so long, I’m a bit burnt. All in all, I thought it was a good session."

 

[Maxabillions]

Got a big future this kid

 

[bombreys]

Rightio, take 2. MattPocock18 on Blitz;

"Training on another gloriously warm summer’s morn. Much smaller group today with some KPP’s not partaking, namely Stringer, Wright, Hunter, McKay, Cox and Reid. Given all are coming back from injuries of some sort, and they all look in pretty good nick, I don’t think there’s cause for alarm. None of the draftees were present, apparently they were there early, and they then went of to an AFL education seminar. Wanganeen came out towards the end, as did Shiel. Shiel started some light jogging. Draper had a very light session, mainly practising kicking with Rath. I’ll discuss that a little further later.
Today’s drills were designed around defensive structure in the forward half, trying to keep the ball in the forward 50. A couple of times, Stanton stopped the drill because the ‘defence’ switched the ball too easily and were able to escape, Stanton asked the team ‘what’s wrong, where are we positioned?’ He asked a player to explain what the probelm was, and the purpose. He called on Langford, who seemed to know what he was talking about and explained well. It’s a difficult drill to judge, because it was designed to be done at about 50% intensity, and was stopped when even one player went higher than that, because it put things out of sync. Hopefully the 50% intensity isn’t transferred into matches. There were some intercepts by the forwards, but also as I said, some good switches to escape the zone. Work in progress, I guess. One player I did notice well in the drill was JDavey, some reallly good pressure to harass and affect kicks. One kick from Durham from the back flank to the corridor was millimetre perfect to ADavey. If it weren’t it would have been intercepted. I like the boldness, especially if Davey can get behind the defence and use his pace.
After that, the group split into three, one of small forwards, one of midfielders, who seemed to be doing tackling work, trying the break tackles to keep hands free to give off handpasses, and boundary stoppages, and one of KPP up the other end (sorry, I couldn’t see who was there, I was pre-occupied with the small forwards), but there seemed to be a focus on 1v1 marking contests. In each group, the intestity was much stronger than in previous seasons, where I feel players have at times gone through the motions.
The small forward group included ADavey, JDavey, Gresham, Menzie and Hind (guessing they still want to have the flexibility of using Hind as a forward if they feel the need). It was often 2x 1v1 grappling for the footy, trying to get the ball off each other. The other one would do rapid fire groundballs (clean hands) with a development coach.
Then they would compete in a 3v2 (3 forwards, 2 backs) with a high ball coming in, one forward and one defender would compete, bring the ball to ground, and then the other 2v1 would either try to get the ball to the spare on the outside to score a goal, or if the defender got it, try to keep the ball in. They’d run into the hangar, run back out there again and repeat the rotation. It was getting towards the end of a long session, and they were starting to fatigue, especially the Daveys, and the group got told off a couple of times for stopping and allowing the defence to get the ball out, or not spreading when the attackers were about to score, but pleasingly they battled through the fatigue and did well. All of the players showed a real nose for goal, especially Menzie nd Gresham. Both of them were probably the best at getting into space and finishing the job. The Daveys are still a bit behind on endurance, but not too much of a concern, being their second year and all. I was pleased with those two especially for fighting through the fatigue. Jayden cramped up, and kept going. Good lad.
Oh, and, often the defenders in this drill were Hind and ADavey. Make of that what you will.
I stayed when I saw Tsatas coming out to do some kick to kick with Rath. I am pleased to say that Elijah’s kicking technique looks more simple. He seems to have stopped dropping his hip when he kicks, it looks more textbook. He does get right to left swing on his kicks, and missed a few early ones, but there was one kick he did which was great because you could hear Rath shouting “YES! YES! YES!”. Rath was pausing after every kick to give feedback, and at one stage Tsatas was giving his own feedback, gesturing a kicking action where he was moving to the side and kicking around his body a little (it could be that that’s the sort of kick he was having trouble with). A work in progress, no doubt, but its pleasing to see progress being made.
Just on Rath, I’m really pleased the club has committed the resources to allow him to work 1 on 1 with players that need his help (Draper, Tsatas, Parish etc.). It’s great for their development that eh can do one on one, because each player has a different need to fix their kicking. He seems very knowledgeable in terms of the feedback he was giving each of the players and how to help them improve. Drapes did a similar kick to kick, his ball drop was looking a lot better, and at large his action and actual look a lot smoother (but again, a work in progress). Speaking as a teacher, Iike that he’s involving players in the feedback, asking them to give their own feedback is just as important because it shows their level of understanding, hence why I was interested when Tsatas was talking through his kicking action. Also impressed that Tsatas has the confidence and willingness to learn/be vulnerable, these are really good attributes in a young player.
That’s all from me, I think I need to use the sun shades I complained about for so long, I’m a bit burnt. All in all, I thought it was a good session."

McGrath teaching players how to kick? Hope they had Parish in the D50 teaching Lual & Archie how to defend

 

[ant555]

Rightio, take 2. MattPocock18 on Blitz;

"Training on another gloriously warm summer’s morn. Much smaller group today with some KPP’s not partaking, namely Stringer, Wright, Hunter, McKay, Cox and Reid. Given all are coming back from injuries of some sort, and they all look in pretty good nick, I don’t think there’s cause for alarm. None of the draftees were present, apparently they were there early, and they then went of to an AFL education seminar. Wanganeen came out towards the end, as did Shiel. Shiel started some light jogging. Draper had a very light session, mainly practising kicking with Rath. I’ll discuss that a little further later.
Today’s drills were designed around defensive structure in the forward half, trying to keep the ball in the forward 50. A couple of times, Stanton stopped the drill because the ‘defence’ switched the ball too easily and were able to escape, Stanton asked the team ‘what’s wrong, where are we positioned?’ He asked a player to explain what the probelm was, and the purpose. He called on Langford, who seemed to know what he was talking about and explained well. It’s a difficult drill to judge, because it was designed to be done at about 50% intensity, and was stopped when even one player went higher than that, because it put things out of sync. Hopefully the 50% intensity isn’t transferred into matches. There were some intercepts by the forwards, but also as I said, some good switches to escape the zone. Work in progress, I guess. One player I did notice well in the drill was JDavey, some reallly good pressure to harass and affect kicks. One kick from Durham from the back flank to the corridor was millimetre perfect to ADavey. If it weren’t it would have been intercepted. I like the boldness, especially if Davey can get behind the defence and use his pace.
After that, the group split into three, one of small forwards, one of midfielders, who seemed to be doing tackling work, trying the break tackles to keep hands free to give off handpasses, and boundary stoppages, and one of KPP up the other end (sorry, I couldn’t see who was there, I was pre-occupied with the small forwards), but there seemed to be a focus on 1v1 marking contests. In each group, the intestity was much stronger than in previous seasons, where I feel players have at times gone through the motions.
The small forward group included ADavey, JDavey, Gresham, Menzie and Hind (guessing they still want to have the flexibility of using Hind as a forward if they feel the need). It was often 2x 1v1 grappling for the footy, trying to get the ball off each other. The other one would do rapid fire groundballs (clean hands) with a development coach.
Then they would compete in a 3v2 (3 forwards, 2 backs) with a high ball coming in, one forward and one defender would compete, bring the ball to ground, and then the other 2v1 would either try to get the ball to the spare on the outside to score a goal, or if the defender got it, try to keep the ball in. They’d run into the hangar, run back out there again and repeat the rotation. It was getting towards the end of a long session, and they were starting to fatigue, especially the Daveys, and the group got told off a couple of times for stopping and allowing the defence to get the ball out, or not spreading when the attackers were about to score, but pleasingly they battled through the fatigue and did well. All of the players showed a real nose for goal, especially Menzie nd Gresham. Both of them were probably the best at getting into space and finishing the job. The Daveys are still a bit behind on endurance, but not too much of a concern, being their second year and all. I was pleased with those two especially for fighting through the fatigue. Jayden cramped up, and kept going. Good lad.
Oh, and, often the defenders in this drill were Hind and ADavey. Make of that what you will.
I stayed when I saw Tsatas coming out to do some kick to kick with Rath. I am pleased to say that Elijah’s kicking technique looks more simple. He seems to have stopped dropping his hip when he kicks, it looks more textbook. He does get right to left swing on his kicks, and missed a few early ones, but there was one kick he did which was great because you could hear Rath shouting “YES! YES! YES!”. Rath was pausing after every kick to give feedback, and at one stage Tsatas was giving his own feedback, gesturing a kicking action where he was moving to the side and kicking around his body a little (it could be that that’s the sort of kick he was having trouble with). A work in progress, no doubt, but its pleasing to see progress being made.
Just on Rath, I’m really pleased the club has committed the resources to allow him to work 1 on 1 with players that need his help (Draper, Tsatas, Parish etc.). It’s great for their development that eh can do one on one, because each player has a different need to fix their kicking. He seems very knowledgeable in terms of the feedback he was giving each of the players and how to help them improve. Drapes did a similar kick to kick, his ball drop was looking a lot better, and at large his action and actual look a lot smoother (but again, a work in progress). Speaking as a teacher, Iike that he’s involving players in the feedback, asking them to give their own feedback is just as important because it shows their level of understanding, hence why I was interested when Tsatas was talking through his kicking action. Also impressed that Tsatas has the confidence and willingness to learn/be vulnerable, these are really good attributes in a young player.
That’s all from me, I think I need to use the sun shades I complained about for so long, I’m a bit burnt. All in all, I thought it was a good session."

Hope you are not treading on any toes by reproducing their training reports even though you have named the author.
Has been an issue in the past .

 

[ghostdog]

Hope you are not treading on any toes by reproducing their training reports even though you have named the author.
Has been an issue in the past .

I'll stop if it's an issue.

 

[ant555]

I'll stop if it's an issue.

Do not know if it still is but previously they did get a bit agitated when Blitz content was finding its way onto BF . Who know now days.

 

[Beerfish]

The issue in the past was it wasn't being credited I believe.

 

[Kong]

That and fogdog is a drop kick.

 

[ant555]

VFL: Fresh faces propelling re-invigorated program

Michael Hurley buoyed by promising pre-season.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Not the AFL group but pre season news.

 

[dank420_]

I'll stop if it's an issue.

Im ready to go if there’s a bigfooty vs blitz fight in the hangar parking lot coming up.

 

[ghostdog]

Im ready to go if there’s a bigfooty vs blitz fight in the hangar parking lot coming up.

Brick killed someone with a trident!