Training Report - 8/2/10

By sandbelt
With all the information still fresh in the mind from the Shep game last week, and with only four sleeps to go before there is a real hitout on Friday, I might not have bothered to turn up at the ground this morning. But it is a perfect day in Melbourne, and at 8 AM it felt like being in Grafton, so what the hell I took the dog and sat in the shade at the school end and just relaxed.

The Melbourne spy was there too, and also another spy which I was told belonged to West Coast, and I could see family of four over in the stands somewhere, but otherwise it was pretty quiet. This might be a pity, because I though it was quite a pleasant training session to sit and watch.

Everybody will be pleased to know that there are still no apparent injuries, not counting Stewart Crameri’s infected leg (which anyway looks like it is nearly fully recovered). I did see Jake Carlisle doing a bit of boundary running but that was just for a bit. The whole point of the session seemed to be to put some polish on the teams’s skill level in perfect conditions, which as usual means breaking the side into groups of half a dozen or so and giving each group some passing practice, either by hand or by foot, for a few minutes before rotating everyone on. I particularly tried to keep an eye on the polish level of the foot-passing since I think it is getting better, though nobody believes we are up to Geelong’s level yet.

With 40 players all going at once there was no way I can do a fair job of reporting, but I did spend some time looking at David Myers, who I thought went OK, and Gus and Mark Williams, who I thought were impressive, and Kyle Reimers, who was OK most of the time but who produced a characteristic clanger right in front of goal and kicked it straight to the opposition. Jay Neagle managed to produce a scrubber and Heath Hocking was sloppy once, but overall the team looked like it knew what it was about.

I like watching the players compete one on one, and there was some of this today with Adrian Hickmott lofting a high punt towards pairs of players in turn. Nothing too violent, and there wasn’t anybody dominating that I could see, but it was still fun. This is where Ricky got pronged somehow on a finger in one of the marking contests and had to go off to get it seen to, and those Blitzers who are prone to panic can expect that he will never play again.

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Posted  8 February 10 in Training Report