Nice rundown tackle from young Reynolds in that montage. Good effort, good technique.
Nice rundown tackle from young Reynolds in that montage. Good effort, good technique.
I think a number of sporting teams are taking the precaution of still not training together or even one entire part of the squad (eg forwards, defenders, mids etc) training together lest one player contract covid or has the symptoms and takes out the entire group for a minimum of a couple of weeks while they confirm the players/groups covid condition
That video is good to see. It is everything that today was not. (That footage is not from today - most likely was on Friday.) I wonder if we avoided contact and hard work today because they are being extra cautious to help the players avoid injury? Perhaps Friday is the relatively full-on session and Monday the relatively lighter one?
I agree that Lewis Taylor looked good in one passage in particular. It was also encouraging to see Melican in action and taking some intercept marks although way to small a sample for me to express any opinions. Absolutely agree that it will be exciting to see all of our draftees develop - at this stage I hold out hopes for all of them, with E. Taylor being a bit of a wild card. What do you base the observation about Gould and Stephens forming a bit of a bond on, MattW? I gather they spent a little bit of time together in SA towards the end of the lockdown period, possibly with Stephens visiting Gould's family's farm??
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That would make sense if it weren't for the fact that the video shows us the whole group played a full contact match sim last week.
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Could it simply be that the training days have changed? Don't forget that match simulations over the summer continued until the conclusion of pre-season, then they got into the Marsh community games. This time is a little different, as they will be going from match simulation, time trials etc virtually straight into round 2. So it's possible that the club has had to adjust the training schedule per the lead-up to the Sunday game against the Bombers.
I think there are AFL rules about numbers in contact sessions, I think clubs can only do full on contact three sessions a week, obviously today was not one of them.
Gould was Captain of the SA U18's so will obviously bring that into his senior career.
Thanks for the first hand reports from training, appreciated
Re Gould and Stephens: a few little things.
There was a short video on the OS of a Gould and Stephens kicking contest at the former's farm (won by the latter to the former's annoyance).
Gould was on 'Ask a Swan' last week and mentioned he'd probably choose Stephens to drive a long distance in the sponsor's car, noting a developing friendship.
Then there's just a flash of affection right at the end the clip, which is pretty standard but stood out a little in light of the above.
We finally trained on the SCG today. Is there a reason why we weren't allowed on the SCG prior to today?
Has Naismith been training since we came back? I haven't noticed him in any photos or footage. I have only seen Sinclair and Knoll in the ruck.
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