Collingwood. Post by Jen2310 from Bfooty.
Pre-season Training report: Saturday Feb 5th, 2022.
Duration: About 3 hrs.
Players: Everyone bar Roughy and Maynard.
It was about 8:20am, or so and I decided just to head over (was planning on coming back) if anyone was around, as Jordy had posted a picture of vic park at around 7am, I didn't expect to discover not were they around, but were starting to warm up. So no point in going home, so decided to stay from that point on.
Ended roughly 3 hrs later @ 11:20
They started with their usual warm ups, and a sprint test.
There were three players that got personal bests. First up, Arlo Draper; which he would be chuffed about given how behind he is on his fitness.
Followed by J.Daicos, and mr reliable, Pendlebury.
The boys applauded for all three for their personal achievements.
It was some drills involving tackling and marking next.
While the umpires arrived, and they got the group together to explain the new rules, showing them how they will be implemented.
Next drill was handballing the ball when its hot, and has to be clean.
During this drill, Fly wasn't happy and goes "Hold on. What kind of team are we?"
You could be forgiven to think this was Bolton as it's something you'd usually hear him say, but it definitely was not Bolton. You can tell the difference, and Bolton has a different tone about him.
Match play began from throw ins. Originally I thought this was the only type of match sim play they would be doing, but that was not the case. As the real stuff began at 10.
They used this play to transition the ball in the manner they prefer.
Conditioning was next up. A few of the mids were told to line up in two lines; facing one another. Then they were instructed to get on all fours and crawl like a crab, tap each other's hands, then back again. The same again, they get up then tackle each other to the ground.
This sounds like something Wade learnt from his NRL days haha.
Noble/McCreery, Crisp/Ginnivan did some exhausting by the looks of it, drill where they had to keep after your opponent, stop him at all costs. Pushing, getting in front.
Other players (Nick, Beggy, Johnson, Draper, Murley, Dean, Harrison and Murphy) did some running.
Speaking of Murphy. He did majority of the 3 hr session was running, they pushed him to the brink as he gets back to fitness following his broken ribs injury.
Bit of play from the back half.
Then comes 10am, match sim.
I'd say they probably two 2 halves. Lasted about an hour, I'd estimated.
I thought Jordy played mostly forward, but after reviewing some of the footage, I think he spent more time in the midfield than I originally thought. But he was down forward a great deal too.
Lippa was majority mid. After the session, I met him and he mentioned (after I asked) he would be playing majority as a inside mid.
The mids that were seen for the black team were: Adams, Crisp (more mid time today than in recent weeks), De Goey, Lippa. Elliott was involved in some centre bounces. Josh and Sidey were the wingers. Grundy as the ruck.
White team:
Tyler, Macrae (who was a quiet day) Cal, Reef at times. With Poulter and Arlo on the wings Begg/Cameron rucking
With both Bianco and Ginnivan in team A and McCreery in Team B, would that mean he is behind those two? I found that interesting. But Ginnivan has been strong all pre-season.
Elliott and De goey were dangerous up forward, along with Ginnivan for the black team. Kelly kicked a nice goal for the other team, and took some nice marks today. Looked more confident.
Kreuger too was presenting well, with some nice contested marks himself. Missed the shot at goal though, but it did look like from a long way out.
Grundy dominated the day. Around the world, and when he pushed up forward.
Cox was moving well, and timing his lead to perfection. Cameron too took some good marks, and seemed to be used as more of a ruck than a forward.
I felt for Cox's opponents, usually either Wilson or Ruscoe. Bit of a height difference there. Would have been better to put McMahon or Dean on him, even though neither would have been a match.
McMahon was on Checkers, who gave him some lessons to be learned haha. Opponents would be swapped. Madgen was on checkers after a while. Moore on Henry/Krueger.
Adams was pretty active himself throughout the midfield.
Dean battled pretty well I thought, even though his team was the dominant one, as you would have expected.
It was a decent hitout nonetheless. I imagine they'll start to increase these match sims over the next couple weeks. Then probably an official intra club a week prior to the practice game?
Oh, and Jack Macrae was sitting watching his bro. He also mentioned Lippa is a gun.
