Training today was at a soaking wet Vic Park. Seriously it was like the old suburban VFL days. No drainage and with large puddles of water lying on the surface. So much for the Matrix Men and their special hair products
. Browny and Lids were chucking mud pies at each other at the end of training.
Most of the 42 squad were present today. Only Cotch, Meyer, Cogs or Gus were absent. They also had a ring-in training with them so he could have been a Coburg player. Jacko still has that bandage around his head. As everyone was training there's no inkling as to who's coming in for Sugar and Howat. Terry spoke to Polo for a while at the end of training but really there were no clues.
I only saw the last 30 minutes but the drill I saw them do was a rebounding one from deep in defence from a batted down ball and then working their way up the ground to the forwards. Lots of running in numbers to support and block, handball receives and passing by foot to players leading into space. So going by today we're not going to change things too much from the Carlton game. Foot skills were actually good in the wet conditions btw. Those around the defensive contest were Newy, Thursty, Rainesy, Simmo, Edwards, Jordy, Polo, McGuane, Rance, Morton, Schulz, Tambo, Hyde, Silvester, Connors, Moore, Foley, Collo and Kingy. It looked like Richo, Browny and Lids were the forwards. Kel received a few wraps from the coaching staff for his efforts and Rance showed some toe running behind the contest to collect the pill then away from a chasing Lukey in the wet conditions. Schulz did some nice things too.
That was about it. Jack and a couple of others took some set shots at goal but they left pretty quickly after the main drill.
