Hi Mighty Tigers. We didn't see you at training today. I even brought you a copy of the Melbourne Times and everything. Never mind. Here's my report anyway. Yes, Terry was there. Not so much media today.They did a bit of end to end work, a bit of goalkicking, handballing, and tackling drills wearing those padded tackling guernseys.The group seemed pretty bouyant and upbeat after such a week of often ridiculous media scrutiny. Fair bit of voice out there. At one point three little kids in Tiger guernseys of about 7 or 8 joined the group in goalkicking practice. They each had a shot, and when they managed to dribble a goal through, the whole group cheered loudly and made a fuss of them, hoisting them onto their shoulders. Parents took photo's. I guess it was a good PR exercise after being under siege all week. There were 28 players on the track, so I guess that was the squad. In numerical order the squad was:
Thursfield, Deledio, Raines,Simmonds,Brown,Riewoldt,Cotchin,Edwards,Bowden,Polo,Pettifer,
McGuane,Newman,Rance (yes), Morton,Tuck,Jackson,Coughlan,Pattison,Tambling,Thomson,White,Nahas,
Connors,Moore,Foley,Collins, and Graham.
Of those, Angus only ran laps, so he must be considered a doubtful starter. Johnson put in an appearance.Alroy Gilligan was also on the track, and was being encouraged in his goalkicking practice by Lids and one or two others. This led to a bit of speculation that he might be a smokey to come off the rookie list for the Dreamtime game. Joan asked one of her "sources"
about this as they came off the track. But he quickly hosed down any such speculation.
