I went to down to training today as 8am tomorrow is way too early
. Thanks to our trains
I missed the first 30 mins or so so I didn't see them do much as far as actual drills. The mids were on the far side of the ground when I arrived and were working on body strength pushing and wrestling in pairs. Tuesdays are meant to be a skills session so they weren't doing any game based drill.
Talk that we have hardly any injuries isn't quite right. Jacko is still 2 weeks away due to his hamstring tendonitis. He was expected back into full training by Christmas but it has taken longer. Jacko himself was fairly pragmatic about it and reckons he'll be like Cuz and as long as he's right to go round 1 he'll get through the season. Gus is still having trouble with his foot and was in the rehab group. He also had both thumbs bandaged but that might be just to protect them. Mitch Farmer said he is still injured (he didn't say what it was) although I've got a pic of him with the midfield group.
On the positive size both Foley and Cotch are fine and in full training. Cotch went off before I arrived which gave my friends a bit of a shock but he came back out and when a friend said she was worried about him Cotch overheard her and said "Hey I'm fine"
. Axel won't play in Darwin or the first NAB Cup game. Reece Conca has joined in full training within the past week.
Lids is now massive across the shoulders (hopefully he can pass the secret onto his teammates). They were doing some defensive spoiling drills a friend said with the aim to just punch the ball across the boundary. Lids however not knowing his own strength got a fist to the ball and it ended up over the fence and onto Punt Road with two cars hitting the footy before a cop car passing by picked it up and came in and returned it
. Jack is freaking bigger than you think too when you stand next to him.
I took a couple of pics which I'll add in a tick with the ones from slatteryimages.
Edit: I forgot to add Cass and the trial rookies are still training with us. I didn't recognise the other two though. Cass said he is finally over his hamstring probs which plagued him in his first stint at Richmond. The Irish boy training with us Rohan Steed (sp?) was also there today. We only recognised him after one of the ones in our group asked for his autograph and you couldn't miss the accent lol.
