training?

[saint66au]

Question: Which tram do you catch to get to Optus Oval, it has been ages since I've been there

19 or 20..North Coburg trams..they will drop you at the doorstep..

DONT get the No 57 Marybynong /Essendon Airport tram..it swings left at the top of Elizabeth St and heads up Flemington Road

[saintdooley]

Question: Which tram do you catch to get to Optus Oval, it has been ages since I've been there

19 or 20..North Coburg trams..they will drop you at the doorstep..

DONT get the No 57 Marybynong /Essendon Airport tram..it swings left at the top of Elizabeth St and heads up Flemington Road

yeah, thats right!
now i remember!
i think it is 19! that sounds right. or 17...something like that

[stinger]

Question: Which tram do you catch to get to Optus Oval, it has been ages since I've been there

19 or 20..North Coburg trams..they will drop you at the doorstep..

DONT get the No 57 Marybynong /Essendon Airport tram..it swings left at the top of Elizabeth St and heads up Flemington Road

yeah, thats right!
now i remember!
i think it is 19! that sounds right. or 17...something like that

you are a decisive man sd....decisive.....

[SaintBot]

so is training 9 or 10?

if 9 i dont reckon i can be bothered...if at ten, maybe - im itching for a kick and the princess parks are a great spot for one

[saintdooley]

so is training 9 or 10?

if 9 i dont reckon i can be bothered...if at ten, maybe - im itching for a kick and the princess parks are a great spot for one

10

[Ghost Like]

Does anyone have any news on how the boys went this morning, especially the newbies?

[spiral2]

Does anyone have any news on how the boys went this morning, especially the newbies?

went along today, and got there on time for a change, seemed like they'd started earlier than 10 though, were only doing stuff for maybe 15-30min after I got there.

bit of a half field drill on the go, free kick/mark on the back flank and work it forward. I didn't really watch it closely sorry, it was mainly up the far end of the ground.
lots of guys not doing much when I got there -
Kosi, Ball, BJ, X, Raph, Gilbo, all the young recruits, King, Gardi, Blake, Gwilt etc etc
pretty crapola session sorry, really not much happened
things of minor note
- BJ icing knee, looked like no drama, probably just part of the recovery deal
- Eljay is rake thin
- Chivers looks a good size
- Mini was active - scored a goal with a 25m kick into a wheelie bin
he has neat skills, amongst the best delivery into F50 in the half field drill (fair few wayward kicks from others)
- didn't see/notice Max, Kubla, L Fisher, Geary, Goose, Rix, Attard, Miles
- Lenny, NDS, Milney, S Fisher and joey all looked pretty sharp

sorry not much to report, no pics either
there was a pro snapper there, maybe something will turn up on Getty or GSP

[LennyBoy]

Training Report - Friday 14th December - Optus Oval

The boy's were put through a really tough session mainly consisting of ballwork, endurance and team work exercises.

Having started 40 minutes earlier than the 10am advised (due to heat) the first half hour was light ball.

x x x <---------------> x x x

I noticed Kosi still did not take part in any part of the session, and was getting intensive physio off the field, while having a good laugh with the boys in the modified training group which includes King, Gardnier, Harvey, Bally, Bakes and Schnider.

Steven King appears to be in very good shape with his endurance work, and body looks to be holding up, as where Gardy seemed to be grasping for air alot, and stopping throughout his running program, and seems still to be carrying some injury niggles.

One stand out of the session for me was Charlie Gardnier who was very clean and a dead eye dick when it came to goal kicking.

Overall the session was only of a fair standard due to continual goal kicking misses, and poor marking which Ross Lyon was not happy with in the slightest. Three times he singled out the new kids, Ejay got the majority of the burst (laps, pushup's etc), which was good to see, welcome to AFL!!!

Anthony Rock and SOS did take major parts of training and worked mainly with individual groups of players. Sam Gilbert has bulked up is a sporting some new tan LOL, hopefully he hasnt lost any of his endurance and pace from last season that set him apart from the rest.

Lenny seemed to be moving freely and looking good with his running, as with Armitage who did a lot of midfield work, roveing from Riewoldt's marking attempts.

Sam Fisher is a another who looks to up built up even more and is an chance to be a future leader given his vocal role on the track.

G-Train was just running laps, and will be heading back overseas in the next week or so.

Of the other drills, the circle work was of a good standard, with good run and intensity. Our new rookie kids all except (Chivers - nickname: JT (cry me a chiver) were all running laps which was good to see.

Overall the session was very intense, and a good learning experience for the younger kids. The boys still have plenty of work to do on the skills front, but essentially that is what preseason is for to refine our skills for match day pressure.

Interesting to see Cain Ackland hanging around with the boys for a good half an hour after training, and FEV sitting down and talking to Hayes, Dally and Rooey, he really does wanna be a Sainter.

Dal was off to get a facial while the other boy's went to Port Melbourne for lunch. Gram has a new number one fan also which I was talking to behind the goals, sorry riccardo your out of luck mate.

[spiral2]

good work LennyBoy, much better than my report!
wish I'd arrived earlier

[LennyBoy]

good work LennyBoy, much better than my report!
wish I'd arrived earlier

Wasn't many other supporters around I must say. They even let me on track for half the session kicking the footy to the guys.

Was that camera man on the roof GT?

[spiral2]

was that you behind the goals toward the end? kicking back to the goal shooters?

[n1ck]

Whos Kubla?

[LennyBoy]

was that you behind the goals toward the end? kicking back to the goal shooters?

With the Travisty hat on yeah

[Mr Magic]

Whos Kubla?

I'm assuming Kahn?
In which case I would prefer the nicjname Genghis - much more 'fearsome'

[snoopygirl]

n1ck, kubla is the new rookie Khan.

[spiral2]

was that you behind the goals toward the end? kicking back to the goal shooters?

With the Travisty hat on yeah

good work

I think I saw bevo with the binoc's trained on you!

[spiral2]

Whos Kubla?

future full back/ruckman/forward?

[saintdooley]

good work LennyBoy, much better than my report!
wish I'd arrived earlier

Wasn't many other supporters around I must say. They even let me on track for half the session kicking the footy to the guys.

Was that camera man on the roof GT?

are you serious adam?
you kicked the ball back to maybe 3 players while i was kicking it back to milney and CJ every 10 sec!
and spiarl2, that was me kicking the ball back to the players! if you are talking about the boy in the shorts, and yellow t-shirt and nearly got beheaded by one of milney's snaps thats me!
lennyboy is the guy who was talking to someone, and wasnt watching the players, and someone kicked a goal and it landed it lennyboys stomach! that was the highlight of my day
and also, lennyboy said the boys started training 40mins before 10am, not true. i got there at 8.55am and they were already training.

ive got a few photos that i will post up soon

[MCG-Unit]

Thanks for the training reports guys

Edit, and the pix

[Armoooo]

good work LennyBoy, much better than my report!
wish I'd arrived earlier

Wasn't many other supporters around I must say. They even let me on track for half the session kicking the footy to the guys.

Was that camera man on the roof GT?

are you serious adam?
you kicked the ball back to maybe 3 players while i was kicking it back to milney and CJ every 10 sec!
you are the biggest liar!
and spiarl2, that was me kicking the ball back to the players, lennyboy! if you are talking about the boy in the shorts, and yellow t-shirt and nearly got beheaded by one of milney's snaps thats me!
lennyboy is the guy who was talking to someone, and wasnt watching the players, and someone kicked a goal and it landed it lennyboys stomach! that was the highlight of my day
and also, lennyboy said the boys started training 40mins before 10am, not true. i got there at 8.55am and they were already training.

ive got a few photos that i will post up soon

Yeah well one of the players gave me a lollypop so nah nah

[saintdooley]

good work LennyBoy, much better than my report!
wish I'd arrived earlier

Wasn't many other supporters around I must say. They even let me on track for half the session kicking the footy to the guys.

Was that camera man on the roof GT?

are you serious adam?
you kicked the ball back to maybe 3 players while i was kicking it back to milney and CJ every 10 sec!
you are the biggest liar!
and spiarl2, that was me kicking the ball back to the players, lennyboy! if you are talking about the boy in the shorts, and yellow t-shirt and nearly got beheaded by one of milney's snaps thats me!
lennyboy is the guy who was talking to someone, and wasnt watching the players, and someone kicked a goal and it landed it lennyboys stomach! that was the highlight of my day
and also, lennyboy said the boys started training 40mins before 10am, not true. i got there at 8.55am and they were already training.

ive got a few photos that i will post up soon

Yeah well one of the players gave me a lollypop so nah nah

yeah, well, i got 11 players signatures, and milney said to me "nice kick mate" when i kicked the ball to him. so nah nah!

[Armoooo]

[milney044]

i went to moorabbin today to purchase my memership and was lucky enough to see birss, schneider, x and gilbert. they said theyd just done their time trial, Birssy rekons the boys are training really hard and Schneider says the weather is great now

i envy you boys who got to kick to milney..

nice to see a few of the boys though, i was so hungry for footy when i got home i put on the 04 highlights dvd.

bring on 08. year of the saint cant wait.

[saintdooley]

doing some normal kicking drills


kosi getting a massage and milney waiting in line


someone kicking it to Birss


Riewoldt walking down the steps


streching


running drills


king and gardiner going for a run


gram coming my way:D


gram going the other way


having a chat, probably about whats on tv tonight


having another chat


handball drill


riewoldt about to take part in the drill

[Otiman]

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.