Decided to do one on one coaching with some of the players. We just practised some quick handball, overhead marking and kicking. I think it worked well because I wanted to give some of the players a little bit of extra training and you can’t really do that with everyone training in a big group.
Steve had the players practising running and bouncing the ball. Some of them were pretty good at it especially because we hadn’t practised it before. They also had a bit of competitive fun playing leader ball with a football. Steve had a good goal kicking exercise which all the players enjoyed – they all love kicking a goal. Great work with the drills Steve and thanks to all of the helpers, Marty, Neil, Adrian, Tim (I know I’ve forgotten someone).
We finished training with about 20 minutes of match practise. Everyone played pretty well, I think the players are getting better at reading the play and putting themselves into the action. We’ve certainly toughened up because a couple of players got knocked during the match practise and in the past they would have stopped playing but tonight they just shrugged it off and kept going.
Amelie is really training well and for someone who hasn’t played before she is improving very quickly. Caleb did some pretty smart things during the practise match. Truan, Jordan and Luke did some excellent defensive plays i.e. chasing, smothering and tackling. Matt had the ball on a string. Nick’s a quiet kid but he’s good some great skills and he never misses a target. Kobe was just starting to show his speed, he’s going to be awesome once he gets his confidence up.
Looking forward to this week’s game v Applecross. 8am start time!!