Luckily I checked the Collingwood Facebook page as training was moved from 10.30am to 11.30am but actually started at 12.00pm leaving heaps of parents and
kids & me waiting. 
Initially the entire senior list trained together bar Pebbles (goal kicking), Rus (laps) & Bennell (injured). This part of the session consisted of short to medium kicking for about 15-20 mins.
Then the groups were separated with the senior team from last week plus Johno & J-Mac staying on the main oval with the reserves team going over to the other ground with Gavin Brown.
MM called Coxy who seemed surprised he was going to train with the senior group. MM then requested Coxy to bring back Woody, Reidy, Dawesy & Jax to train with the senior group.
This part of the training was a half ground, forward press, zoning simulation session with MM kicking the ball into play from the wing and seeing how we would run the ball out of defence with the forwards/mids pushing up & pressuring the defenders.
They also simulated match conditions by actually rotating players off a bench every couple minutes. This session went for about 20 mins.
Dids/Heater/Swanny/Daisy/Leon & Johno were used as the quarterbacks.
Johno's first kick was surprisingly was a shocker
although he did get better.
No surprise that Dids and Leon excelled in the field kicking, hitting targets and to the best positioned targets too.
The last session went for about 20 mins and the players were separated into two different pressurised handball drill groups bar Tarks/Dicky & Maxy who trained with Paul Hudson practising snaps shots with both feet from about 35 metres out. I don't think I saw Dick miss a goal.
MM also spent about 15 minutes with Medders continually making Medders lead from the goal square and MM passed the ball to him to about 30 metres out from goal from various angles. Medders looked knackered by end of the session and MM looked happy.
After the formal part of training was finished Jack Anthony, Leigh Brown & Tarkyn Lockyer conducted goal kicking practice from various parts of the forward 50. Jack kicked about 7/10, Leroy about 3/10 and Tarks 8/10.
Initially the entire senior list trained together bar Pebbles (goal kicking), Rus (laps) & Bennell (injured). This part of the session consisted of short to medium kicking for about 15-20 mins.
Then the groups were separated with the senior team from last week plus Johno & J-Mac staying on the main oval with the reserves team going over to the other ground with Gavin Brown.
MM called Coxy who seemed surprised he was going to train with the senior group. MM then requested Coxy to bring back Woody, Reidy, Dawesy & Jax to train with the senior group.
This part of the training was a half ground, forward press, zoning simulation session with MM kicking the ball into play from the wing and seeing how we would run the ball out of defence with the forwards/mids pushing up & pressuring the defenders.
They also simulated match conditions by actually rotating players off a bench every couple minutes. This session went for about 20 mins.
Dids/Heater/Swanny/Daisy/Leon & Johno were used as the quarterbacks.
Johno's first kick was surprisingly was a shocker
although he did get better.
No surprise that Dids and Leon excelled in the field kicking, hitting targets and to the best positioned targets too.
The last session went for about 20 mins and the players were separated into two different pressurised handball drill groups bar Tarks/Dicky & Maxy who trained with Paul Hudson practising snaps shots with both feet from about 35 metres out. I don't think I saw Dick miss a goal.
MM also spent about 15 minutes with Medders continually making Medders lead from the goal square and MM passed the ball to him to about 30 metres out from goal from various angles. Medders looked knackered by end of the session and MM looked happy.
After the formal part of training was finished Jack Anthony, Leigh Brown & Tarkyn Lockyer conducted goal kicking practice from various parts of the forward 50. Jack kicked about 7/10, Leroy about 3/10 and Tarks 8/10.
