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Great to hear Mills is in the midfield specific drills
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Yes, I was pleased about that. It will be interesting to see how he goes, if he spends the entire preseason there. Will the early games see him looking like a midfield gun, and thus fulfilling the promise of his junior years? Or will it seem that his midfield development has been stunted, by the few seasons that he spent playing as a defender?Comment
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I recall an interview Mills did last year after one of his first stints in the midfield, where he said he had to try to recall positioning, body work and other technical elements of playing at centre bounces - as opposed to being a defender. He was almost surprised how much he'd had to adjust and remember again. He's a smart footballer, so he should get there - but it might take a bit of actual game time to get it all right.'Delicious' is a fun word to sayComment
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Which is interesting. That is, much of learning new skills, is to do something often enough and competently enough, for the procedure to be transferred from the conscious mind to the subconscious. You don't really start to do something efficiently, until you stop thinking about what you're doing (well, in regards to physical tasks).Comment
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Callum was a natural inside mid in his junior days, so this stuff should come back to him pretty quickly and relatively easily. Now as long as the coaches don't take the easy way out and send him back as soon as something is looking shaky down there - he is a midfielder and should be played as such. His so called apprenticeship down back should be done and dusted.Comment
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Friday morning it started around 9am and finished around 1130am. One big group again apart from Naismith, Brand, Franklin, Cunningham, Heeney, Mcinerney and Papley who did light skils, high knee exercises, straight line running and kicking the ball back and forth. Heeney and Franklin also did some exercises with a coach behind the goals where they were running back and forwards and moving side to side.
Warmup
- One group did a more intensive warmup involving shuttle runs and then sprints from one end of the oval to the other.
- The other group did a lighter warmup with agility exercises and a bit of straight line running
Skills
- Handballing and kicking the ball back and forth 10m apart from each other
- In pairs/threes kicking the ball between each other from a bigger distance
4 Drills rotating between them
- Tackling exercises (both players on their feet)
- 4 attackers trying to handpass through 2 defenders
- Kicking against a man on the mark and trying to land the ball in a zone
- Kicking for goal against a man on the mark
Drill moving the ball upfield
- Usually starts from a goal kick or a 4 vs 3 contest near the boundary. The attacking players break out and gradually work the ball upfield and kick a goal.
2 Drills
- 5 attackers try to keep possession against 4 defenders by moving around and kicking to each other
- Drill where they move the ball upfield, they simulate a turnover at halfway, then rebound and immediately attack the other way. The 1min video on the Swans twitter shows them doing this drill.
Drill moving the ball upfield from the goal square
- Player kicks out from the goal square to one of two leading targets. Then they gradually move the ball upfield and kick a goal. With a focus on players leading into space and continuing to run forward
13 vs 10 match sim
- 4 vs 3 in the back line, 5 vs 4 in the mids, 4 vs 3 in the forward line. Players were playing in their normal positions.
A match sim where the attacking side would try to move the ball forward to score a goal. Then reset and started again. No tackling but was the drill closest to a realistic match situation. They probably went for about 25-30minutes and players swapped between the attacking/defending team.
Split up into informal groups
- They split up into smaller groups doing various things. One group was doing 1 vs 1 contested marking in the goal square. Another was practicing goal kicking. Other players were just kicking the ball back and forth to each other or practicing picking up ground balls.Last edited by SeanM; 15 January 2021, 12:25 PM.Comment
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The Swans website has posted a gallery of Friday training pics. McLean looks particularly ripped as does Heeney.We have them where we want them, everything is going according to plan!Comment
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I managed to catch ten minutes of training this morning on my way from work. Could not catch the details that SeanM so reliably provides for us RWOers, but I did get to note who has put on the necessary kgs.
Heeney - if that is even possible - and McLean were two who looked notably bigger than when I last saw them. So too Mills, though hard to tell with a T-shirt on as opposed to tank tops most were in. Stephens looks bigger, Florent looks bigger, Amartey more defined - baby fat seems to have gone off he and McLean. Blakey looks bigger, albeit from a low base. Warner is a unit. McCartin is becoming a man mountain. Wicks and Bell two locals also looked bigger. Papley and Ling are more defined than when I last saw them.
On the other end of the spectrum, Parker appears to have slimmed down a fraction, as has Franklin, and of course Gould.
Of the new faces, Sheather looks most senior-ready. Campbell, Gulden and McDonald are all decent sizes for their age. I did not notice Carruthers.
Among those who don't seem to have put any muscle on at all were Hayward, Rowbottom, Dawson and Clarke.Comment
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Nice updates there! What about Squizzy Taylor? Has he gotten himself fit or does he still look like he is carrying too much weight? For his career to go beyond 2021 he needs to get super fit in my view.Comment
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I don't remember seeing Taylor this week. But I think last week he was in the group that did light training.Comment
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