Pre-season begins

[Bangalore Swans]

1st post of the year where 1 + 1 = 497.525212312312 .

Given crowds at the test matches, I'd suspect the club probably has a) been training elsewhere (if players are back), b) discouraging players to go anywhere near Moore Park given our covid troubles already and c) it's worth noting a lot of players probably have plenty of gym gear at home they can use.

But hey, we are used to it on here, so keep the strange and wacky posts coming, to fill the rest of pre-season in ha!

What do SCG crowds have to do with training at the Swans facility or COVID. The Swans facilities are closed off to the public. I don’t walk past Longmire’s office or the Weights room to get a meat pie.

One of the Swans players could walk in, use the facilities and have no else one around.

I once walked past that Gym and saw a young Dawson in their all by himself. What a great player he turned out to be.

It’s the extra’s that count.

Everyone player on the Swans list needs to be ready to play seniors this year. You can see from the Big Bash League that sides can lose many players.

The Swans may be as much as 10 players down one week if COVID hits.

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Err, I think you are. No one knows what the training timetable is or even restrictions the players might be facing in these strange times.....your post is conjecture.

Red and White is conjecture. It’s what sports fan sites are all about.

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Err, I think you are. No one knows what the training timetable is or even restrictions the players might be facing in these strange times.....your post is conjecture.

Red and White is conjecture. It’s what sports fan sites are all about.

[Bloods05]

What do SCG crowds have to do with training at the Swans facility or COVID. The Swans facilities are closed off to the public. I don’t walk past Longmire’s office or the Weights room to get a meat pie.

One of the Swans players could walk in, use the facilities and have no else one around.

I once walked past that Gym and saw a young Dawson in their all by himself. What a great player he turned out to be.

It’s the extra’s that count.

Everyone player on the Swans list needs to be ready to play seniors this year. You can see from the Big Bash League that sides can lose many players.

The Swans may be as much as 10 players down one week if COVID hits.

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Red and White is conjecture. It’s what sports fan sites are all about.

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Red and White is conjecture. It’s what sports fan sites are all about.

What an odd comment.

[Bangalore Swans]

With such high COVID numbers I don't think the club wants any players going near the public.

Are the swans actually back training? I haven't seen any information on the swans app. They normally have a photo gallery.

I wonder if there have been more positive cases.

At 45,000 cases in NSW and 51,000 in Victoria, COVID infection is pretty much inevitable for any citizens who don’t put themselves into self imposed lockdown.

I would love GoSwannies and other medical experts on Red and White to answer this question.

“Is it preferable for the Swans squad to get COVID now and build up some COVID immunity for the upcoming season?

Getting COVID during the season would lead to a lot of players missing games.

“Are you less likely to get Omricom if you’ve already had it”

I’m not an expert and would appreciate some expert analysis.

[Bloods05]

At 45,000 cases in NSW and 51,000 in Victoria, COVID infection is pretty much inevitable for any citizens who don’t put themselves into self imposed lockdown.

I would love GoSwannies and other medical experts on Red and White to answer this question.

“Is it preferable for the Swans squad to get COVID now and build up some COVID immunity for the upcoming season?

Getting COVID during the season would lead to a lot of players missing games.

“Are you less likely to get Omricom if you’ve already had it”

I’m not an expert and would appreciate some expert analysis.

Keir Starmer, the UK opposition leader, has just tested positive for the second time in two months. Getting infected offers minimal protection.

[stevoswan]

I always believed that natural Covid 'immunity' is a myth.

[wolftone57]

I doubt they will be anywhere around the SCG where the Ashes Test is in progress this week.

If the cricket is on they normally train on Moore Park Oval. If that is a problem, as with COVID, Henson Park, Marrickville

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[wolftone57]

At 45,000 cases in NSW and 51,000 in Victoria, COVID infection is pretty much inevitable for any citizens who don’t put themselves into self imposed lockdown.

I would love GoSwannies and other medical experts on Red and White to answer this question.

“Is it preferable for the Swans squad to get COVID now and build up some COVID immunity for the upcoming season?

Getting COVID during the season would lead to a lot of players missing games.

“Are you less likely to get Omricom if you’ve already had it”

I’m not an expert and would appreciate some expert analysis.

Herd Immunity with a virus that mutates, like this or HIV, is a myth. Because it replicates and then changes the more cases you have the more chance there is of a new variant. So even though you'd vaccines, or natural immunity, protect you from say Alpha, you can still get Delta, Omicron or????.

So? even as fit and healthy as they are I would not advise them to hit the hotpots for a taste of herd Immunity. Mainly because as, J have just seen in Laos, even very healthy 20 yo boys with 2 AZ have died of Delta. We have had several cases recently and evidence is that while Omicron is not as nasty it is highly infectious and that could lead to the whole club being shut down.

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[i'm-uninformed2]

At 45,000 cases in NSW and 51,000 in Victoria, COVID infection is pretty much inevitable for any citizens who don’t put themselves into self imposed lockdown.

I would love GoSwannies and other medical experts on Red and White to answer this question.

“Is it preferable for the Swans squad to get COVID now and build up some COVID immunity for the upcoming season?

Getting COVID during the season would lead to a lot of players missing games.

“Are you less likely to get Omricom if you’ve already had it”

I’m not an expert and would appreciate some expert analysis.

No offence to the RWO community, but I seriously doubt anyone on here is qualified to provide science around an infectious pandemic virus

[wolftone57]

No offence to the RWO community, but I seriously doubt anyone on here is qualified to provide science around an infectious pandemic virus

I am not qualified to provide the science. But I am qualified to provide the experience of living through an epidemic. The HIV Epidemic is something I know a lot about. From several different angles, an experience point of view, from an activist point of view and from a, professional point of view dealing with govt. I was in contact with Health Ministers, the Premier and other people in government during a time of where many people died. I respected people like Professor Dwyer because of their knowledge and sensible advice as epidemiologists. They would never let politicians control the narrative.

If you look at the WHO protocols they are quite simple. You don't have to be a scientist to work it out.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.who.int/influenza/resources/documents/RapidContProtOct15.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjZyqfmnqP1AhW7CbcAHbCxAkkQFnoECAEQAg&usg=AOvVaw1CH8dReoHAXE2WclDWq4Ag

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Everything you need to know about COVID is here.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

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[wolftone57]

I think the media department is still closed for holidays

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[SeanM]

Went down to Tramway oval Monday after 9am. They were already on the oval doing warmup.

There were a few VFL players doing the full session. And probably about 10 listed players missing. I noticed 3 of 4 WA guys and both Irish guys were there. Amartey, Wicks and McLean were doing straight line running on the side. Everyone else seemed to be mostly involved in the session.

- Split into 3 groups and rotated through 3 stations. 2 stations were picking up grounds balls and handballing. I think the 3rd station was an attacking side of 7 players moving the ball with short kicks past opposing players.

- Quick drill with 4 players handballing past 3 opposing players.

- 7 attacking players try to handball past 4 opposing players. Felt it was a similiar scenario to a defender picking up a ground ball and then staying calm and using the numbers to keep possession. Also a bit of a scenario where they would start the drill with a ground ball amongst a bunch of players to simulate inside mids handballing in a congested area.

- Players set up on 4 points of a large square. And running and kicking to the opposite diagonal with multiple balls in motion.

- 3 matches of 10 vs 10 on a reduced field where the team scores a point by marking the ball in a zone near the goal. (Not full contact. Coaches would whistle for a turnover if someone was wrapped up or there were loose possessions). The players currently not involved were practicing picking up a ground ball under pressure and trying to evade a tackler 1 vs 1. It was funny seeing the Warner boys end up on the same team in the 10v10 and link up a few times with handballs.

- Same game except 12 vs 12 but keeping a 4/4/4 positional structure.

- Same game except 14 attackers vs 12 opposing and now using the full field.

- Running - 4 sets of 2/3 of the oval boundary. Then probably 10 sets of 100m straight running. Mostly in a bunch on the boundary runs. But guys you would expect like Fox, CoR, Ronke, Stephens and Cunningham were generally near the front.

It seemed to be finishing up a bit after 11am.

[Mark26]

Went down to Tramway oval Monday after 9am. They were already on the oval doing warmup.

There were a few VFL players doing the full session. And probably about 10 listed players missing. I noticed 3 of 4 WA guys and both Irish guys were there. Amartey, Wicks and McLean were doing straight line running on the side. Everyone else seemed to be mostly involved in the session.

- Split into 3 groups and rotated through 3 stations. 2 stations were picking up grounds balls and handballing. I think the 3rd station was an attacking side of 7 players moving the ball with short kicks past opposing players.

- Quick drill with 4 players handballing past 3 opposing players.

- 7 attacking players try to handball past 4 opposing players. Felt it was a similiar scenario to a defender picking up a ground ball and then staying calm and using the numbers to keep possession. Also a bit of a scenario where they would start the drill with a ground ball amongst a bunch of players to simulate inside mids handballing in a congested area.

- Players set up on 4 points of a large square. And running and kicking to the opposite diagonal with multiple balls in motion.

- 3 matches of 10 vs 10 on a reduced field where the team scores a point by marking the ball in a zone near the goal. (Not full contact. Coaches would whistle for a turnover if someone was wrapped up or there were loose possessions). The players currently not involved were practicing picking up a ground ball under pressure and trying to evade a tackler 1 vs 1.

- Same game except 12 vs 12 but keeping a 4/4/4 positional structure.

- Same game except 14 attackers vs 12 opposing and now using the full field.

- Running - 4 sets of 2/3 of the oval boundary. Then probably 10 sets of 100m straight running.

It seemed to be finishing up a bit after 11am.

Thanks Sean. Who was missing?

[SeanM]

I may have missed them but I don't think I saw Papley, Rankin, Rowbottom, Naismith, Hickey, Ladhams, Sinclair, McDonald, P.McCartin, Sheather or Mills.

I will keep an eye out for those players if I go on Wed or Friday.

[Scottee]

Went down to Tramway oval Monday after 9am. They were already on the oval doing warmup.

There were a few VFL players doing the full session. And probably about 10 listed players missing. I noticed 3 of 4 WA guys and both Irish guys were there. Amartey, Wicks and McLean were doing straight line running on the side. Everyone else seemed to be mostly involved in the session.

- Split into 3 groups and rotated through 3 stations. 2 stations were picking up grounds balls and handballing. I think the 3rd station was an attacking side of 7 players moving the ball with short kicks past opposing players.

- Quick drill with 4 players handballing past 3 opposing players.

- 7 attacking players try to handball past 4 opposing players. Felt it was a similiar scenario to a defender picking up a ground ball and then staying calm and using the numbers to keep possession. Also a bit of a scenario where they would start the drill with a ground ball amongst a bunch of players to simulate inside mids handballing in a congested area.

- Players set up on 4 points of a large square. And running and kicking to the opposite diagonal with multiple balls in motion.

- 3 matches of 10 vs 10 on a reduced field where the team scores a point by marking the ball in a zone near the goal. (Not full contact. Coaches would whistle for a turnover if someone was wrapped up or there were loose possessions). The players currently not involved were practicing picking up a ground ball under pressure and trying to evade a tackler 1 vs 1. It was funny seeing the Warner boys end up on the same team in the 10v10 and link up a few times with handballs.

- Same game except 12 vs 12 but keeping a 4/4/4 positional structure.

- Same game except 14 attackers vs 12 opposing and now using the full field.

- Running - 4 sets of 2/3 of the oval boundary. Then probably 10 sets of 100m straight running.

It seemed to be finishing up a bit after 11am.

Thanks Sean,

here are some tweets of the session:

https://https://twitter.com/sydneyswans/stat...282528256?s=20

Sydney Swans on Twitter: "Who says fitness in Summer isn’t fun? ??????… "

Sydney Swans on Twitter: "Kicking off 2022 with our new Swan. #Bloods… "

Cheers

[giant]

Went down to Tramway oval Monday after 9am. They were already on the oval doing warmup.

There were a few VFL players doing the full session. And probably about 10 listed players missing. I noticed 3 of 4 WA guys and both Irish guys were there. Amartey, Wicks and McLean were doing straight line running on the side. Everyone else seemed to be mostly involved in the session.

- Split into 3 groups and rotated through 3 stations. 2 stations were picking up grounds balls and handballing. I think the 3rd station was an attacking side of 7 players moving the ball with short kicks past opposing players.

- Quick drill with 4 players handballing past 3 opposing players.

- 7 attacking players try to handball past 4 opposing players. Felt it was a similiar scenario to a defender picking up a ground ball and then staying calm and using the numbers to keep possession. Also a bit of a scenario where they would start the drill with a ground ball amongst a bunch of players to simulate inside mids handballing in a congested area.

- Players set up on 4 points of a large square. And running and kicking to the opposite diagonal with multiple balls in motion.

- 3 matches of 10 vs 10 on a reduced field where the team scores a point by marking the ball in a zone near the goal. (Not full contact. Coaches would whistle for a turnover if someone was wrapped up or there were loose possessions). The players currently not involved were practicing picking up a ground ball under pressure and trying to evade a tackler 1 vs 1. It was funny seeing the Warner boys end up on the same team in the 10v10 and link up a few times with handballs.

- Same game except 12 vs 12 but keeping a 4/4/4 positional structure.

- Same game except 14 attackers vs 12 opposing and now using the full field.

- Running - 4 sets of 2/3 of the oval boundary. Then probably 10 sets of 100m straight running. Mostly in a bunch on the boundary runs. But guys you would expect like Fox, CoR, Ronke, Stephens and Cunningham were generally near the front.

It seemed to be finishing up a bit after 11am.

Great summary thanks - must have been nice and warm out there.