After the good NAB Cup Round 1 win over the Tigers (I hope to write up my thoughts soon) the boys returned to Melbourne and back at training. Their were some extra guys in the rehab group from the game (Franklin, Mitchell and Gilham to name a couple) but shouldn’t be too much worries on [...]

Got down to training this morning. Really enjoyed seeing the drills this morning. A few boys stepped it up and others in the rehab group. Unfortunately won’t be at Open training Friday before they go to Tassie for the NAB Cup opener against Richmond (if anyone does and wants to share commentary/photos, let me know, [...]

Wander down to Waverly this morning and what did we find but a bit of a hitout for the Hawks. It was like the good old days at Waverly with misty rain rolling in (not too windy though) so the skills weren’t as good as you would expect in the dry. There were players missing [...]

Went down to Waverly today on my way to other things and thought that there was no chance of training as the community camp in Tassie was meant to start toady (Monday). To my suprise the guys were training and in fact had a guest down there. There guess was an AFL Umpirer present. He [...]

After life (i.e. family committments) had prevented me from getting to training, I was able to get down for 30 odd minutes of training this morning. My son (Patrick) and I were down at Waverly for a training kickoff about 9:30am, with players coming down in two waves (including Hodge sneaking down late (see photo [...]

Second post form the 25th November 2009. Mostly running although there is one of Jordan Lewis doing kicking practice. Not sure the reason for this as its the second time that while the rest of the group ran, he was doing kicking practice. Amoungst the photos is one of Wade Skipper, formerly of the Bulldogs, [...]

Another open session this morning. I got there after 10:30am and the team was involved in a match simulation. I was asked by the coaching staff not to video it, so no video this week. But a couple of photo posts (and perhaps a music video style video of the photos). Hope you enjoy. The [...]

Goal Kicking Comp
Have a couple of videos of some friendly competition goal kicking. Firstly it was from in front and then the second one is from the boundary line with a lot of banter.

Here are more photos including in the background a couple of runners that got some attention of the people that where at training.

Here are the runners (above)

(NOTE: Hi to those coming from HHQ forum. I am still locked out of it. If you wanted to suggest they let user mollyfud back in, would be very helpful. TIA)
Open training. Was moved to 8am due to the heat and I was able to make it down twice. Got some great Videos to come [...]

UPDATED: Now there are 6 videos from Training. Most available in HD. Enjoy and tell your friends! Couple more to come.

Video from Hawks training on the 28/10/2009.
From Memory, Buddy, Stephen Gilham and Campbell Brown kicking and marking. Maybe some more (leave others you see in the comments below). Ta

News spread today that Max Bailey, Second year ruckman for the Hawks who was looking to be an important part of the young Hawks side twisted his knee in training this morning when he had a collision with another player.
He had a scan this after noon and it showed the worst. Max has ruptured [...]

As mentioned in my post on the Hawks training for the 5 Jan, Rick Ladson had an injury concern out of the session. It was reported by people at training that it appeared to be an ankle problem.
I have since been informed from the club that didn’t roll his ankle but in fact had [...]