Training kicked off last Monday for the 2012 season and I was down there to take a few picks. Enjoy
Training Friday 18th March 2011
March 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Bit late getting this post out but went down to Waverly on Friday for a training session. One of the features of the session was a number of players in there original home club outfits. A good session by all. I spent a lot of it watching the rucks doing their thing. Check the photos out for more comments.
Jordan Lewis, Jack Mahony, David Hale, Jordan Williams and Issac Smith heading down to the ground
No, not Grant Birchall heading to the Pies, just the Devonport jumper
Shuan Burgoyne in his Mallee Park Jumper
Buddy Franklin and Chance Bateman heading to the ground
Cyril Rioli heading to training in his St Marys jumper
Young and Renouf coming down the steps
Roughy with his runners in hand heading to the ground
Paul Puopolo in the kicking warm up
Left to right: Bateman (York), Birchall (Devonport), Suckling (Wagga Tigers), Rioli (St Marys), Burgoyne (Mallee Park) and Osbourne (Labrador)
The last addition to the list, Ruckman Paul Johnson
Boys stretching with Lewis and Sewell in the foreground
Whitecross in the middle of a drill being the distributor
Grimley in rehab group
The main injury list player, Sam Menegola, keeping fit
Now for the Ruck Group. First up Renouf on the bag
Lisle on the bag. Intersting to see him training with the ruck group
Renouf getting ready to leap
Hale working on positioning/dishing it to the right area
Shiels tagging Mitchell getting involved in the Ruck training
Gibo in ball movement training
Ozzie in the kicking drill
Forgotten man, Rick Ladson. Could be really important if can get to main fitness
The Factor, Clinton Young in the kicking drill
Hawks Training 25th Feb 2011–Before 2nd NAB game
February 25, 2011 By 4 Comments
Wander down to training this morning and the boys looked good. I took some photos mainly of skill work rather then of structure work as I could understand the club being a little touchy about that. Everyone looked good. I think most were on the field in one form or another. Comments in the photos below. By the way, if I have a name wrong, please let me know in the comments below. ENJOY! GO HAWKS
Bruce in a kicking drill
Buddy shapes for goal from boundary in contest with Cameron Bruce and Jordan Lisle
Cam Bruce shooting for Goal in contest with Buddy & Lisle. He scored!
Jordan shots in the contest but missed!
Sam shooting from the middle. Put it through.
Mitch Hallahan kicking for goal. No tongue in his shot. Wonder if this is as he is a rookie?
David Hale photo. With the new Ruckman that is going to make Hawks debut on weekend have a few photos
Haley shooting on goal
Haley about to kick. Notice the tongue action!
Lado marking in a drill
The forgotten member of the Hawks training squad, ruckman, Paul Johnson
Birch running laps. Looked to be moving fine
Mitch kicking in a drill
Clarko looking on at training. I have been really impressed in what I have seen from Clarko lately. Gut feel is has been more involved or maybe I have just noticed it more
Hodgy just working up to more training and if you believe the paper, last two games of NAB series
Jordan kicking at goal
Shoey in the training squad
Pop kicking out
Brad Sewell, Luke Breust and Chance boxing in the background.
Jordan in the orange top at training
Leon Cameron instructing the forwards and backs
Bateman at training
Buddy snapping a goal
Roughy shooting for goal. Kicking action looked fine to me, but I think we all think his kicking issues in his head
Derick Wanganeen looking at the result of his kick.
Buddy watches on eagerly at the shot of Jordan Lisle. There is a coffee riding on this!
Buddy was keen to win that coffee but Bruce still slotted it
Hawks Training 7 Feb 2011
February 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
First training back after the Tassie community camp and main Intraclub match, and the boys were out in force. Not the most exciting session but here are some of the photos of the boys.
Liam Shiels looking for a target
Gbbo, Langford and Young on the run
Brent Guerra doing kick out drills
Shuan wanting the ball
Buddy on the move
Clarko guides training
Cyril off a run
Buddy on the lead. Did a lot of hit up work
Will Langford taking things over with the coaches
Sewell with total dedication
Kyle Cheney running support for Stephen Gilham
Adam Simpson. Possibly telling a fishing story
The Rock!
Hallahan and Wanganeen
Kicking concerntration
Menegola (I think)
Renouf marking
Hale getting in position
Hawks training 20 Jan 2011–Lets get physical
January 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
Boys had training yesterday. A very hard session. During the time I was there, I think there was a heavy price being put on endurance type work.
Chance at Training with Hale & Lewis riding the bikes in background
Roughy during match simulation
Max Bailey during match Simulation
One of the new guys (??)
Teaching some pressure tactics in break of "Keepers off"
Birchall,Young, Burgoyne & Renouf listening hard
Junior at training
Renouf changing sides
Lado, Milne, Lowden, Ellis, Hallahan and Waganeen were in running work
Roughy with a big leap over Monky
Buddy in marking contest with Monky
Shaun at training
Buddy taking mark over Renouf
Big Max in contest with Renouf
Roughy & Renouf contesting while Buddy looks on
Renouf knocks it away
Buddy shoots on goal
Good to see Max in Full training
New guy. Not sure who. Mahoney??
Another I am not Familar with
New boy Hale marking
Wrestling work
Bruce evading Hodgy
Sewell gasping for air
Adam Simpson was in charge of the tourture, I mean training
Brucey training
Chance running
Normal Youngy running style.
It was a hard session. You can see it on Mitch and Sewell's face
Mitch again
Doctor X still found a smile
Riley Milne in a running group
Hodgy working hard
More wrestling. Buddy enjoying it a little too much
Running boys again
Cyril and Bruce in another ground drill
Photos: Boys are Back in Town (well, at Waverly Park)
December 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
So we are into preseason for 2011 season and after some major work to the playing surface that saw the whole turf relayed, the boys were back training at the famous oval. Most of the players out there and from all reports, quite a long session that included ball work and a simulated match.
By the time I got there, the match was just ending but I was able to get some photos of the boys running. Any help with point out the new players greatly appreciated.
Training Photos – 17 Feb 2010 – Burgoyne joins Main Group
February 18, 2010 By 6 Comments
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 these guys. The good news was the guys that were in the main group (for the first hour of training that I saw anyway). The guys I was excited to see most were 3 new guys and one young guy that we haven’t seen a lot of. Josh Gibson, Rhan Hooper and Shaun Burgoyne along with second year rookie, Carl Peterson (who is looking lean). I am trying something different with the photos. I will include some photos here and then there is about 100 of them on the following page that you can check out. On these posts I try not to have too many of the same player where as on the Page there are some players that there are many photos of (Shaun Burgoyne just to name one). Here are the photos:
Training Photos – 10 Feb 2010 – Where is everyone?
February 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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, would love to put them up).
Enjoy the photos below! Who looks good. Don’t hesitate to comment below (have made it easier but will moderate to stop spam).
Hawthorn's Intra-club Match – 5th Feb 2010
February 5, 2010 By 8 Comments
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 but most of the team was out there (as you can see from the photo below taken after the 1st Quarter). Enjoy. Also, if you wanted to name players in photos at the bottom of the post, would be very helpful for me and others! GO HAWKS (and make sure you are Proud, Passionate and (most important) Paid up)!
Training 1/2/2010 – What's your decision
February 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 addressed the team and then addressed the forwards. After they did this, the forwards split up in to groups of two with players kicking it to the other two for a contest with the Umpirer watching on. Most of the photos are from this training were of these contests but some others are here including a sticked together Photo of the group. On to the Photos:
