With a number of media on had to watch the final session, senior Coach Brett Ratten confirmed the players were in great shape heading into the Christmas break and said the recent overseas training camp had been very successful.
“The trip to Qatar and Abu Dhabi has certainly benefitted the players in terms of their fitness. We have been testing them since the camp and I would think they are about two to three weeks in front of where they would normally be considering the date the squad returned to training.
“We will be giving them an extra week off over Christmas and this will really freshen them up mentally for the New Year.”
Ratten confirmed Jarrad Waite was also on target in his return.
“Jarrad is going really well. We had a very planned pre-Christmas program for Jarrad that has provided him with a good build up to the Christmas break and he has not missed a beat and continued to meet every challenge as we raised the bar on his training each week.”
The players finished the pre-Christmas training with a goalkicking competition with Brock McLean taking the honours from Andrew Collins and Levi Casboult.
Final Training Session for 2011
Josh Bootsma
Brett Ratten and Andrew Carrazzo
Andrew Collins
Marcus Davies
Chris Judd
Brock McLean
Sam Rowe
Jarrad Waite
