What do you want to see happen over this pre season ?

[crashlander]

[1] Put more resources into the Northern Blues with a full time coach, not just one of our development lads, and a decent list. get them training with the seniors as much as possible and get some real esprit de corps in them.
[2] Evaluate the fitness regime, so we an be the fittest club in the comp.
[3] Work on our skills under pressure, so we don't miss targets.
[4] Make sure all of our lads go through the goal kicking stuff. Nobody get to leave until they kick their quota of goals. That includes all of the defenders.

These are some of the simple things we need to work on. For ages we have noted the relationship with Preston and noted the lack of talent coming through that side. We've noticed the relative lack of spirit: too many guys leaving for 'opportunities'. We've noticed the poor skills and the terrible goal kicking. These should be fixable.

Improving the fitness of the whole Northern Blues squad is a good thing for us. But making us the fittest club in the comp may be quite difficult. We want to be the leaders, but we don't want to end up taking stupid risks, like the Essendon Supplements Program. This needs money and I am not sure we have enough yet.