One of the great things about Foxtel active coverage is you can get to see what happens n the Carlton rooms pre-during-post match.
I have been watching this for a couple of years now and noticed a few differences this year from the last couple.
- For starters there is a TC'er very prominent in front of the Foxtel camera all night. Keep an eye out for her she had a striped bag.
- All the players were given a plastic bag after the game, seemed to have amongst other things an energy drink and a yoghurt or fruit snack.
- The players were offered not only bananas (which was the staple last year) but also a nice platter of watermelon slices to choose from.
- Despite my criticisms of Stevens, at half time and after the game he was obviously the stand out leader amongst the players, noticibly egging on all the players for greater efforts. Did not notice this as much last year.
- As far as I can tell it looked like Paul Ford the fitness coach gave all the boys a small speech about 20 minutes after the game in the rooms. This is very unusual, I do not remember anyone 'lowee' than the assistant coaching ranks giving the team a rev-up in the last few years on Foxtel active. They all seemed to hang off his words as well, maybe Ford has had a bigger imapact than any of us realise.
- Richard Pratt was quite prominent to the players before during and after the game, much moreso than the last 2 presidents. It is also interesting to notice the players body language towards the Prez, they are obviously in awe of a guy who is worth more than $5 Billion dollars!!
-No Elastics!! Last year in the rooms after a game the players were given big pieces of elastic with which to stretch after a game. Thius year that has been done away with in preference for more traditional stretching exersices.
- From what I saw expect interviews from CarltonTV from Bentick, Fevola, Gibbs and Stevens this week.
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