Drew Petrie's interstate routine
Following on from an insight into his pre-match preparation, Drew Petrie speaks about interstate travel.
Following on from last week’s insight into his pre-match preparation, interim captain Drew Petrie spoke about the routine for interstate travel on the AFL Exchange podcast.
Using Sunday afternoon’s match against the Swans in Sydney as an example, Petrie provided the schedule from three days out.
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Thursday
“Thursday will be our main session with lots of vision and stuff on Sydney. We’ll practice some ways we are going to beat them.
“We’ll do some weights in the morning, some training, then more weights after training.
Friday & Saturday
“Friday we’ll take the day off leading into our final training session on Saturday.
“(On Saturday) We’ll go to the club in the morning at about 9.30am and do a little bit of weights. We’ll have our opposition meeting at 10 where we’ll go through the 22 and what their roles will be.
“You don’t spend too much time planning (opposition) scenarios. You believe in what you can do to beat a side and you try and run that game-plan to the letter and hopefully that’s good enough, regardless of who the opposition’s personnel is.
“We’ll fly up to Sydney about 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon and go straight to the hotel. There’ll be no training or meetings once we get up there. We have dinner as a team and it’s pretty much just player time after that.
“There’ll be physios treating players and massage therapists will be treating as well.
“I’ve roomed with Boomer (Brent Harvey) for a few years but now like I like to room on my own. It’s a bit of a different routine; I go to bed a bit earlier and like to wake up a bit earlier.
Sunday
“The Sunday morning if the game is a 1 o’clock start you’ll get up, go downstairs to the meals room and have your breakfast.
“You might go for a walk, not always with a group. The idea behind that is if I was playing a game in Melbourne I wouldn’t need ten blokes to go down to the shop with me, I’d do my own thing.
“It’s always laid out for us. We are just like a herd of sheep. We just have to be there and we get told where to go and what to pack.
“I enjoy being away with the boys and the staff. You spend more time together, because often when you’re training and playing in Melbourne you train, you play, you go home. That’s it. But when you are interstate you knock around with the boys a bit longer, so it’s a good thing.”
