A host of clubs welcomed back players for the first day of the post-Christmas pre-season training block today as the journey to Opening Round ramps up. <\/p>\n
Adelaide, Brisbane, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Melbourne, Richmond, Hawthorn, GWS and Sydney were among the clubs tackling the sweltering conditions on the track today. <\/p>\n
Follow all the latest news, videos, pictures and action in our rolling coverage below. <\/p>\n
HAWKS SHOWCASE DAY 1 FITS<\/p>\n
Leave it to the Hawks to get around how the players are looking as they roll into Dingley.<\/p>\n
Hawthorn has lent into the first day beack celebrations, giving us an NBA-style rundown of plenty of players\u2019 fits as they head to training at Dingley. <\/p>\n
DEES PLAYERS HIT CASEY <\/p>\n
Brody Mihocek, Caleb Windsor, Jacob Van Rooyen, Daniel Turner and Jack Henderson were among the first Demons through the door at Casey. <\/p>\n
TIGERS RETURN <\/p>\n
A host of young Tigers descended on Punt Road for the club\u2019s first session of the new year. <\/p>\n
Luke Trainor, Rhyan Mansell, Tyler Sonsie, Sam Grlj and Josh Smillie were some of the first Tigers through the door. They were also joined by veteran midfielder Tim Taranto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A host of clubs welcomed back players for the first day of the post-Christmas pre-season training block today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-398778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}