New Crows recruit Jack Osborn on the first day of pre-season training. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: The Advertiser
ADELAIDE'S basketballers wowed their coach as the Crows returned to pre-season training yesterday.
This month's alternate rookie-list pick-ups Tim Klaosen and Jack Osborn and last year's basketball convert Ben Dowdell joined Taylor Walker, captain Nathan van Berlo, teenage sensation Brad Crouch and the just-delisted Nick Joyce in producing eye-catching displays as Adelaide returned to pre-season training at Max Basheer Reserve yesterday.
"A few of those alternate sport boys looked all right," coach Brenton Sanderson noted after overseeing a 2½-hour session in the heat.
"Ben Dowdell blew them away in the running drills, Tim Klaosen was impressive in winning the five-minute run in his group and Jack Osborn, the 205cm ruckman we got from Tassie, looked pretty sharp, too.
"And Brad Crouch ... I know I'm going to talk about him a lot over summer but we are so fortunate to have him come on to our list straight away.
"That's one bright spark immediately."
While his club is embroiled in AFL allegations of salary cap cheating and draft tampering, Sanderson was his usual upbeat self as his players returned to full training for the first time since their heartbreaking five-point loss to Hawthorn in last season's preliminary final.
"For the first day back at pre-season the players were in great spirits, the coaches were fantastic and it's just good to be back at work," a smiling Sanderson said.
"The energy, the spirit among the group is fantastic.
"We trained well and it's nice to be back and getting ready for another footy season."
New recruit Angus Graham takes a break during his first day of training with the Crows. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: The Advertiser
Still sporting a mullet hairstyle, he looked finely tuned and ran brilliantly.
"The environment here over the past 12 months has been really special and the guys really enjoy coming to work," Sanderson noted.
"We saw the smiles on the faces of the guys who were bouncing into work.
"It's a bit unusual on the first day of pre-season. It's usually glum faces because the holidays are over.
"But I think there is a really good sense of expectation that 2013 might be something special for the group and we saw that."
Only a handful of Crows have started the pre-season on modified programs.
Jason Porplyzia (ankles), Jared Petrenko (shoulder), Matthew Jaensch (groin), Ricky Henderson (finger), Luke Thompson (ankle) and Tim McIntyre (shoulder) are recovering from post-season surgery and will be eased back into training.
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