Sturt players fine tune their skills during coronavirus pandemic with a kick of the toilet roll
What do Sturt players do when there is a lack of footy action and toilet paper is difficult to find on the shelves? They clean up their skills with some trick play.
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The SANFL season may be on hold because of COVIDS-19, but that hasn’t stopped Sturt from cleaning up its skills.
And when football finally does return, the Double Blues will be aiming to wipe away their opposition.
Training in groups has been banned. The players have also had to roll with the toilet paper shortage, not that that has stopped them fine tuning their skills to prepare the big day when they can get their butts back on the ground.
Double Blues’ women’s team member Amy Brooks-Birve, who joined the club this year after playing basketball with Forestville Eagles and then two seasons of junior footy with Goodwood, instigated a video after watching “something similar” on the AFL website.
Her Double Blues co-captain and a member of the Crows inaugural women’s team Georgia Bevan, men’s vice-captain Guy Page and club president Jason Kilic show off their skills, as does women’s coach Bruce Dawes on the trampoline. Unfortunately for Larrissa Schenscher, she was benched.
Even coach Nathan Grima got in on the act with his kids.
“We can’t train or get together, but we have a group chat and I got players to send videos to me,” Brooks-Birve said.
“Everyone got around it and it was a bit of fun.”