PRE-SEASON TRAINING RESUMES
Fresh from a well-deserved break, the Essendon players return to the training track today as the countdown to season 2002 continues. The players have gone into a five-day camp at Xavier College which includes six skills sessions and four conditioning sessions. The players will also listen to an Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA) lecture and a racial villification lecture. On Friday the players head to Fiskville (near Hepburn Springs) for a day of team building with the CFA. It is just 27 days until the Bombers' first practice match of the season. Essendon plays Sydney at North Sydney Oval on Saturday, February 9th.