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Howlett said third year players Jake Melksham and Travis Colyer were noticeably bigger as a result of the gruelling pre-season campaign under the new conditioning team led by Dean Robinson.
“The size they (Melksham and Colyer) have put on this season has been really good and I don’t think you will see them getting knocked off the ball too much which is a real positive,” Howlett said.
“It has been great with the new conditioning staff, there have been a lot of new ideas and they have really pushed us this pre-season.”
Howlett says the group is excited about kicking off their NAB Cup campaign when they travel to Perth on February 19 against West Coast and Fremantle.
“It has been a very long and very tough pre-season with the Weapon (Dean Robinson) pushing us which has been good,” he said.
“The length of the pre-season has driven the whole group to be really edgy and want to get out there.”
On a personal level, the 23-year-old feels the tough off-season training schedule has improved his capacity to run out games.
“I was lucky enough to play every game last year but I couldn’t run out some towards the end of the year, so hopefully towards the end of this year I will be fit enough to push through those matches.”
