Geelong coach Chris Scott and Kangaroos coach Brad Scott will ramp up their 2013 campaigns with closed match simulation training sessions at Simonds Stadium. Picture: Colleen Petch Source: Herald Sun
NORTH Melbourne and Geelong will step up their pre-season campaigns with a series of competitive match simulation training sessions against each other, starting tomorrow.
The Herald Sun can reveal the coaches of the clubs, twins Brad (North) and Chris (Geelong) Scott, have joined forces to schedule a series of sessions at the Cats' home ground, Simonds Stadium.
In a closely guarded arrangement, the Roos and Cats plan to train together behind locked gates in Geelong every Friday morning for the next month.
AFL umpires will be present to help educate players on rules.
Geelong Football manager Neil Balme was adamant the work-outs were not practice matches, which would be against AFL rules.
Balme said there was "no doubt" the hit-outs would help the clubs' pre-season development.
"There won't be a practice match, because I'm not sure we're allowed to have them, but they will be doing some work on our ground," Balme said.
"There could be some match practice, some training drills with them or competing with them, but it's not a serious game or anything.
"We've asked for some AFL umpires to be involved, just with any of the new rulings. It's good to get two things like that done at once.
"It's no secret. We just haven't publicised it."
Clubs do not tackle each other in full-scale practice matches in the pre-season until the NAB Cup series, starting February 15.
Hawthorn and Richmond and Melbourne and Collingwood have made use of the close relationships between their coaching staffs by staging some match simulation and midfield stoppage work against each other in recent years, but not for four weeks in a row.
The City of Greater Geelong, which is the owner and operator of Simonds Stadium, confirmed North Melbourne had made plans to use the Geelong venue for the next four Fridays - January 11, 18, 25 and February 1.
The integrated training will allow the Roos and Cats coaches to simulate stoppage work and test various aspects of their game plans.
"We do a lot of competitive stuff among ourselves," Balme said. "But this just adds another edge to it, a different dimension to it."
North Melbourne will train separately before the Cats join in.
Geelong will continue to train after the Roos leave the ground.
The sessions are expected to begin about 9am.
North Melbourne's traditional home at Arden St has been unavailable because of a surface upgrade, forcing the Roos to train at Highgate Reserve in Craigieburn throughout the summer.
North Melbourne beat the Cats last season for the first time since 2007, ending a run of seven straight defeats by Geelong.
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