The Bulldogs’ strength and conditioning coach, Andy Slattery, took the players through a variety of sports, including a triathlon at Allan’s Flat, as well as basketball and soccer teams events.

“There were two parts to it, one part is obviously the fitness part, so we want to make sure we’re ticking everything off with our training loads,” Harding said.

“The next part’s obviously the footy education where we can go through some structural work.

“Hopefully it does help when you’re five points down with a minute left and you’ve got some structure that you need to flick into to help you win that game of footy.”

Paralympic gold-medal winning wheelchair basketballer Nick Morris, who was born in Wangaratta, also spoke to the 45 players.

“The main thing he got across, which was the theme for the day, there’s no limit on what you can do,” Harding said.

“He spoke about maybe that people saw that he had some limits the way he lives his life in a wheelchair, but he doesn’t have limits, he does everything that he wants to do.”

Wodonga is desperate to break an eight-year finals drought.

“I think everyone’s improving, so it’s hard to put wins-losses on it,” Harding said.

“We’d certainly like to make finals, and that’s our next step that we need to do.”