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The importance of the strength and conditioning staff

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I hope the club gets the right people for this role because our future depends on it, i would really considering getting the best of the best and spend a lot of money in this area. We can not afford our kids to not develop there bodies properly. Maybe we should poach someone from the NRL or even the wallabies or something like that. we just have to get the right peoples.

what does everyone else thing, any suggestions????

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    I hope the club gets the right people for this role because our future depends on it, i would really considering getting the best of the best and spend a lot of money in this area. We can not afford our kids to not develop there bodies properly. Maybe we should poach someone from the NRL or even the wallabies or something like that. we just have to get the right peoples.

    what does everyone else thing, any suggestions????

    I beleive the club is already throwing a lot into this area. It is partly about waiting patiently for our kids to grown into thier bodies. You can go the other way and put too much weight and pressure on young bodies which cause injuries and fatigue.

    Not trying to be a smart arse but your heading is hard to read.

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    I hope the club gets the right people for this role because our future depends on it, i would really considering getting the best of the best and spend a lot of money in this area. We can not afford our kids to not develop there bodies properly. Maybe we should poach someone from the NRL or even the wallabies or something like that. we just have to get the right peoples.

    what does everyone else thing, any suggestions????

    We have had a run of stress injuries - Garland, Meesen, Jamar...., not to mention the dreaded OP that has been around as well, to me that means we haven't got the development/conditioning right.

    If my memory serves me right Essnedon and Hawthorn had a stack of soft tissue injuries a few years back - is there link??? maybe BB was at all clubs in the condittioning/running department HMMMMMMM! Is he no longer at those clubs due to the rate of injury?

    We need to develop strong hard bodies in all our kids at a pace that they can physically develop at. 18 - 22 y.o bodies are generally still developing and we cannot afford to have key players out for long chunks due to preventable injuries

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    I beleive the club is already throwing a lot into this area. It is partly about waiting patiently for our kids to grown into thier bodies. You can go the other way and put too much weight and pressure on young bodies which cause injuries and fatigue.

    Not trying to be a smart arse but your heading is hard to read.

    i know bad typo :)

    agree with what your saying but thats what i am saying about getting the right people who can get the best results without jeopardising our players health. the last thing we want is soft tissue injuries

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    Don't we have an olympic weightlifting coach on the fitness staff? I'd say that rates pretty well for having the best people.

    Exactly right.

    MFC already have heavily invested in this section of the club -- seems they are already well ahead of you Bruce Almighty.

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    We have had a run of stress injuries - Garland, Meesen, Jamar...., not to mention the dreaded OP that has been around as well, to me that means we haven't got the development/conditioning right.

    If my memory serves me right Essnedon and Hawthorn had a stack of soft tissue injuries a few years back - is there link??? maybe BB was at all clubs in the condittioning/running department HMMMMMMM! Is he no longer at those clubs due to the rate of injury?

    We need to develop strong hard bodies in all our kids at a pace that they can physically develop at. 18 - 22 y.o bodies are generally still developing and we cannot afford to have key players out for long chunks due to preventable injuries

    I think our injury list in terms of numbers is a lot better that it has been. I think we have had some improvement in this area. We have maybe one case of OP (Buckley) and most of the other injuries have more to do with bad luck than bad management.

    As for soft tissue injuries we have actually had very few this year.

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    We have had a run of stress injuries - Garland, Meesen, Jamar...., not to mention the dreaded OP that has been around as well, to me that means we haven't got the development/conditioning right.

    If my memory serves me right Essnedon and Hawthorn had a stack of soft tissue injuries a few years back - is there link??? maybe BB was at all clubs in the condittioning/running department HMMMMMMM! Is he no longer at those clubs due to the rate of injury?

    We need to develop strong hard bodies in all our kids at a pace that they can physically develop at. 18 - 22 y.o bodies are generally still developing and we cannot afford to have key players out for long chunks due to preventable injuries

    Name one AFL club that has not had players experience stress fractures or OP.

    Name ONE.

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    Exactly right.

    MFC already have heavily invested in this section of the club -- seems they are already well ahead of you Bruce Almighty.

    I would hope that MFC is well ahead of someone who calls them self Bruce Almighty and goes on demonland to talk footy :)

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    I would hope that MFC is well ahead of someone who calls them self Bruce Almighty and goes on demonland to talk footy :)

    Me too. But then what was the point of your original post..?

    yeah, i know, i don't get it either.

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    We have had a run of stress injuries - Garland, Meesen, Jamar...., not to mention the dreaded OP that has been around as well, to me that means we haven't got the development/conditioning right.

    If my memory serves me right Essnedon and Hawthorn had a stack of soft tissue injuries a few years back - is there link??? maybe BB was at all clubs in the condittioning/running department HMMMMMMM! Is he no longer at those clubs due to the rate of injury?

    We need to develop strong hard bodies in all our kids at a pace that they can physically develop at. 18 - 22 y.o bodies are generally still developing and we cannot afford to have key players out for long chunks due to preventable injuries

    All stress fractures of bones in the feet, 2 Navicular, 1 ??, remember the early start to preseason. Foot complaints are often from pounding too much pavement.

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    Right now, Colin Sylvia is the ONLY Melbourne player with the correct body shape.

    He's really strong and quite quick.

    Too many others are just too skinny and can't break tackles.

    Look at teams like the Geelong - and the size difference.

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    I read an article in MX saying that Richmond was currently the smallest and lightest team in the comp, while, you guessed it, Geelong ranked first in size and weight. Melb ranked 12th...hopefully our boys are capable of gains in this are.

    But it seems that at the moment we draft small bodies, have sub-par weight facilities and currently lack skill which causes players to put their bodies in harms way (clangers, backing into packs, greens diving mark causing a broken jaw) and must all change if u want to see a strong bodied, injury free melb.

    Stynes will get it right tho, im confident.

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