This guy could be a coach in his own right. I’ve said it before – pay him what he wants and he can work half-time. We now live in a Zoom era, and it’s a half an hour $50 flight from Adelaide to Melbourne. It doesn’t impact our soft-cap and keeping his IP off our opposition is worth the investment alone. It feels so good having the confidence that we will run out any game. How can we keep Burgo?

I have full faith the club will cover every way they can to do this.

Ultimately Burgo's kids live in Adelaide and family comes first. 

I'm not worried at all about IP because the gameplan can only be executed with full buy-in, hard pressure and effort.
Every coach knows what we do, we have done it every game this year so there is no secret recipe to it really. 

Enjoy the flag, don't waste your time worrying about this as what will be will be.

I believe the MFC has an understudy to Burgo so he has had 2 years to watch and learn how it is done.

Rarely has a big name recruit (on or off the field) worked as well as Burgo.

But I was also very impressed with the way he gave credit at one stage to the guys who worked under him. Including getting Brisbane’s number 2 man and someone back from the US.

I agree we could look at a flexible work arrangement but also if we need to let him go we’ve got a capable fitness team.

There will be regression next year one way or another. I think we just witnessed the healthiest season in AFL history. 

The lessons on hard work paying off hopefully will be with this group for a while.

I did hear Garry Lyon this morning on the radio and said he was gone and that either Adelaide or Port would sign him up.

Just hope it’s Adelaide that get him and not Port

6 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Just hope it’s Adelaide that get him and not Port

I wont be at all surprised if Port drop down the ladder next year. So many of their "top tier" players are getting quite long in the tooth and the youngsters don't have finals ready bodies yet.

I'd be choosing Adelaide if I was a player or staff.

33 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Just hope it’s Adelaide that get him and not Port

It's Adelaide,  i have a mate in the inner sanctum .

Big loss for us,  hope we've copied his training manual! 

8 minutes ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

It's Adelaide,  i have a mate in the inner sanctum .

Big loss for us,  hope we've copied his training manual! 

yep, my crom contact has been saying it's been a done deal for over a year, and the dees are happy for him to go home - had an extraordinary two years in covid-affected seasons where he's not been able to see his kids, and the mfc are about the person as much as they are the staff member

the other thing i'm assured is that balme will be there in 2023

35 minutes ago, faultydet said:

I wont be at all surprised if Port drop down the ladder next year. So many of their "top tier" players are getting quite long in the tooth and the youngsters don't have finals ready bodies yet.

I'd be choosing Adelaide if I was a player or staff.

Call me shallow but I'd go to whoever is paying more 

Should relocate the club to Adelaide for a year. Being in Perth seemed to work. 

Burgo is gone sadly, but you can understand his reasoning.

I think he’ll be sorely missed however we’ll be fine in the scheme of things.

Surely Bernie Vince could come up with a mansion for the family in Brighton or somewhere.

Spend some of our $23 million.

Caroline Wilson, back in March, said that Burgess to Adelaide was a done deal. I hope he takes them on a camp. 

1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

yep, my crom contact has been saying it's been a done deal for over a year, and the dees are happy for him to go home - had an extraordinary two years in covid-affected seasons where he's not been able to see his kids, and the mfc are about the person as much as they are the staff member

the other thing i'm assured is that balme will be there in 2023

Balme will be at Adelaide in 2023?

1 hour ago, A F said:

Balme will be at Adelaide in 2023?

This was reported at one stage, and I was shocked, but it turned out to be unconfirmed. I’ll eat my hat if it eventuates.

Not widely known, but Balmey stepped into a consultant role at Richmond (and missed the 2020 GF) due to a serious health scare and is unlikely to be in a key role again. Even less likely to leave his family based in Melbourne.

Balme said in an interview after that was reported that Richmond is where his heart is. I don't see him moving to Adelaide unless we have another lockdown year and he moves for lifestyle reasons, which burgess probably has in the back of his mind too at this stage. 

Fitness and conditioning is such an important factor in team success. I have no doubt that the health of our list and supreme fitness levels were near the top of the list of reasons why we won the flag this year

Contrast this year with the debacle that was 2019 and it’s easy to see why we shelled out top dollar to secure Burgo. He was worth every cent. I wish him the best in his future endeavors and thank him for the phenomenal job he did with us

I’m just thankful he stuck around for this season. Even if it’s just an edge - what an edge!

Power running is one of the three things I will remember from the Dees in 2021.

Other two are defensive system and galaxy of stars.

His kids are there, COVID must have made things even trickier than usual, he's helped build the fitness of the club to the point that we have broken a 57 year drought. I can honestly say thank you, and good luck to him with wherever he ends up. And if he wants to return to Melbourne for whatever reason he should have an open return ticket!

Thanks Burgo.

You’d hope he has left the club with enough tools to carry on his work and planning without him

Incredible effort though. Joins the club and within the space of two seasons has them the fittest group in the league and holding up the cup.

Some people are just entitled to have a big head. This guy is one of them.

Big loss. 

You cant just copy a training manual. Or an understudy or replacement copy his methods. 

All top coaches have experience, knowledge and wisdom. They are unique. They have instinct, and know instinctively when an athlete is cherry ripe, undertrained or overtrained. You can’t find it in a manual. 

His replacement may be good but he is not Burgo. 

3 minutes ago, hemingway said:

Big loss. 

You cant just copy a training manual. Or an understudy or replacement copy his methods. 

All top coaches have experience, knowledge and wisdom. They are unique. They have instinct, and know instinctively when an athlete is cherry ripe, undertrained or overtrained. You can’t find it in a manual. 

His replacement may be good but he is not Burgo. 

Sure, he has added a lot in his time with us. I, for one, am grateful for what he has provided as part of the whole that has made the ‘21 season happen.

 All that being said, high performance is science and can be taught and experience implementing different approaches improves the judgement of practitioners. Hopefully we bring in really skilled practitioners and get the job done again next year.

 I’m not freaking out about losing Burgo, but I’m sad to see him go. He clearly knew his schnitzel. He will leave behind 40 odd players who are better equipped to manage their loads and hopefully some staff who understand sports science well and have good judgement.

3 hours ago, A F said:

Balme will be at Adelaide in 2023?

so i have been informed

they wanted him in 2022 but the tigers managed to convince balme to stay for another season

20 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

so i have been informed

they wanted him in 2022 but the tigers managed to convince balme to stay for another season

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but I think someone is pulling your leg.