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PODCAST: Selwyn Griffith Interview

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3 hours ago, Jontee said:

Ask if his parents were welsh

And can he belt out a tune like a welshman. 

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    Pls ask him , his opinion, why we were not mentally "on" last Saturday night, and how do we maintain elite game pressure throughout the season. Why all the fumbling?

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    20 hours ago, Jontee said:

    Ask if his parents were welsh

    Getting right to the nub of the matter with this question !!

    Let's not criticize the Welsh !!  ( at least not the Morgans ) 

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    Fabulous interview with great insights into an area where most of us know bugger all!  Thanks to Andy for organising, Bin and of course all Demonlanders who contributed questions.  I loved Selwyn’s frequent references to our holistic ‘team’ approach.  The interview filled me with confidence that we are in excellent hands, and up with the very best in the AFL.  Go Dees!   ❤️💙

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    Tremendous insight. Appreciate that  enlightens areas that we don’t gain great knowledge…thank you Binman and Andy

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    An excellent and incredibly informative interview with Selwyn Griffith.

    Well done and I look forward to many more interviews with various people at the Melbourne Football Club.

    Thank you guys! It is wonderful the work you do with these podcasts!

     

    Fingers crossed that @Demonlandcan possibly please grab the mysterious and eccentric genius Mark "Choco" Williams for an interview some time in the future. Now that would be an AWESOME interview as well! 🤞

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    On 3/28/2023 at 8:07 AM, Jontee said:

    Ask if his parents were welsh

    And if they're from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

     

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    Fantastic interview, very insightful, and for me it confirmed loading around the bye is a thing 👍

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    6 hours ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

    Fantastic interview, very insightful, and for me it confirmed loading around the bye is a thing 👍

    A couple of extra running sessions around the bye is not "loading". It's maintenance at best, as he clarified.

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    Thought his comment re: not having another true bye again were interesting.

    The AFL has screwed us 2 years running with not giving us a proper bye, and it's absolutely ridiculous. 

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    Top stuff, Andy and binman. That the MFC are making staff/players available for pod interviews says much about Demonland being observed, and in a good way! Selwyn’s detailed responses to your excellent questions were as I had hoped, offering perspective and objectivity to things that often otherwise lead to supporter conniptions, i.e. it’s an incredibly tough game and season, everyone’s on the same page and doing the absolute best they can, but luck plays an enormous part. Well done too to binman on your stealth approach to the loading question…..set up and spike! 

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    Well done on a thoughtful, respectful and open interview.  I love how ‘loading’ got (sort of) confirmed in terms of training blocks!  Very interesting, and my congratulations on getting both access and a reasonable level of engagement (not just cookie cutter answers) that bring us all value.

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    Thanks Andy and Binman for another quality interview the questions were 1st class and Selwyn’s responses were honest informative and confidence inspiring. Please keep up the great work and I also would love to hear you interview Mark Chocko Williams.!!

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    From the great interview, while Griffiths confirmed that the players' loads do include extra endurance sessions at periods during the season, it seems that most of the additional sessions occur when the breaks between games are longer.

    Griffiths could have been cagey on providing too much information about this but I did not get the impression that loading can be used as an excuse for a lull in the middle of the year.

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    Just finished a listen 

    Thanks for that. Really interesting stuff. We Members really just have to sit back and observe 

    We can yell at the TV and from the Grandstand of course…

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    Well done to Andy and Binman. Was a good listen. Interesting that loading isn’t as much of a thing than even I thought. It’s almost like our training sessions are universally intense and demanding…

    But again, proof in the pudding eating. 

    Love the allusion to how great our staff are.

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