—coach—
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Agree it’s a tough job, particularly with the subjective nature of the rules as they currently stand. What I can tell you is that most umps do barrack/follow a team and as such it must be very difficult to umpire games involving thier favoured team. Indesputable is the home crowd advantage that some clubs enjoy (which we most certainly do not benefit from) which could very easily be viewed as bias. Hear what your saying, but when you watch games with people who don’t follow the dees, and they regularly say we are getting the s h I t end of the stick then one can’t help speculate that their is some kind of bias present.
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Can definitely agree with you on that. Umpire Andrew Mitchell is family friend of ours and he’s had all sorts or injury troubles. Been umpiring hurt all year as they are short of people to do the job.
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Umpires Troy Pannell and Justin Schmitt retiring at end of year. Engrave the 2019 Premiership Cup and get your 2019 Demon premiership tattoos now! Discuss what we will do without the opposition being gifted 3 goals from frees every game.
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Here is a list of our staff for those interested: http://m.melbournefc.com.au/club/people/staff-members As per Danelska’s reply above, David Williams is our sports psych.
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Do you mean Leading Teams? https://www.leadingteams.net.au/ If so, I don’t hunk they are involved. Roos used them at Sydney for ages, Hawks as well. Don’t think we used them as much.
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Restricted free agent, we would only need to look at trade options if WC decide to match our offer to him. So first base is to make an offer and see what they do
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talk ad nauseum about ground dimensions and how we play better on narrower grounds. Then find some stats on our win loss percentage based on grounds 5/10/15/20m narrower than the G, then request we play all our home games at Adelaide oval as we love that ground
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https://optusstadium.com.au/factsheets/afl-fact-sheet/
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11 according to this: https://optusstadium.com.au/factsheets/afl-fact-sheet/
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Yep it is: https://optusstadium.com.au/factsheets/afl-fact-sheet/
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Oops sorry about that, stupidly trusted wiki which gave dimensions fence to fence not playing surface. Ground is definitely narrower though.
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Interestingly Kenyan marathon runners don’t get navicular injuries and they run for thousands of kilometers in bare feet. There is some interesting research around to suggest the more you wear super supportive runners the more likely you are to get foot injuries because the foot no longer has to, or can do what it’s designed for. Also you loose propreoception between the foot and the ground leading to different running style (longer stride length and increased rearfoot strike) (studies of those with rearfoot strike versus forefoot strike report far greater injury rates in rearfoot strikers) when you then put on footy boots and no longer have the full support and cushioning of your runners, the loads in the foot can be through the roof. As the body works in a use it or lose system the runners are in effect weakening the foot muscles and also forcing you to walk differently. another study looked at injury rates in fitness runners pre and post the inception of the early Nike running shoes. Prior to that Dunlop vollys were the most popular running shoe (and we all know how little support they have). Injury rates went though the roof after the “modern” Nike’s became the norm. There are many sports dudes now training athletes in other sports in bare feet with great effect. Problem is in footy you have to kick a ball on the soft top part of your foot so some form of footware is necessary for some of the time. From my own experience I had plantar faciatis for 15 months and did everything the physio told me to do including wearing expensive shoes, ortodics, inserts, heal raisers etc and nothing was helping. At the suggestion of the S+C coach that I employ for my atheletes, I made one change to cheap ($80 versus $200+) Under Armours with bugger all support in them and the problem went away within weeks with no other change to what I was doing. Edit: ignore the change in font size, no idea why that happened.
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Agree Sydney are the weakest team we play in the last 3, but reckon this is the game we are most likely to win. We play better everywhere else to the G because the grounds are narrower and in the case of Perth Stadium also shorter.
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And we kick it over his head every single time instead of kicking in front of him to lead into
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