—coach—

If we persist with kicking high floaters they will will kill us in the air. Need to start kicking low and hard

Kossie in perfect position to crumb that but no tall forward went for it!

A very fair point RE Family interstate and one which definitely has to be a consideration. I think we both agree that the AFL is very comfortable in creating an unfair and un-level playing field across the comp and we seem to be at the [censored] end of every crummy decision! What you have described is a form of Fartlek training, which means speed play and for those who have tried it will attest to it being quite difficult if done right. The human body gets very efficient at doing things at one pace if you let it, but in doing so it becomes less efficient at other paces. By changing up your stimulus you can often get better bang for your buck overall. For example, anaerobic (with out oxygen) capacity and power will only improve to a point if you don't further improve aerobic (with oxygen) capacity and power, because the aerobic system is critical to recovery from anaerobic exercise. They don't operate in isolation unless you are dealing with a one off effort of short duration (which a footy game is not). The image gives a bit of a guide to this. The yellow and red lines are anaerobic energy supply durations and the green one aerobic. If you imagine a footy game where the guys are running 15km, in bouts of various intensity, you can quickly see how important aerobic training is to these guys because facilitates recovery from each bout of high intensity by removing the by products of anaerobic metabolism and replenishing nutrient and glycogen stores. Sorry got a bit of track but its a fascinating subject!

Just going to throw a thought out there in relation to the lack of proper bye week for us. From a point of view of increasing aerobic training load which is something Selwyn said in the podcast they would be looking to do, the three games with 10 day breaks would actually be pretty ideal to do this as you have plenty of recovery time post game AND can fit in your extra aerobic work AND can fit in the main session which would contain a fair chunk of intensity. This may actually prove to be a more ideal way to do it than having one long break and regular 6-7 day breaks between the others. A blessing in disguise if you will. We will only know how it went in the last month of footy, but hopefully amazingly well!

I agree we should be given equal access to adequate to breaks, but right now we don’t, so we we have a choice, do what is required to perform at our peak with a view to winning the premiership, or don’t. Everything you do as an athlete has a cost and a benefit. Take a longer break to provide a mental rest, and you loose physiological improvement opportunities. Take a shorter break and you get less mental recovery but greater potential for physical adaptations. I would put trust in the guys/gals in the club who are highly qualified in these areas to give our boys the best chance of success as they are the experts.

Totally agree, but that’s the hand we are dealt this year so we could give them more time off and compromise performance, or deal with it and get on with doing what is required for best performance. It’s up to our management team to stop this from happening in the future (along with several other inequities that we get dealt year on year) but nothing can change this year so we just need to get on with it.

Best performance doesn’t care about what day of the week it is, if the work needs to be done today, it needs to be done today. The players would likely be well educated on that and given they would all love to win another GF i suspect they realize it’s a minor inconvenience as apposed to a big problem. From my elite swim coaching days, i can tell you that around 95% of the athletes at the swimming trials in Melbourne at the moment would train around 48 out of 52 Saturday’s per year, along with 9-11 other sessions throughout the working week and most will be paying $ for the privilege of doing so and not earning a cent from the sport. All in the name of making Australian teams and swimming for the country.

Beg your pardon, Vermont Eagles 10under girls have kicked 13.2 and 10.4 past two weeks!

Wow just wow! We tried everything we could to stuff that up. Then the brain fell out of the ump and all hell broke loose!

THAT WAS THE MOST [censored] DISGUSTING PIECE OF UMPIRING IVE EVER SEEN!

Bet you they will pay one the other way in the last at a crucial time to influence the result

Or even genuine ones that 100% should be paid

Just when you thought the umpiring couldn’t be any worse! They now allow bear hugs around a guys head FFS

Yep he is, still flying for a mark that he was no where near. He’ll drop from the sky soon!

I’m actually ready for Kozzie to be dropped to the VFL. Just all at sea with the way he is playing and needs to realize he’s not above team play. So many opportunities for him to be at the fall of the ball but he’s no where near or worse trying to take mark for the year about 10m from where the ball actually is

So disappointed with this. Have had our run for no reward and will loose this by 30+. seen this script a hundred times before

Smith just pkay the footy instead of looking to the umpire for a free! Cost us an easy mark leading to a goal

STOP [censored] KICKING IT STRAIGHT TO MOORE

This is so disheartening. We are killing them, but still behind

Because he threw a guy on the ground who didn’t have the ball

Very kickable

Well that will 100% come back to bite us in the [censored]. They’ve watched us run ourselves silly, will put on a little pressure and we will fold.

This has all the hallmarks of the second game last year. Killed them but gave the game away in front of goal

One of you stay down!!!!

Can we please get in some of these marking contests!