Engorged Onion

Lights going out and a kick in the balls, I said...

Think about it in this way... loading right now, doesn't mean there is not further loading. ie:Planned Progression... @BW511 can explain it more thoroughly than I could.

Well, we clearly disagree on the factors driving the performance and that's ok. Nonetheless, it all bodes well for the rest of the year. Go Dees. 👌

Are the last three posts on this thread serious? Hunt and ruthlessness? Do you genuinely believe the last 3 weeks was down to attitude? Or that it's too early to load? (multiple cycles in a 6-7 month program) Goodwin just spoke about 3-4 hard weeks on the track... That's some fairly useful information to make sense of what has been influencing performance.

Curious, merely quoting Fages? Or hammering home a view that you're still perpetually disappointed by the team?

That was a 42% goal kicking accuracy exhibition against essentially the second best side in the league and still winning by circa 10 goals. 37 scoring shots to 18.... Hopefully Fages' discusses loading in his presser.

Looking forward to some 'absolute' statements' in reference to a loss in this thread. 👌

1000% am living the same life. 😍

So now that it's spoken about publicly, what does it mean for betting companies now, going forward? SFA?

I had thought that when I saw Wright (Rick)...🤙

As I am a bit of a geography/cartography nerd... I saw a bunch of island names. King Island Stewart Island Isle of Mann Isle of Lewis Outer Banks No McKernan island though, but I did google a Corey!

should of had a soundtrack to it 👌 Always curious as to how the medalists worked it out? Did it strike you immediately when you saw the surnames? Or was it a bit of google trial and error?

Did you manage to listen to the commentary from Grandstand?

There is no doubt that player age (time in system), biomechanical and physological output matters when setting up training cycles. What I am fascinated about is that - let's assume that each club (18) have the top/best/most experienced, and thus all are abrest of 'best practice' in exercise sport science. Are the variations of loading between teams, governed by personal philosophy based on historical experience (Burgess overtly spoke about that on the podcast of his philosophy changing), or is it more nuanced and individual player based? Would it be based on opposition you are playing over say rounds 9-13 as well as looking at where you are currently points-wise to get to the post season?

appreciate your write ups 👌

One could make the assumption that they looked at their schedule... worked out where weaker opposition was, to start loading around that mark...knowing that they could lose, and what the optics look like externally. One could also make that same assumption about Melbourne vs WCE and North + the addition of having a two game break on our nearest competitors that time, and the FD choose to continue with a particular style of heavier training, for presumed peak fitness (aside from collision injuries) later on in the post season. ie: The luxury of the buffer has allowed us to continue to look a bit $hite rather than not loading, and carrying on...

Curiously, if that's true, were they the same 'reasons' for our 10-0 form?

Over the year, or over the last 3 weeks?

Plenty of overarching info out there bing, but it won’t be AFL specific (as in the exphys/biomech journals). Clubs won’t allow that data published… there will be plenty of internal data at each club collates over the last decades well as data for each individual player who has been metricfied into an inch of their playing life.

There was never a debate or conjecture to begin with. When I began the discussion around loading around a year ago, and provided information to demonstrate the science and how it occurs in season as well as my own personal experience. I was pretty surprised at the resistance… but then I shouldn’t have been surprised, we don’t all share the same experiences, not do we make sense of the world in the same way. Particularly when we are emotionally invested. The beauty of these threads is that some people - have far more intimate knowledge than others and they’re great at expanding on and detailing it far more forensically than I ever could. @binman in particular has championed discussion around it, both here and in the pod… and there are others too who had added relevant and detailed insights. @1964_2 @—coach— @Vipercrunch Nice that it’s finally spoken about on live tv now…and the quotes from Chris, hopefully that legitimises it for those sceptics/cynics/rooted in convention of the past. And more importantly creates meaningful discussion in a media landscape that chooses not to acknowledge for reasons most probably around gambling. By this thread, I just wanted to create a space where people could make sense of teams fluctuations in form at periods of time in the year that a) didn’t fit form and demonstrated ability and b) actually shone a light into what occurs in elite sport. Hope it’s helped illuminate.

Nah, it’s the presentation game day, of working hard on the track. It’s not about god, it’s about science…

Aside from the injuries…Pondering if Swans and Saints supporters have heard of this so called loading phenomenon? Or whether to explain these quite surprising losses, they just think their teams are just not ‘switched on’ ‘hungry enough’ ‘just don’t have enough pressure’ ‘Have inherent structural problems’ ’have been worked out’ 😇

only if it fits your narrative *agitator... love you all and farewell... how i hate middle age..... in between 'acceptance and rage;....

Jimbob... the FD tinker every week... it's not an absolute... yet the punters on Demonland deal in absolutes...mostly. What sort of tinkering are you suggesting, that perhaps the FD aren't putting into place? *postscript... were you concerned in the first 10 rounds?

any chance you could guide me to the nearest second, so I don't have to listen to Dwayne? 😘