Engorged Onion

The only good thing to come out of Covid (at least in a football sense) was watching matches and being able to hear the players call out instructions etc... I'd love the simplicity of that when watching live tv, or on replay...

That was against us wasn't it? 😇

One of my favourite Demetriouisms

Oh hello, we're winning again - so I'm back trawling through the usuals.😇 Here is The Mongrel Punts latest masterpiece.

Pretty sure some Wag on here said that by observing how Jackson played, would tell us whether he was going to sign a contract or not... ps... I would have posted this if i had a poor game as well, or even a middling... none of these things would be instructive of anything.

"Resting on Laurels".... I disagree that the losses have been attitudinal...

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.