Training Pre-Season 2023 (First game 18/3 v North)

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Miguel Sanchez said:
Synergy between teammates is probably a tad more important in an elite sporting team environment than it is for the average bunch of schmoes working for a paycheque, but whatever.
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I just googled and another word for synergy is teamwork. "Working together as a team" also works.

If having the midfield work together as a team is too literal for some people there's always harmony.
 
ZergMinion said:
I just googled and another word for synergy is teamwork. "Working together as a team" also works.

If having the midfield work together as a team is too literal for some people there's always harmony.
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Cohesion?
 
PremiershipNo4 said:
Synergy.

It’s a word that’s apt to induce an eye-roll these days.

For the past few decades, synergy has been a banal business buzzword — a cliché term used to describe some splashy new initiative that really doesn’t amount to anything more than some corporate merging or bureaucratic reshuffling. Sometimes it’s even code for “We’re about to lay people off, but we’ll be able to get more done because . . . synergy!”
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This was more the meaning I was looking at when referencing the word "Synergy"
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UBUNTU !!

Throughout his coaching career, a pillar of Doc Rivers' coaching philosophy has always been 'Ubuntu', an African proverb which means 'I am because we are' or "I can't be all I can be unless you can be all you can be."
The phrase, which Rivers learned from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, permeates through all his teams and is always integral to his team culture.
In his coaching context, he uses it to remind players, fellow coaches, and everyone involved that they can only achieve what they want to by making those around them better.

This is the one we need. :heavycheck:
 
UBUNTU !!
SetsSailForHome said:
Throughout his coaching career, a pillar of Doc Rivers' coaching philosophy has always been 'Ubuntu', an African proverb which means 'I am because we are' or "I can't be all I can be unless you can be all you can be."
The phrase, which Rivers learned from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, permeates through all his teams and is always integral to his team culture.
In his coaching context, he uses it to remind players, fellow coaches, and everyone involved that they can only achieve what they want to by making those around them better.

This is the one we need. :heavycheck:
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Thanks Basil
 
SetsSailForHome said:
UBUNTU !!

Throughout his coaching career, a pillar of Doc Rivers' coaching philosophy has always been 'Ubuntu', an African proverb which means 'I am because we are' or "I can't be all I can be unless you can be all you can be."
The phrase, which Rivers learned from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, permeates through all his teams and is always integral to his team culture.
In his coaching context, he uses it to remind players, fellow coaches, and everyone involved that they can only achieve what they want to by making those around them better.

This is the one we need. :heavycheck:
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At first I was wondering what Linux had to do with a successful coaching philosophy but after reading, it made more sense.
 
Free Agent said:
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Everyone it's Simmos birthday so we have to be nice today to Simmo.

No sacking predictions or coaching critics today thanks. Let the man have his birthday in peace please.
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Let’s hope all the players get invited to the BBQ this year
 
We are going to play darling Injury or not in round 1. Round one vs Norf is our grand final our block buster.

We lose we are a laughing stock and are dead on favourites for wooden spoon. Simmo ass is on the line. So we are loading up.

Biggest game we had in a long time. High skilled and fast paced. With two primership coaches. Put it on prime time afl
 

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random260 said:
We are going to play darling Injury or not in round 1. Round one vs Norf is our grand final our block buster.

We lose we are a laughing stock and are dead on favourites for wooden spoon. Simmo ass is on the line. So we are loading up.

Biggest game we had in a long time. High skilled and fast paced. With two primership coaches. Put it on prime time afl
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SetsSailForHome said:
UBUNTU !!

Throughout his coaching career, a pillar of Doc Rivers' coaching philosophy has always been 'Ubuntu', an African proverb which means 'I am because we are' or "I can't be all I can be unless you can be all you can be."
The phrase, which Rivers learned from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, permeates through all his teams and is always integral to his team culture.
In his coaching context, he uses it to remind players, fellow coaches, and everyone involved that they can only achieve what they want to by making those around them better.

This is the one we need. :heavycheck:
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One time championship coach is ole Doc.

Need to steal from multiple winners IMO.
 
A fully fit Yeo throughout 2023 would be quite something especially if he sets himself to make up for lost time



AFL football moves on quickly and its observers can have short memories.
One bad season and a player’s reputation can be diminished. Three in a row and he is almost forgotten.


If you asked a footy critic who the “almost forgotten” men are at West Coast they might consider the length of that list and ask if you would like them in alphabetical order.

And the problem with putting them in alphabetical order is the one you should put first is the one who would be listed last: Elliot Yeo.

In a team that performed so poorly in 2022 and many assume will struggle in 2023 – destined for the bottom of the ladder – the biggest single piece of the puzzle is Yeo, and he looks the fittest he has been since he was stricken by osteitis pubis in 2020.

Stung by criticism of his performance and his preparation in 2022, Yeo is looking like the athlete who was West Coast’s most valuable player in their 2018 premiership year and may prove to be their most important player as they attempt to climb from 17th spot on the ladder to somewhere near the eight.

The Eagles have him earmarked for a mix of roles between halfback and the midfield to try and maximise his value while not overloading a body that has proven fragile for three seasons.

If he continues to move the way he has in recent weeks, a permanent return to the midfield might not be far away.

“It has certainly been a pleasing summer to date for Yeoey,” Eagles football operations manager Gavin Bell told SEN radio this week.

“I am very much looking forward to seeing Elliot get his speed and power back and I think we are seeing that now. He is such a dynamic player and so good for us in so many aspects of the game.”

Bell still believes the halfback/midfield mixed role will be the starting point for Yeo to be reassessed according to his capabilities and the team’s needs in the run into round one.

“He can play either role. He has been an All-Australian in both roles so he gives us some flexibility and some speed, power and intensity around the footy,” Bell said.

As mentioned earlier, there are a long list of Eagles players who have had their reputations hammered.

It prompted a club edict to players to come back for the pre-season in good condition. Bell said it also provided strong motivation for a different kind of summer preparation which saw players take it on themselves to get together and train together even during their downtime.

“Last year we got ourselves into a good spot and then after Christmas we hit the cluster of injuries and then Covid got us and made it very difficult for us to get the extra work in to enable us to play AFL football week in and week out,” he said.

“Our players had a different sort of program over the summer, over their off-season – it was fairly stripped back, a bit more running, and it gave them the opportunity to be able to train together. They organised that themselves, got together and pushed each other along to try and improve what we have been doing and where we are at.

“When you have a year like we had you realise you need to be at the top of your game to be competitive and to win games of footy.

“We weren’t able to do that last year for various reasons and I think that has given some real strong motivation to our leaders to come back in ripping nick.”

Yeo finished the 2019 season at the height of his powers, about to turn 26. He had won his club’s best and fairest in 2017 and 2018 and finished second to Luke Shuey in 2019.

He made All-Australian teams in 2017 and 2019 and been nominated but not picked for the team in 2018.

In West Coast’s 2018 finals campaign, which resulted in the club’s fourth premiership, he shared player of the finals honours with Jack Redden.

In an age where “big bodied mids” have dominated the AFL landscape a 2019 statistical comparison between the 190cm, 91kg Yeo and some of his contemporaries makes for interesting reading.

And even that comparison does not do the 2019 version of Yeo justice. Nathan Fyfe, Patrick Dangerfield, Patrick Cripps and Dustin Martin are all naturally attacking players.

Yeo’s real value when the Eagles were up and going was that he could either be the attacking midfielder carving teams up, or the bloke that got sent to Fyfe, Dangerfield, Martin, Cripps and co to stop the Eagles being carved up.

In the first western derby played at Optus Stadium in front of a heaving crowd of 56,521, the underdog Dockers were giving the Eagles, heavy favourites going in, all they could deal with.

With the game on the line Fyfe started pressing forward to try and win the match. Yeo went with him and several times what looked like it was going to be a Fyfe contested mark became a nullified contest.

Asked about the threat Fyfe posed after the Eagles had won by eight points, coach Adam Simpson replied he was just grateful to have Yeo to cope with him and others like him.

It wasn’t just about stopping the gun mids either. For a period before Brad Sheppard emerged as West Coast’s “go-to” lock down small defender, Yeo was the one likely to be sent into defence and onto the likes of Toby Greene.

Yeo has been restricted to 10 of West Coast’s 18 games in 2020, 12 of their 22 in 2021 and just five of 22 last year when he ripped a calf muscle in the first practice match played against Fremantle and did not return until round five against Sydney. Then he was both injured and concussed against Port Adelaide in round six, not to appear again until the round 14 clash with Geelong.

There were promising signs when he had 20 disposals playing as a defender in one of just two West Coast wins for the season against Essendon in round 15 but he was mothballed for the season after round 16 against Richmond.

Interesting fact: While many believe West Coast’s midfield requires serious renovation, of the top 30 in the 2019 Brownlow Medal count, five were players who will play in the Eagles’ engine room this year: Yeo, Andrew Gaff, Luke Shuey, Dom Sheed and Tim Kelly, who finished fifth in that count while at Geelong.

And while many will dismiss the Eagles’ mids as too old, of those five only Gaff (30) and Shuey (32) have turned 30. Yeo is 29, Kelly 28 and Sheed 27.

Food for thought. And possibly a gentle “jog” for us with short memories.

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As mentioned earlier, there are a long list of Eagles players who have had their reputations hammered.

It prompted a club edict to players to come back for the pre-season in good condition.
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lol

"heck sorry boys, forgot to mention this the last few years, but don't go overboard at Chrissy lunch yeah? I know it's hard to knock back an extra serving of trifle but you are meant to be elite athletes, ok?"
 
Ambrose Burnside said:
lol

"* sorry boys, forgot to mention this the last few years, but don't go overboard at Chrissy lunch yeah? I know it's hard to knock back an extra serving of trifle but you are meant to be elite athletes, ok?"
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Or worse:

2019-2022: The boys are fit. Our training standards haven't slipped

2023: OK, maybe in fact our training standards did slip.....

It drives me mad because we were smack bang in the middle of a premiership window and everyone seemed to have drunk their own bathwater in the aftermath of the 2018 flag
 
The wily weagle said:
Or worse:

2019-2022: The boys are fit. Our training standards haven't slipped

2023: OK, maybe in fact our training standards did slip.....

It drives me mad because we were smack bang in the middle of a premiership window and everyone seemed to have drunk their own bathwater in the aftermath of the 2018 flag
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Drinking our own bathwater is the West Coast way.

It's our culture unfortunately.

Seen it many times.

That's why we.will surprise a few this season IMO.
 
The wily weagle said:
Or worse:

2019-2022: The boys are fit. Our training standards haven't slipped

2023: OK, maybe in fact our training standards did slip.....

It drives me mad because we were smack bang in the middle of a premiership window and everyone seemed to have drunk their own bathwater in the aftermath of the 2018 flag
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And it took McGovern to reach 30 before changing to ultra low carb beer?

Like really?

Suppose when you sign a long million dollar a year contract no need to focus on fitness hey Gov?
 
Obeanie1 said:
And it took McGovern to reach 30 before changing to ultra low carb beer?

Like really?

Suppose when you sign a long million dollar a year contract no need to focus on fitness hey Gov?
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You don't really believe that's why Gov is in good nick, do you? He looked in good nick last season.

Govs an Albany boy, Wilson Brewing are in Albany... He just slipped in a little tongue in cheek pay day. It worked. We're all still talking about it!
 
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