I left before the end, but yes some players were chatting to families and what not. Which I agree is good to see
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Bigfooty is nothing if not consistentthe annual dummy spit about the number of training sessions
That’s probably the best part of the Saturday sessions. Great for the kids.
If anyone wants to see a good hit out, Thursday (Wednesday this week), and Monday are the go.
Well isn’t this wat is all about? I never got close to meeting Malcolm Blight when I ran on the ground at the end of a game and it would have been great to have met him at training and get a pic. If these kids meet Sheeze well they will remember it forever
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Not sure about Wednesday but I def know match sim is happening the following week on the 6th. Heard one of the umpires chatting with lance about when they're coming in next
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In so many ways.
If you'd have offered him a cigarette, you'd have never gotten rid of him. Malcolm's a lifer.
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Did anyone go to soccer training this morning? Keen to know how the boys are doing with the round ball. Did Colby put any good crosses into the box? Any cut backs from Zurhaar? What about Sheez, surely he played some good through balls.
Very slippery customer. Weaves in and out, hard to tackle.
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Seemed to have that Sheezel time with the ball today. First time he's really stood out to me. His long arms plus his vertical makes him a good marking option for a 6ft mid. Him, Sheezel and Wardlaw are all sneaky good marks.
Any past player (league-wide) comparison that comes to mind?
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Slight digression.
This is the first year I've properly following European soccer, and I've been gobsmacked at how much footy they pack into a year.
When you've got players in the top tier clubs featuring in EPL, the FA cup, champions league, and the Carabao cup (to say nothing of the world cup), I think players could get the call up for like 80+ games in a year. I've read of players reaching a 200 game milestone by the age of 22, and in some cases when the schedules overlap its like 9 or 10 games a month. Bloody mental.
God knows how anyone can fit training into that schedule.
Sure its a different and less physically brutal game, but the headline number of minutes on field is ridiculous.
This is the first year I've properly following European soccer, and I've been gobsmacked at how much footy they pack into a year.
When you've got players in the top tier clubs featuring in EPL, the FA cup, champions league, and the Carabao cup (to say nothing of the world cup), I think players could get the call up for like 80+ games in a year. I've read of players reaching a 200 game milestone by the age of 22, and in some cases when the schedules overlap its like 9 or 10 games a month. Bloody mental.
God knows how anyone can fit training into that schedule.
Sure its a different and less physically brutal game, but the headline number of minutes on field is ridiculous.
Not that comes to mind.
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It's insane. I'll see if I can dig it up but I remember reading an article from high performance coaches where it basically argues they do too much, has adjusted the way games need to be played, and ends up self-selecting certain 'types' of players, typically leaner, taller types.
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The NBA is similar. The NFL on the other hand is like us.
I personally would enjoy more AFL games but there’s also an argument that I’m partial to that less is more. There’s that binding economic law of supply and demand. Less supply and more demand makes things more valuable. The stakes of any AFL match feel are higher than the slog of the premier league. Each match feels like an “event”. The NFL has a similar thing. The round of 16 in the champions league has the same feel.
Equally, the value of the AFL premiership itself is increased by its inherent scarcity and elusiveness. The League, FA Cup, Carabao cup, Champions league, Europa League etc not to mention international tournaments like the Euros and World Cup mean the chance of some amount of glory is a lot higher for fans and especially players. They talk about winning “silverware”. For us there’s the flag or failure. There’s not even state of origin or night premiership anymore.
I like our way but also like how they do it in other sports - viva la difference.
The AFPA annoys me a bit though wanting less games and more money. You gotta pick one guys.
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The colder weather helps.
Spare a thought for the Northern Brazilians, Colombians,
Bolivians or little Ecuadorians who not only have to manage the intense heat (Colombia is near on unbeatable in Bucaramanga as an example) and utterly insane humidity but also ridiculous altitude of up to 3600m at some home grounds.
Obviously not at the same football level as their European counterparts but their schedule is much more demanding. Argentina doesn't have to deal with that at home, which is why they are so good at developing younger players (amongst being a bit bigger and more 'European' in nature, not to mention Italy-inspired due to long ago immigration).
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the people supporting having light sessions are the people who ask for the training reports instead of going, go to a saturday session and then you will see
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The amount of additional games blows your mind. There’s always 8 or so international friendlies (now “nations league”), competition qualifiers, continental competitions, confederations cup and World Cup. There’s the club World Cup, three tiers of European club competitions, league season with 20 teams playing each other twice, TWO domestic knockout cups, and they also play one off “super cups” like the community shield or the European super cup.
On top of this the old pre-season friendlies behind closed doors are now tours to the US, Australia, Asia etc played in front of big stadiums.
The mind boggles.
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There's a couple of interesting points there that I hadn't considered before.
I wonder, when we get to a 20 team AFL fixture, where those responsible could make it more even by getting each team to play each other once, whether the AFL, DAZN and 7 will eek out a few more games.
If they didn't, it could add to the "scarcity" feel of the H&A fixture and make the AFLPA happy too.
But by reintroducing some novelty SoO type rounds, or maybe expand the indigenous all-stars concept, there's more hours of advertising revenue to profit from.
I went today. I don’t think people are supporting it we just know that an elite level sports program would have better knowledge than us of what a high performance week would look like.
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Top 10 1.8km shuttle run
1 River Stevens
2 Darcy Tucker
3 Dylan Stephens
4 Jackson Archer
4 Harry Sheezel
6 Finn O'Sullivan
7 Luke McDonald
8 Griffin Logue
9 Caleb Daniel
10 Jack Darling
Jy Simpkin, Wil Dawson, Callum Coleman-Jones, Luke Parker and Brayden George did not take part.
Some pretty worrying results. Where are the midfielders and players aged 22-25 who should be at peak fitness?
Great to see some young kids and senior blokes showing the way, however would ideally like to see those in there prime in great condition after several pre seasons.
Great to see some young kids and senior blokes showing the way, however would ideally like to see those in there prime in great condition after several pre seasons.
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Gee Jackson Archer is not leaving any stone unturned to get the best out of himself. Good to see some of the older blokes from 7-10 put in a strong performance. Early days I know but good to see the boys working hard.
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