Darren Burgess

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RussellEbertHandball said:
With Mckenna coming out and talking about Robinson and Dank the other day and someone posted in reply to tribey's list of things we achieved in the first 2 or 3 years of the KKK regime, asking where is the long term pay off, and the replyer saying maybe it was just Ports catching up to AFL average from a very low base, it has me thinking was Burgo's first two years just good timing rather than him being anything super special.

We were very unfit in 2011-12, early 2013 the Essendon drugs saga hits the industry, the cheats back off, dont want to be caught, Burgo pushes us hard to make us AFL standard, others can't get their usual "supplements" program going, we catch up, our players have some self belief and we look to be flying.

Post 2014 season, Burgo keeps us at a high standard, but we aren't anything special. We have lost the fitness advantage we appeared to have in 2013 and 2014. So Burgo isn't that much better than the other good head fitness guys in the AFL.
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Maybe everyone else just took 2 years to find newer legal "supplements".
 
JimmyBeerCans said:
Why does he never last long in the soccer world?
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Coaches, players, administrators don't seem to last long in soccer, unless you are winning silverware.

Burgo left us after 3 and a bit years after his mum died and he wanted to move back to Sydney to be close to his dad. He got the job with the Socceroos and worked between Sydney and Canberra, but based near his dad in Sydney.

He had 2.5 years at the Socceroos working under Dr Peter Brunker. Brukner started off with AFL but in 1990's got involved in Olympic sports and was the Olympic doctor. He is a world class / recognised sports doctor and is head of a couple of sports medical bodies in Oz and the yanks have given him awards for his work. FFA appointed him their sports doctor after the 2006 WC.

Liverpool head hunted Brukner for Head of Sports Medicine just before the 2010 WC, he went to the WC, and he was allowed to bring his Oz specialists team to Liverpool after the WC. He took the physio Phil Coles, Burgo and someone else, whose name I always forget, to Liverpool. Then early 2012 near end of 2011-12 season, Liverpool axe Brukner and cut back on their medical department. Burgo obviously was close to Brukner, his wife didn't really like living in the UK, Primus started talking to him mid 2012 and he then returned to Oz. So 2 and bit years there.

If you don't know who Dr Peter Brukner is, he was the guy who spoke for Cricket Australia at their press conferences when Phil Hughes was hit in the head by the bouncer at the SCG and over the next few days he was in intensive care.

Mid 2017 Burgo, after almost 5 years here, he got a godfather offer from Arsenal and accepted. Arsene Wenger personally made him the offer before the 2017-18 season starts, but Arsene gets the arse at the end of that season. New coach Unai Emery struggles to improve them in 2018-19, they miss Champions League automatic qualify for 3rd year in a row, after 20 years or so of consecutive qualifying for Champions League by finishing top 4, so he shakes up the club for 2019-20 season and several of the fitness and medical department team get the axe including Burgo.

So Burgo has had a combo of bad luck, bad timing, good timing and personal approval and demand for his services as to why he has moved several times since we appointed him in November 2004.

If his mum didn't pass away when she did, it would have been interesting how much longer he would have stayed in AFL before moving to the world game.

After he left us, the club did go into a downward trajectory. If he had stayed around we wouldn't have been as unfit as we were between 2008-12 years, and we probably wouldn't have hit rock bottom like we did, but would he have hung around or another 4 years or so, as we still would have had other problems especially around, stadium deals, sponsorship, sanfl shackles etc, which meant our funding and resources to keep him would have been limited.

Burgo has served the club well, but he will be continually head hunted and the Burgo academy he set up has helped us develop his replacements internally.
 
Arsene Wenger said:
If you were offered 3 times the salary, what would you do?
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Strongly consider your loyalty. Being known for bouncing between clubs limits future opportunities. He should never have bailed on Port when he did. Burnt his bridges here.
 
It Just Is said:
The only thing Darren Burgess cares about is Darren Burgess.

I look forward to seeing prime Angus Bradshaw working hardery on a half forward flank because he can’t kick over a jam tin in two years time.
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Booom, last person we need. Played an auction and Demons were the highest bidder. No thank you

Let’s remember he is a fitness coordinator who does GPS stats, we need an elite senior coach!
 

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Arsene Wenger said:
Brugess is a fantastic get for Melb. The bloke is world class in his field. I understand everyone wants to blame someone and he worked us too hard etc etc, but that is all bulls**t. Everyone else just caught up.
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I'm beginning to think you really are Arsene Wenger.
 
I’m grateful for the lessons we learnt under Burgess. Perhaps the biggest one was finding the ‘sweet spot’ between fitness and skills is paramount. Elite fitness won’t make up for poor skills and elite skills won’t make up for poor fitness.
The baseload programs implemented and refined at the club are world class. The benefit now is don’t have an individual with a massive reputation that we are afraid to say ‘there are things more important at this club than your specialised skill set’.
Again grateful for the lessons and exposure and agree that a future engagement has minimal onfield benefit.
 
Burgess is obviously a mercenary cnut who is happy to keep selling himself to the highest bidder, and I suspect by the time he retires he will have had more clubs than Tiger Woods, so it's a big NO from me to him ever coming back to Alberton.
 
Good luck Melbourne, when he gets his first sniff of another code or some heat about his program, he will be gone. Completely cooked the players in 2015, left at the end of 2016. Join Arsenal in 2017 and then gone after two years at Arsenal.

He is highly overrated. Name me premiership fitness program director. He is about self promotion, instead of just doing his job like other no name fitness people. Lots of money to spend on a person who isn't willing to be accountable.
 
Arsene Wenger said:
Brugess is a fantastic get for Melb. The bloke is world class in his field. I understand everyone wants to blame someone and he worked us too hard etc etc, but that is all bulls**t. Everyone else just caught up.
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I think he’s great at getting players able to run, but was never able to find the right mix of that with the need for bigger bodies in the AFL compared to soccer.
 
Caro thinks Burgess will be at Adelaide next year.

Wonder how long before he leaves them at the altar to chase his dream of leading the fitness team at Luton or Hereford?
 

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