News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent
- Thread starter Keys
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Not really, it's true that GWS and GC hop on a plane more than WA clubs do but the article straight up says in the first paragraph that no other club compares to the distance and time spent traveling than the WA clubs.
GWS has 3 extra flights, for example but the article does note that 3 of them are for 3 home games at Canberra.
The article's fine. In fact, it does point out the inequities in the competition for travel and highlights how little the Bulldogs and Collingwood travel in the last 2 months of the season, for instance.
we need to push it as the game has evolved and we start to move into marginal gains favouring teams with less of a travel schedule.
Looking at some research I can see that the average distance covered by a player increased from 12.5km in the early 2000s to 14km in the mid 2010s and another study in 2019 reported the average high intensity running had increased by more than 30% over the last 10 years.
There are numerous papers you can dive into to see this. Including a study showing hamstring injuries increased by 80% from 2005 to 2016.
Tie this in with a travel schedule like ours and players are not recovering as good as teams with a less burdensome schedule - say Collingwood.
Looking at some research I can see that the average distance covered by a player increased from 12.5km in the early 2000s to 14km in the mid 2010s and another study in 2019 reported the average high intensity running had increased by more than 30% over the last 10 years.
There are numerous papers you can dive into to see this. Including a study showing hamstring injuries increased by 80% from 2005 to 2016.
Tie this in with a travel schedule like ours and players are not recovering as good as teams with a less burdensome schedule - say Collingwood.
The use of the term “perfect campaigner” in this post is just chef kiss areas.
Brings to mind various contexts given the topic and person in question.
- Mar 11, 2012
- 6,990
- 17,796
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Sturt, Southampton FC, LSU
Plus the GC/GWS players only have to put up with it for a few years before they get traded to a Victorian club.
No one is expecting not to travel. But being sent to play Bissie virtually every year since Optus was built and to Tasmania because povo Vic teams want to sell games is bullsh#t. It is about being given some acknowledgment of the travel in the fixturing and soft cap recognition where we can use our resources on medical and recovery to alleviate some of the tracel burden. Possibly squad sizes too but that is more complicated and I can see other teams having an issue with that.
Nobody holding a gun to gold coast or gws's heads forcing them to sell home games
- Sep 8, 2011
- 11,461
- 11,921
- AFL Club
- West Coast
The fact medical comes under the soft cap is ridiculous. Rules to bring everyone down to the minnow kangas
i'd guess that the AFL is holding a gun to their head to sell home games to recoup some of losses
- Sep 16, 2006
- 36,426
- 36,562
- AFL Club
- West Coast
Makes me wonder if the AFL are actually seriously considering us and freo getting an extra WA game a season and the sooking from other teams is blowback on the idea.
if something does happen and we do somehow manage to get an extra home game - when the eagles are flying at some point and we have fortress optus/wa going I can't wait to hear all the complaints that we have too many home games 
Teams like dogs, saints, Roos & Dees have looked at home games in WA - the AFL has said no.
The small clubs would be happy to take the money
Talk about the understatement of the year. That one's going to be hard to top.
WCE_18
Clubman
- Jul 29, 2023
- 61
- 212
- AFL Club
- West Coast
The giants have 14 flights because they are counting 3 games they play in Canberra which is a 50 minute plane ride. Ridiculous their argument is it’s the amount of flights you catch not distance that you travel.
Crazy hey - they're all for taking wa money and giving it to the poor Vic clubs, but not if it any way advantages (or offsets a disadvantage for) the wa clubs
- Jan 9, 2013
- 3,674
- 6,212
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Perth Scorchers, South Fremantle
This really brought a tear to my eye. Peter Matera was my favourite player in the early years. Awesome to see him at the club. Loving what Pyke is bringing.
Still my favourite. Best ever in my eyes
Still remember the night they played him out of full forward against the Bombers at the G and he kicked 7
Sharing a locker with Nelson and Barnett. He may have been underwhelmed when he saw that.
On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app
- Jan 9, 2013
- 3,674
- 6,212
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Perth Scorchers, South Fremantle
Yeah I was wondering this too.
He couldn’t even tie lord Nelson’s boot laces
New management treating the club like a football club and not a soulless money making business.
- Jan 9, 2013
- 3,674
- 6,212
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Perth Scorchers, South Fremantle
Exactly this.
You’re famous. Quoted in News.com.au
https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/a...s/news-story/eb13bc5b4ed8ef1640830cf381ee9b24
