Good luck to him. Along with our drafting team this seems to be one of the highest performing areas of the club so happy to see internal candidate rewarded.
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I spent a little time with him, many years ago. Very smart, super nice - excellent kick is about all I can offer.
Did Melbourne figure out the trick of working with Burgess? Have a team of inside mids, have someone else bulk them up with useless beach muscles and then get Burgo to teach them to run forever.
Bam. Hard ass hard running super team.
****ing hell.
Bam. Hard ass hard running super team.
****ing hell.
Watch the Crows fly next.
Hes shite, remember when Boak retired because his body was cooked.
Isn't that what basically happened with us when Burgo joined.
Cam Balloon had our players try to be Geelong and we packed beach muscles. Then Burgo came, made them better runners
Cam Balloon had our players try to be Geelong and we packed beach muscles. Then Burgo came, made them better runners
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I think he finally worked out the balance of fitness and strength required for AFL. Melbourne were physically very impressive watching them up close at Adelaide Oval.
Having said that I doubt there is much difference in fitness between the top clubs. Even back in 97 and 98 everyone talked about Craig's secret formula for crows fitness. A senior football figure at the time said they're fit but have a look at their list.
Didnt we have strings going left right and centre though
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Looks like a interesting get. Profiled as a strength and conditioning coach.
Young guy too, so has time to develop a role.
Young guy too, so has time to develop a role.
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Would have spent 8 months with Monty at the Bulldogs. Maybe we get some of the Bulldogs mids fitness IP.
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Apart from Melbourne, the Bulldogs looked to me anyway to have the outstanding mix of physical size and functional strength to go with their running power.
Looking forward to see what he brings to Port.
Looks like we found some loose change behind the couch
Looking forward to see what he brings to Port.
Looks like we found some loose change behind the couch
There's no doubt in my mind Burgess has reined in some of his methods since his last stint with us.
As there is on-going debate about the lack of muscular size with many Port players, who is directly responsible for how the fitness team operates?
Does the coach say he doesn't want bulked up players, the fitness boss or the physios. Some individual players appear to have bulked up but as many posters have continually observed, very few others. Appreciating that doing weights for genuine strength is a real option as opposed to 'beach' bodies.
Even against the WC so often their players easily broke tackles, especially in the first quarter.
Anyway, just thinking out loud really.
Does the coach say he doesn't want bulked up players, the fitness boss or the physios. Some individual players appear to have bulked up but as many posters have continually observed, very few others. Appreciating that doing weights for genuine strength is a real option as opposed to 'beach' bodies.
Even against the WC so often their players easily broke tackles, especially in the first quarter.
Anyway, just thinking out loud really.
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There's a disconnect somewhere, look at the Burgo years we ran players into smithereens & looked light framed.
Then he goes elsewhere & surfaces at Melbourne where he'd obviously tweaked his approach with perhaps others making sure he didn't OD with the running stuff, look at guys like Petracca the weights & aerobic stuff was obviously well balanced.
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Goodwin basically told Burgo to **** off with anything he didn't like. And Goodwin likes physically strong players.
I did a summary of Season 2 Episode 1 of the Brukie and Burgo podcast series, from October last year about 3 weeks after Melbourne won the flag.
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At 47 minute mark Burgo talks about Goodwin at the start of the preseason said that they will do heavy physical contact work at training and he didn't care if they got injuries and told doctors and HP team to stay away 60m+ and not spook players with their concerns. Said 70% of their injuries were as a result of contact injuries in training.
And he has been forced to learn AFL players aren't EPL players.
At 33 minute mark talks about Melbourne fitness change - said Port had a lot of outstanding runners compared to Melbourne. Talked about Petracca not being an aerobic runner so he personally wanted to improve and Burgo didn't try and change him into a middle distance runner, but improve his explosiveness and burst speed. Petracca sounds obsessive to improve the 2 years Burgo was there. I think Burgo has learnt something compared to his time at Port.
But there are aerobically talented guys - like Ed Langdon that is encouraged to run and isn't huge physically. Pick the right target don't try and make everyone the same, seems to be his new thinking these days.
Talked about Ed Langdon and compared his aerobic capacity to Brad Ebert, said he thinks he has Brad covered. Said in a game he averages 15-16km running and 3,500 high speed metres and about 600-700m sprinting in some games. Said he rarely comes off for a break and jokes with him before the game and says see you in 3 hours time. I looked up his game time stats this year, 12 times he had 95%+ game time including 3 times 100% inc the QF, 9 times 90% to 94% and only 3 times in the 80%+ range. unbelievable stats for a wingman.
I did a summary of Season 2 Episode 1 of the Brukie and Burgo podcast series, from October last year about 3 weeks after Melbourne won the flag.
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At 47 minute mark Burgo talks about Goodwin at the start of the preseason said that they will do heavy physical contact work at training and he didn't care if they got injuries and told doctors and HP team to stay away 60m+ and not spook players with their concerns. Said 70% of their injuries were as a result of contact injuries in training.
And he has been forced to learn AFL players aren't EPL players.
At 33 minute mark talks about Melbourne fitness change - said Port had a lot of outstanding runners compared to Melbourne. Talked about Petracca not being an aerobic runner so he personally wanted to improve and Burgo didn't try and change him into a middle distance runner, but improve his explosiveness and burst speed. Petracca sounds obsessive to improve the 2 years Burgo was there. I think Burgo has learnt something compared to his time at Port.
But there are aerobically talented guys - like Ed Langdon that is encouraged to run and isn't huge physically. Pick the right target don't try and make everyone the same, seems to be his new thinking these days.
Talked about Ed Langdon and compared his aerobic capacity to Brad Ebert, said he thinks he has Brad covered. Said in a game he averages 15-16km running and 3,500 high speed metres and about 600-700m sprinting in some games. Said he rarely comes off for a break and jokes with him before the game and says see you in 3 hours time. I looked up his game time stats this year, 12 times he had 95%+ game time including 3 times 100% inc the QF, 9 times 90% to 94% and only 3 times in the 80%+ range. unbelievable stats for a wingman.
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It seems to be the top approach: personalized training.
Players in noticeably better condition than last year:
SPP; Rozee; Farrell, Lord, Mead, Jones
Players in noticeably worse condition than last year:
Dixon, Motlop, Fantasia, Gray, Duursma, Butters, Wines, Lycett, Hayes, Jonas, Aliir
Players that should have progressed but haven't:
Williams, Drew, Bonner
How do we assess whether this is a fitness department issue, an injury management issue, a player accountability issue, or a mix of all three?
SPP; Rozee; Farrell, Lord, Mead, Jones
Players in noticeably worse condition than last year:
Dixon, Motlop, Fantasia, Gray, Duursma, Butters, Wines, Lycett, Hayes, Jonas, Aliir
Players that should have progressed but haven't:
Williams, Drew, Bonner
How do we assess whether this is a fitness department issue, an injury management issue, a player accountability issue, or a mix of all three?
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His obsession with insisting they undertrained in comparison was an enduring red flag.
Melbourne outscoring the Dogs 100-7 from the 16 and a half minute mark of Q3 of the Grand Final, to turn a 19pt deficit into a 74pt win, was like peeking at the parallel universe we should’ve lived through had he shelved the envelope-pushing and stuck to what he did best.
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Now he's gone to Adelaide it's like the old Piggy Muldoon line about how all the Kiwis moving to Australia raised the IQ of both countries, but in reverse.
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Maybe his title should be Head of Mediocre Performance.
How many physically underprepared footballers do we have.
Richmond have rag dolled us all night.
Even sanfl teams beat up on our undersized undernourished players.
How many physically underprepared footballers do we have.
Richmond have rag dolled us all night.
Even sanfl teams beat up on our undersized undernourished players.
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