They need to be trained harder, to build their resilience. Higher long term training loads is what creates resilient footballers.
To get there though, from a low base, with a lot of broken bodies, will definitely lead to some collateral damage, especially in the firat year of it.
It is precisely the thought process that players cannot get injured in training that leads to players who are underdone and more injury prone.
I’m not sweating on on injuries over this pre-season, or even this coming season.
The Nic Martin ACL is bad though. That shouldn’t happen in training from being pushed too hard, at his stage in his rehab journey. If that is what happened, but we don’t know what actually happened there, so it’s difficult to impart blame from here.
Correct. That’s the Burgess philosophy too. Short term pain, long term gain. That said, for Rids, Lang, Reid and Parish that build up of scarring might be too much. Fingers crossed.
Parish, Langford and Ridley have sloppy non hardened non professional bodies. Hardly surprising they break down. Time to move on from these blokes. Don’t have the mental or physical toughness.
This is totally reactionary. Thousands of amateur players across the country play and train on fields every week of varying quality. In comparison, the fields at the Indian burial grounds are carpet.
Serious question for the grounds keepers on blitz. I assume most professional footy ovals have similar grass and it all looks immaculately well maintained. I also assume the top soil is brought in when the grass is first laid. Does the original soil/clay underneath the top soil make any difference to the hardness of the ground? What conditions would make one oval more prone to injuries than another.
I was at my old school last week and they have two ovals that are way better than what you see at the hanger and are genuinely at MCG level quality. How can it be that a professional AFL team does not have that high level quality oval.