Day-Wicks hammy VFL
You assume a great deal about the brain of a young footballer.
I reckon they are called High Performance people because they understand how to deliver a program to get the best performance out of a young player and to make their bodies strong and resilient. Different argument if player doesn’t follow the program, but players needing to go outside to do extra work tells me something about the High Performance department.
You don’t think AFL players league wide do this? Along with most professional athletes and people of a variety of vocations?
You don’t think they don’t complete their own recovery, rehab and other elements ontop of what is administered through the club/organisation they belong to? There are a lot of elements to performance outside of physical training.
Because most do to some degree. Particularly the best ones.
So they need to rename it the Low Performance department.
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he wasn’t there then
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sauce?
What???
The guy is the one in charge, of course he was going to have to leave.
Weird take calling him the scapegoat.
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I know they do. What I am saying is that all players should have a tailored program that they stick to. We are blaming Murphy et al for our injury problems and you are saying that it is ok for players to ignore the program that they have, and do their own thing.
Truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but I reckon Coaches and the High Performance team should run a players sporting life.
And further that Football Managers who take the big bucks off their clients should also control what young players get up to.
When James Hird started at the Bombers, his Footy Manager controlled all his finances, as Hirdy just spent everything the club paid and more. The Footy Manager handed over control to Tania when she arrived on the scene, until James grew up.
No.
I’m not saying that even slightly.
Im saying the club can only have so much contact with a player, those contact hours are a fraction of the hours in a week. Often it isn’t enough but they are not allowed to have more.
The difference is often what a player does outside of the contact hours. It’s isn’t enough to just do what you do at the club, you need to do more. And due to the rules in place the clubs can’t make the players do more. So it comes down to the player.
Have a look at what a player like Scott Pendlebury does outside of the club. It’s available on YouTube. In my old work there was not a single person who would have made it without doing an enormous amount of work outside of what had been administered. Everyone would have done at least 20hrs of their own training/skill work/drills per week outside of the 38 contact hours.
These are elite environments that require elite behaviours. The bare minimum isn’t enough anymore.
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Just rest him FFS. What is to be gained by playing him and doing it properly?
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So not just the old guys?
While it sucks for him Day Wicks looks the most likely not to make it
I don’t know about this. There are some well known examples of what you say out of season - Jobe being the famous one.
But players during season can’t go away and just do their own version of ‘extra’, or else we’ll have an injury crisis as they are not HP experts.
The club’s HPD needs to design the entire program - and it needs to be tailored to each individual player’s needs. If that requires work away from the club, and work during off days, surely that needs to be defined as part of the overall program.
Are you assuming I mean extra conditioning?
Because that isn’t what I mean.
Yes things should be tailored, that’s what happens already.
But contact hours are limited and have to include time with coaches, meetings, marketing, rehab and prehab, skill based training and whatever else.
It is a necessity that players do things outside of their time with the club (which would of course be approved by the club). This is generally some (but not all) recovery, rehab, prehab, touch and mobility. Not loading (during season)
Some do this to the optimum level, but some don’t. And those that don’t are obvious.
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2 million on a weights coach, saunas and massages………pfft ……… designer roids Shane Charters could only dream of.
I assume you mean extra training which involves skills and fitness. A good example is goal kicking. It’s a reasonably important skill. Who is responsible for managing the overall load?
All I’m saying is I believe in an elite sporting environment the individual programs that should be designed by the club’s experts need to be complete. As you suggest, some of that work may be away from the club.
There is also the offseason where players are given targets to achieve which reflect expectations for their returning levels of fitness.
I added to my post while you were responding to clarify.
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Players will want to do extra work, over and above their program. This is a good thing.
The important thing is that the club is aware and can guide them from afar from a load management perspective.
What we don’t want is the Stringer situation, going to a personal trainer over pre season to lose weight get fit. Personal trainer flogs him. Fluff piece about Stringer getting super fit. Stringer breaks down with chronic groin issues for the year. That was as predictable as they come.
Probably aren’t too many players at Essendon doing the extras though. Sounds like a lroblem we don’t have.
Time to bring the weapon back