Reality is, the industry know who the best people are. They likely have a shortlist. Sometimes you don’t need to do a long drawn out process to satisfy the hoards.
Just bc Essendon haven’t gone through processes in the past doesn’t mean Essendon has to do it so it can be seen to be changing ways .
Vozzo is experienced, he’s the CEO. He will get who he thinks is best.
Was the difference of opinion between Russell and Carlton similar to the one we’ve just had with Murphy?
Yes, he revealed recently that Carlton had segmented the fitness program and he’d lost direct oversight and control of the rehabilitation of injured players . He felt that that was a mistake and he would not agree to that setup again.
What happened:
Essendon: are you interested in coming to us?
Burgess: No.
What should have happened:
Essendon: we’ll pay you $800K a year, to come and work for us.
Burgess: hmmm
Just saw Gia having a coffee with someone who vaguely looked like Russell… or maybe just another fitness guy with a shaved head… who knows
Murphy worked under Russell at Hawthorn. I’m not saying Russell isn’t great - his record for the most part is outstanding - but no one is perfect.
I don’t doubt that the performance program was ramped up over the past summer - the players couldn’t handle it because it was new and they weren’t used to the volume/intensity and the outcome is the brittle bodies get injured.
The unlucky part for me is the Jones ankle, Edwards, Hayes, Martin and Bryan ACLS and Drapers achilles. Tall stocks decimated.
Fitness programs were ramped up this Preseason, because of the second half season fade outs over multiple years.
It’s fair to say that senior players couldn’t handle that next level of fitness needed, which we need to be a elite club.
Yea because Voss kept trying to play players who werent ready and thought he onew better than Russell.
Your understanding of Murphy’s role is correct. Except that when the player is in the rehab group, the onus shifts to the physios.
Do the physios have final say on their training loads during rehab & then when they are cleared to play? I thought Murphy would be the one to give the green light to the match committee.
I kind of want to give Weapon another chance
He learned his lesson
Burgess: No I’ve moved home to spend more time with my family so you can go and ■■■■ yourself
Not everything is about money, im sure he is well remunerated anyway
If not Adelaide may have upped his pay after hearing we were coming
Wasn’t he at Essendon originally?
Do we have any actual substantiated review or anything that would suggest this as actual fact?
Or is it just the usual hehe our players are weaklings line of attack?
Not saying I disagree, you just said it with such conviction.
Does he still work for the AFL somewhere? They’ll parachute him in.
An underrated point to this whole disaster of injuries is the AFL soft cap. It’s hard to attract top fitness/performance managers due to the pay. Why would a top practitioner settle for 400-500k a year when they can go to Europe/US and get double that? The same applies to the staff in the high performance department. The work/life balance for the staffers in particular, and for what they get paid, is a joke.
The AFL was once the place where top practitioners wanted to go. Hell, we “invented” the modern day sport science. But the AFL’s commitment to equally has halted that progress. This is why players like Parish are going out and spending their own money to get a second opinion.
If the AFL increase the funds and potential for spending then they’ll attract better/more people to do the job.
I do PE one day a week at my school. Happy to work as Head of Performance at EFC the other 4 days a week.
There’s no way of telling for sure, but since 2000 when he was appointed we haven’t had a great run with injuries. Had injuries prior, yes of course, but feels worse since he came to the club.
Yeah I saw this recently also, was triggering to read after we had been potentially linked to him. In saying that he has helped Curnow turn it around, also Zac Williams has come back well.
It’s hard to pin fitness/injuries down on one person though - player professionalism must have a bit to do with it also
