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Fitness
- Thread starter Blueyboy74
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Appreciate everyone's input but remain unconvinced. Remember that our skills & decision-making suffer in comparison when our boys are more tired than the opposition. Have a look at the 2nd half from our last 8 weeks:
Rd 14 Carl 5.3 7.4 12.7 - 79 Rd 10 Syd 3.4 5.2 8.6 - 54
Rich 3.4 2.3 5.7 - 37 Rich 3.1 4.2 7.3 - 45
Rd 13 Port 3.2 5.1 8.3 - 51 Rd 9 Ess 6.2 2.4 8.6 - 54
Rich 7.3 1.1 8.4 - 52 Rich 2.2 4.4 6.6 - 42
Rd 12 Melb 5.3 3.2 8.5 - 53 Rd 8 Gee 7.8 3.3 10.11 - 71
Rich 2.2 3.5 5.7 - 37 Rich 1.3 4.2 5.5 - 35
Rd 11 Adl 8.6 7.3 15.9 - 99 Rd 7 St.K 6.2 4.1 10.3 - 63
Rich 2.2 3.3 5.5 - 35 Rich 4.4 3.3 7.7 -49
3rd qtrs won - 1 Ave = 21 fr 36 ag
3rd qtrs lost - 7
4th qtrs won - 3 Ave = 21 fr 30 ag
4th qtrs lost - 5
2nd hlfs won - 1 (by 1pt) Ave = 42 fr 66 ag
2nd hlfs lost - 7
Rd 14 Carl 5.3 7.4 12.7 - 79 Rd 10 Syd 3.4 5.2 8.6 - 54
Rich 3.4 2.3 5.7 - 37 Rich 3.1 4.2 7.3 - 45
Rd 13 Port 3.2 5.1 8.3 - 51 Rd 9 Ess 6.2 2.4 8.6 - 54
Rich 7.3 1.1 8.4 - 52 Rich 2.2 4.4 6.6 - 42
Rd 12 Melb 5.3 3.2 8.5 - 53 Rd 8 Gee 7.8 3.3 10.11 - 71
Rich 2.2 3.5 5.7 - 37 Rich 1.3 4.2 5.5 - 35
Rd 11 Adl 8.6 7.3 15.9 - 99 Rd 7 St.K 6.2 4.1 10.3 - 63
Rich 2.2 3.3 5.5 - 35 Rich 4.4 3.3 7.7 -49
3rd qtrs won - 1 Ave = 21 fr 36 ag
3rd qtrs lost - 7
4th qtrs won - 3 Ave = 21 fr 30 ag
4th qtrs lost - 5
2nd hlfs won - 1 (by 1pt) Ave = 42 fr 66 ag
2nd hlfs lost - 7
There are no acceptable reasons why 20 year olds and above cant run out an entire game at full pace. Aerobic strength is the easiest thing you can build on for petes sake. Its not like asking someone to suddenly kick straight :
All I know is that winning only one 2nd half (by a point) in the last 8 weeks suggests something is amiss in this area. If you put Damien Oliver on top of a horse with no grunt, he may be able to get it mid-field but that's about it. Put him on top of a horse with the legs and he will look like a genius. Not sure we have the horsepower.
Look for all the crap being hurled I fully accept that better teams will tire out worse teams that try to match it with them. I remember from my playing days frustrating a much better player than myself but I had to work three times as hard to do it (and six times harder than him). For all our golden hope this year we still aren't that far away from the side that came last in 2007. Gratefully the names have been changed.
I don't know what the answer is but I do know that in a number of our recent games you could actually see us playing at a level that there was no way we could sustain, blame the coach or the players if you like - I don't care. That's not a question of fitness. You can't sprint every step of a marathon - it just can't be done. When you combine that with turnovers and bad shots at goal (hidden by the number of opportunities we created during this phase) it means that as a side we have chosen to spend our cookies, not made the best of it and then spend the rest of the game trying to protect the small lead we have built up. A fairly soul destroying style to be honest or and made worse if the team doesn't really understand that this is how they are playing.
Earlier in the season when we were playing well - we didn't seem to be playing our games in this fashion. However I do accept that teams do ratchet up the intensity of their games as the season goes on and perhaps this has been our response to the lift in standard. Actually come to think of it, earlier in the season we were bemoaning slow starts. Well we seem to have fixed that problem but replaced it with another.
I don't know what the answer is but I do know that in a number of our recent games you could actually see us playing at a level that there was no way we could sustain, blame the coach or the players if you like - I don't care. That's not a question of fitness. You can't sprint every step of a marathon - it just can't be done. When you combine that with turnovers and bad shots at goal (hidden by the number of opportunities we created during this phase) it means that as a side we have chosen to spend our cookies, not made the best of it and then spend the rest of the game trying to protect the small lead we have built up. A fairly soul destroying style to be honest or and made worse if the team doesn't really understand that this is how they are playing.
Earlier in the season when we were playing well - we didn't seem to be playing our games in this fashion. However I do accept that teams do ratchet up the intensity of their games as the season goes on and perhaps this has been our response to the lift in standard. Actually come to think of it, earlier in the season we were bemoaning slow starts. Well we seem to have fixed that problem but replaced it with another.