Grapevine says we were waiting on someone else who was still in season until recently, and they declined.
-
IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
Luke Meehan and Conditioning team
- Thread starter caesar
- Start date
Grapevine says we were waiting on someone else who was still in season until recently, and they declined.
This. He might become the best or the worst. Let's see and hopefully the former.
Maybe we should give " The Weapon" a call to see what his rates are
Yeah. The hate us all ready. Let's start the Richmond Cartel
With Benny From the Bronx Gale chief captaintono
Could do worse, the bloke picked up a million dollar wrongful dismissal payout and went back to work in the NRL.
If he could get away with that, he is clearly some sort of magician.
Not sure what the secrecy is for TBR? Not like it's going to make any difference if you spill the beans, is it?
I am spilling them, don't know the name of the person but I'm assuming they work either in cricket or overseas.
All those you mention above are very important and were rightly in place. Unless they were salary sacrificing, I don’t think the extra cap relief will be distributed amongst current staff.
My understanding is that some cuts were made in player welfare and development so they might want to pad that out. Think Lambert might be an addition to our numbers if my fading memory serves me correctly. Rutten merely replaces Kingsley.
Peter Burge is a very senior performance manager with multiple premierships under his belt. He would have been on a very attractive salary so we would have had that to play with. They won’t be offering the same package to Luke Meehan so my argument is that they had good money to lure the very best and the increase in soft cap gave them further options.
They know Meehan well and obviously have full confidence in him so will hope he kills it and wish him well
Nothing wrong with giving the young guy a go by any means. There's no magicians working in this field, the knowledge about preparing the human body for elite sport is shared by everyone and there is very little variation in what anyone does.
He will be just as equipped for the job as anyone, most of the challenge is to form relationships with the players which will have them buy in to what he asks them to do, and live professionally outside of the club environment.
And as I always say he will prepare the players thoroughly, do everything possible to set them up for success and then sit back and hope like hell they don't get injured.
Or tigers put pressure on him with our recurring soft tissue injuries
Agree and disagree.
I've worked in the field, and done it at multiple clubs, and while the information we all read is generally the same or fairly similar, the applications and stances taken on training modalities can vary wildly.
One club I was at the high performance manager believed in longer duration running (as an example), another preferred physical size in the gym (a very powerlifted style strength program) and another again believed that conditioning should be from within drills and players only ran at the end if they didnt get their required distances.
Luke is very capable, and a strong relationship builder (key), but the big thing is the still need to replace the work of Rob Inness
Different roles, so wont be a fair comparison. Luke a good, not going to lose anything in the promotion at all
It's definitely evolved it, but you still get some who value higher loadings and pure running, and others who value burst repeat sprinting and getting conditioning from drills. All depends on the interpretations of the science and the data by whoever is looking at it. It's probably a lot more similar across the board than it was 10 years ago, but there's still some slight variations.
The quality and type of data the current GPS units provide are FAR superior to what we had when I was first entering the industry, now you can get such specific breakdowns of individual speed zones, where they have done their running on field, when they've been standing still, etc. Being able to individualise during the week has probably been the biggest thing GPS has done across clubs, theres just so much information there that helps the training during the week
The quality and type of data the current GPS units provide are FAR superior to what we had when I was first entering the industry, now you can get such specific breakdowns of individual speed zones, where they have done their running on field, when they've been standing still, etc. Being able to individualise during the week has probably been the biggest thing GPS has done across clubs, theres just so much information there that helps the training during the week
