Here's an exercise for you (literally):

Go outside and jog for 500-1000m.

Take a break for 2 hours to make sure you're recovered, and then try and do 70 m repeat sprints for the same distance, with 5-15 seconds breaks. Then come back here and tell me I'm full of shit.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Here's an excersice for everyone..

Picture a time when you were playing football for a pretty decent team(if you have been a part of one). Now try and remember how easy it was to beat the really bad teams in your competition. You know the type of team I'm talking about..real scrubbers!

Now try to imagine what that scrubber team would have been like to play against if every one of their players had been given steroids. What would they play like?

I would think they would play similar to a side like collingwood, no? 3 or four players attacking the ball carrier ferociously at every opportunity, putting the normally pretty decent players under intense pressure, causing turnover after turnover. Using insane running capabilities to run and spread leaving their normally pretty decent opponents lagging behind.

Now try and remember what the afls reaction was to Essendon*'s doping program and how many millions of dollars were spent trying to protect their image.

now who was it that spoke out about the bomber's which forced the afl to spend these millions of dollars..

Is there anything MM has brought to the club that he hasn't recycled??

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Well the on field performances have been worse since Mick and now Buttifant. Mitigating circumstances maybe, but a fact is a fact.

Menzel another player who had to be taken off the field yesterday with hamstring tightness.

our players are to slow nothing to do with butters training i think.carrazo ellard curnow ,all our loses have 1 thing in common the opp are quicker than us,

I think our fitness training should be tied closer to our execution of skills; less tired kicks forward of centre please.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Rallychaser a Brownlow Medallist..who knew ?

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The problem with Socialism is, you eventually run out of other people's money.

No.

There is cutting of waste.

Lots of jobs were created over the past 7 years simply for the sake of "having numbers" similar to others. There wasn't a sensible review of structures or needs, people were simply appointed to roles.

There is now a logical and methodical review being undertaken and where needed people are being released.

That's very different to cutting in order to save cost.

Regards

OR

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Does the review include the persons competence?

More importantly does it include a review of the competence of the members of the Board.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Couldn't agree more was just about to post the same thing when I saw this

Here's a short clip from a 2SER interview with Buttifant in regards to the benefits of heat and altitude training in elite sport, particularly in the context of AFL football. This was from March this year:

http://www.2ser.com/on-air/streaming/it ... erformance

Clearly Buttifant is not all about the altitude training, and recognises the merits of both approaches in terms of conditioning the body to perform under stress. Perhaps the club are about to reappropriate some of the salaries from the sacked staff into better equipment and more tailored personnel to assist Buttifant and other departments? Who knows, we might be set to move up a few cogs in this area.

We already have an altitude room, perhaps this will be (or has been) additionally refitted into a 'hot box'. He also clearly acknowledges that regular training with this equipment is required to try and maintain the conditioning effects of each method, otherwise both methods' effects then to fade after 4-6 weeks, but that there are fitness gains during that process that are cemented - at an accelerated rate - relative to standard training conditions.

If you'd like to listen to the full radio show, with the complete Buttifant segment, you can catch that here:

http://www.2ser.com/on-air/streaming/it ... march-2015

The full episode also features Aaron Coutts, a professor at UTS in Sydney and also our Director of Sport Science Research, discussing the same training methods.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Another game we couldn't run with our opponent.

We're building towards a peak in September.

players are poorly prepared

And yet we could lift in the last quarter, only to spray kicks through panic, rather than tiredness.

Walker, Jaksch, Jones and Whiley aren't fit, neither are the kids, but I don't think our problem is physical from the perspective of the senior core.

That said, if he was involved in the decision to sub Buckley ahead of Whiley (he seemed to be tracking performance data on the bench), he should be walked out of the club.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

It was a poor sub.

Thomas admitted he couldn't run the game out. Why would you not start him as the sub after a long lay off?

We're short handed right now with all the list turn over; he was always going to play the match out.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

That what it looks like to me.

They cant run out games.

Is getting id of Buuttifant part of the rebuild?

Im just guessing but it seems to me he is not adding value to this team.

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