I think it’s spelt twang

I will keep an eye out for this Tuesday's Final Report from Andrew Russell.

I wonder if every injured player will be on the final list of his AFL career.

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Bit late since he’s already signed on, but let’s hope the new bloke has got a decent story for why the Swans took hobbled key forwards into successive grand finals.

29 marks from Andrews, Lester & Payne. Just two of them contested.

Billy @#$%&! Frampton won a flag because he was upright & competitive.

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Good question Cru

Hopefully Longmire's call to play one of the two suspect players this year: McDonald over Mills.

The Read selection was desperation. The Swans were a young team, and Franklin needed a partner in the forwardline. Again, hopefully it was the coaches call to play Read too.

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Russell on SEN this morning.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/12/09/former-carlton-fitness-boss-explains-the-clubs-2024-injury-crisis

He’s kidding himself.

The structure changed from him doing nothing because he wanted to lead fireside chats…

To him being expected to do something because covid dropped the arse out of the budget…

To the realisation that his professional network was bogus & him doing nothing was best for everyone.


Off ya pop mate.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

So he is blaming the club for a role which he was in charge of and responsible for???

Spare me - what a pile of #$%^

How about you take some ownership you flower and not sook like a little baby.

Flower off!

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"I was relieved of several of my duties and given a reduced role, therefore it's not my fault".

Possibly not the exoneration you think it is, Jack old son.

Good riddance !

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Sook !! Even if its a team effort, he takes no responsibility.

Bye Bye .....

I have no issue with what Russel is saying. What I would like to know, why was the structure changed and by whom?
Was it lost trust and faith in Russell? I think there are always 2 sides to the story!!

Covid ripped the guts out of the budget & he never recovered.

High Performance Director/Manager isn’t just one guy. It’s him, the staff he manages & a network of third-party providers.

It’s an easy out for him to highlight the rusted-on staff that he inherited & the limited flexibility that came with. At the end of the day, I don’t think he was capable of living poor, during the austerity years.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

I’m not following you. I don’t think he is blaming lack of resources at all. Isn’t it kind of the opposite? Isn’t he saying that he wanted to be more involved but was locked out of certain areas by internal restructures?

Not defending him or attacking him, for the record.

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I took it as he had responsibilities taken away from him that he previously had at other clubs and Carlton at the start.
Mainly the rehab of injured players, either by club or player choice who knows.
His sole job in the end was strength and conditioning by the sounds of it.

He did say something interesting regarding the training %'s and how S & C had gone down to about 13% of the training load.
It says to me either he was not needed as much to get players to their peak or we needed more football drills due to our large list of poor kickers.
Either way, we've moved on.....so should he.

I agree we don't know "both sides of the story".

That aside, regardless of if its true that he had some resources and/or control removed or whatever, the fact remains he was hired to manage and be responsible for injuries etc, the buck starts and stops with him period. The FACT is over the last few years that management has been highly incompetent. I'm fairly sure the club aren't stupid and knew this. As if they would rip so much "control" from him as to jeopardize the health. wellbeing and enabling the consistent availability of players (where possible) to actually play. Didn't Russell also say something along the lines of if you don't have x amount of injuries (Sorry I can't remember the amount he said), then u aren't pushing them hard enough or similar? FFS seriously, how is that even remotely professional high-performance management?

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Good on Russell for standing up for himself and not being prepared to be the scapegoat . Others just as guilty as Russell for the debacle . Pretty piss weak laying the blame on Russell alone .

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Personally and I have nothing against Russell, I am only interested in Carlton and as he is no longer there, whatever he says I'm not interested in.

GO BLUES!

I hope those he’s referring to aren’t still in charge of rehab or we might expect the same outcomes.

Prior to Russell joining the club in the 2019 preseason, the position was ‘Head of Elite Performance’. Anthony Klarica, a psychologist with flags at Hawthorn, and now Brisbane, was in the chair.

Klarica left & Russell joined as Director of High Performance. Russell stated that he would be ‘hands on’ with the leadership group, with only a high-level oversight of the injury & fitness management. This is how LoGiudice & Liddle set up the department. The soft cap was $9.4m at the time.

Little over 12 months later, covid hits & Dan shits a brick. The state stops, football stops & the austerities are approved. The soft cap drops from $9.7m to $6.1m. Anyone that doesn’t take a haircut, takes it all off the shoulders.

All of a sudden, a Director of High Performance is busier than a McDonalds franchisee.

The soft cap will rise next season to $7.65m. Notwithstanding the allowances put in place as it suits the Scum, #lifestyle, or the Northern Academies, the cap is still a good 20% short of what Russell signed up for.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Well, maybe we’ll never know the full story but Russell doesn’t seem to be pointing at lack of resources or saying he was too stretched. Quite the opposite in fact - he seems to be saying that he wanted to be more hands on in certain areas but was told to stay in his lane. If that’s the case, then the soft cap has nothing to do with it.

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