View Full Version : Nothing left in the tank
Live in hope
4 Jun 2006, 01:52
We win the NAB cup and the lead up games on fitness (all great last quarter efforts).
We win the first two by miles - still hammering them in the last quarter.
Then we sack the fitness coach ...coincidence that we are c*ap since ?(anyone know why - must have been a big issue to ditch a key role into the season)
Have they replaced the fitness coach and, if so, who is it?
We definitely need a good draft (please, please - can we get some drafts with good footskills as well as the KPP!!) and definitely need to make some tough decisions on the list (the chronically injured, "turnover machines" and the slow), but I can't help thinking that everybody appears to be overlooking that lack of fitness is a key, if not the major, problem.
I thought we sacked him after our 2 losses to Hawthorn and the Bullies.
Lunchlady Doris
4 Jun 2006, 03:50
stupid, stupid thread. a team doesn't lose fitness 1 week after sacking a fitness coach. the previous fitness coach is responsible for our lack of fitness right now, and for our soft tissue injuries over the past 2 years.
seriously, why does this crap keep coming up? you think players get fit in a week?
stupid, stupid thread. a team doesn't lose fitness 1 week after sacking a fitness coach. the previous fitness coach is responsible for our lack of fitness right now, and for our soft tissue injuries over the past 2 years.
seriously, why does this crap keep coming up? you think players get fit in a week?
Why is it a stupid thread? There are some very valid points:
Why was he fired?
Did we go too hard too early in the season?
Why are we continually getting overrun in the last quarter (Melbourne, Richmond, West Coast)?
Who is in charge now?
Can it be turned around mid-season or is it too late until next pre-season?
chapmanmagic35
4 Jun 2006, 10:54
I think he was sacked after the Hawthorn game, just before the Dogs game.
stupid, stupid thread. a team doesn't lose fitness 1 week after sacking a fitness coach.
Oh yes a team can. At elite levels, fitness isn't about going flat out all the time, its about getting the proper balance of rest and exercise, push it too hard in one week and you'll be buggered at the weekend, take it to lightly and you'll be failing to come up. If you don't manage the fitness cycle, then you suffer the consequences very quickly.
I think he was sacked after the Hawthorn game, just before the Dogs game.
That's right - but the writing was on the wall well before then. He was let go by Collingwood and Essendon - that should have told us something.
Lunchlady Doris
4 Jun 2006, 20:36
the initial post suggests that we are now unfit, beacuse we sacked our fitness coach...
surely we sacked the coach, because we were already unfit. maybe were prepared too hard and peaked way too early in the season?
CatmanForever
4 Jun 2006, 21:02
peaked too early? Did you see those NAB cup games. We hardly played at our peak winning most if them in final quarter efforts. Our first two wins were with dud sides at the time (although the lions have found some form since). I don't think we have peaked at all, in fact the whole idea we were playing well at the start has to be the biggest media joke ever. Sides playing badly (like the kangas and the lions at the start of the season) always make an ok side look good and a good side look great. When we came up against teams who had a crack against us we couldn't hack it and caved. The character if this side seems to be that of a quitter. When it gets too hard, give up.
sorry didn't mean to rant here
Lunchlady Doris
5 Jun 2006, 14:44
i meant peaked in fitness, not in football prowess.
coming back and running over the top in the 2nd half/last quarter.
im no fitness coach, but i'd say we didnt get enough endurance work in suring the summer
Furious_G
5 Jun 2006, 15:05
I can't remember the guys name who replaced him, but apparently he is one of the worlds best soft tissue experts. He has just finished a stint at one of the English Premier League clubs. Before that he was with Richmond. This all came out the same day we found out about Loris being fired.
Also, lets look long and hard about this. The AFL announced the new rules after the summer didn't they? So after years of the summer mentality being "go to the gym bulk up" it back fired on a lot of teams (not just Geelong), because the AFL made another knee jerk reaction and changed the rules.
If you look at it, what is one of the only things to change in the past 2 years at our club. Nothing but these new rules. Yet we've gone from Prelim final, Semifinal and now this year, down the other end of the ladder.
Just a thought anyway.
CatmanForever
5 Jun 2006, 19:29
The fellow announced after Bertolacci was sacked was in fact the new club doctor, not the fitness coach. Even though as you said he is considered great with soft tissue injury management. I don't think they have replaced Bertolacci as yet or announced anyone taking on the role.