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The AFL’s commitment to restrain the use of the runner and a wish to shorten the pre-season activity to reduce injury were among the key topics in a feisty meeting between the coaches and the AFL hierarchy.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...over-runner-restrictions-20190314-p514c2.html
Don't quite understand how a shorter pre-season will reduce injuries?
I get it if the pre-season was really long and players were getting injured at the end of a long season, but that is not the case.
Injuries are always going to occur as the pace quickens as we move from intras, to practice matches/JLT and then the real stuff, and shortening the bruise free elements is surely not going to help.
I remember one of the Hawthorn medicos in an interview identifying that his injury concerns were always in the first month of competitive footy, as the bodies not used to the knocks and pressured changes in direction, were most likely to give way, particularly knees.
Can anyone explain why a shorter pre-season will reduce injuries for anything bar, yes, there will be less injuries in the JLT, they will just come in rounds 1 and 2 of the H&A instead?
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...over-runner-restrictions-20190314-p514c2.html
Don't quite understand how a shorter pre-season will reduce injuries?
I get it if the pre-season was really long and players were getting injured at the end of a long season, but that is not the case.
Injuries are always going to occur as the pace quickens as we move from intras, to practice matches/JLT and then the real stuff, and shortening the bruise free elements is surely not going to help.
I remember one of the Hawthorn medicos in an interview identifying that his injury concerns were always in the first month of competitive footy, as the bodies not used to the knocks and pressured changes in direction, were most likely to give way, particularly knees.
Can anyone explain why a shorter pre-season will reduce injuries for anything bar, yes, there will be less injuries in the JLT, they will just come in rounds 1 and 2 of the H&A instead?