Bigman’s Training Reports

[Big Dub]

Hard to say if that'll be the case as the season goes on, seeing more running will inevitably mean stoppages will increase.

It may become the case that teams inevitably place greater emphasis on spoiling the ball over the boundary as a means to reorganise.

Teams/ players with better endurance will try to leverage that by keeping the ball live. Only teams/ players who need a breather will be looking for the boundary line.

It will be interesting to see if the extra player on the bench will be a runner or a tall, particularly with no additional rotations.

 

[Golumless]

Teams/ players with better endurance will try to leverage that by keeping the ball live. Only teams/ players who need a breather will be looking for the boundary line.

It will be interesting to see if the extra player on the bench will be a runner or a tall, particularly with no additional rotations.

That can only last for so long though before the better teams are red lining with endurance.

 

[Big Dub]

That can only last for so long though before the better teams are red lining with endurance.

They only have to be slightly better than those they play against to have an advantage.

A different era, but I remember Craig Bradley breaking a tag by running laps around the centre square before each ball up to leverage his endurance. Did it all day until he broke the 3 man rotating tag.

I think we initially see more runners, but playing a better runner over a better footballer is dangerous too.

I think teams will work out the right balance by the end of the year, but there will be a few games won early by teams that get the balance more right than other teams.

 

[MarcusP2]

The greater emphasis on running aligns with the rule changes - there will be less stoppages, less recovery and more running

If the rule change was in this there the would've been 3 less stoppages a game and the same number of average stoppages as 2023.

 

[Peter Doherty]

If the rule change was in this there the would've been 3 less stoppages a game and the same number of average stoppages as 2023.

Any reduction in stoppages can only help us.

 

[1990crow]

Any reduction in stoppages can only help us.

Ideally we just get a season to play a different sport so we can be a chance