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Feel like the head of strength and conditioning is the second most likely person at a club to get the blame from fans for poor performance after the senior coach tbh.99% of 'fans' wouldn't care or even know who Merriman was..
Ummm...now why did we do that...
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Ah. So we lowball staff just as much as players. NiceThere's a post in the injury thread claiming he wanted to stay with us but we didn't renew his contract.
Yeah quite a bit of players coming back and getting injured straight away this year and last. You can add Cox last year too.Darcy's weight / legs
Young's multiple injuries
Pearce's years of issues
Sturts knee mis management
Chappys hammys
Walter's knee
Fyfe (self inflicted also)
Freddys heart (couldn't help myself..)
We had the most 'best 22' games lost this season to injury.
Seem mutally agreeable to move him on. Just too many knickers getting twisted cos he's moved on to wce
I'm fine with this
Couldn’t agree more .We can do better - always look to improve in every aspect of the club.
Except when it’s the coachHonestly don’t get the melts when (as other have mentioned) we were one of the most injury impacted teams this year
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We can do better - always look to improve in every aspect of the club. Backing this.
It really sounds like it was a mutual passing. He was on his way interstate but WC swooped and he goes to them. Matthew Innness has moved to Vic and joined Essendon. Matt has done a great job at WC. Gone from pulling spares out of the WAFL to having 3 names on their injury list and two of them are the most injury prone players in the game (Oscar Allan and Elliot Yeo).Could’ve just stayed with us though.
With the whole off field salary cap, he wouldn’t be getting much more at West Coast then with us
With ACLs. What else is there?The Lions have a terrible injury record but unlike us have a lot of depth
Except when it’s the coach
Like his run down tackle in our final against the Bulldogs?
It seems the club wants to”appear” Ruthless here but despite basically 3 years of going sideways and falling well short of the boards own KPIs the club is more than happy to meander on and keep the status quo when it comes to our coaching group.
Joe briety installs about as much confidence in me as Freddy does going for a tackle
Don't think they have much more depth than us tbh.The Lions have a terrible injury record but unlike us have a lot of depth
Well they were fine with Merriman moving on and they obviously didn't rate Jackson Dennis to replace him.Yeah cool…redo the whole s&c team now…definitely not gonna set us back at all.
We go into finals with no one on the injury list and then let our s&c manager and high performance boss walk out with no one in line to replace them?
Very interested to know what came up internally that they’ve decided they need to do a major shuffle up of the s&c though because from the outside it looks like they were doing pretty wellWell they were fine with Merriman moving on and they obviously didn't rate Jackson Dennis to replace him.
Fair point, might've been whats been holding us back too?Yeah cool…redo the whole s&c team now…definitely not gonna set us back at all.
We go into finals with no one on the injury list and then let our s&c manager and high performance boss walk out with no one in line to replace them?
Power and speed would be a concern I would think.Dennis been kicking around with us for 9 years and Merrimen has jumped around from Hawks, to Melb, to us, to WCE.
I'm happy for us to test the waters, all the clubs would have access to the game data of oppo teams, maybe we're off the mark of the top teams in some metrics?
Very interested to know what came up internally that they’ve decided they need to do a major shuffle up of the s&c though because from the outside it looks like they were doing pretty well