AFL running power- St Kildas future advantage?

[JimmyR20]

Full time sprints.
St kilda: 370
Geelong: 354

For comparison
Collingwood: 278
Geelong: 246

Gws: 263
Freo: 221

Incredible. Interesting to see how both teams recover.

 

[g_TRAIN]

We need to be better than just at running.

Wilson, Hill and Wood are why we always win the running stats

 

[HTPunter]

What is a “sprint”? Is it a % of your max HR indicating effort, or is it a certain speed? Maybe Saints are just real unfit & it was one of their plodders jogging but his heart rate was 90% of its max that caused these “sprints”

 

[JimmyR20]

What is a “sprint”? Is it a % of your max HR indicating effort, or is it a certain speed? Maybe Saints are just real unfit & it was one of their plodders jogging but his heart rate was 90% of its max that caused these “sprints”

Today's game they broke the record for distance covered at high speed 52km at over 18km per hour

 

[g_TRAIN]

What is a “sprint”? Is it a % of your max HR indicating effort, or is it a certain speed? Maybe Saints are just real unfit & it was one of their plodders jogging but his heart rate was 90% of its max that caused these “sprints”

They classify it as time spent over certain speed based on GPS.

Can't recall the actual speed though.

 

[my name was taken]

Double edged sword and take the good with the bad - the bad being atrocious skills with the football in a lot of games when things just aren't clicking. Seen it many times this year, it's hard to be clean running that much

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

They do cough up a lot of goals in Time On don't they?

Maybe they're spent from so much sprinting.

Also don't think the sprinting really suits Max King

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either, FWIW. The dude looks like he's about to go into cardiac arrest 5 minutes into each quarter.

 

[LordLucifer]

 

[g_TRAIN]

They do cough up a lot of goals in Time On don't they?

Maybe they're spent from so much sprinting.

Also don't think the sprinting really suits Max King either, FWIW. The dude looks like he's about to go into cardiac arrest 5 minutes into each quarter.

Only Sydney has won more final quarters than us this year apparently.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Only Sydney has won more final quarters than us this year apparently.

I'm talking the last 5 minutes of each quarter. I'd be interested in those stats

 

[kaiserchief13]

Congrats. Maybe they can compete for 2028 Olympics squad

 

[JimmyR20]

It is interesting to see the teams of those making petty comments.

Anyway, all I'm getting at is there is a distinct game style being built and perhaps this is a competitive advantage St Kilda are building on.

Geelong certainly looked exhausted in the 2nd half.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

It's interesting, I remember watching St Kilda against Gold Coast earlier in the season and noting what a baffling team was because of how much pressure they put on and how hard they ran, but then they'd turn it over so frequently, their skills didn't appear to be AFL standard frankly.

We saw in the second half last night what happens when they're hitting targets: it seemed like we just couldn't set up quickly enough and we had no answers. They were just waltzing it up the ground: kick/mark, kick/mark, kick/mark. "Can they sustain it for longer than a half?" is the question.

 

[Atomboy]

Having players who could also kick and handpass would be nice

 

[The Jack]

I'm talking the last 5 minutes of each quarter. I'd be interested in those stats

You are onto something for sure. We are the Red Time world champions.