Bigman’s Training Reports (Update: 11th March)

[Peter Doherty]

You know your attempts to psycho analyse is cringe don’t you?

Diagnosing and prescribing treatment plans for player injuries is fine without personal consultation, but trying to psychoanalyse the mind of the football nuff, that is too far.

 

[Velvet George]

Diagnosing and prescriping treatment plans for player injuries is fine without personal consultation, but trying to psychoanalyse the mind of the football nuff, that is too far.

Especially when you’re known to post shit

 

[Peter Doherty]

Especially when you’re known to post shit

Dont let me get to you so easily. We're all talking shit, it's just a bit of fun.

 

[Velvet George]

Fixed that for you

Seems you fixed it for yourself by telling porkies, shame on you

 

[Velvet George]

How come Kane doesn't tell you to calm down? You must be lucky I guess.

I’m popular

 

[dylan123]

How come Kane doesn't tell you to calm down? You must be lucky I guess.

I had to laugh at that followed by the melt from Drugs obvious troll a page or two later

 

[1970crow]

The 'pre-coping' would be more common where the supporter feels an emotional risk, where a certain level of expectation exists. With already low expectations for WC, the need to emotionally 'hedge' would be lower. It's not to say they wouldn't have their own things going on.

So then we could say that people who predict above the average do so because they are scared to admit to themselves that the team they support isn’t up to it. So they live in a degree of delusion, knowing that they can rationalise a lesser outcome come the conclusion of the year?

 

[1970crow]

I’m popular

You’re elite.

 

[119others]

Absolutely.

And sometimes it is peoples fault and they get fired because they aren't good at their job (Sean Murphy at Essendon).

It's very much early days for Ian McKeown so I don't think anyone outside of the club can have an opinion on him just yet, however I think that the data as of today would suggest that we have a lot more injury concerns in Feb 2026 than we have had over the past 3-4 years.

you need to both calm down AND stop wetting the bed. first last weekends game now our new highly regarded GM of High Performance. How highly regarded? Well better than Burgess based on this historic post from one of Powers best posters

As per this graphic Janus put up in the Burgo returns to EPL thread in June on page 12. 5 spots higher up than Burgo.

The injuries you keep harping on about in recent pages:

Draper - started under Burgess
Curtin and Keane - contact injuries
Ah Chee - VERY likely starter R1
Rankine - almost certain starter in R2 (Suspension R1)

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Lets wait and see Rd 1.

In 2022 - We had Seedsman (career ending Concussion), Murphy (neck) - unavailable.

In 2023 - We had Worrell (Hammy), Dowling (footy), Crouch (foot) - Unavailable.

In 2024 - We had Sloane (eye poke), Schoenberg (2024 Achillies), Murray (2024 ACL), TT (Knee) - unavailable

In 2025 - We had Strachan and Jones unavailable for rd 1.

Thats our unavailable injury list under Burgess. Be interesting to see where we are RD 1 2026.

Once again - for those that are really really senstive (those with three players in their names) - I am not angry or suggesting anything apart from that its worth looking at.

An injury list with Draper, Curtin, Ah Chee, Rankine, Keane (possibly Cumming and Soligo) is far worse than any injury list we have had to deal with under Burgess.

Not sure why I’m being singled out in your post

 

[Peter Doherty]

So then we could say that people who predict above the average do so because they are scared to admit to themselves that the team they support isn’t up to it. So they live in a degree of delusion, knowing that they can rationalise a lesser outcome come the conclusion of the year?

What you're describing kinda happens, but I don't think you've got the motivations in order. People will retroactively explain away failure, but I'm not sure it commonly plays out like you've put it.

You're describing someone knowingly raising expectations, raising the emotional risk and rationalising it after the event to protect the ego.

You could make an argument both are variations of coping, one is more clearly driven by fear.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

You’re elite.

Was formerly elite

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The 'pre-coping' would be more common where the supporter feels an emotional risk, where a certain level of expectation exists. With already low expectations for WC, the need to emotionally 'hedge' would be lower. It's not to say they wouldn't have their own things going on.

It would be more common when people who think we are going to do well pontificate about our future prospects

But want to have a little insurance

So any little hiccups are banked as potential reasons their lofty predictions weren't met. It's not that they were wrong, see?

 

[Peter Doherty]

It would be more common when people who think we are going to do well pontificate about our future prospects

But want to have a little insurance

So any little hiccups are banked as potential reasons their lofty predictions weren't met. It's not that they were wrong, see?

Yes, I think that happens too.

In this form, it's not 'real pessimism', it's performative. They would actually have a pretty normal amount of optimism internally.

Outwardly though, 'we're no chance' etc. If we fail, it acts as a way of separating yourself from the failure. 'I never got my hopes up, it didn't hurt me'.

 

[1970crow]

Yes, I think that happens too.

In this form, it's not 'real pessimism', it's performative. They would actually have a pretty normal amount of optimism internally.

Outwardly though, 'we're no chance' etc. If we fail, it acts as a way of separating yourself from the failure. 'I never got my hopes up, it didn't hurt me'.

But aren’t we talking about people that had their hopes up but have reassessed due to injuries? Just because you don’t think Keane and Curtin missing half a season inhibits our chances, doesn’t mean others can’t.

 

[Peter Doherty]

But aren’t we talking about people that had their hopes up but have reassessed due to injuries? Just because you don’t think Keane and Curtin missing half a season inhibits our chances, doesn’t mean others can’t.

There's a distinction between thinking Keane and Curtin out early makes things harder (analytical assessment) and putting on faux pessimism because of these injuries (the emotional hedge).

Because there's analytical assessment going on with some people doesn't mean there's not emotional hedging going on with other people or even the same people, they are not mutually exclusive.

 

[Peter Doherty]

Last year Brisbane were:

#1 for kicks
#1 for uncontested marks
#2 for time in possession
#17 for metres per kick



.

 

[AFC979810]

you need to both calm down AND stop wetting the bed. first last weekends game now our new highly regarded GM of High Performance. How highly regarded? Well better than Burgess based on this historic post from one of Powers best posters

Mentioning that we seem to have more injuries this year than we have over the past few preseasons is wetting the bed?

As I said previously - Too early to judge our new fitness guy after a couple of months.

 

[Golumless]

Mentioning that we seem to have more injuries this year than we have over the past few preseasons is wetting the bed?

As I said previously - Too early to judge our new fitness guy after a couple of months.

We have been insanely lucky with avoiding those freak contact injuries in the past few years. Might just be we're due for a correction year in that regard.

 

[1970crow]

There's a distinction between thinking Keane and Curtin out early makes things harder (analytical assessment) and putting on faux pessimism because of these injuries (the emotional hedge).

Because there's analytical assessment going on with some people doesn't mean there's not emotional hedging going on with other people or even the same people, they are not mutually exclusive.

I suppose you couldn’t quote a couple of posts and explain where the analytics separates into emotion?

 

[Peter Doherty]

I suppose you couldn’t quote a couple of posts and explain where the analytics separates into emotion?

Is your position the same as George's, that what I am describing never happens?

 

[1970crow]

Mentioning that we seem to have more injuries this year than we have over the past few preseasons is wetting the bed?

As I said previously - Too early to judge our new fitness guy after a couple of months.

Using Rankine injuring a hammy as evidence is wetting the bed though. And we know that Soligo and Draper brought their injuries in from last season. We also know that Matty Crouch just retired stating that pain free groins post footy mightn’t be a possibility. So what’s happened outside the norm? One player has done a hammy. Wow, where’s that panic button?

Out of interest, what injury was Max returning from late last year?

 

[TryAnHit]

bigman

Had TT been playing any ruck in the PS? Or looked like we gonna play him pure forward like yesterday?

Huge weapon if we leave him as a pure FF. Especially with McAndrew looking a little better

 

[crows dude]

bigman

Had TT been playing any ruck in the PS? Or looked like we gonna play him pure forward like yesterday?

Huge weapon if we leave him as a pure FF. Especially with McAndrew looking a little better

Still need someone wo ruck when mcnadrew rests. Does T Murray play

 

[Mutineer]

bigman

Had TT been playing any ruck in the PS? Or looked like we gonna play him pure forward like yesterday?

Huge weapon if we leave him as a pure FF. Especially with McAndrew looking a little better

Thilthorpe actually had several squirts playing a big midfielder on the ball