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Golumless said:
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.
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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.
 
Big Dub said:
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.
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That can only last for so long though before the better teams are red lining with endurance.
 
Golumless said:
That can only last for so long though before the better teams are red lining with endurance.
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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.
 

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cmndstab said:
Having breaks occasionally is good for your overall mental and physical health. They would have take-home fitness and skills programs anyway.
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“Occasionally”? Younger players returned 24th Nov, full squad 1st Dec, that’s after our season ended 12th September.

Average workers get 4 weeks. These blokes are paid a shit load of money, they get enough time off.
 
George CantStandYa said:
Well Darren Burgess for one used to say they didn’t have enough time with the players and they just get them back and they go on a break again.
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Sounds like we converted him to excuse making mode, it is ingrained at our club. I do agree with him though. The more sides you play twice, the more you even up the fixture. Forget external trials, let’s just get into it. And play more shorter breaks, clubs have 40 odd on the list, they can use them. We could aim for 3 rounds of all night and weekend twilight games at regional 2nd tier grounds prior to what is round round zero. Every night of the week for 3 weeks.

Should the AFL season be extended at the expense of pre-season length?

Darren Burgess believes the AFL should increase the length of the season and decrease the length of pre-season.
archive.sen.com.au archive.sen.com.au
 
1970crow said:
Didn’t he also espouse that he believes you can get more on less time as well though?
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Didn’t hear that and that’s the fitness element of it if he did or maybe he thought less time with Nicks would help.

But there is learning tactics, work on weaknesses, there’s always stuff to work on.

They’ve had 10-11 weeks off at the end of the season, trained for 3 weeks and then get another 3 weeks off. I doubt there’s another sport in the world that gets that and there certainly wouldn’t be another profession that does.
 

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1970crow said:
Sounds like we converted him to excuse making mode, it is ingrained at our club. I do agree with him though. The more sides you play twice, the more you even up the fixture. Forget external trials, let’s just get into it. And play more shorter breaks, clubs have 40 odd on the list, they can use them. We could aim for 3 rounds of all night and weekend twilight games at regional 2nd tier grounds prior to what is round round zero. Every night of the week for 3 weeks.

Should the AFL season be extended at the expense of pre-season length?

Darren Burgess believes the AFL should increase the length of the season and decrease the length of pre-season.
archive.sen.com.au archive.sen.com.au
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Playing would be a preference to training.

That was before his time with us, so we hadn’t impacted him yet.
 
George CantStandYa said:
Didn’t hear that and that’s the fitness element of it if he did or maybe he thought less time with Nicks would help.

But they’re is learning tactics, work on weaknesses, there’s always stuff to work on.

They’ve had 10-11 weeks off at the end of the season, trained for 3 weeks and then get another 3 weeks off. I doubt there’s another sport in the world that gets that and there certainly wouldn’t be another profession that does.
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Agree with that. Some people don’t even get the ‘office closure’ between Xmas and new year. But instead of more training, let’s delete 2 of the Xmas weeks and get the season started earlier. Plenty of time in their 30s to take extended leave over Xmas. My first real job after leaving school was in a chartered accounting firm. No annual leave between June and October. Don’t like it, plenty of other professions to have a go at, seeya.
 
cmndstab said:
Having breaks occasionally is good for your overall mental and physical health. They would have take-home fitness and skills programs anyway.
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Yep that is what I told my wife I got too. She's stunned that work has told me to get rat faced drunk every day on my time off but it is all there in black and white... crayon
 
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