News Burgess quits, returns to EPL with Arsenal, joins Melbourne, looks to be heading to Adelaide

[RussellEbertHandball]

Haha Burgo replaces YNWA with NTUA on his twitter account description of himself/his account.

 

[Janus]

Saunders to come in and fix the groins of Gray and Boak.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Who is Saunders?

I assume Steve Saunders the North high performance manager that RussellEbertHandball tipped us off on a couple of weeks back.

#Nostraebert

 

[OneGreatClub]

Ah

I assume Steve Saunders the North high performance manager that RussellEbertHandball tipped us off on a couple of weeks back.

#Nostraebert

OK..thank you...any idea on if he is any good for our needs? Is this possibly for the top job?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Haha Burgo replaces YNWA with NTUA on his twitter account description of himself/his account.

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[RussellEbertHandball]

Who is Saunders?

http://www.sssphysio.com.au/
Saunders Sports & Spinal
Level 3, 12 Gilles Street
Adelaide, SA 5000

Dr Steve Saunders
Steve is a well renowned Physiotherapist with over 25 years experience in the treatment and management of musculoskeletal injury and dysfunction. He is recognised nationally and internationally as a leader of performance management and has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international conferences.

Steve is currently the High Performance Manager – Director of Sports Science and Medical Services at the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL. His approach to injury management and prevention has resulted in significant reductions in player injury rates whilst maximising player performance. Before commencing with NMFC, Steve was a consultant to numerous AFL teams and many other sporting teams and organisations such as the US Ski team, Cricket Australia, the South Australian Cricket Association, Athletics Australia, the UK Sports Institute, and more recently the National Basketball Association.

Steve completed his PhD candidature in 2007 at the University of Queensland investigating the motor control mechanisms underlying control of the lumbo-pelvic region during human locomotion in normal and low back pain subjects. He has published works in internationally peer-reviewed journals and continues to develop management strategies based on scientific evidence-based practice.

The current Physiotherapists at Saunders Sports and Spinal have all been personally trained and hand picked by Steve to continue the high quality patient care and service that the clinic is renowned for. Steve continues to provide consultancy services to the clinic by reviewing patient cases and assisting on an as needs basis.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Ah

OK..thank you...any idea on if he is any good for our needs? Is this possibly for the top job?

I don't know anything about him. I expect they would have had a comprehensive interview process and chosen the best candidate.

I have always been impressed with the way North players are turned out physically, so I expect him to be a good fit.

Here's a bit of info

http://www.sssphysio.com.au/

Steve is a well renowned Physiotherapist with over 25 years experience in the treatment and management of musculoskeletal injury and dysfunction. He is recognised nationally and internationally as a leader of performance management and has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international conferences.

Steve is currently the High Performance Manager – Director of Sports Science and Medical Services at the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL. His approach to injury management and prevention has resulted in significant reductions in player injury rates whilst maximising player performance. Before commencing with NMFC, Steve was a consultant to numerous AFL teams and many other sporting teams and organisations such as the US Ski team, Cricket Australia, the South Australian Cricket Association, Athletics Australia, the UK Sports Institute, and more recently the National Basketball Association.

Steve completed his PhD candidature in 2007 at the University of Queensland investigating the motor control mechanisms underlying control of the lumbo-pelvic region during human locomotion in normal and low back pain subjects. He has published works in internationally peer-reviewed journals and continues to develop management strategies based on scientific evidence-based practice.

The current Physiotherapists at Saunders Sports and Spinal have all been personally trained and hand picked by Steve to continue the high quality patient care and service that the clinic is renowned for. Steve continues to provide consultancy services to the clinic by reviewing patient cases and assisting on an as needs basis.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ah

OK..thank you...any idea on if he is any good for our needs? Is this possibly for the top job?

Saunders has a high profile within the sports industry and has heaps of experience. He has branched out from straight Physiotherapy into more about human movement/motion stuff, which is basically what sports science degree is the study of human movement/motion not the study of bio chemistry as Dank would have you believe.

At the start of the decade for me, he was one of the high profile well known fitness heads in the AFL. I knew of Steve Saunders, John Quinn and Andrew Russell plus our own Cam Falloon.

 

[Steve Dore]

Ah

OK..thank you...

The link in my earlier response to you was obviously too subtle.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Saunders is an adjunct lecturer at UniSA, so that link continues with Saunders taking over from Burgo.

To me it looks like probably Stu Graham takes over the more hard science role that Burgo did and Saunders plays a bigger part in player injury prevention and rehab than maybe Burgo did.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The link in my earlier response to you was obviously too subtle.

We don't do subtle well on BigFooty <insert wink smilie here>

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Poster on our board reliably informed us that Saunders is off to the power

Thanks for the tip.

 

[OneGreatClub]

The link in my earlier response to you was obviously too subtle.

I usually require a sledgehammer

 

[OneGreatClub]

Saunders is an adjunct lecturer at UniSA, so that link continues with Saunders taking over from Burgo.

To me it looks like probably Stu Graham takes over the more hard science role that Burgo did and Saunders plays a bigger part in player injury prevention and rehab than maybe Burgo did.

Thank you, this is promising, I think. At least he has background working in a footy environment as well as the other stuff and in our own back yard too.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Saunders became a part timer in 2017 at North. From February this year

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...y/news-story/09ed12ee7b0e0984c7ab0470f2f37d62
Meanwhile, Kangaroos’ fitness guru Steve Saunders has wound back his role at the club due to family commitments. The man widely regarded as one of the top conditioning experts in the league will continue with the Roos in a part-time capacity, working three days a week. North’s senior physical performance consultant will spend two days working out of the club in Melbourne and one day working from Adelaide, where he is now based. Saunders will still oversee North Melbourne’s high performance unit and provide expertise on the Roos’ injury prevention and management.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...y/news-story/09ed12ee7b0e0984c7ab0470f2f37d62

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Sounds like Port will be advising the applicants for the head of performance role of their success or otherwise within the next day or so

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[RussellEbertHandball]

https://kanga-tech.com/index.php/about-us/
After years in private practice, Steve Saunders joined North Melbourne Football Club in 2010 charged with developing a world leading sports science program. Steve led a hugely successful push to drastically reduce injuries while substantially increasing training loads and on field performance. Steve was disappointed by a lack of products on the market that were well founded in science and that were implementable within a large team environment. In 2015, in partnership with technology company Biarri and NMFC, KangaTech was formed to bring Steve’s vision to the market.
https://kanga-tech.com/index.php/about-us/

and this article from the HS November last year about the KangaTech technology, which reinforces my thinking that Saunders will probably be given a greater injury prevention and injury rehab role over what Burgess did.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...m/news-story/a18c71e4ef3968b030d55e6a1d076fa8

THE secret weapon in North Melbourne’s sports science arsenal has been sold to the NBA. KangaTech is the brainchild of Kangaroos high performance manager Steve Saunders who developed the injury prevention and training program in conjunction with the club. Utah Jazz were the first to buy the screening technology that delivers real-time player strength, load and wellness data to performance and medical staff.

The information is used to screen athletes, guide exercises to reduce the risk of injury, provide insight into injury causes and fast-track rehabilitation. “There are a number of others (NBA franchises and elite sporting groups) that look very close to also taking the technology on board,” Saunders said. North’s relationship with the Jazz, through high-altitude training camps in Utah, and Saunders working with various NBA clubs put KangaTech on the global radar.

“This was developed out of science and (North’s) needs. We really needed to take injury prevention, strength and conditioning by the scruff of the neck and to do some things better as a group (staff and players)” Saunders said. “This technology was never developed as a business. It’s grown into something that elite sporting teams are now wanting and we see applications to it in a variety of areas.” It used to take Saunders and his team about three hours to open and populate specific data sets using “pivot tables” when he first started at Arden St in 2010. KangaTech was originally designed to measure hip and leg strength but has grown to include the entire body. Testing is conducted once a week during the season and takes 5-8 minutes to complete. The results are measured and compared to previously collected data and any substandard repetitions are flagged real-time and reported via email to key staff.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...m/news-story/a18c71e4ef3968b030d55e6a1d076fa8

 

[tales129]

Whilst Steve was able to get the best out of injury prone blokes like waite/Higgins/tarrant, we did notice a trend in long term hamstring tears, high up in the hamstring last year.

Garner, mcdonald, dal Santo and Anderson all missed 8-10 weeks. Not solely Saunders fault but alarming nonetheless for someone who is supposedly the best soft tissue expert in the game!

 

[tales129]

It should be noted that dal and waite said we had next level injury prevention systems comparative to the two clubs they had come from.

Lots of time spent using rubber bands and a heap of gym work to get all the little bits that are generally missed up to scratch

 

[Steve Dore]

Whilst Steve was able to get the best out of injury prone blokes like waite/Higgins/tarrant, we did notice a trend in long term hamstring tears ...

Sounds like he is well suited to take the keys to Burgo's hamstring destructive testing machine

 

[OneGreatClub]

Whilst Steve was able to get the best out of injury prone blokes like waite/Higgins/tarrant, we did notice a trend in long term hamstring tears, high up in the hamstring last year.

Garner, mcdonald, dal Santo and Anderson all missed 8-10 weeks. Not solely Saunders fault but alarming nonetheless for someone who is supposedly the best soft tissue expert in the game!

We had a lot of hammys and some re injuries last last year too but Burgo eased off on some of the training type this year and we have had very few. Hopefully that process will continue. Also I do note you had the longest serving player in the comp.

 

[TheFVK]

3 or 4 years back North's fitness department had a great record and reputation for injury prevention, Saunders spearheaded that. Happy enough.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Can Steve Saunders make Billy Frampton the size of Ben Brown in the off season? That would be handy.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

When Burgo was around we go 8-5. He leaves on the 29th June. We then go 6-3. He comes back for the finals and we loose. coincidence??

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

When Burgo was around we go 8-5. He leaves on the 29th June. We then go 6-3. He comes back for the finals and we loose. coincidence??

We have fitness issues if we can't out run an old ass West Coast team imo.

I know there's that UniSA thing but I would like to think Burgo has close to if not zero influence when Saunders comes in.