Callums_Guns
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- Feb 26, 2019
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Setters just everywhere !
Will have huge impact this year for them
Will have huge impact this year for them
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Thats not how I remember his running style, looks very flat footed. But with ankles its agility that goes so straight line doesnt indicate much.
If he is this close, how the hell did we let him go for nothing?
Very happy for him but we seem to have dropped the ball on this one, unless someone has more info?
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Much as I hate to be negative about the club, this has been a huge area of concern for a few years now, hopefully the changes made in the offseason bring forth changes in outcomes.This is an absolute joke...add to that blokes we couldn’t get on the park trouble free elsewhere and you have to say we have clearly had the most inept medical/physio/rehab department in the comp.
I dont think any of us like being negative.Much as I hate to be negative about the club, this has been a huge area of concern for a few years now, hopefully the changes made in the offseason bring forth changes in outcomes.
This discussion feels a lot like I'm not a racist but...
The season hasn't hasn't started yet and already we're at the the clubs medical staff and injury management are worse than nazis stage we were at last season.
Medical decisions need to be made by a medical practioner, it's not complicated. The pseudo-scientific judgements if people without knowledge of any players situation or useful skills are clearly beyond silly.
I didn't actually say any of that though.Ignoring the stupid Godwining...
I don't think second guessing medical staff on treatment is a good idea and have posted to that extant many times, but that's not an incompatible idea with examining our repeated injury history and causes and concerns. Injury treatment, which most aren't calling out - yes there are some, but not most - is not the same as injury prevention, which is what most are lamenting. Stuff like customized training schedules, monitoring of player workload, etc, is very well-developed these days in some clubs.
The Brisbane Lions (obviously a club I have more visibility into than most) have gone from having many many soft tissue injuries, to greatly reducing those, to improving in their overall injury monitoring and prevention, to the point where frequently injured guys like McCarthy and Adams are lobbying to get to the club. That's a demonstration of what different staff and different focuses can bring.
Is there something wrong in the injury prevention staff at GWS? It's hard to say from an external POV but that doesn't exempt it from examination when we have such large injury lists each year. However given the club has acknowledged that with its publicity this offseason about increased investment in the area, I can't see how arguing that it should be beyond reproach for public discussion makes any sense.
It's like saying we can't question team selections because we don't have all the knowledge - some people have made that argument over the years, but it never holds up. BF is a discussion forum, so people discuss stuff.
It's not questioning though, it's beyond that. Of course the club seeks constant improvement and best practice in all aspects if it's administration I've never said the club should be beyond reproach or criticism. That really is a strawman argument.Ignoring the stupid Godwining...
I don't think second guessing medical staff on treatment is a good idea and have posted to that extant many times, but that's not an incompatible idea with examining our repeated injury history and causes and concerns. Injury treatment, which most aren't calling out - yes there are some, but not most - is not the same as injury prevention, which is what most are lamenting. Stuff like customized training schedules, monitoring of player workload, etc, is very well-developed these days in some clubs.
The Brisbane Lions (obviously a club I have more visibility into than most) have gone from having many many soft tissue injuries, to greatly reducing those, to improving in their overall injury monitoring and prevention, to the point where frequently injured guys like McCarthy and Adams are lobbying to get to the club. That's a demonstration of what different staff and different focuses can bring.
Is there something wrong in the injury prevention staff at GWS? It's hard to say from an external POV but that doesn't exempt it from examination when we have such large injury lists each year. However given the club has acknowledged that with its publicity this offseason about increased investment in the area, I can't see how arguing that it should be beyond reproach for public discussion makes any sense.
It's like saying we can't question team selections because we don't have all the knowledge - some people have made that argument over the years, but it never holds up. BF is a discussion forum, so people discuss stuff.
If that offends you and you need to insult, so be it.
Why a club with 25k members and increasing engagement from home crowds cannit rause sufficient money to sponsor a single player on BF with the assistance that comes from admin is a reason for shame. My view is it's a strong disconnect between the clubs supporters and the BF community.
It's clearly fundamental to what I said though. It's just an example if the broader issue of the negativity. You cant just define the argument as what you want it to to be or communication fails completely, as it must.LOL. Never mind then, if you're finding an insult in that post there's obviously no attempt to having an actual discussion.
That's a separate discussion to what I was interested in, which is why I didn't quote your anti-BF part of the post. To me the medical stuff is of interest as it impacts our club, but it appears you're more interested in using it as a Trojan horse to push an unrelated position.