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About time this problem has been addressed, another big tick to Noble and Brady
North Melbourne overhauls high-performance department after injury-plagued season
By Sam Edmund
North Melbourne has reacted swiftly to another injury-plagued season by overhauling its high-performance department.
The Kangaroos have cleaned out the fitness arm of the club, with several staff told last week that they wouldn’t have their contracts renewed, while others have departed throughout the second half of the season.
David Noble’s encouraging debut season at Arden St came despite an ongoing injury crisis that saw him regularly having to cope without a contingent of first-choice players.
It’s understood the new coach has been irritated by the level of unavailability, leading to a staff cleanout.
Head of-high performance Matt Turnbull left in May, strength coach Alex Moore departed in July and the Roos’ longest-serving football department staff member, strength and conditioning coach Jona Segal, moved on last week.
But their departures have been followed by the exits of head doctor Bianca Scotney, assistant strength coach Josh Humphries, rehabilitation co-ordinator Matt Ferraro, sports scientist David Sobey and trainer Alister Wright.
For four consecutive years the Kangaroos have ranked No.1 in the competition for games lost due to injury.
The high-performance clean slate is the latest off-season reset at North Melbourne, following last year’s coaching staff overhaul and league-high 15 list changes.
It's an interesting piece of information, very similar to what was heard when one of our 2012 trades want to his new home in 2013. So bad for so long.Thanks mate hadn't read that. That's pretty damning in what it infers.
You have to wonder what on field leadership was doing - or rather not doing - during this period.My thoughts aren't about how this has happened after 4 fours in a row, it's why it didn't happen after 2 years? Why did it take the 3rd coach we've had in those four years to be 'irritated' for anything to happen? How could the place become so amateurish in those four years? Who, if anyone, was driving any sort of high-performance culture and beyond these sackings, how can the malaise we're in get cut out?
WE haven't really had a stable set up since the end of 2018 tho. So while i agree with the principle of what you are saying this is the first time since then that this sort of thing could have happened. We've had so much instability that making an accurate assessment of where we are at hasn't been easy.
North Melbourne overhauls high-performance department after injury-plagued season
By Sam Edmund
North Melbourne has reacted swiftly to another injury-plagued season by overhauling its high-performance department.
The Kangaroos have cleaned out the fitness arm of the club, with several staff told last week that they wouldn’t have their contracts renewed, while others have departed throughout the second half of the season.
David Noble’s encouraging debut season at Arden St came despite an ongoing injury crisis that saw him regularly having to cope without a contingent of first-choice players.
It’s understood the new coach has been irritated by the level of unavailability, leading to a staff cleanout.
Head of-high performance Matt Turnbull left in May, strength coach Alex Moore departed in July and the Roos’ longest-serving football department staff member, strength and conditioning coach Jona Segal, moved on last week.
But their departures have been followed by the exits of head doctor Bianca Scotney, assistant strength coach Josh Humphries, rehabilitation co-ordinator Matt Ferraro, sports scientist David Sobey and trainer Alister Wright.
For four consecutive years the Kangaroos have ranked No.1 in the competition for games lost due to injury.
The high-performance clean slate is the latest off-season reset at North Melbourne, following last year’s coaching staff overhaul and league-high 15 list changes.
Makes me wonder about the whole Utah thing, all just bullshit?
Bullshit Noble and Blakey were infuriated with how unfit our squad was/is. And how the " High Performance" team conducted their work ,alleviated themselves to a ridiculous level. Put themselves above the players , " without us there is no game ". ******* crazy sh*t.
And it has Scotts dirty finger prints all over it. I hate Carlton but I did spend sometime on their board imploring them not to give Scotts the coaching job. That would be just nasty.
But it will take 3 years to fix the mess unfortunately. And I did state this would happen, just sayin'.
Eh. Utah was more than just about training though, there was a big team/club bonding aspect to it as well.
Card yourself....NOW.Pretty excited about the rumoured new high performance manager.
Former AFL senior coach, sports science background and knows a lot of the North players already.
Card yourself....NOW.
Sounds like Brad Scott….god help usPretty excited about the rumoured new high performance manager.
Former AFL senior coach, sports science background and knows a lot of the North players already.
Who would be your stripper to jump out of the cake?Mate if that happened I'd storm Arden Street and take over, Tommy Lee-Jones ~ Under Siege style.
There'd be a position vacant for a Gary Bussey type to assist btw.
Players were funding it themselves. It was an opportunity for them to go watch some American sports while they were up there too. God knows why you'd want to watch them but it seems like a lot of young males go through a phase of thinking it's awesome.But it was sold as high altitude training that would enhance our players fitness and give us an edge, did it achieve that goal?? BTW team building/bonding can be done effectively without leaving the country
Round hole square peg type stuff. Mind boggling.Matt Ferraro?!
a bit stiff because he was a die hard North supporter at uni, but he has a back ground in Exercise Science and a High Perfomance Masters.
With all do respect, how the fu** was he the rehabilitation coordinator?? On that premise, with my bachelor in ex sci and masters in clinical ex physiology - I was higher qualified for that rehab coordinator position. That’s outrageous. You need someone with a lot of injury and rehab experience. Rehab coordinator is so, so different then determining training work rates and ‘high performance’. High performance is just a fancy term used to tell athletes to follow these guidelines based on best practice anyway.