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Boak10 said:
Parham's career path has followed Burgess more than anything.
I listened to an older podcast this morning and he was initially at Sturt, before moving to GWS and then being head hunted by Burgess to come back to Port with him.

Then went to Arsenal with Darren before returning back to Australia with the Crows, again linking up with DB the following year.

Internal promotions are awful, but his resume as DB's protégé looks impressive and anything is a step in the right direction when moving away from Graham
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Agree. Parham's promotion looks like another Port Adelaide meme but he has extensive experience across three AFL teams, Arsenal in the EPL and helped establish the current strength and conditioning program at Adelaide which now gets raved about.

Port headhunted him last year and the crows were pissed to lose him. With Hinkley gone and Carr looking to build size and strength, he will have free rein to establish a program to meet those targets.

Port will get new support in around him to run the strength and conditioning program.
 
Parham may or may not be a good candidate, I certainly don't claim to know enough about strength and conditioning to be able to offer an informed opinion on that, but what I can say is that this is yet another example of lazy internal promotion. If he does turn out to be excellent at his job, that's a result of good luck, not good process.
 
Schulzenfest said:
Parham may or may not be a good candidate, I certainly don't claim to know enough about strength and conditioning to be able to offer an informed opinion on that, but what I can say is that this is yet another example of lazy internal promotion. If he does turn out to be excellent at his job, that's a result of good luck, not good process.
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Ridiculous comment really - Maybe he was targeted last year for this exact reason.
He has o been at Port for 12 months.

Yes its internal, but hes a recent recruit from another club.
 

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Schulzenfest said:
Parham may or may not be a good candidate, I certainly don't claim to know enough about strength and conditioning to be able to offer an informed opinion on that, but what I can say is that this is yet another example of lazy internal promotion. If he does turn out to be excellent at his job, that's a result of good luck, not good process.
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He came in for 4 months and everyone realised he was over qualified, they have now acted upon this observation and got the guy in the role they believe to best suit us…

But that was the same Regime that gave us 13 years of Stinkley…
 
chiwigi said:
I have a military background, an MMA and judo background, played a high standard of rugby union and league and have education qualifications and experience.

in the 'dark days' I offered to help out for free and offered the then world class contacts I had to the club for this type of conditioning.

Got totally ignored.
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so did they tell you to go away and learn about the club?
 
I remember reading an article back in the 80s about David and Peter Paul, the American bodybuilding twins known as "The Barbarian Brothers". They played football at college and in weights training would do dumbbell biceps curls, with 130 pounds on each dumbbell. The coach would tell them, 'Don't do them, biceps won't do you any good in the game.' But their response was "This is 260 pounds we're curling, and many linemen weigh about that."
 
Shaucob_Burjan said:
Didn't we at one point have a coach from NRL with also a background in MMA devoted just for tackling which worked out really well for us but we stopped for whatever reason?
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Rigs said:


I wonder if another WA flavour comes over
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The challenge of taking over as head of high performance at Port has every chance of being a "what have I done?" moment.
 
crafty_bernardo said:
Will it be external or internal promotion Addy?
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gbear said:
That sounds promising, as the high performance area is in need of huge change.
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malcheski said:
I had heard that Tim Parham would be taking over, albeit with a different title and we would be backfilling a role under him.
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Tim Parham will be promoted, but then I am not fully sure if Stuart is leaving. It sounds like its not not ruled out that he could potentially be staying in some capacity. Which is odd to me.

Should know more by end of the week. Wonder whether the vacancy at Freo or Eagles changes things for Stu.
 
Addy23 said:
Tim Parham will be promoted, but then I am not fully sure if Stuart is leaving. It sounds like its not not ruled out that he could potentially be staying in some capacity. Which is odd to me.

Should know more by end of the week. Wonder whether the vacancy at Freo or Eagles changes things for Stu.
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Correct - And will be a vast improvement.
 
Addy23 said:
Tim Parham will be promoted, but then I am not fully sure if Stuart is leaving. It sounds like its not not ruled out that he could potentially be staying in some capacity. Which is odd to me.

Should know more by end of the week. Wonder whether the vacancy at Freo or Eagles changes things for Stu.
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This sounds like the club wants Stu to leave but don't have the balls to push him out
 

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Shaucob_Burjan said:
This sounds like the club wants Stu to leave but don't have the balls to push him out
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I am not sure of his contract status tbh, not sure if that's part of the reason not to send him out.

But like I said, I am hoping the vacancies at Freo and Eagles might take the decision out of the club's hands.
 
Addy23 said:
I am not sure of his contract status tbh, not sure if that's part of the reason not to send him out.

But like I said, I am hoping the vacancies at Freo and Eagles might take the decision out of the club's hands.
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You might know a bit better than I, but from what I understand is the prevailing sentiment at the club is Tim has 'outgrown' his role, in that he is far more qualified than his current position suggests, and the club are moving to lock him down in fear he would be the one to move to greener pastures.
 
malcheski said:
You might know a bit better than I, but from what I understand is the prevailing sentiment at the club is Tim has 'outgrown' his role, in that he is far more qualified than his current position suggests, and the club are moving to lock him down in fear he would be the one to move to greener pastures.
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A friend of mine works at Crows (and has been for a few years now) as physio and he said last year when we got Tim that within the industry he is rated almost in the same capacity as Burgo.

Tim shouldn't be head of rehab, there's no point asking him to take care of injured players. If he's as good as they say he should be in a role where he can ensure that players aren't getting injured.
 

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