Stuart Graham - Head of High Performance

[Shaucob_Burjan]

I believe he's been looking for other opportunities but the Club were planning to move him on prior to that happening.

Wonder if he's checked out this year like Ken

 

[gbear]

They want to bring in a new fitness boss to work under Parham. Going to be a very different setup to the current system under Graham.

And so it needs to be. Our fitness levels are deplorable.

 

[FrankDrebin]

They want to bring in a new fitness boss to work under Parham. Going to be a very different setup to the current system under Graham.

Great news. The way we have been overrun this year (especially early in the season) is inexcusable. Glad that it appears it hasnt been tolerated.

 

[Malibu#27]

They're both from the Burgess tree regardless.

Though it's a touch ironic that Port won't bring back Burgess but are okay with his students leading the club

That depends, it doesnt sound like the reasone we didn't go for Burgess last time round was his fitness knowledge, but moreso his trackrecord of not sticking around in one place.

 

[FishingRick04]

Maybe Burgo has the CEO mentality, leave on a high to keep youre reputation at its highest point.
No one bats an eyelid of the continual CEO movement in industry to feather their own nest.

 

[Spadge]

I remember when we used to be a team that was so fit that teams feared us if we were within 5 goals at 3/4 time because we ran over teams regularly

Now we are the opposite. Teams know we are gassed and they run over us in last quarter

We are worse now than when we had Cam Falloon

This guy is horrible

 

[Lefti93]

It's really weird whatever they did in the pre-season that resulted in our poor 4th quarters this year.

We were so good in close games over 23/24 too. Our 4th quarter record wasn't elite but we were slightly in the positive those 2 seasons. We never looked unfit like we did this year, where you'd think we lost due to poor fitness.

2023
Games decided by 1-6
4-1
Games decided by 7-12
2-0
4th quarter record
13-0-12

2024
Games decided by 1-6
5-0
Games decided by 7-12
2-1
4th quarter record
14-0-12

2025
Games decided by 1-6
0-1
Games decided by 7-12
2-1
4th quarter record
3-1-17

We haven't been in that many close games because we've been rat-shit so that stat doesn't stand out, the 4th quarters though. We were 7-0-15 in 2011, and 5-2-15 in 2012 for reference. This is the worst season we've had in the AFL for 4th quarter W/L statistically.

 

[Spadge]

4th quarter record
3-1-17

The 3 games where we won the 4th quarter were West Coast (18th), Melbourne (13th) and GWS (8th). All wins
The drawn quarter was against Brisbane in the lolly teeth game where we were already 5 goals down

abysmal

 

[RangaInTeal]

It's really weird whatever they did in the pre-season that resulted in our poor 4th quarters this year.

We were so good in close games over 23/24 too. Our 4th quarter record wasn't elite but we were slightly in the positive those 2 seasons. We never looked unfit like we did this year, where you'd think we lost due to poor fitness.

2023
Games decided by 1-6
4-1
Games decided by 7-12
2-0
4th quarter record
13-0-12

2024
Games decided by 1-6
5-0
Games decided by 7-12
2-1
4th quarter record
14-0-12

2025
Games decided by 1-6
0-1
Games decided by 7-12
2-1
4th quarter record
3-1-17

We haven't been in that many close games because we've been rat-shit so that stat doesn't stand out, the 4th quarters though. We were 7-0-15 in 2011, and 5-2-15 in 2012 for reference. This is the worst season we've had in the AFL for 4th quarter W/L statistically.

I don’t rate our condition at all, but very hard to compare Apples to Oranges. The playing group know everyone has checked out before this season started, the succession plan only highlighted that this year was merely the club going through the motions because it couldn’t/wouldn’t pay out a contract…

 

[FishingRick04]

We have alot of young players in our team this year, that would increase our 4th correlation of being gassed compared to experienced sides

 

[Spadge]

We have alot of young players in our team this year, that would increase our 4th correlation of being gassed compared to experienced sides

That sounds like a Hinkley type excuse Rick

 

[Ford Fairlane]

5th least injury affected list

 

[The Hobo]

They're both from the Burgess tree regardless.

Though it's a touch ironic that Port won't bring back Burgess but are okay with his students leading the club

Issue wasn't output when it came to Burgess, it's that he dropped everything and ran ... twice.

 

[The Hobo]

It's really weird whatever they did in the pre-season that resulted in our poor 4th quarters this year.

We shouldn't fall for the mistake of just analysing poor 4th quarters. We have had other quarters where we've been clearly cooked and outrun - particularly early in the season. The Collingwood game in R1 was really bad, we were so far off the pace for fitness, and I think the Saints game about 5 rounds in we were running in mud early.

Then of course, there's strength - pay attention to how many of our tackles get broken or at the very least, don't prevent the oppo from successfully disposing of the ball. The Adelaide game is a good example, where their players were happy to wear our tackle and either break it or comfortably dispose. Meanwhile, when our guys got tackled, they were unable to do the same.

I don't think it was down to technique either, they were just bigger. Look at the size of Sam Berry, and how he broke free a few times.

 

[The Hobo]

Wonder if he's checked out this year like Ken

This isn't one poor preseason, it's a few at least - particularly when it comes to lack of size.

 

[The Hobo]

We have alot of young players in our team this year, that would increase our 4th correlation of being gassed compared to experienced sides

When our best runners in game are a first year player (Moraes) and a near 40yo player (Boak), I think it's clear there's something else going on.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

Issue wasn't output when it came to Burgess, it's that he dropped everything and ran ... twice.

It's a professional sport.

He's the best in the business.

We were looking and he was available and wanted to come here.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Hey Stuart, YouTube is your friend. Here's how an AFL team trains

 

[Sneeky]

We looked like weak kids against Carlton. Same theme all year

 

[PortAdelFC1997]

We looked like weak kids against Carlton. Same theme all year

Boys vs men again.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

We looked like weak kids against Carlton. Same theme all year

It is pathetic

 

[chachi11]

The AFLW have more muscle than these blokes. Weak as piss.

 

[soafraid]

Stuart Graham's role should be Head of Shit Performance. He'd be going quite well in that role

 

[Ford Fairlane]

21 year old GWS player

 

[The Hobo]

This is the worst season we've had in the AFL for 4th quarter W/L statistically.

I think if we could split each quarter into halves, we would have had our worst season for second half of quarters too - especially once you exclude the first.