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With Watto injured again, the question must be asked what do you do with him. Obviously what has been done in the past does not work as he spends as much time out injured as playing.
I beleive that we need to overhaul the fitness staff completely and instead of them doing a fitness plan for bowlers and batsmen learn to manage players a lot better. For instance Geelong FC seems to of got the balance right and had all their senior players fit when they needed them by nursing them at various times through the year and designing training programs for each player to help keep them fit & fresh whilst minimising the risk of injury. I accept that fast bowlers are more prone to injury but what is happening at the moment is beyond a joke we have a perfectly good pace attack sitting in the stands injured this test with Watson, Harris, Cummins (all automatic slections) out with Johnson and Bollinger (you'd pick one of these two) also out.
I beleive that we need to overhaul the fitness staff completely and instead of them doing a fitness plan for bowlers and batsmen learn to manage players a lot better. For instance Geelong FC seems to of got the balance right and had all their senior players fit when they needed them by nursing them at various times through the year and designing training programs for each player to help keep them fit & fresh whilst minimising the risk of injury. I accept that fast bowlers are more prone to injury but what is happening at the moment is beyond a joke we have a perfectly good pace attack sitting in the stands injured this test with Watson, Harris, Cummins (all automatic slections) out with Johnson and Bollinger (you'd pick one of these two) also out.