Mr Bean has done a service for members by by reporting the realistic state of training Day One. It is the first time such a practical,pragmatic and down to earth approach has been presented.
However, he reports that one player was apparently physically unfit. Bringing up the rear, as it were, and down on his knees. I question whether that diagnosis is correct or not.
I noticed in the photographs,of players training, provided by the club ,that very few were wearing caps or hats. It was a very trying day,hot and humid. None of the players looked happy or at ease. I would have thought that in such conditions it would have been wise and compulsory for the players to be wearing protective headgear--caps or hats.
Was it not possible that that player was affected by the heat of the day? That in fact he was overheated and perhaps, approaching heat stroke state? That could lead to hypertension and its critical outcomes. The simple wearing of a hat or cap at training could alleviate that happening.
I believe that it should be compulsory for players to wear head protection during the hot months of training.
I question why the coach and his staff did not insist on this from day one? After all, the club has a legal Duty of Care to all of its contracted players. It would need only one player, so affected, going to court to have the club facing a very large payout.
I have made clear before, several times, that I don`t think too much of coaches generally. It has been my experience that they too easily miss the obvious. Brad Arthur is, in my opinion, no worse and as good as, other coaches in the competition.
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What a load of dribble, stick to reading posts, not creating them.
Do the players play in hats?
Who would look happy whilst doing fitness drills? If they've got a big smile on their face whilst doing fitness I'd be more pissed off than them not wearing a hat.
We should probably get the players to do some fingerpainting if you want to enforce this "no hat no play" rule.
100% this.
Pre-season fitness work is meant to be gruelling. The players will be pushed to and then beyond their limits in order to extract their peak physical condition for the upcoming season. That is why they look buggered in the training galleries because well...they ARE buggered from an intense aerobic workout.
Earlier this year we got an insight into just how serious Paul Devlin is about micro-managing every little detail about the fitness and well-being of his players in a surprisingly good Daily Telegraph article that covered our marathon North-Australia tour (Townsville, Gold Coast and Darwin) and now that we have expanded the support staff (an area that the club needed to address!) under his jurisdiction you would think that there would be trainers/conditioners on hand to ensure that our players remain at correct hydration levels and maintain their heat management during training.
Honestly it just feels like like Robert Lloyd is looking to make his own molehill and then spin it into a mountain.
This isn't even a unicorn/realist debate, it is just tripe.
Now i've got this picture of Cher on the deck of the USS Missouri wearing nothing more than a couple of seat belts and boots and lookin' dam fine for a 40 year old in my head ........ :)
Because you left stupid
Gold, Bob. This post is absolute gold.
The responses should keep me entertained for the rest of the day.
PS - it's pretty wet today, so I hope the BA reminds the boys to put on their raincoats and gumboots. Don't want any of them catching cold....
I think a village is missing its idiot.
But seriously Rob your dribble here is ridiculous. Hats are provided if they want to wear them. It's a choice for the players. They have doctors onsite managing these issues. Just think logically for a moment. What sense would it make to the club for their players to be injured during pre-season? None.
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