The science behind Parramatta's secret WMD

Any fool can see that tackling Parramatta's runaway prop forward Fuifui Moimoi is hard. It takes a scientist to tell you how hard.Imagine standing looking up at the sky. From a leaning tower someone drops a 20 kilogram bag of cement from a height of 22 metres. Dr Nicholas Armstrong, a physicist, says that when you try to catch the cement it will have the same energy as Moimoi generates when he surges into the defensive line.Moimoi is able to accelerate from jogging pace to 26 km/h within two seconds. His top speed on a treadmill is 31.2 km/h and he has been measured at 32km/h in game situations.Dr Anita Sirotic, a sports scientist with the Parramatta Eels, says Moimoi is hitting the defence with a force of more than 14 g (1 g is the acceleration due to gravity; fighter pilots experience forces of 9 g but, sustained for more than a few seconds, 4-6 g is enough to induce blackout).In the grand final on Sunday against the Melbourne Storm, she expects Moimoi will experience more than 60 collisions with impacts of more than 9 g. John Baker, a senior biomechanist at the Australian Institute of Sport, said 14 g was ''massive - that's an extreme hit'', with the effect compounded during a game.''If you added them all up [60 collisions] it would be like being hit by a six-tonne truck at 30 km/h,'' he estimated.

"When you look at it that way, 1.2 is a lot. I reckon he has more in him than what he's showing at the tigers. Under Ryles he'd be a different/better player in my opinion.
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"I'll say onething about Maclean he's the next good centre he had a cracker outing against Critta and the Dogs the other week and is highly regarded in the international circles also.He's a Kiwi in waiting for sure already made his debut there aswell."

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