where's Captain Obvious when you need him?Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
where's Captain Obvious when you need him?
State championships involve 7 games over 2.5 days. Teams can play 3 games per day, and whilst it's not played in the middle of summer, recovery is key. With the exception of the Maitland players and parents, how could anyone know what recovery steps were taken by the club?
[QUOTE=hamburgler;With the exception of the Maitland players and parents, how could anyone know what recovery steps were taken by the club?[/QUOTE]
Ok agree, so maybe purplepatch could explain the rehydration process
Plenty of info available for rehydration most recommended 50% more input than lost ie weigh before and after and if you lost 3kg than you need to replenish 4.5lt of liquid over a 24 hr period
This instance there was only 3 hrs between finish of game one and start of game two, simple maths not enough time
But biggest question I have is WHY
Trial games, why did they need to play two games with in this time period
Can't see why it would be needed
So halftime break of 10 minutes isn't enough to rehydrate either. Call all games off. Give it a break. Probably Maitland had over committed but kids have been running around in summer for hours non stop for years. Clearly they had extra drinks breaks and rotated players. If cramping starts you rest the player. They are only trials and not a grand final so finding skill level would be the aim rather than who could run themselves into the ground.
maybe maito are just putting in the hard yards at the start of the year
back the mags all the way in NPL y00f
You make no sense, read about dehydration one of the first things effected is skill level and ability to think clearly, so if this was point of trial than game wasted
Why are you people so happy to run kids into the ground in February
Everyone is acting like they a princess professionals, they are hardly run into the ground and come the first round they will be all there rearing and ready to go.
Again we will agree to disagree
We are all just expressing our opinions which is great for discussion
Cheese man else were you mention that kids are flocking to afl and as we know there are many sports and activities that are lining up to take $ from parents
That's why football clubs need to be as professional as possible to keep and attract kids to the sport
And I suppose your right no one died
So let's keep our head in the sand hey
Weather aside...........
How are teams shaping up
Few trials now so teams should be starting to take shape
Anyone prepared to predict ???
13s MNC
14s Magic
15s E Jets
17s CCB
I think
13's Emerging Jets 12's got the ex CCB winning coach and surely the program has to start delivering, most of these kids have had three years now
14's FMNC
15's FMNC
17's Weston developed well last year, hope they keep it up CCB list a couple of key players from last years 15's will depend on quality of replacements
I did mention that the afl are looking to expand Aussie Rules in the area but the reasons why they will go isn't because of this though.
Cheeseman it's about being professional and projecting that image, not a bunch of weekend jacks
Football has had it easy with kids for a long time but over the last few years other sports are getting more active and massive TV deals have given the AFL & NRL serious money to recruit kids.
So every football club needs to be the best they can be, same to NNSWF and FFA
It's all about image
I want to know if any of the Maitland parents have complained or is it just the seasoned medical professionals that frequent this forum complaining?
Because this one club did it are you or any others going to pull out your kids and send them to league?
Interested more so how the players felt?
I'm genuinely curious, how many played 2 games?
And more importantly did they enjoy themself?
It's easy for us to think they'd hate it, but they may have enjoyed it and had no issue.
Same as we hate the jets being rubbish most games, but they don't seem to mind.
This was not a tournament that these boys played in. They were pre season trial games held close to each other on a hot summers day and 6 weeks before the season started.
Who played how many minutes over the 2 matches is irrelevant. Bottom line is - it was poor scheduling.
You seem to know Piggo well at your time at Southy mate, but I'd be surprised if he knew about the scheduling of these games.
Anyway hopefully lessons will be learnt. Best of luck to all NPL boys this year.
I understand on paper it doesn't look good. I'm more interested to know if it was the one team that played two games or a hybrid mix of 17s and say 15s or eligible 19s.
Just playing devils advocate that all may not be as it seems.
Well it is actually because if they limited the minutes for players that played both games then that means they were thinking about the children and everyone's argument is now invalid.
Enough with the OH&S, any results from trial matches yesterday? I heard Lambton went well against Olympic in 13s 5-2, 14s 0-0, and 15s 2-1, but lost 4 nil in 17s.
Yep agree back to football
Looks like Olympic will be strong again in 17's
Any other trials ??
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