Stupid AFL clubs, all this time they've been employing professionals who don't know what they're doing when they could have just come to AUSBB to get the advice they need...
There's too much money in football. One of the issues they have is that they never follow any one person's advice completely or for long enough to find out if it works. There's the strength coach, the power coach, the handball coach, the physiotherapist, the myotherapist, the club board of directors, blah blah blah. One guy says, do this, another says, oh no we can't do that, and... so they sort of half-try everything.
Like when DR went to Essendon and added in lots of strength training, they didn't take out all the running. He'd said, we'll have to drop some of this running, but they wouldn't do it. Result, first half of season smashing it, second half everyone dropping out with injuries. Would they have been better with less running? More? We'll never know - they didn't substitute one for the other, they just added this other thing in.
Think of it this way, if you have 3 workouts a week and 3 different trainers, and you get better or worse... who helped you? who hurt you? You don't know.
They always do this sort of thing. Thus an average 8 guys out of 44 out with an injury at any one time.
To really know if someone's approach works, you have to follow that to the exclusion of all others for a while. But that would be taking a risk, and nobody will take risks with tens of millions of dollars. This is why $1 million movies are creative, and $100 million movies are formulaic. Same with sports. There's too much money in a football team for them to follow any one person's advice.
Don't worry about Oni, he would just give them all copious amounts of vitamin T.
