Port Adelaide 2016
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:02 pmRedemption.
The 1-4 year players returned for pre-season today, where the club crowned a new 3km time trial winner for the first time since 2004, with Kane Mitchell saluting ahead of Tom Clurey and Sam Colquhoun. Jimmy Toumpas finished 6th in a field of 9- a disappointing finish by his standards (apparently tested really well at Melbourne in endurance running), although nothing to get disappointed about as a port fan- Polec's first time trial was a huge disappointment too.
Interesting to read the following article from Darren Burgess:
It seems being incredibly fit is no longer considered the all-important facet of a clubs’ pre-season training schedule, says Darren Burgess.
The high performance manager at Port Adelaide revealed that the club is more intent on improving technically rather than going overboard on the fitness regime.
“Most of the running numbers now say the more successful teams run less because they’ve got the ball,” said Burgess on SEN radio.
“So, when you see teams storming home in the last quarter everybody says they are wonderfully fit.
“But for the first three quarters they’ve had the ball and the other team’s had to do all the running.
“So you want to have the ball for as long as you can and conserve that energy.”
Since the fitness guru returned to the club they have been considered one of the fittest teams in the competition, capable of playing a frantic level of football for long periods.
“We’re just trying to get as much time training or skills and game plan,” explained Burgess.
“We went to Dubai the last couple of years and we felt that gave our guys a nice fitness and physiological benefit.
“But, with the soft cap and the list the way it is we decided not to go this year and just spend a lot more time on footy.
“We had the balls out today on day one and want to be specific to the game as possible.”
Burgess was quite pleased with the physical shape that the first group of players returned in to start pre-season training.
“It’s not too bad, there are some in better shape than others but generally speaking the boys were pretty good,” he said.
“Only the young ones today and it was 36 degrees over here so that was nice.
“It was a 3km time trial and then some skills and we had Kane Mitchell who came in on top who is a pretty elite runner.”
However, some of the Power players were intent on doing all they can to make 2016 a much better season than the last.
“Three or four days after we played our last game against Freo we had about eight guys in the gym,” said Burgess.
Read more at http://www.sen.com.au/news/11-15/good-t ... VluZiyy.99
The rest of the squad resumes pre-season on Monday 23rd November.
Bring on 2016.
The 1-4 year players returned for pre-season today, where the club crowned a new 3km time trial winner for the first time since 2004, with Kane Mitchell saluting ahead of Tom Clurey and Sam Colquhoun. Jimmy Toumpas finished 6th in a field of 9- a disappointing finish by his standards (apparently tested really well at Melbourne in endurance running), although nothing to get disappointed about as a port fan- Polec's first time trial was a huge disappointment too.
Interesting to read the following article from Darren Burgess:
It seems being incredibly fit is no longer considered the all-important facet of a clubs’ pre-season training schedule, says Darren Burgess.
The high performance manager at Port Adelaide revealed that the club is more intent on improving technically rather than going overboard on the fitness regime.
“Most of the running numbers now say the more successful teams run less because they’ve got the ball,” said Burgess on SEN radio.
“So, when you see teams storming home in the last quarter everybody says they are wonderfully fit.
“But for the first three quarters they’ve had the ball and the other team’s had to do all the running.
“So you want to have the ball for as long as you can and conserve that energy.”
Since the fitness guru returned to the club they have been considered one of the fittest teams in the competition, capable of playing a frantic level of football for long periods.
“We’re just trying to get as much time training or skills and game plan,” explained Burgess.
“We went to Dubai the last couple of years and we felt that gave our guys a nice fitness and physiological benefit.
“But, with the soft cap and the list the way it is we decided not to go this year and just spend a lot more time on footy.
“We had the balls out today on day one and want to be specific to the game as possible.”
Burgess was quite pleased with the physical shape that the first group of players returned in to start pre-season training.
“It’s not too bad, there are some in better shape than others but generally speaking the boys were pretty good,” he said.
“Only the young ones today and it was 36 degrees over here so that was nice.
“It was a 3km time trial and then some skills and we had Kane Mitchell who came in on top who is a pretty elite runner.”
However, some of the Power players were intent on doing all they can to make 2016 a much better season than the last.
“Three or four days after we played our last game against Freo we had about eight guys in the gym,” said Burgess.
Read more at http://www.sen.com.au/news/11-15/good-t ... VluZiyy.99
The rest of the squad resumes pre-season on Monday 23rd November.
Bring on 2016.
