AFL

[maccaz]

Anyone here follow AFL?

Ive been living in victoria for 6 months, hardout resisted watching a game cos it looks retarded.

Now iv landed a job at one of the better clubs, so better start following it.

Also mind = blown at how serious the players training is in professional sport lol, each player has a trainer full time in the gym 1:1 plus theres a team of people analysing game footage full time, teams of physios, nutritionists, masseuses etc, like 100 support staff on top of the players, dunno if rugby in nz is the same except maybe national level?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gym rat]

Anyone here follow AFL?

Ive been living in victoria for 6 months, hardout resisted watching a game cos it looks retarded.

Now iv landed a job at one of the better clubs, so better start following it.

Also mind = blown at how serious the players training is in professional sport lol, each player has a trainer full time in the gym 1:1 plus theres a team of people analysing game footage full time, teams of physios, nutritionists, masseuses etc, like 100 support staff on top of the players, dunno if rugby in nz is the same except maybe national level?

 

 Yes I follow AFL my team is the Swawns but don't understand the rules of it .Wow I did not know that each team have 100 support staff like lots of trainers etc

 

 

 

 

 

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

wow sounds liek a lot of money behind the sport, thought it would only be olympic level athletes with that much support! whats your particular role there?

[maccaz]

work in IT, yeah heard the salary cap is close to 2x the salary cap of NRL for players alone aswell.

will post pics of the gym etc when I get a chance, best iv ever seen 

[Gym rat]

sweet looking forward to seeing the pics of the gym etc

[Realtalk]

Yeah massive $ in AFL, they are really good athletes and fan base is huge.

go the fucken doggies!! 

[drizzt]

A few of the St Kilda boys were over here promoting their ANZAC game last week, and they stopped into the Powerhouse for a session.  I think it's pretty cool they're over here trying to spread the game (can't say I've ever followed it in the past). Exchanged a few brief words with a couple of them, really nice guys (new St Kilda fan, ha).  Not very big but you can tell they are athletes, very wiry sort of build.

There wasn't that many support staff with them (maybe 4-5 for the 15 or so players?), but I guess that was probably due to it just being a promo trip.  They'll be back in the House leading up to the game in April apparently, the full team too which will be pretty hectic!

Here's a vid they posted of their session (I make a brief, blurry background appearance, haha):

[Gym rat]

For the AFL game last year between St Kilda and the Sydney Swans at the cake tin last year with a crowd of 25,000 which I thought was good crowd for a AFL game for outside Aussie