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Taken from here today: https://www.afl.com.au/matches/injury-list (value 1 is total injuries (excl suspensions which are listed), value 2 is soft tissue (defined as Hamstring/Calf/Groin/Quad/Adductor/Achilles) Adelaide 8 1 Brisbane 7 1 Carlton 9 5 Collingwood 15 5 Essendon 7 3 Fremantle 8 2...

Graded low impact - fine only. It's probably right under the rules - reckon the off the ball loading needs to be a factor. Newman also fined for striking - likely in retaliation.

Is Christian going to cite the umpire who struck Cripps in the head? For me it's careless, low impact, high contact

Well that's not how our club had the role structured when Russell joined. He was a director role reporting into Brad Lloyd as head of football. Our club psychologist is Tarah Kavanagh who came over from Hawthorne at the same time as Russell.

I think they all have a level of responsibility, but ULTIMATE responsibility for mentality and psychology is in the Head of High Performance job description (according to the things Russell has said to the media about his role at the club). My CEO point seems to have conveniently slipped by...

Yes, he has a team - which he leads - which means responsibility and accountability when things go wrong.

You seem to think Russell has no responsibility for mentality when it's literally part of his job description and self assigned measures of success.

The concept of a senior leader in an organisation taking responsibility for the actions of their team is hardly a long bow. See recent examples of businesses having a scandal and the CEO resigning (Westpac, PWC, Qantas, Woolworths). Brad Banducci wasn't doing nightfill, jumping on the tills...

I've made my position clear for multiple years now - I don't know if there's better out there, but what I do know is that he's paid handsomely, has been in the role for 6 years, and we haven't seemingly had an edge in running out games, soft tissue injury management during his tenure. Mental...

Do you keep extrapolating incorrect positions from what people say because you want to continue arguing? He didn't say Russell is the "only" thing that should change - he just didn't refer to other staff because this thread is about Russell.

nope - Arr0w quoted my response to someone who said "tackling nothing to do with Russell. That is a mentality thing", and I've demonstrated how Russell himself has publicly declared that mentality and psychology are clear parts of his remit as head of high performance. There will always be an...

He has responsibility - that doesn't make him solely responsible - again, that's an inference you have made (and I'd suggest that comes from you incorrectly assuming I am approaching this with ill-intent)

Unfortunately you are mistaken - I've never said that he is the "only" person responsible - that's your inference.

Arr0w - i'm not going to go back against every bit of that post separately as its clear we don't agree. I'd appreciate if you took my points at face value though, and didn't keep raising some strawman of me pointing the finger at Russell for contact injuries/ACL's etc. The thrust of my position...

Mentality and intent on match day is psychological - which according to Russell makes up 80-90% "of it all". As high performance manager, he is responsible for the players maximising their performance, which is driven by psychology to get that extra 1-2% out of themselves. He's also responsible...