AFL clubs are becoming unhappy during the amount of time they have with their players and former Footy Kane Curnes star believes things are getting out of control.
The 2025 football season is quickly approaching with some clubs, including Essendon, Richmond and St Kilda, altering a large number of injuries to some key stars.
While injuries are not uncommon in the preseason, the pumpers currently have nine players undergoing injury rehabilitation, the largest amount of the league.
But the discussions around the Ammount of Time Clubs have their stars in recent days with a performance chief who expresses his frustrations by how he believes that the AFL -filled calendar is causing more injuries.
Speaking about Breakfast Sen, football journalist Sam Edmund said he had been “in contact” with two high -performance soccer leaders after a debate about the program on sports injuries.
The performance managers said that the calendar full of the AFL “made this type of injury rate inevitable and, in fact, a disaster waiting for it to happen.”
Essendon currently has nine players who receive treatment for a variety of injuries.
Jordan Ridley is a player who has suffered a reverse in the preseason after having suffered tension in the hamstrings
Since then, Kane Cornes has offered his thoughts about how long the time clubs with their players are obtained, saying that things are getting out of control
With the opening round of the Premier League that will begin on March 6, the clubs have been working hard in training in recent months preparing for the new season. The unofficial unofficial matches will begin on February 15, and some have already held SCRATCH INTRA-SCAD matches, while the AAMI community series will begin on February 25.
Meanwhile, Cornes has expressed the issue before and again ventilated his discomfort about the situation today, revealing that players in some clubs are obtained three days off per week.
“It has been one of my greatest frustrations for a long time,” said Cornes.
“In fact, I've been writing about this for seven years.”
“Players have too much free time and lack of preparation is leading to this important series of injuries.”
Cornes said that the level of free time they are getting has “gone too far.”
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“If you wonder why everyone is injured and why it has never been worse, that's why.”
Cornes said that the AFL players association has' too much power in the game 'and added that' this is the reason why the players are injured
Cornes told a comment from the Saints Chief, Ross Lyon, who had said that players get 'three and a half days a week'
Cornes has spoken with the coaches and even deepened in North Melbourne's preseason pre -season pre -season as an example of how clubs only have a limited amount of time with their players.
'The clubs have had enough. You have talked to people, I have spoken with coaches before, I have spoken with high performance managers. They say they simply do not have enough time with players to prepare them.
“We all remember this little Ross Lyon clip for which I am staggered:” We give them a lot of free time, I think they get three and a half days a week. 16 hours (in the club) and the day of the game “.
'16 hours a week … I always thought I'm going to get to the end of this. I have fallen a little in terms of how much an AFL player obtains.
It occurs as the last collective bargaining agreement, which was reached in 2023, has seen the AFL players receive greater license rights.
But Cornes continued, using North Melbourne, who failed to reach the finals last year, as an example of a club that has had an extended break out of season, but he will only have trained for eight and a half weeks before his first pre -season phosphorus .
“I have used North Melbourne as the example since they did not touch the finals,” he added.
'His last game was on August 24, they returned to the preseason training for more than five years of players on November 25, so 12 weeks of vacation in the low season.
Cornes also cited that North Melbourne will have had an outstanding season, but players will only train this summer with the club for eight and a half weeks.
'Then they trained for three weeks before Christmas, they separated on December 19, so they have had three weeks of training.
'Then they returned after Christmas on January 9, so there are another three weeks of vacation and we are already up to 15 weeks and we are in January.
'His first preseason game is February 22, so they have five and a half weeks of training from January 9 to February 22 to prepare the players after Christmas. It's eight and a half weeks for the year to prepare for the most difficult sport to practice in the world, the most physically demanding.
'Eight and a half weeks are not enough, so it is not surprising that the high performance staff they are talking to, the coaches we are talking to … They talk to a coach outside the record and will say:' Simply We just don't have enough time with players. “