Chairchucker posted:

why what's wrong with it

NTRabbit posted:

No proof whatsoever he made contact with the head, but it stands anyway because they can't have the new tribunal guy becoming embattled two weeks into the job, straight after the AFL sold him up the river over Katie Brennan

gay picnic defence posted:

Who are they after? Lynch? I guess they still need a big fish because landing Alex Morgan probably wasn't what their fans had in mind.

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Player divisions have emerged at the Adelaide Football Club, after captain Taylor Walker sent an angry group text message to his teammates on Monday night, demanding to know who leaked information about the pre-season camp.

Fairfax Media understands that several players, including one senior star, are reconsidering their future at the club after being left distraught by the Crows’ pre-season training camp.

While many players had no issue with what took place on the Gold Coast in late January, the camp and subsequent events have left some players questioning the club’s culture.

Walker’s reaction follows what Fairfax Media understands to be a group pact made by Adelaide players that the pre-season camp would not be discussed outside the club’s four walls.

The camp, which began on the Gold Coast in late January, focussed on the training of the mind and saw some players put through emotionally exhausting exercises and scenarios.

Players were ordered to hand in their mobile phones at the beginning of the camp and were told they were not allowed to have contact with family members for the duration.

Although no official complaints have been lodged, the camp has raised the ire of the AFL Players Association, who on Tuesday were attempting to get in contact with as many Adelaide footballers as possible.

“I’m led to believe theirs was quite unique,” former Richmond coach Danny Frawley said on AFL Nation.

“They went to a place in the Gold Coast and they thought they were going there. They had their shorts and they were in a bus and were basically blindfolded for about 24 hours in a bus.

“They were blindfolded and a guy was talking to them. They had food and didn’t know where they were going.

“It was more about the mind than physical … it was in the middle of Australia where they ended up.”

Crows captain Taylor Walker refuted reports that there was anything untoward about the camp and went on to endorse it.

“That camp was one of the most beneficial and rewarding I have been on and advise any of my best mates or family members to do the same thing,” Walker told Triple M.

“Our football club like most other teams is exploring getting an edge in the AFL and that is in the mental space.

“We have been doing that for a couple of years whether that is mindfulness or meditation. Yes there were elements of the camp we delved into on the mental side but we think it is an element we can get an edge over other teams in the competition.”

Collective Minds, the group that ran the camp, referred Fairfax Media to the Adelaide Football Club when contacted for comment.

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Fairfax Media understands that several players, including Rory Sloane, are reconsidering their future at the club after being left distraught by the Crows’ pre-season training camp.

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Fairfax Media understands that several players, including one senior star, are reconsidering their future at the club after being left distraught by the Crows’ pre-season training camp.

Spedman posted:

This was my impression of professional US sports too, just physically train until you don’t know how to gently caress up.

None of this psycho-babble garbage loved by MBAs and over paid consultants.

harperdc posted:

and from the way he's defensive you'd imagine it's all Tex's idea too

Solemn Sloth posted:

It gets more and more like scientology

Largepotato posted:

There is 0% chance any of that story is true. 5 minutes in they would have ripped the blindfolds off and said it was all bullshit.

Solemn Sloth posted:

It gets more and more like scientology

NTRabbit posted:

It's almost like the Melbourne football media grossly embellished something so they could write another story about Sloane, but it's certainly not like them to ceaselessly make things up about players they want to return to Victoria

gay picnic defence posted:

It's like they looked at the list of players who had left and said to themselves "what kind of organisation can we model ourselves on that makes it really difficult for people to leave?" "Oh, I know! A religious cult."

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ADELAIDE players were repeatedly played the Richmond theme song during their mentally-probing pre-season camp on the Gold Coast.

The Herald Sun can reveal a small group of senior Crows were subjected to the yellow and black anthem after being split without warning from the rest of the team.

The ear-bashing was one of several testing elements of the week-long Queensland trip, which ran from January 29 to February 2.

It comes as Adelaide prepare to face the Tigers, last year’s Grand Final nemesis, at Adelaide Oval without Tom Lynch (virus) and Richard Douglas (suspended).

Sources said the purpose of playing the Richmond song was part of a “cleansing” process after the Crows were humiliated in last year’s decider by 48 points.

Crows coach Don Pyke admitted not all players reacted well to the program steered by performance experts, Collective Mind.

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Adelaide signed a three-year deal with Collective Mind at the start 2017 to “unlock the next frontier of high performance.”


It was Collective Mind who introduced the national anthem ‘stare off’ to the Crows in last year’s final series.

drunkill posted: