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  • BeeEmmAre
    Commentary Team Captain
    • Aug 2005
    • 2509
    #1

    Leo Barry

    I've been meaning to post this yarn on here since it was published in The Land newspaper in May last year.
    Been slack, haven't I?

    It's a different sort of an insight into Leo Barry from the 'bushie' point of view and I reckon it was a pretty good read.

    Sorry it's in a Word document, but the story was never uploaded to the website.
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    "It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.

    YOU BETCHA!!!!!!
    Tags: barry, leo, Swans, sydney
    • Demsone
      Suspended by the MRP
      • Jan 2007
      • 76
      #2
      Thanks for that!

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        • dread and might
          Back, strapped and intact
          • Apr 2004
          • 949
          #3
          Nice work
          I wish my weed was EMO so it would cut itself

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            • Cher
              Born into the team
              • Feb 2003
              • 1474
              #4
              Nice story, Thanks.
              CHER - Who has two types of blood cells "RED ones and WHITE ones"

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                • SimonH
                  Salt future's rising
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 1647
                  #5
                  I was really interested in his comment that demands on players have basically doubled in the last decade.

                  As long-term footy fans, it's easy to underrate the extent to which players are pushed harder and for longer than in previous generations.

                  The reality is that modern-day teams would wipe the floor with the best sides of the 1970s and earlier. Not because they have any native greater talent, but simply because, like in anything in life, you get a lot better at it if you practice at it for 35 hours a week, rather than 4 to 6 hours; and modern-day players have a whole lot of ancillary resources available to improve their performance that also weren't even thought of back then.

                  A lot of blokes who would have been champions in the '70s and earlier either can't cut it, or are pretty marginal players now. For most of footy history, you could get by on native talent and a modicum of fitness (or if you were a full-forward, just talent). Nowadays, the most talented player in the world will get cut after 2 years if not prepared to invest an extraordinary amount of work and focus, almost to the exclusion of all else in his life. You can tell a 17-year-old nominating for the draft, 'it'll be a lot of hard work, you know'; but he'd have no real understanding of the practical impact on his life 'til he's in the thick of it.

                  A lot of players don't have the maturity of Stewart Dew to say 'this is too much of a grind, I'm not enjoying it any more' and quit. (Plus the money is too good.) Instead they do immature stuff like seeking a release valve through binge drinking, drugs and gambling...

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