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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Collingwood is exploring scrapping the on-field warm-up you see on match day to instead running out just moments before the first ball up, earmarking the Round 21 game against Geelong as the introduction. Currently, clubs run out 15 minutes prior to the game to warm up.
This suggestion would have them warm up on-field well beforehand, then go back into the rooms as a light show takes centre stage at the MCG to fire up the crowd, then run out and simply start.
Chapter 2: What new pre-game routine is Collingwood considering?
What do you think about the theatre of all that?
I'm looking forward to speaking to Jack Russell about this. So you do your proper, that means you do your fairly comprehensive warm-up out on the ground and then you go back into the rooms so there'd be an element of cool-down. These are things that Jack can tell us about. And then they've got to time it so they just sprint out, sprint into positions and throw the ball up.
I like the idea behind it. I don't know about the practicality.
It's the NRL. They do that, run to position. Joe Wade has come from the NRL. He's a strength and conditioning man at Collingwood. So this goes back to Terry Wallace. I think Terry Wallace is the man who said, listen, why are we doing warm-ups in these small, tiny rooms? Why aren't we doing warm-ups out on the ground? Because there used to be a VFL practice match, sorry, a curtain raiser.
Chapter 3: How will the warm-up process change for players?
And in the end, Terry said, no, no, we want to warm up out in the ground. So that changed everything. And then everyone started warming up. We didn't used to do that. Maybe half our audience wouldn't realise.
No, no.
We used to stay in the rooms. You have a couple of little short drop punts to each other in the MCG rooms, which could go 20 metres. A couple of touch of toes. A couple of little run-through handballs to each other.
Chapter 4: What is the role of the light show in the new routine?
A little hit the bag and then get out and play.
And there were some guys, I don't know whether they were in your team or not, but there were some guys who didn't even want to do that little amount of stretching and they would go and hide in the toilets with the footy record. Well, back in your day, they'd go in there and have a dart.
Wear the footy record and have a dart.