scholarly journals With Crisis Comes Opportunity: Redesigning Performance Departments of Elite Sports Clubs for Life After a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott McLean ◽  
David Rath ◽  
Simon Lethlean ◽  
Matt Hornsby ◽  
James Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Return To Sport ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
System A ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Work Domain Analysis ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Analysis Models ◽  
Return To Competition

The suspension of major sporting competitions due to the global COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial negative impact on the sporting industry. As such, a successful and sustainable return to sport will require extensive modifications to the current operations of sporting organizations. In this article we argue that methods from the realm of sociotechnical systems (STS) theory are highly suited for this purpose. The aim of the study was to use such methods to develop a model of an Australian Football League (AFL) club’s football department. The intention was to identify potential modifications to the club’s operations to support a return to competition following the COVID-19 crisis. Subject Matter Experts from an AFL club participated in three online workshops to develop Work Domain Analysis and Social Organization and Cooperation Analysis models. The results demonstrated the inherent complexity of an AFL football department via numerous interacting values, functions and processes influencing the goals of the system. Conflicts within the system were captured via the modeling and included pursing goals that may not fully reflect the state of the system, a lack of formal assessment of core values, overlapping functions and objects, and an overemphasis on specialized roles. The current analysis has highlighted potential areas for modification in the football department, and sports performance departments in general.

Return to Professional Australian Rules Football After Surgery for Traumatic Anterior Shoulder Instability

2021 ◽  
pp. 036354652110290
Author(s):  
Michael Perret ◽  
Sarah Warby ◽  
Godefroy Brais ◽  
Stephanie Hinse ◽  
Sophie Hoy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shoulder Instability ◽  
Return To Sport ◽  
Field Performance ◽  
Return To Play ◽  
Anterior Shoulder Instability ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Early Return ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Australian Football

Background: The treatment of traumatic anterior shoulder instability in professional Australian Football League (AFL) players is challenging, with an emphasis on early return to play and avoidance of instability recurrence. Purpose: To investigate return-to-sport (RTS) outcomes and complications after 2 different procedures for traumatic anterior shoulder instability in professional AFL players. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our surgical database for professional AFL players who underwent capsulolabral stabilization or open Latarjet procedure by a single surgeon between 2006 and 2017. Outcomes included RTS, on-field performance, and complications. Between-group analyses for RTS and complications were estimated using Kaplan-Meier survival analyses. Within-group analyses for on-field performance data were performed using paired t tests with significance set at .05. Results: A total of 58 capsulolabral stabilization procedures in 54 players and 32 Latarjet procedures in 29 players were included in the analysis; 93.1% of capsulolabral patients and 96.9% of Latarjet patients returned to professional AFL. The median RTS time was 6.8 months for the capsulolabral group and 7.3 months for the Latarjet group. There was no significant difference in RTS rates between the 2 groups ( P = .270). Of those undergoing surgery early in the season, 75% of the capsulolabral and 71% of Latarjet group were able to RTS within the same season, at a mean time of 16.9 weeks and 18.8 weeks, respectively. There was a significant difference in instability recurrence, with 19% for the capsulolabral group and no recurrence in the Latarjet group ( P = .017). There was no significant reduction in player on-field performance in either group ( P < .05). Conclusion: In this study, the median RTS in AFL players was approximately 7 months after capsulolabral and Latarjet surgery with no compromise to on-field performance. Instability-related complications occurred only in the capsulolabral group, and the incidence increased with time.

scholarly journals GENDER VERIFICATION IN SPORT: THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE

Issues of Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
M.A. Borodina ◽  
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K.V. Mashkova ◽  
S.S. Zenin ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
National Level ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Australian Experience ◽  
The One

The issue of non-discrimination of persons with different gender identities in sports is increasingly discussed both at the international and national level, influencing decisions on the possibility of allowing transgender and intersex people to participate in sports competitions held at the Amateur and professional levels. In Australia, with enough close attention to this issue, an unambiguous position of sports federations has not been formed, which is facilitated by its not sufficiently clear legislative regulation. On the one hand, this is due to the Federal structure of the state, which means that only General approaches are formulated at the Federal level, and the States are given the opportunity to make their own adjustments, which they successfully use. On the other, wide enough discrete authority was given by the sports federations which do not put in front of sports clubs and educational institutions, providing competition with the task of using the results of genetic or hormonal studies for gender verification, given the inevitable in this case, difficulties in organizing and conducting competitions, as well as shared the idea on creation of necessary conditions for inclusion of transgender and intersex persons in full sporting life. This issue is raised only in the case of claims of these persons to participate in international sports competitions, but even in this case it is assumed to be limited to giving them the necessary consultations. The position of the Australian football League in this sense is an exception to the rule, which is the subject of criticism from the standpoint of implementing the principle of equal rights of citizens

Classifying player positions in second-tier Australian football competitions using technical skill indicators

2021 ◽  
pp. 174795412110102
Author(s):  
Adrian J Barake ◽  
Heather Mitchell ◽  
Constantino Stavros ◽  
Mark F Stewart ◽  
Preety Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Positional Information ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Model ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Lower Tier ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
Performance Statistics ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
Player Positions

Efficient recruitment to Australia’s most popular professional sporting competition, the Australian Football League (AFL), requires evaluators to assess athlete performances in many lower tier leagues that serve as pathways. These competitions and their games are frequent, widespread, and challenging to track. Therefore, independent, and reliable player performance statistics from these leagues are paramount. This data, however, is only meaningful to recruiters from AFL teams if accurate player positions are known, which was not the case for the competitions from which most players were recruited. This paper explains how this problem was recently solved, demonstrating a process of knowledge translation from academia to industry, that bridged an important gap between sports science, coaching and recruiting. Positional information which is only available from the AFL competition was used to benchmark and develop scientific classification methods using only predictor variables that are also measured in lower tier competitions. Specifically, a Multinomial Logistic model was constructed to allocate players into four primary positions, followed by a Binary Logit model for further refinement. This novel technique of using more complete data from top tier competitions to help fill informational deficiencies in lower leagues could be extended to other sports that face similar issues.

A prospective study of risk factors for hamstring injury in Australian football league players

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nigel A. Smith ◽  
Melinda M. Franettovich Smith ◽  
Matthew N. Bourne ◽  
Rod S. Barrett ◽  
Julie A. Hides
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Hamstring Injury ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
A Prospective Study

Like Father, Like Son: Analyzing Australian Football’s Unique Recruitment Process

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 672-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark F. Stewart ◽  
Constantino Stavros ◽  
Pamm Phillips ◽  
Heather Mitchell ◽  
Adrian J. Barake
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Communications Strategies

In 1949 the Australian Football League (AFL) introduced a distinctive father–son rule, which allows its member teams to prioritize the recruitment of the sons of former players who had played in a minimum number of games with that team. This paper reveals that some teams have been able to access a statistically significant advantage via this rule, confirming and quantifying that this unique exception compromised the AFL’s reverseorder player draft. In more recent times, through complex reforms, this advantage has been significantly dissipated. Discussion presents this rule as a conundrum for managers as despite potentially compromising the draft, it provides opportunities for off-field marketing communications strategies.

Professional identity in the global sports entertainment industry

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kelly ◽  
Christopher Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Body ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Body Contact ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Professional Footballer

In this article we discuss the ways in which the professional identity of Australian Football League (AFL) footballers — in a physical, high body contact sport — is shaped by concerns to develop different aspects of the body, mind and soul of the young men who want to become AFL footballers. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s later work on the care of the self we argue that narratives of identity necessarily involve a struggle for the body, mind and soul of these young men. Foucault’s work enables us to identify and analyse how relations of power, forms of regulation and arts of governing interact in ongoing attempts to develop the professional footballer. The article explores these issues via an analysis of the rationalities and techniques that inform talent identification and player management practices; and risk management in relation to these practices and processes in the AFL.

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