2025 Pre-season discussion. The Madge dynasty begins.

[theshed]

I get it but telling your players where they have to live is stupid. I'm fine with not cutting things short so they can skip the traffic, that's common sense but to tell them you have to live within X kilometre radius is just old man thinking.

And let's be honest, Brisbane is honestly not that big a city, traffic isn't really that big of an issue compared to so many other cities around the world.

I live a similar distance for work and it 100% impacts my performance.

 

[Sproj]

I live a similar distance for work and it 100% impacts my performance.

I live a similar distance from work too but it isn't the reason my performance is impacted. Hehe

 

[Mustafur]

I get it but telling your players where they have to live is stupid. I'm fine with not cutting things short so they can skip the traffic, that's common sense but to tell them you have to live within X kilometre radius is just old man thinking.

And let's be honest, Brisbane is honestly not that big a city, traffic isn't really that big of an issue compared to so many other cities around the world.

I personally don't agree with it because I know when it comes to clubs in Sydney a big chunk of players live just as far away if not more when you include traffic, but at the same time you could argue having to travel an hour back home each day can wear on you over the course of a year, kinda like the constant flights etc.

I think I would be fine if the club just recommended it rather than anything else, I think the highly professional players would be able to work it out themselves on what route they should take on it, there is also the impacts of where their social lives lie as if they base themselves in Brisbane but everything else for them is in GC they are doing the drive regardless and I don't think isolating players from their social lives is healthy.