2024 Season Update
12:00am, Saturday 2 December 2023
- Sunday 10 December 9-10.30am
- Sunday 21 January 9-10.30am (plus our Annual General Meeting)
- Sunday 4 February 9-10.30am
2024 AGM
7:29pm, Thursday 14 December 2023
The 2024 club Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday 21 January 9.30am at the fields. Please contact the club if you are interested in registering for any position on the committe.
Fathers Day at City Cave
Hayden | 12:00am, Thursday 19 August 2021
Do Niggles Matter
Hayden | 12:00am, Tuesday 6 July 2021
Over the course of the season we will be posting a number of blogs by Sam Donaldson a footballer, father and Physiotherapist at the clubs great sponsor RHP Physiotherapy
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Do niggles matter?
Yep. Unfortunately niggles do matter!
That tight calf, the pain in your knee that comes and goes, that annoying back pain that interrupts your day slightly. It might not affect your ability on the football pitch, but these niggles add up.
A recent Australian study included football clubs in NSW at various levels of competitiveness from NPL NSW and below. Players were asked to complete a questionnaire every week with a simple set of questions about whether or not they were in perfect physical condition.
Q1: Have you had any difficulty participating in normal training/ competition in the past week?
Q2: To what extent have you reduced your training volume due to the above?
Q3: To what extent has injury, illness or other affected your performance in the past week?
Q4: To what extent have you experienced symptoms/ health complaints during the past week?
Most of us would report something for at least one or two of those questions, even if the answer is “to a minor extent”
They also collected information about how much training each player was exposed to and when someone was actually unable to train or play due to injury or illness. These were called “Time-Loss” injuries, while reporting an injury but still training was called a “Non-Time-Loss” injury, otherwise known as a niggle.
The risk of a Time-Loss injury was 3.6 and 6.9 times higher when a “minor” niggle or a “moderate” niggle was reported in the week prior.
Amazingly, over 25% of players were reporting a niggle each week, not always the same person (but we all know that one person that’s always injured). This means that those players were far more likely to suffer an injury that keeps them out of the game in the next week!
So, what do you do about it?
Prevent. Here’s how.View all news →
