Tom Rees

With the #AFLFinals kicking off tonight, the conversation about gambling and sport is more relevant than ever. We asked Victorians what they thought, and their concerns are loud and clear: 🔸 78% are worried that sports betting is becoming too normal. 🔸 66% believe young people are seeing betting on sport as the norm. 🔸 67% say gambling shouldn’t be part of the sports experience. With sports betting being the fastest-growing form of gambling in Victoria, driven by ads and smartphone access, many are concerned about the impact on young people. #VGCCC

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A benchmark to chart stages of growth in women's professional team sport to identify what stage sport leagues are at. Thanks for presenting our study Samantha Marshall, you nailed it! Tracy Taylor SMAANZ - Sports Management Australia and New Zealand #womeninsport

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There are different ways to be successful & there is a difference between winning & succeding. Nice story of a pro club’s evolution & identity.

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Got a new job leading a sporting organization? Want to make a difference and be successful? Here's five tips: 1. Listen to everyone - respect everyone's views - but in the end, make the decisions you believe are in the best interest of all participants, irrespective of politics and the "that's the way we do it here" people. 2. Build a team around you who are great at their job - then provide them with the support, the environment and the opportunity to do what they do best, i.e. don't hire a gourmet chef then make them wait tables all night. 3. Hire a mix of expertise, i.e. some people who know your sport, some people who know sport but from other sports (ideally from a more advanced sport) - and some with broader skills from outside of #sport. 4. Show me the money! Secure your long term financial viability so you can lock in plans and programs for the forseeable future. 5. Be relentless on building strong, effective relationships across the sport - be the connecting force - the collaborative leader - bring people along with you on the journey. #waynegoldsmith #wgcoaching #coaching #sport #sportsleadership #leadership #sportingorganizations #teambuilding #change.

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Endorsing products, particularly when you have a vested interest, can often be received by consumers as "heavily weighted." However, when the proof is clearly evident in performance, then it transcends mere endorsement to become a testament to genuine impact. For ambitious multi-sport athletes, speed and efficiency are non-negotiable. Carbon Mafia wheels stand out by offering unparalleled aerodynamics and lightweight construction, ensuring every pedal stroke translates into maximum forward thrust. With these wheels, you're not just investing in equipment; you're investing in those crucial seconds that could mean the difference between a podium finish and the rest of the pack. Seeing the measurable improvement in my own performance, I can confidently say that Carbon Mafia wheels are not just a choice but a competitive advantage. #m5triathlon #CarbonMafia

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As we transition from NBL1 to the NBL it’s a good time to take a look at what keywords are talked about the most amongst community clubs. A few things really stand-out in the data..... No great surprise that “MVP” is the most mentioned and most engaging term we tracked. It is surprising (?) that “Defence” is talked about a lot more than “Offence” to the tune of over 3:1. Also, what gives with the ubiquitous “3-Pointer”? It's mentioned a lot less than we thought but when it is, it does really well for post-performance? Looking through a commercial lens we’d recommend that clubs align sponsors with MVP awards on a game or seasonal basis. Also possibly worth considering is a defence based “On-guard” campaign or similar? Want to know what topics specific to your sport are being talked about & how much? Get in touch & let’s chat.

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Watching Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii last weekend got me thinking. As a player who played 1st team rugby at 14, played his first NRL game at 17 and on Saturday, played his first test match for Australia without having played a professional rugby union game, he’s clearly a massive talent……. What’s different though? What allowed him to be so good he got Player of the Match? Aside from skill. Perhaps the way he approached the game. Cognitive diversity within a pitch where everyone else thought differently? Diversity is mentioned everywhere we look at the moment and rightly so. But I think for the most part we think of gender, race and sexuality as creating a more diverse community. Athletes can bring a HUGE amount of cognitive diversity and add a massive amount to the perspective and thought processes you use with your workplace to solve issues. FutureProof Pro believes wholeheartedly that business can leverage the different approaches that athletes may come approach delivering outcomes. So many businesses engage in sport commercially and through sponsorship. It would be incredibly interesting to understand if the same businesses had thought beyond ‘the norm’, the way normal commercial partnerships are created, to explore the depth to which they could create even more value across sport and their businesses. Very few have. I’d love to help those businesses understand the depths their partnerships could take…… Fortune favours the brave. #business #diversity #sport #sports #sportbusiness James Hitchman Michael Preston Paul Ioannou Manu Chhokra Quilter Financial Planning

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Simple and clear framework for #national #sports #policy at #bermuda Rather than long verbose one, it has very simple 5 #goals and all strategies/actions must align to goals Rather than a broad vision, having a goal with current status and future aspirations will ensure strong alignment of actions with intentions Goal 1: Increase Participation Goal 2: Achieve Sporting Excellence Regionally Goal 3: Improve Access to Sports Facilities Goal 4: Increase the Value of Sport Goal 5: Establish a Framework for Talent Development As #India is working on sports policy, having clear goals and a brief document is must for clear actions #participation #sportsfacilities #talentdevelopment #valueofsport https://lnkd.in/gMY4EfhV

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AFL - Australian Football League clubs are champions of succession planning. How? Because every single day during the AFL season, 18 clubs think about and communicate 'selection'. They ask themselves important questions that are purely focused on the performance of their team - which is bigger than the individual. The players are under permanent watch. Everything is scrutinised and assessed in the name of performance. Performance is measured by the scoreboard and it always tells the truth. Everyone can see it. Succession decisions are ultimately made so a team/club can be in front on the scoreboard on Grand Final day. To win the premiership cup. Last Saturday's Grand Final, we saw the Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans by 60 points. Congratulations to the Lions on winning the 2024 premiership and their coach Chris Fagan on a wonderful victory and amazing season. The scoreboard vindicated their succession decisions - some were made very recently. For example, Lions' ruckman Oscar McInerney suffered a 'double dislocation' of his shoulder in the preliminary final (the week before the Grand Final) and was ruled out for medical reasons. We all saw Oscar's selfless reaction to the win despite not being able to play the match himself. Well done Oscar - your whole approach is 'team first'. Darcy Fort took Oscar's place in the side and performed extremely well. One player out - one player in. Practical succession. For the good of the team. Not all succession decisions are as straightforward, but they should always be communicated sensitively and arrived at via a sensible process. The joy and excitement on Chris Fagan's face is wonderful to see in this photograph taken on the Melbourne Cricket Ground after the grand final win. He looks so happy. Years of hard work, sacrifice, tough conversations, hard selection calls, injuries, suspensions, unexpected losses, lack of sleep, time on planes and in airports, media scrutiny and public criticism that come with the job, look like they have been worth it. To achieve the ultimate - a premiership. Succession in families and businesses is worth doing properly, just like it is in football. By approaching succession using the same principles, success can be achieved and heartache can be avoided. We can all be champions of succession. #successionplanning #inheritance #wealthtransfer #executors #trustees David Naphtali Michael Naphtali vestadvisory.com

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Data and trends are telling us there are shifts happening in the way we deliver, engage and experience sport in Australia. The sport we knew, particularly pre-COVID is vastly different to where we are now and where we're going. Getting ahead of the curve is the best way to embrace these changes, Kieren Perkins OAM has articulated this beautifully in the piece below. We need sport. How we connect with sport is up to us, and its time for all sports to get in the boat and row.👏 #australiansport #sportforall #femaleparticipation #futureofsport

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https://lnkd.in/gC4m8FBe Do what ever you can to keep him - work out how he can spend more time in NZ with family. There are up to 7 views available on any game & most of the communication, logistics, planning etc can be done remotely. Accept for potentially 1 week (at the most) a month during Super Rugby he may be needed in Aus. & 25 - 50% of Australian games per week will be in NZ anyway. Ditto Mick Cron. Once the Wallabies begin in-camp, obviously the time in Aus is more permanent, but for the 1st 6 months it can be conceivably 1 week a month. The Wallabies may lose the next 2 games as the opposition is definitely a step up. However, there is observable improvement in reaction speed - off the ground, off the ball and in skills in general in executing closer to the opposition etc etc. This hasn't been observable for some time - particularly during the Rennie years. How to pay for it & ensure that there is continuity moving forward - flick the current Assistants (except for Cron) & bring in the Super Head Coaches to fill the other Assistant Roles. This is not a disparagement against the current Assistants - but Economics. Plus 3 of the Head Coaches were regarded as World Class in their respective Unit areas prior to progressing to Head Coach status. Kiss - Defence, MacKellar - Lineout & Maul & Larkham - Attack. Two of those Coaches are already on the RA dime with the takeover of the Waratahs & Brumbies respectively. It will also allow for current Super Assistants to get the Workplace learning that definitely assisted with MacKellar's transition from Assistant to Head Coach at the Brumbies - when (then Head Coach) Larkham was with the Wallabies. I'd be surprised if the next Head Coach didn't come from this group so get them in there for the Lions series & in the lead up to 2027 & build them into World Class International Coaches with 3 years of further exposure, in that environment & with 30 - 40 more tests on invaluable experience at that intensity. All the while, they continue to work on their Head Coach Skills at Super Level. It's not as if it hasn't occurred before - in 2015 the year that the Wallabies made the World Cup Final - Cheika, Larkham, Grey & Ledesma were all Coaching in Super Rugby as well as the Wallabies. Alternatively, continue to have duplication in roles & costs & asking Community Rugby departments across Australia to find multi-millions of dollars worth of savings to pay for it!

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USING GPS Catapult was originally formed in a partnership that included the Australian Institute Of Sport to maximise the performance of Australian athletes at 2006 Sydney Olympic Games. 18 years later Catapult exists to unleash the potential of every athlete and team on Earth. But why do we use GPS today? Using GPS units in sport we can: - provide objective feedback to athletes - understand and prepare athletes for game demands - benchmark athletes to be at their best - help to reduce injury risk #tracking #gps #data #analysis #catapult #unleashpotential #sport #technology #athlete #feedback #game #demands #benchmark #injuryrisk

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Fresh from The Blues first Super Rugby win since 2003 in one of the most one-sided finals in recent memory, our Opta data insights team at Stats Perform have pulled together a Super Rugby Pacific 2024: Stats Pack. This season review is packed full of insights that can only be achieved via our deep Rugby data set coupled with our talented team of analysts to help tell a story behind the data. 🎯 Which player outperformed the Opta kick predictor by 10 percentage points to achieve an 86% kicking accuracy throughout the season? 🏉 Who made the best XV team of the season according to the Opta player index? 1️⃣ Out of a total of 663 tries scored in the 2024 season, which team scored the only try of the entire competition via a fair catch? Download the season review here...

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Regular readers of my stuff know my favorite phrase is: It's no good coming up with a great solution - to the WRONG PROBLEM. I admit I stole this from the best sports leader in the business - Craig Tiley - Head of Tennis Australia / Australian Open - but I've found it to be the most important lesson I've ever learnt. In these days of Ai, Google, Social Media, Online gurus - finding SOLUTIONS is pretty easy. The solutions are not what's holding you back: it's not knowing what your real problems are. Problem solving is not the skill it used to be: you gotta be great at Problem Finding!!! Example: CHALLENGE: We need to grow our participation base. Typical solution: Build more facilities - i.e. if we build it, they will come. But what if the actual problems include..... Coaching standards are poor; Club administration is disorganized and poorly delivered; The competition structure is outdated and poorly delivered; Volatile personality and political conflicts make the environment challenging and awkward for new participants. If these are the REAL problems, then building a solid gold stadium, with diamond encrusted seats, overlooking an air-conditioned field - will not solve anything. CEOS - Senior Executives - Managers - Sports Leaders - become PROBLEM FINDERS - then I promise you - the solutions will always present themselves. #waynegoldsmith #wgcoaching #sportsindustry

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@westperthfc THANK YOU & RESPECT ❤️ If this is true and not a typo this is fantastic & shows appreciation for my profession & how critical this role is at ALL football clubs 💯 80-100k FULL TIME @ semi pro sport in Australia 🇦🇺 is unheard of & it’s more than more pro sport/AFL would pay in most positions LOL 🤣 I have said for years most clubs know it’s all economics & supply vs demand when it comes to these paid jobs at club level 💯 They know supply of coaches is stupidly high & demand (ie paid positions) is low and as such can pay peanuts because if coach X doesn’t take the paid terms coach A will 🤦‍♂️ There is always someone who will take the position for low pay or free for “experience” or getting their foot in the door 🤦‍♂️ moreover, clubs know how many people want to wear that AFL club logo on their chest to validate their position in their profession LOL (chasing the tracksuit) because apparently the best work in the AFL 😉 I would love to see more clubs at ALL levels of football actually investing & paying a decent wage (see how I said decent not stupidly high lol) to physical prep coaches who play such a vital role in their football program (you would think keeping your best players healthy and playing would be important to a club - best players playing = greater chance of winning) & building a culture of high performance & professional preparation 🙌 Since day 1 of establishing @woodfordssc all I have wanted to see was clubs & athletes paying us coaches pay that we deserve for the education & experience we have 💪 Let’s hope we see more of this in the future & more coaching paid roles that actually pay well (who would of thought ? Lol you should get paid if you are good at your job lol) #changingthegame

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NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT Leadership Talks: Life lessons from Sport - Finest corporate minds and sport connect. This is a series that was long overdue. That there are deep co-relations between sport and business is known. Corporate leaders, more often than not, give sporting references when they speak and are often influenced by lessons learnt from sport when they act in the boardroom. What drives them? How are these leaders backstage? How do they deal with adversity and failure? How do they motivate large teams? What is key to decision-making? And in all of this, where does sport come in? These are some of the questions we have often asked ourselves. Now these leaders, the best in India, answer them in this series, Leadership Talks: Life lessons from Sport. Take TV Narendran, Managing Director and Global CEO of Tata Steel, who is my guest for the inaugural episode. Mr Narendran is a constant at the Tata Steel Global 25K in Kolkata every December. He does the 10k and does so with enormous passion. He runs every morning and has always been an avid sports lover. By his own admission, sport has taught him multiple things, which he has subsequently used in his corporate career. Shyam Srinivasan, former MD of Federal Bank, is a huge Rahul Dravid supporter. Shyam tells me how he loved the resilience in Dravid and how he wanted to instil the same commitment in every colleague of his. Sagar Daryani of Wow Momo, just 36, is one of India’s best aspirational stories. An avid cricketer, Sagar is highly competitive on the cricket field. In a tournament he played a couple of years ago, he was hit for five straight sixes. “It was the only time I cried on a cricket field. But my teammates did not disown me. I played the next game and performed. It is the same in business. On days that are good, you run. On days that are okay, you walk. And on days that aren’t good, you crawl. But you always move forward,” says Sagar. Sport on the one hand creates business, which in turn provides economic growth to a society and a nation. On the other hand, encouraging sports through business also makes a fitter and healthier society. And in all of this, there is the RevSportz story. Why did most of them back us? More so at times of adversity when I, as Founder, was serving an unfair ban? What prompted Mr Narendran, Sagar, Shyam and others to keep supporting us? In fact, I fondly remember the conversation with Mr Narendran when I had reached out to him for support in Dec 2022. “Are you planning to focus only on cricket, for then it's not really of interest. There is already a lot of clutter there,” he had said. When I mentioned our focus areas - Olympic and Paralympic sport, the conversation just took off. Leadership Talks: Life Lessons from Sport is a series you can’t miss. Inaugural episode 12 noon Monday. Tata Steel Wow! Momo Federal Bank Sagar Daryani Murali Krishnan Arnab Roy Kaustubh Jha Rahul Todi Prantik Mazumdar Luv Parikh Sharmistha Gooptu Amit Gupta

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An important day for Para-sport in Australia, Paralympics Australia and the sports sector. An historic $283 million investment in sport announced by the Federal Government. This unprecedented funding, which includes an additional $54.9 million for Paralympic sport, represents a monumental shift in the recognition and support of Para-sport in Australia. Thanks to the leadership and unwavering support of the Federal Government, who have set a new benchmark for the advancement of Para-sport, and we are profoundly grateful for your commitment. This investment is the single largest increase in Paralympic spending by an Australian Government. It signifies not only a significant financial boost but also a renewed dedication to addressing the systemic barriers that Para-athletes face. #ImagineWhatWeCanDo

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