Here's a link to the video:
- The center square is 45m long
- There are 5 grass lines that are each 9 meters wide
- Varcoe first appears in the screen starting his run from right on the center square line at center half forward
- He catches Shuey at the 27 meter mark
- 4.5m segment times were .89secs, 1.79secs, 2.36secs, 3.08secs, 3.51secs and 4.21secs
- The full 27 meters was covered in 4.21secs
- Fastest 4.5m split was .57secs or 7.8 meters per second
- Fastest 9m split was 1.13secs or 7.56 meters per second
- Fastest 13.5m split was 1.72secs or 7.84 meters per second
- Fastest 18m split was 2.42secs or 7.43 meters per second
- Fastest 22.5m split was 3.32secs or 6.77 meters per second
Let's say Varcoe could only hit a maximum top speed of 7.8 meters per second on his very best day in a totally fresh state could he had made this tackle?
Never.
This tackle was laid almost 90mins into a ridiculously high intensity final, so there was definitely some fatigue present, disabling Varcoe from hitting his non-fatigued maximum speed of what I am sure is far higher then 7.8 meters per second.
On the TV broadcast they actually clocked him at 34.8kms/hr which actually put him at 9.66 meters per second but that might have been for literally .01sec, of which I can't determine through my timing system.
This shows the importance of training to perform at HIGHER THEN GAME SPEEDS because you need to be able to replicate these high speeds at various times through a match, not just one big effort in the first minute and then nothing after that.
Being able to hit speeds of 9 - 10 meters per second means that this chase down, even though it was clocked as the fastest effort of the game, was still sub-maximal for Varcoe, meaning he would have hit similar speeds at many other times throughout the match as well.
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