The Greater Western Sydney GIANTS completed their recovery on the track yesterday after the young squad’s first AFL match.

With 17 AFL debutants playing in the orange and charcoal on Saturday night, the young club faces the unique challenge of ensuring that a volume of young bodies recover from a tough hit out at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night.

GIANTS Sports Science Manager John Quinn is charged with this task and said that the coaching panel is pleased with the way that the players have emerged from the match.

“We’re very happy with the way that they’ve come out of the game, we have no injuries out of the AFL game at all.

“It (recovery) starts straight away. As soon as we come off the field we’re really getting ready for the next game. Nutrition and hydration is a big factor in what we do.

“We do a lot of stretching and the physio and doctors are in there making sure everyone is right. We use ice tubs. We have a really good supplement regime, which a company called Musashi helps us with.

“Then the following day we get them all together again in the water so we’re down at Cabarita pool.”

Quinn highlighted the importance of the recovery process and spoke about the exceptional situation that the GIANTS are in with such a young playing list.

“It’s about educating and making sure that players understand their own limitations. They’re in the AFL but they’ve still go to develop in that.

“This is an unusual circumstance in that they’re in a development program in an elite competition. I can’t think of another example in the world where this would be happening.

“It’s going to be a long haul but I think we’ve made a really promising start on it.”