Couple of thoughts
Research is usually poorly designed… too much stretches (couple of times for 30sec or longer) and with great intensity, without ‘dynamic transition’: Stretch then jump
Warm-up routine that elites used for years is hard to change drastically and abruptly: stretching in warm up have psychological reasons as well due habbits… kicking stretching out you may gain 2% in power, but lose 20% in motivation
Sometimes teams have poor warm-up, like jogging, streching on the floor for 15mins and then starting with high intensity.
Everybody is different, also in team settings. Not that everybody need different warm-up, but they need their own time to work on the areas they feel the need to do
Strething in the warm-up is more a TEST to see if everything is ok, rather than a mean to warm-up, prevent injury or increase ROM. If you feel stiff, you will make it worse with stretching. Do easy, gentle dynamic warm-up, then test the ROM and looseness with easy stretch and if ok proceed if not do more warm-up for the area.
“Do whatever you need to do” — C.F.: why would you limit yourself with bunch of rules, like NO STRETCHING? I was used to be like that, but I now try to teach my athletes PRINCIPLES of good warm-up, how they need to feel and should they progress.
Having said this, I guess INTERMITTENT stretching is the best solution. Athlete have their own time in the team warm-up, they can test if they are loose. So basically, you do progresive dynamic warm-up with periods of easy statical stretching used to test the looseness and keep your athletes happy
Hope this helps
Good points and remember the static stretch/test may not really be a stretch at all. The athlete gets in the position and all’s fine- it’s not really a stretch.