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Re: Why So Different?? - PassIt2Carrots - 06-23-2015
Sounds like the opposite from what Dennis Armfield said ie we will no longer be punished if we make an error. I don't know I would've thought Army was in the know what do you guys think?
Re: Why So Different?? - madbluboy - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:16 AM)Lods link Wrote:Who's "in the know?".
Players?
Track watchers?
Players.
Re: Why So Different?? - madbluboy - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:30 AM)PassIt2Carrots link Wrote:Sounds like the opposite from what Dennis Armfield said ie we will no longer be punished if we make an error. I don't know I would've thought Army was in the know what do you guys think?
Ask Chris Yarran what he thinks.
Re: Why So Different?? - LP - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 02:58 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:If you spoke to anyone in the know they would tell you Barker is a lot harder on the boys than Mick.
Maybe that's what they needed.
That says more about MM than Barker.
Some "watchers in the know" complain MM turned training into a non-contact sport!
But of course being harder can mean in a physical sense, as a disciplinarian or as outright abuse!
Re: Why So Different?? - madbluboy - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:34 AM)LP link Wrote:That says more about MM than Barker.
Some "watchers in the know" complain MM turned training into a non-contact sport!
I think you're getting Mick confused with the AFL.
Re: Why So Different?? - LP - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:42 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:I think you're getting Mick confused with the AFL.
The same complaints were made when he was in charge at Collingwood.
Re: Why So Different?? - shadesy - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:42 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:I think you're getting Mick confused with the AFL.
Props for this!! ;D
Re: Why So Different?? - PassIt2Carrots - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:33 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:Ask Chris Yarran what he thinks.
Yarran has worked closely with Barker over the last two or so years, we are talking about the last three weeks.
Re: Why So Different?? - LP - 06-23-2015
(06-23-2015, 03:57 AM)shadesy link Wrote:Props for this!! ;D
The AFL had to get the idea from someone!
Re: Why So Different?? - PaulP - 06-23-2015
Not exactly related to the "game plan", but I wonder whether the new found tough edge as witnessed in the Port game, comes from specific instructions from Barker himself ? He spent most of his playing career at the birthplace of unsociable football, and was also an assistant under Clarkson for a couple of seasons. I wonder if he's passed on to the boys some of the finer points of this, er....... much maligned art ?
I wonder also whether he has a bit of that John Worsfold thing happening ? The iron fist in the velvet glove. Woosha always liked that "mild mannered bespectacled pharmacist " facade, but those who saw him as a player know he was anything but. Barker has a bit of that easy going manner, but I wonder if there's more to him than that..............