08-12-2019, 12:50 AM
The same thing haunts us today that has haunted us for the last 10 years.
A lack of composure under pressure.
You cannot teach it. Some players get down and dirty and thrive in it, and others just cannot cope and panic and throw the ball on the boot.
Until we mature, it wont change.
I see that trend starting to change a little with the SOS band (my new term for the list build).
The best part of it is that players who stuff up seem immediately hell bent on atoning for it.
Our current plight is best summed up by one passage of play from early in the game. Kick in. Plowman goes to the pocket hits up Daisy. Daisy passes it to Simpson who has it at half back. Simpson elects to go inboard to the corridor to hit Setterfield. Misses the target and a Richmond player standing inside the corridor of Setterfield is able to waltz into 50 and kick the goal quite easily.
A lack of composure under pressure.
You cannot teach it. Some players get down and dirty and thrive in it, and others just cannot cope and panic and throw the ball on the boot.
Until we mature, it wont change.
I see that trend starting to change a little with the SOS band (my new term for the list build).
The best part of it is that players who stuff up seem immediately hell bent on atoning for it.
Our current plight is best summed up by one passage of play from early in the game. Kick in. Plowman goes to the pocket hits up Daisy. Daisy passes it to Simpson who has it at half back. Simpson elects to go inboard to the corridor to hit Setterfield. Misses the target and a Richmond player standing inside the corridor of Setterfield is able to waltz into 50 and kick the goal quite easily.
"everything you know is wrong"
Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson