Round 17 Carlton vs Hawthorn-Post Match

[Thryleon]

What you describe is one reaction.
Personally I'd never hang around in a situation where someone didn't value my efforts.

I'd do the 'stick it up your jumper bit', but as far as proving them wrong....I'd do that in another position, preferably one in direct opposition to my former employer.
I suspect there might be one or two of our group who've already moved on, mentally, if not physically.

I've played team sports.

Criticism of one or two efforts is necessary and requisite to letting players know when they have performed poorly and how to fix it.

We however use them as examples of a player being berated daily, weekly, monthly to the point where they are emotionally dead.

Very extreme view.  Likely to be the stuff of fiction.

We are being let down by years of mismanagement.  Nothing more, nothing less.

I have a hard time, blaming any one person at fault for our currently predicament.  You can point the finger at Malthouse, but he has removed the players mentored by our previous coach who were also not exactly the most consistent players on earth.

People like to stick up for Ratten, and I think he did the best he could to work with what we had, but it looks as though the current predicament is the future he nurtured or failed to nurture.

Ill put this down to his inexperience and lack of support by our club, rather than him not quite working, as he was able to achieve some good things during his tenure.

Moving forward, Barker has seen the Malthouse method, and the Ratten method.  He knows the club and the players well, which means he will know better than most which reigns to pull on to get better reactions, as well as what the balance of power is like at the club to enable the requisite.

The last few weeks have proven something though.  Playing on emotion will only get you so far.  We had the emotional pressure release make us competitive again, but unfortunately the baseline has returned of where we usually sit in terms of our competitive ability.  We need to improve more, rely more on the younger players and less on the older players and the usual suspects.