03-27-2021, 01:37 AM
(03-27-2021, 01:21 AM)LP link Wrote:Yes, it's just more of that sheep like behaviour we see from AFL coaches and clubs I written about before.Some good points LP, our young players sometimes look like Robots who have been over coached.
If you can unequivocally see your club copying some other successful club, .................. sack the lot of them because they are formulaic morons!
The biggest positive move Dimma ever made was identifying and sacking a bunch of the micro-managing coaches, then putting the players led by Cotchin in charge of their own fate. Now he has a team that mostly coaches itself, which is a nightmare for most oppositions, and even worse this year now that runners have been limited.
When we see our players run into dead ends, freeze like rabbits in the headlights, and drop their heads instantly, that I believe is a sign of over-coaching, not necessarily by the head coach. It is not natural for any kid who makes it to AFL to be a quitter or to look defeated on the playing field.
Maybe the Bolton years of Green shoots/development failed to teach our kids about winning and how you have to fight to win and never quit. It was always about development and even Bolton in his darkest days refused to acknowledge winning was important until right at the end when it was too late. It can be hard to re program kids and you need a very strong personality coaching your club to do that IMO.