05-13-2021, 03:42 AM
(05-12-2021, 10:09 PM)LP link Wrote:How can it be that when we hit the lead against a top team, after so many years of struggling, that our team is full of dread instead of excitement.
How can it be that they are not energised and invigorated by the situation of leading?
Who did this to us, and / or who is doing it to us?
I re-watched the game and you can see the change in some of our players, even before the Dogs had scored their second goal in the comeback run on. Our players looked to have dropped their heads, like they knew their fate and that their role wasn't to win. They looked nervous, suppressed, defeated even!
Somebody or something at our club is dropping the ball, we have a bad influence somewhere in the system!
It's corny but true!
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This is a long standing problem with our footy club.
We tanked for draft picks years and years ago, and this was our reward. Remember the Kreuzer cup?
The word culture gets thrown around a lot but the only way you can make a cultural difference is time doing the same thing over again until you build your brand.
Its what worried me about the Brendan Bolton approach with the green shoots. We traded away any chance of winning, for draft picks, and wooden spoons, and a couple more number 1 draft picks. Yes its delivered us the best talent in the land in Weitering and Walsh, but at what cost? Are we seeing this play out now?
My only real reference point of another club that has done what we did, is the Melbourne footy club. Goodwin arrived, and he has decided to drop the draft picks, theyve ditched the number 1 messiah, and gone with a bunch of unfashionable types, that know how to play footy. Here we are looking at them this weekend, after having gone down the road of appointing an unfashionable type as captain (Jones) and they are now playing with his dedication as a unit.
Perhaps the fish has rotted from the head. I only hope we havent repeated history. Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Teague appears to be trying to correct this.
Our footy club has another problem. Teams build the resilience and reliability through consistency. We have not had a consistent approach to anything for a very long time, and I suggest that this problem wont start to vanish until we start to have a consistent approach on a consistent basis.
we have the tools to build a solid team, I expect its the next layer that will deliver us any real difference in mentality.
"everything you know is wrong"
Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson