10-02-2023, 08:50 AM
(10-02-2023, 04:40 AM)LP link Wrote:Our season recovery came off the back of taking risks and backing ourselves in, and now fans want safety!No, I want players to know that we need multiple modes to win the game, and understanding that situations don't have an automatic good bad result. We kept going long and quick in the preliminary final. It wasn't on that frequently but we did it anyway, and it contributed to not being able to arrest momentum.
Newman expressed it the best when after one game BT tried to get Newman to concede he was nervous about repeating mistakes, or trying to embarrass Newman into a concession of a mistake, but Newman told BT not a chance he'd stop taking the risks that saw our season switch around.
It's pretty easy to make retrospective judgements, but if Voss wants them to take the game on, then given what happened in the 2nd half of the season I'd say they should take the game on!
Leave the harrumphs, hand wringing and regrets to the fans.
The one thing I learned from the grand final is that you need to be able to play catch up when it counts, slow to arrest momentum, fast when you have momentum, and above all else be able to go through those gears, recognising WHEN to do it. The moment is one of few that sticks in my mind.
I'm not hanging anything on anyone here but simply talking facts.
"everything you know is wrong"
Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson