Our best is more than good enough to account for every team in the competition. The challenge is creating the conditions that enable us to produce our best.
Having our best players on the park in form and fit enough to provide a genuine contest for the entire game is the key. That’s followed by ensuring that the supporting cast is fit and in form but also that they are the right combination to complement our guns and to execute our game plan.
Then there’s game day planning, tactics, motivation, arousal, discipline and effort ... and a lot of noise from our supporters.
If the fitness staff have performed their magic on Harry and Charlie, we have genuinely fit players vying for selection, the MC gets it right, Vossy and his assistants nail the preparation for the game, and our supporters are vocal, we’ll win.
If we go in with players who aren’t ready for, or aren’t able to run out, a full game, our chances of winning will plummet. That includes the sub. You might get away with bringing on an unfit or fragile player as a tactical sub in the last quarter. You’re screwed if they have to replace an injured player in the first quarter.
Having our best players on the park in form and fit enough to provide a genuine contest for the entire game is the key. That’s followed by ensuring that the supporting cast is fit and in form but also that they are the right combination to complement our guns and to execute our game plan.
Then there’s game day planning, tactics, motivation, arousal, discipline and effort ... and a lot of noise from our supporters.
If the fitness staff have performed their magic on Harry and Charlie, we have genuinely fit players vying for selection, the MC gets it right, Vossy and his assistants nail the preparation for the game, and our supporters are vocal, we’ll win.
If we go in with players who aren’t ready for, or aren’t able to run out, a full game, our chances of winning will plummet. That includes the sub. You might get away with bringing on an unfit or fragile player as a tactical sub in the last quarter. You’re screwed if they have to replace an injured player in the first quarter.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball