Re: 'Cue In The Rack' or 'Soldier On'
Reply #17 –
There's no way I want to see us even consider giving up on this season, no matter how many games we lose or how unlikely it is that we'll play finals.
It simply sends the wrong message to the players and instills a losing mentality. Given we already have so many mental frailties to contend with, the last thing I want to see is us creating more of our own.
We need to be trying to win every game we can regardless of ladder position and we need to finish where we finish in order to get an accurate reflection of where the list is at. If we lose all of those games we'll probably finish about 15th but at least we'll know that we're a bottom four side and rebuild accordingly. If we somehow win all of them, we'll play finals and we'll know that we're not all that far away.
That's the only way we answer the question of whether we need wholesale changes to the list or just some more positional tweaking.
You can't answer that by artificially creating a false environment.
True comment that. Every game should be treated as winnable. No tanking.
There are many candidates who played well below their "potential" last week. I suggest it is not just fair but the Coaches and MC's responsibility to drop any under performing players, including the "specials" and let a hungry kid play who will throw his heart and soul into the next game. And yes, I am saying drop players like Gibbs. 150+ games and saunters around the pitch like an aristocrat. if only he showed a fraction of the endeavour and heart of Judd. F$ucking unbelievable waste of talent. I say drop him and scare the crape out of him.
EXACTAMONDO. Regardless of ladder position we MUST set out, in every game from now until year's end (just in relation to this year), give our very best in every way. We must develop a mongrel determination to ruthlessly deliver what the coaches demand... anything short of this commitment from everyone should be viewed as totally and absolutely inadequate and the perpetrator(s) shown the door with great swiftness. (interesting that the word 'perpetrator' has the word 'trator' in it).