Re: Post Game Analysis: AFL 2021 Rd 5: Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Reply #216 –
This one is on the players. Motivation comes from within and ours can't stay motivated for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Club is run pretty well right now. What is needed is real peer pressure to perform. They have to put it on each other. Right now we turn up but don't work. Almost nothing surer we'll win the next couple, even though it's Brisbane, after coping the biggest baking and home truths we've received in years. What happens after that, who knows.
A few contradictions there Jim, we turn up but dont work yet we will win the next few? Dont get that logic.
Ill say it again, culture is set from the top down not the bottom up. It's not about motivation, its all about culture, creating and maintaining a ruthless winning one. When CEO, presidents and coaches give the players an out when they speak to the media, that's not a ruthless culture and sets the wrong example for the players. So is our culture bad? I'd guess the answer is not totally. But is it a ruthless winning one? Most definitely not.
There also doesn't seem to be any non negotiables, and with that consequences, at our club. If there were, we would not trot out the same roller coaster performances year after year.
Then there are skill/execution problems. Ill say this again also, for how many years have we been seeing the same poor skills with disposal and goal kicking? Lots. And we seem to do nothing to address the specific problems (ie bring in specialists to fix the specific issues). If you ask me are out players motivated, I'd say they are as motivated as any player in the comp. Are they well trained and conditioned? I'd say not as well as they could or should be.