Re: Is Psychological help the answer ?
Reply #71 –
Could've, should've, would've, but the bottom line is that we didn't, and haven't.
Agreed. No matter how close, or far away we may have been, we didn't.
winning quarters, losing quarters - are we scoring footy like tennis??
Nope, the normal way....which is...
And here I was all these years thinking that it was the team with the most points at the end of the GAME that won? 
It is what matters.
Again, slice it whatever way you want. We didn't win the game. Our best year of late has seen us win 1 finals game, and lose in week 2....thats happened twice. Once with Ratts and once with Mick.
We need to focus on the now and fix things now. Forget about who said what and who thought what and work out what needs to be done, NOW.
Mick is our coach. Give him what he needs to succeed.
If that is a psychologist for the players...possible
If that is a team who didn't have 22 players having surgery in the off-season...more likely
Then do what you need to do to make it happen and work with what we have now, and plan for the future now.
Nothing beats distilling circumstances into reality.
The best brains/experience in the footy community endorse MM - good enough for me. As KRUDDNESS writes... give him what he needs. If he's right, we succeed... if he aint, we'll know and he's gone.
Sports psychologist... hope not. Way more d1ckheads and self-important clowns out there (in this field) than cats who really know what they're doing.
Funny how 22 blokes have off-season surgery which seriously hampers their preparation is not a reason for season 2014 failure thus far for the MM critics... yet Ratts' injury list in 2012 is a reason for failure.
This is an imperative comparison which KRUDDNESS introduced - top stuff.
And when the club gets on the front foot and acknowledges unacceptable failure... and the reasons (like not since 1990) negative Nelllies still call for MMs head on a stick.
Too many powders have gone off way too soon this year. A success experienced Senior Coach has informed our Board/club (thank all the gods) of our inadequacies - recruiting has already undergone important changes. More should follow.
(as an aside, I wonder if Ratts also informed the Board of such inadequacies and was ignored due to his 'junior' coach status?).
Powder dry till mid season will help us accurately assess so much more.
I take the attitude (for santity sake ) that we cannot lose. If we get our shizen together and make the 8 (or threaten and finish just outside), great. If we bottom out and fail badly... bye, bye Gibbs and bring on 2 consecutive picks in the top 10. Personally, I hope we get our shizen together. And I believe we will.