Re: Our Inability to Win Close Games
Reply #22 –
Here are a couple of quotes from Chris Judd in an interview put up on the CFC website
Q:(Tony DeBolfo) And do you see real hope in terms of where this team is heading?
A: (Chris Judd) Yes – and these are the sort of things you have to weigh up. The team is becoming more competitive across the whole group, and I think that desire to win is more evenly spread across the whole 22 players who enter the field each week – and that probably hasn't been a real strong suit of this club in my time here.
Q: You’re talking about people in survival mode.
A: Yeah. When your club has had poor results for a long time players tend to focus more on surviving the experience rather than achieving anything. When I first got here seven years ago a large number of players were probably more focused on just getting a contract or, if they were good players on getting good contracts than they were focused on how we were going to achieve anything as a group because that’s just what happens in organisations that are under performing – and that’s not unique to this club. That would happen across the board in companies across the world and poor performing sports clubs alike. But that has gradually changed in my time here which is much for the better, to the point that you’re really confident with all the 22 guys who take to the field that they really want to win for the club on the day. And that level of confidence is the highest it’s been in my time here, and that’s really encouraging and something worth thinking about.
It sheds a bit of light on where we are coming from, and that we have and are moving on from there.
The journey back to the top has started, let's not derail or detour the trip through impatience.