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A brief period of masochism. I watched the game again with a few mates. Watching us fall apart when under enthusiastic heat was revealing.. Where are our tough blokes, blokes with mental hardness, leadership and discipline? Fair dinkum,, apart from Nick Newman I cannot think of any other bloke I'd want to be in the trenches with. Yet watching the Dawks, they seemed blessed with hard at i t types. Our niceness is palpable but not a handy ingredient in a gladiatorial sport. We need an alchemist as a senior coach to give our blokes a persistent tenacious hardness/mongrel.

Good to see Weiters rip into the players in a huddle after the game... loved it.

Crippa sedate during this, does this suggest he's a blue skies and fairy floss positives restricted leader, relying on performance only? I hope not. All good leaders have a spine of zero tolerance for ordinary and never hesitate to voice it, forcefully. Bravo and thank you, Weiters... and later JSOS in his stern, uncompromising words.

And while I'm at it... remember when we were insipid and the players went for an honesty session at Ed Curnow's place. The burning question for me then, and still, is why weren't the coaches involved? That says a great deal. Seems like a group begging for leadership and had to take things into their own hands. 

Good to see Weiters rip into the players in a huddle after the game... loved it.

Crippa sedate during this, does this suggest he's a blue skies and fairy floss positives restricted leader, relying on performance only? I hope not. All good leaders have a spine of zero tolerance for ordinary and never hesitate to voice it, forcefully. Bravo and thank you, Weiters... and later JSOS in his stern, uncompromising words.

And while I'm at it... remember when we were insipid and the players went for an honesty session at Ed Curnow's place. The burning question for me then, and still, is why weren't the coaches involved? That says a great deal. Seems like a group begging for leadership and had to take things into their own hands.

Quote from: Baggers – on March 17, 2025, 03:41:34 pm

Good to see Weiters rip into the players in a huddle after the game... loved it.

Crippa sedate during this, does this suggest he's a blue skies and fairy floss positives restricted leader, relying on performance only? I hope not. All good leaders have a spine of zero tolerance for ordinary and never hesitate to voice it, forcefully. Bravo and thank you, Weiters... and later JSOS in his stern, uncompromising words.

And while I'm at it... remember when we were insipid and the players went for an honesty session at Ed Curnow's place. The burning question for me then, and still, is why weren't the coaches involved? That says a great deal. Seems like a group begging for leadership and had to take things into their own hands. 

Brisbane 60 Carlton zero in last seasons prelim final and now this debacle vs Richmond.....if we lose to Hawthorn badly where do we go from there if the players cant respond? Dont want to hear about honesty sessions, holding hands, chanting mantras at Ed Curnow's place etc, what is the plan moving forward and if we have to get Cripps ripping into players what does that say about the playing groups mindset and ability to motivate themselves? and yes what are the coaches doing?

Quote from: Baggers – on March 17, 2025, 03:41:34 pm

Good to see Weiters rip into the players in a huddle after the game... loved it.

Crippa sedate during this, does this suggest he's a blue skies and fairy floss positives restricted leader, relying on performance only? I hope not. All good leaders have a spine of zero tolerance for ordinary and never hesitate to voice it, forcefully. Bravo and thank you, Weiters... and later JSOS in his stern, uncompromising words.

And while I'm at it... remember when we were insipid and the players went for an honesty session at Ed Curnow's place. The burning question for me then, and still, is why weren't the coaches involved? That says a great deal. Seems like a group begging for leadership and had to take things into their own hands.

Anyone in high performance knows that if you get a rev up from the same person too often, it loses its touch.
Best thing to do is spread around the 'rah rah' speech.
So weiters got it this time.
Newman or Doc might have had it last time.
Cripps might have it next time.

As for why there was no coaches.....same as above i reckon. Hearing same thing from same people loses its touch.

What it shows me is that players realised they were underperforming, called themselves out on it and lifted.

Why do our leaders have to do it?

Why aren't our bottom of the pile types doing it?

It's a mess.  Half of them can't even play the game at the level. 

Why do our leaders have to do it?

Why aren't our bottom of the pile types doing it?

It's a mess.  Half of them can't even play the game at the level. 

Quote from: Baggers – on March 16, 2025, 10:24:18 pm

A brief period of masochism. I watched the game again with a few mates. Watching us fall apart when under enthusiastic heat was revealing.. Where are our tough blokes, blokes with mental hardness, leadership and discipline? Fair dinkum,, apart from Nick Newman I cannot think of any other bloke I'd want to be in the trenches with. Yet watching the Dawks, they seemed blessed with hard at i t types. Our niceness is palpable but not a handy ingredient in a gladiatorial sport. We need an alchemist as a senior coach to give our blokes a persistent tenacious hardness/mongrel.

Tenacious / Hard / Mongrel. Maybe some 1-1 tackling drills with the coach and a video of basically any game the coach played. Something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xh5N6yPa9U