Power Pride
29 Mar 2003, 13:29
Ultimate goal for Tredrea
29 March 2003 Herald Sun
By MIKE SHEAHAN
MARK Williams found himself in no man's land.
Between what he perceived as a need to protect Warren Tredrea's psyche, and the need to protect the integrity of his coaching panel.
The subject was Tredrea's erratic kicking for goal and its importance to Port Adelaide's premiership hopes.
Williams skirted the issue until he feared it might look as if the problem was being ignored.
"Warren is a true professional when it comes to footy and he practices as many times as anyone else," Williams said.
"He's 20-I-think-3 (he's 24). He wants to be better when he's 24, when he's 30, and I reckon he will be the way he prepares himself.
"If you marked him out of 10 on 10 different things, I think he'd be 8, 9 or 10 on all of them, and his kicking is not there.
"His kicking's probably a 6-and-a-half, moving towards 7.
"He certainly has done a lot of work. He would practise almost every day to the extent that they have to call a halt."
The coach bristled at what he inferred as a veiled suggestion the matter mightn't get enough expert attention.
"We're a professional club here. Did you think we just let him wander out with a bag of balls and kick one and have him go and chase it?
"You think we're a tin-pot bloody organisation?
"It's like me asking you `do you know how to use spellcheck?'
"We even got the great Ben Perkins (rugby) out. John Eales acknowledged Ben Perkins after he won the World Cup.
"We've had Ben take Warren at training for over a week. Every day for two weeks during summer.
"We are open to try anything to get him better and he's open for it as well, which says something about the guy.
"All of the things you think might be a good idea, we've already done 'em.
"He does the work. He talks to other people, we look at videos, we've had people watching him, people yelling at him while he's kicking for goal.
"You should look at Tredrea's goalkicking averages over the last five years. This would be good journalism."
Good idea, Mark.
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Tin pot bloody organisation. :D
"Do you know how to use spellcheck!?" :D
But all silliness aside, when he said they have people yelling at him when he's kicking for goal, it makes me wonder what they're yelling. :confused:
29 March 2003 Herald Sun
By MIKE SHEAHAN
MARK Williams found himself in no man's land.
Between what he perceived as a need to protect Warren Tredrea's psyche, and the need to protect the integrity of his coaching panel.
The subject was Tredrea's erratic kicking for goal and its importance to Port Adelaide's premiership hopes.
Williams skirted the issue until he feared it might look as if the problem was being ignored.
"Warren is a true professional when it comes to footy and he practices as many times as anyone else," Williams said.
"He's 20-I-think-3 (he's 24). He wants to be better when he's 24, when he's 30, and I reckon he will be the way he prepares himself.
"If you marked him out of 10 on 10 different things, I think he'd be 8, 9 or 10 on all of them, and his kicking is not there.
"His kicking's probably a 6-and-a-half, moving towards 7.
"He certainly has done a lot of work. He would practise almost every day to the extent that they have to call a halt."
The coach bristled at what he inferred as a veiled suggestion the matter mightn't get enough expert attention.
"We're a professional club here. Did you think we just let him wander out with a bag of balls and kick one and have him go and chase it?
"You think we're a tin-pot bloody organisation?
"It's like me asking you `do you know how to use spellcheck?'
"We even got the great Ben Perkins (rugby) out. John Eales acknowledged Ben Perkins after he won the World Cup.
"We've had Ben take Warren at training for over a week. Every day for two weeks during summer.
"We are open to try anything to get him better and he's open for it as well, which says something about the guy.
"All of the things you think might be a good idea, we've already done 'em.
"He does the work. He talks to other people, we look at videos, we've had people watching him, people yelling at him while he's kicking for goal.
"You should look at Tredrea's goalkicking averages over the last five years. This would be good journalism."
Good idea, Mark.
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Tin pot bloody organisation. :D
"Do you know how to use spellcheck!?" :D
But all silliness aside, when he said they have people yelling at him when he's kicking for goal, it makes me wonder what they're yelling. :confused: