Covertackle
Premiership Player
- Banned
- #76
Extremely interesting.
Im not sure why the GC executive chose a novice coach in the first place. With a team mostly full of young kids i would have thought a coach with great experience in developing players was called for. Not a new coach in his first gig.
I think it became obvious that Bluey had issues when he failed to regroup his team after Ablett was injured. It wasnt as if Bluey wasnt aware he had issues with his side when GAJ was absent. They lost almost every time he was gone. I wasnt just the losses, it was the way they lost.
Bluey had a simple task over a few years, time and again; Find a way to get his team to fire when GAJ wasnt available. He failed time after time, with plenty of opportunities and time to consider it over the years. Yet he never could get them up.
The crunch came when GAJ did his shoulder and Blueys response proved he was pathetic at motivating confused players. All the Pieces Bluey knew from experience that they were going to fall apart, fell apart at his feet. He could do nothing about it. In fact, the first game without GAJ, when he should have had his best contingency plans, when he must have used his most focused conscious and subconscious psychological motivational tactics to counter the loss of GAJ, it was his worst coaching performance, and the teams worst ever performance. It was insipid, pathetic, weak, gutless performance by players and coach.
Bluey is not a motivational coach. He cant switch players on. He is a proven failure at sports psychology. If he cant do that, he is no good in September, ever. He is no good to a side under pressure and asking questions of themselves. He failed in the continued tests he was given to get the side to play without their leader. Year after year Bluey failed to get the team in the correct frame of mind when GAJ wasn't there. It is but one small example of what the future holds when Bluey is confronted with critical moments in a game where he needs to get his players thinking right. He cant. Not under pressure, not in critical situations, and not even when given time, and the same task.
On the other hand Bolton, when thrown in the deep end. A time when the players should and would have been confused, emotional, and in need of some positive psychological reinforcement, Bolton was challenged ....and won every game.
Bluey isnt the man to lead a successful franchise in perhaps the hardest playground for sporting teams in Australia. Blueys failure, the teams failure emptied seats at Metricon when they should have been full at seasons end. Dont blame Abletts shoulder. An astute coach would have steered them through. We wont always have GAJ on field, thats why we need a coach who can coach without GAJ on the field. Bluey cant do it.
Im not sure why the GC executive chose a novice coach in the first place. With a team mostly full of young kids i would have thought a coach with great experience in developing players was called for. Not a new coach in his first gig.
I think it became obvious that Bluey had issues when he failed to regroup his team after Ablett was injured. It wasnt as if Bluey wasnt aware he had issues with his side when GAJ was absent. They lost almost every time he was gone. I wasnt just the losses, it was the way they lost.
Bluey had a simple task over a few years, time and again; Find a way to get his team to fire when GAJ wasnt available. He failed time after time, with plenty of opportunities and time to consider it over the years. Yet he never could get them up.
The crunch came when GAJ did his shoulder and Blueys response proved he was pathetic at motivating confused players. All the Pieces Bluey knew from experience that they were going to fall apart, fell apart at his feet. He could do nothing about it. In fact, the first game without GAJ, when he should have had his best contingency plans, when he must have used his most focused conscious and subconscious psychological motivational tactics to counter the loss of GAJ, it was his worst coaching performance, and the teams worst ever performance. It was insipid, pathetic, weak, gutless performance by players and coach.
Bluey is not a motivational coach. He cant switch players on. He is a proven failure at sports psychology. If he cant do that, he is no good in September, ever. He is no good to a side under pressure and asking questions of themselves. He failed in the continued tests he was given to get the side to play without their leader. Year after year Bluey failed to get the team in the correct frame of mind when GAJ wasn't there. It is but one small example of what the future holds when Bluey is confronted with critical moments in a game where he needs to get his players thinking right. He cant. Not under pressure, not in critical situations, and not even when given time, and the same task.
On the other hand Bolton, when thrown in the deep end. A time when the players should and would have been confused, emotional, and in need of some positive psychological reinforcement, Bolton was challenged ....and won every game.
Bluey isnt the man to lead a successful franchise in perhaps the hardest playground for sporting teams in Australia. Blueys failure, the teams failure emptied seats at Metricon when they should have been full at seasons end. Dont blame Abletts shoulder. An astute coach would have steered them through. We wont always have GAJ on field, thats why we need a coach who can coach without GAJ on the field. Bluey cant do it.
