Karim Abdul Yeo
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- Jul 30, 2013
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Hi,
This is my first ever Thread in this forum.
I thought I post this to get everyone's opinion on what you identify as the most important area that has enabled West Coast Eagles ( or any other team for that matter, this year its us, every year there is always one team that has significant improvements, Adelaide under sando's first year and port under Kens first year of the recent few seasons comes to mind) to be fighting for top 4 spot.
I am going to give my take on what i believe is a collection of several things that leads to a team operating as a well oiled machinery. I will also like to raise couple of key issues of how teams in AFL have such a quick turn around of results going from bottom 4 not even in the finals contention to missing out on GF by a goal ( port last year) in a space of one season and then flop miserably the running year due to peer Internal pressure( board and fans) and external pressure( media and footy world) or something else??. could this same pattern happen to West Coast Eagles too?? how?? why?? and how can we prevent it??
Here is what I think why teams like port, Adelaide and us to a degree managed to turn around and get rewarded by it in terms of footy world perception descibe as" a contender or big deal".
This bring me to the current predicament we are facing now which is West Coast Eagles sitting nicely at 2nd ( hehehe), most likely will finish top 4 this year and who knows might go as far as prelim if not GF maybe even win it. all good. but how good?? will we be there again next year or is this another Sando or ken scenario waiting to happen??
here is what I think how we are slightly different to those teams:
Have we peaked too early like mentioned teams?? i dunno. its always good to be on winning streak, but is everything planned out for next season if we make deep run this year?? only time will tell.
What do you guys think?? I had to get this out of my chest. sorry for the essay, i will learn to summarise better as time goes on
This is my first ever Thread in this forum.
I thought I post this to get everyone's opinion on what you identify as the most important area that has enabled West Coast Eagles ( or any other team for that matter, this year its us, every year there is always one team that has significant improvements, Adelaide under sando's first year and port under Kens first year of the recent few seasons comes to mind) to be fighting for top 4 spot.
I am going to give my take on what i believe is a collection of several things that leads to a team operating as a well oiled machinery. I will also like to raise couple of key issues of how teams in AFL have such a quick turn around of results going from bottom 4 not even in the finals contention to missing out on GF by a goal ( port last year) in a space of one season and then flop miserably the running year due to peer Internal pressure( board and fans) and external pressure( media and footy world) or something else??. could this same pattern happen to West Coast Eagles too?? how?? why?? and how can we prevent it??
Here is what I think why teams like port, Adelaide and us to a degree managed to turn around and get rewarded by it in terms of footy world perception descibe as" a contender or big deal".
- Game Plan- change of coaching personnel is always a big indicator of one teams future success IMO. new ideas, fresh tactics, rejuvenating the team and breaking the shackles. it has been evident for many years once teams change coaches the team tends to respond and play better and start putting some W's on board. however, there is also a deceptive evil in this perception which is basically getting the footy world too excited once the honey moon period is over. this is where distinguishing between actual success formula versus the short term honey moon formula is so hard to determine. I give you Sanderson and ken Hinckley examples.Both came in to clubs at a state of turmoil and started clean and had amazing turn around in their first season. If i am not mistaken both teams made dream Prelim run where both got beaten by Hawks in a close game. Fast forward the upcoming season or two for both teams where now the were on the spotlight, with immense external and internal pressure, what happened?? Crows folded miserably which lead to Sando's job and Ken is on the same track as being o verge of losing his job. was the pressure too much?? did it get into the mind of coaching team that all of a sudden they thought their game plan can stand up against the big boys?? was their strategy good enough to take into all these variables into account on crunch time?? maybe their plan was just to get the team on winning games and all of a sudden they are now a contender and they had not contingency plans for that once teams figured their Plan A style of play they had no answer??. was the team mature enough to take on such responsibility in such a short turn around??
This bring me to the current predicament we are facing now which is West Coast Eagles sitting nicely at 2nd ( hehehe), most likely will finish top 4 this year and who knows might go as far as prelim if not GF maybe even win it. all good. but how good?? will we be there again next year or is this another Sando or ken scenario waiting to happen??
here is what I think how we are slightly different to those teams:
- This is simmo's 2nd year not 1st year. it might not mean too much but he has had time to bulid his team and mature them a little more compared to the crows or port. only time will tell if im right or wrong.
- Simmos press conference are always a delight to watch, he is very specific and careful on what he wants to say about our chances this year. doesnt talk us up too much but also doesnt say we are bad. it is a fine line for a coach to realise when to announce to the footy world that we are a big deal. if you go too quick, it could lead to all that internal and external pressure being too much for immature team which could destroy the team and ultimatley his job. If you go too late, it could lead to the team not believing in themselves that they have the killer edge to succeed all the way ( Flag). it all comes down to maturity and timing and thats where you can identify which coach has the ability to make a team a winner ( long term) and which coach will pull the trigger too early ad undo everything they have worked for.
Have we peaked too early like mentioned teams?? i dunno. its always good to be on winning streak, but is everything planned out for next season if we make deep run this year?? only time will tell.
What do you guys think?? I had to get this out of my chest. sorry for the essay, i will learn to summarise better as time goes on
