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Gerard Healy mentioned that Nic Nat is a chaos player - his presence worries the opposition into doing things they wouldn't normally do - handball in a panic.
Autopsy Positives and Negatives vs Richmond
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Gerard Healy mentioned that Nic Nat is a chaos player - his presence worries the opposition into doing things they wouldn't normally do - handball in a panic.
He often does it before the quarters start
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You've made a really good point, there.
The hiding Richmond copped in Round 6 was probably one of the best things that happened to them all year. Until then, like us, they'd been undefeated, scoring highly/freely with growing confidence. After the game, Hardwick looked haggled and bemused, both. I remember him saying that the loss showed them how far they had to go --- which they did *mutter mutter gripe whinge
*.The 12+ goal loss would have given their coaching staff ammunition to motivate their team, as in "You thought you were pretty good, didn't you? Well, you're 13 goals behind one of the best sides so you have a lot of work to do".
I'm not a fan of the following phrase, but in hindsight it really looked like "the loss they had to have".
Your clobbering them might provide similar motivation, again.
By contrast, I think one of the many reasons we lost the GF was due to player expectation because they'd beaten Richmond so convincingly before. Very often, when players think they're going to win --- "We-should-win-this" --- they don't (eg Round 9, Lions belted Hawks, Essendon walloped Cats).
"We-should-win-this" is one of the biggest mental traps in sport.
In here, however, I haven't seen much bravado or hubris about your excellent 8-1 position. It's more like, "Great win, move on, who's next?".
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You've made a really good point, there.
The hiding Richmond copped in Round 6 was probably one of the best things that happened to them all year. Until then, like us, they'd been undefeated, scoring highly/freely with growing confidence. After the game, Hardwick looked haggled and bemused, both. I remember him saying that the loss showed them how far they had to go --- which they did *mutter mutter gripe whinge
The 12+ goal loss would have given their coaching staff ammunition to motivate their team, as in "You thought you were pretty good, didn't you? Well, you're 13 goals behind one of the best sides so you have a lot of work to do".
I'm not a fan of the following phrase, but in hindsight it really looked like "the loss they had to have".
Your clobbering them might provide similar motivation, again.
By contrast, I think one of the many reasons we lost the GF was due to player expectation because they'd beaten Richmond so convincingly before. Very often, when players think they're going to win --- "We-should-win-this" --- they don't (eg Round 9, Lions belted Hawks, Essendon walloped Cats).
"We-should-win-this" is one of the biggest mental traps in sport.
In here, however, I haven't seen much bravado or hubris about your excellent 8-1 position. It's more like, "Great win, move on, who's next?".
I feel this Eagles side mentally are in a good place. They were written off by many so called experts as being bottom 4 this year. They have a handful of pretty good players who have missed a lot of footy in the past couple of years due to injury. Last season the list copped very much a hard cull of some popular players, some who had a few years left to play.
We also have a couple of players like Kennedy, Hurn ans Le cras who may only have 1, 2 or 3 years left before they retire.
Add in a bit of youth and quite a few who tasted GF defeat in 2015 we have a team that mentally is not all that full of themselves and a bit desperate to succeed. They can see we have a good system and depth that is working but they know that opportunities like this are rare.
I hope all this keeps the group grounded and focused on what needs to be done week in week out.
Haha makes me think of the Seinfeld and his manager episode with the pilot. Maybe it was "Jack would like you to not attend his games anymore...its just that it kinda freaks him out"
Can you definitely get HD replays on demand? I just checked on my smart TV app. No bingo. Next step is to check via gaming console but the app is the same.
yeh, interesting point, i'm not sure that was a reason they lost the GF, and I don't know the real reason. they were younger, less experienced, as was the coach. maybe over-awed, maybe got sucked in by all the media hype, maybe they just weren't good enough on the day, maybe Hawks were at their awesome best?By contrast, I think one of the many reasons we lost the GF was due to player expectation because they'd beaten Richmond so convincingly before. Very often, when players think they're going to win --- "We-should-win-this" --- they don't (eg Round 9, Lions belted Hawks, Essendon walloped Cats).
"We-should-win-this" is one of the biggest mental traps in sport.
In here, however, I haven't seen much bravado or hubris about your excellent 8-1 position. It's more like, "Great win, move on, who's next?".
but do teams and players seriously go into a game these days thinking we should win this? as professionals they prepare in advance in every way possible..but some days lots of little factors add up and you get beaten, even if you know you're going in as favourites. Perhaps Simmo wasn't ready to take on his mentor, the master coach...he looks ready now.
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so true.
Needs to toughen up and use Lynx africa shower gel.
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Oh nah wasn’t talking about HD, still standard on the console. Just thought it might have been easier using the PlayStation to stream it rather than the phone (for live games). No idea how to get HD on demand though which is annoying, can’t really plan my day around waiting for the footy channel schedule to replay our game.
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Uuuhhhh ... what?
I did say it might have been one "of many reasons". Which GF are you referring to? I was talking about the 2017 GF, Crows vs Richmond.
1) yes, I think they do. Teams who've regularly contested finals since 2000 (Hawks, Sydney, WCE, Geelong) or take a hat trick (Hawks, Brisbane) all showed mental toughness and the ability to lift a gear to win a game from behind. In 2017, I think the Crows lacked that mental toughness and went into the GF weakened by injury, disunited by the Lever controversy and also expected to win based on the Round 6 clobbering they gave Richmond.
2) I agree, naming some of those factors above.
I never got the impression that the teams above ever played like "We-should-win-this". Their attitude was "We have to win this!" --- it was a necessity which enabled them to beat strong opponents and hammer weaker teams eg Brisbane at the Gabba, and your blokes at Subiaco when you dominated.
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That's generally the case, he sits just down from me in 538 and is well lubricated by the time he is trying to start it. He's very proud of himself when it gets going.
Personally I hate the wave but I guess its just a bit of fun
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Ive already explained this, he can do three things at least (tag, inside mid, wing) so he's Neopolitan..
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