Yeah I am of this opinion too, call me cynical, but the club from all public indicators appears to be following the established selection pattern, the same selection pattern that has delivered 0 Grandfinals since 1998, but perhaps the club believe that their selection policy is good, and it is other areas that are causing us to fail to succeed.
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I mean, in my opinion it appears that the Crows are massive chokers, could be we just aren't good enough when it comes to playing other top sides, but i think it is a combination of some of that and a almost endemic fear of success, a visible, obvious timidness in high pressure games, whether that has something to do with our preparation, how the club perceives, or conceptualises big games, and pressure, I think that is worth looking into. Nigel Smart did once run on hot coals, perhaps outside thinking is needed again?
That could all be my cynical bias too.
I think the club would really benefit from someone coming in an observing the entire operation, for a whole season, a fly on the wall. Just observing the institution, the different ideas and identities within the club, how they are constituted through discourse, how the club talks internally about different things. Then present the findings to the club, because it is hard when you are within a system to see how that system contributes to the construction of ideas.
Discourse, language, ideas these are very powerful when it comes to policy, decision making and in turn outcomes, in any institution. How you conceptualise success can influence how you approach success. This sort of thinking is well established in other fields and would work well if applied to researching for a policy paper at an AFL, shit I'd do it for free, I mean EU institutions are more my wheelhouse, but I wouldn't imagine the learning curve would be too great to prohibit a project like this.