Rumour Adelaide Crows camp

[van peebles]

Dangerfield should be named captain immediately.

 

[SBYM]

Can confirm they hired this guy for the camp.

I just OD'ed on cringe.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Clubs these days employ sports psychologists to create personality profiles of every player in order to decipher the best way to coach each individual player. If you throw an extroverted leader and a introverted sensitive into a camp like this and expect the same results you have already failed as a coaching group. Not every player is the same, and anyone suggesting that any of these guys are 'mentally soft' for not dealing well with the sheer absurdity this 'camp' provided needs to update themselves with current coaching methods and mental health knowledge.
It's pretty simple. Do you try and break a talented footballer mentally because you don't perceive his personality to be 'tough enough', potentially risking him going backwards as he struggles with it?
OR
Do you do some research and find the best way to harness each individuals best attributes as a footballer by coaching them to their personality traits?

Any club not doing it in the way of the latter is doing it wrong as far as i'm concerned.

 

[Bluelegs]

AFL Media right now

 

[Grug_]

Heaps impressed guy you are my navy hero

Old champ spends 12 months working 10hrs a week at Paynhem State Swim while studying a Bachelor of Arts and thinks he's Black Hawk Down.

He has my vote for The Messenger Local Hero Awards too

 

[tigs2010]

There were elements of the camp where we deliberately through a little bit of confusion into it,” Adelaide chief executive Andrew Fagan told AFL Nation recently.

Ok interesting story but ffs its threw

Can't believe you guys appointed an uneducated chief executive that doesn't know the difference...

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Definitely one for the “who comes up with this shit?” file

 

[Adz2332]

could explain why a few of the senior players havent fired a shot yet in the JLT or round 1?
JJ, Betts etc

 

[ABSOLUTE MADMAN]

This one does not sound as bad as the demons camp. Seems like a cool idea actually. The blindfolded and driven into the middle of Australia part would be a unique bonding experience to look back on.

 

[StillAtLarge]

This one does not sound as bad as the demons camp. Seems like a cool idea actually. The blindfolded and driven into the middle of Australia part would be a unique bondage experience to look back on.

FIFY

 

[ABSOLUTE MADMAN]

FIFY

Need a photoshop of the Priscilla bus with a Crow logo on it.

 

[ABSOLUTE MADMAN]

Clubs these days employ sports psychologists to create personality profiles of every player in order to decipher the best way to coach each individual player. If you throw an extroverted leader and a introverted sensitive into a camp like this and expect the same results you have already failed as a coaching group. Not every player is the same, and anyone suggesting that any of these guys are 'mentally soft' for not dealing well with the sheer absurdity this 'camp' provided needs to update themselves with current coaching methods and mental health knowledge.
It's pretty simple. Do you try and break a talented footballer mentally because you don't perceive his personality to be 'tough enough', potentially risking him going backwards as he struggles with it?
OR
Do you do some research and find the best way to harness each individuals best attributes as a footballer by coaching them to their personality traits?

Any club not doing it in the way of the latter is doing it wrong as far as i'm concerned.

Why not work on his perceived weakness to toughen him up over time without breaking him mentally？

 

[captain cotch 9]

apparently they where tied up and forced to watch the replay of the GF

 

[Tandy]

They should ditch the stance for the chicken dance

 

[Beerfish]

They should ditch the stance for the chicken dance

It's so crazy it might just work.

 

[Milanista28]

Blindfolded on a bus and given food, Sounds like my type of training camp.

 

[cowboy18]

They should ditch the stance for the chicken dance

My sources tell me that someone in head office accidentally abbreviated Safety Dance to "Stance", and if they had to run with it. If they had stuck to the full version they would be selling premiership merch and backtoback t-shirts.

It's a song, and a band, that time has certainly been kind to.

 

[Jakksynn]

If this actually caused distress to certain players, then it’s an indictment on the leaders at the AFC.

My money is on it just being a media beat up though.

 

[Del80659]

This one does not sound as bad as the demons camp. Seems like a cool idea actually. The blindfolded and driven into the middle of Australia part would be a unique bonding experience to look back on.

maybe if it was actually a close-knit footy club with people who liked each other it'd work. but forcing a team that got spanked in a GF that don't feel tight at all to go on a strange American-inspired psychological torture camp is the most vanilla "let's do this cos we paid American experts $35k to come up with it for us" shit i've ever heard.

 

[GreyCrow]

apparently they where tied up and forced to watch the replay of the GF

I would complain as well. Still havent bothered

 

[GreyCrow]

maybe if it was actually a close-knit footy club with people who liked each other it'd work. but forcing a team that got spanked in a GF that don't feel tight at all to go on a strange American-inspired psychological torture camp is the most vanilla "let's do this cos we paid American experts $35k to come up with it for us" shit i've ever heard.

Fair troll 3/10

I mean I got upset and all

 

[Del80659]

Fair troll 3/10

I mean I got upset and all

i have no idea what you're talking about or why you posted a gif from when our team got hypnotised in like 2012 lol.

i really wasn't trolling. deflecting without even thinking about the criticism is EXACTLY what we're talking about.

 

[Tandy]

Tex is a weak captain. Only need to see what he said on how he handled the GF. Leadership change needed

 

[Del80659]

Those experts helped guide the Rabbitohs to a flag and Richmond wete the only other team to invest heavily into these mental exercises and strangely enough both teams made the Grand Final.

that has nothing to do with Adelaide though. it's great it worked with other clubs but like i said you can't just pay big bucks to force some people into your club to shake it up, clearly going by the article it rubbed your players the wrong way, obviously Richmond and South Sydney were more open to it. you can't just bring an expert into a work environment and they wave a magic wand and the culture changes, it has to resonate with the workers.

 

[Heisenberg_]

Those experts helped guide the Rabbitohs to a flag and Richmond were the only other team to invest heavily into these mental exercises and strangely enough both teams made the Grand Final.

I don’t know about South Sydney but Richmond never took part in a camp as stupid as what the Crows did, yoga and meditation to relax the mind is about as far away from mentally breaking them as it gets.