North Melbourne's list

[pumped]

There has been so much discussion about the weakness of the Carlton list and how Denis had no chance getting success because of draft problems.

I was watching a replay on foxtel of the North game and the commentators were complementing Laidley on how he gets the best out of his list. I haven't really rated Laidley and felt him to be very intense a bit like Denis. However I saw recently that he has employed a life coach to balance him out as a person.

I am wondering if this has actually helped him to become less intense and to reach his players more than what he may have previously. When I look at their list I really don't see it as being much more gifted than ours. They seem to be doing pretty well in getting the best out of players likeThompson [recycled] and Archer [veteran] where we struggle with our similar types. Would love to have Wells but don't see too many superstars on their list that we could not match.

We have 2 wins, they have 10. I think we have a coach who is most likely more gifted than theirs yet we are not performing well. My question is - could our problem be due to where Denis' mind is at? What if Denis needs some balancing of his own stress levels and that some help in this area could trigger an improvement in our performances?

 

[bibi01]

My question is - could our problem be due to where Denis' mind is at? What if Denis needs some balancing of his own stress levels and that some help in this area could trigger an improvement in our performances?

There are a whole heap of factors on why we are on 2 1/2 wins and north on 10 wins

our main problem this season has been-
we have not ben able to get any momentum,
we lost games early where we had chanes to win.
our confidence is really low,
we got injuries to key players which has shown we are unable to cover.
our list has potential, but we have players not fullfilling that potential.
at times out coaching box has backed players to get themselves out of a rut and they have not been able to do so.

as has been seen with so many sports and teams at the bottom of leagues and tables, for some unknown reason they find it hard to win, they get into winning positions and manage to find a way to lose.

also north have a lot of strong bodies players in their team, something we dearly lack.

granted north do get the most out of their list and they are a very determined group, they always have been, but IMO they are not going to win a GF with their current list.

IMO the players need to have more acountability for our performances rather than the coaches (not all of it, but a lot more than they do currently).

where is denis mind at?
i think he is on the ball, he is not perfect but he knows what he is doing.

where does the improvement come from?
that needs to come from the 22 that run out each week. we have shown that at time we can play some really good footy, then we just swith off. most of the games we have lost have been due to 20 min lapses (along with some poor kicking and decsion making)
and we don't tackle hard enough. i can't recall the last time we gang tackled.