"Winning mentality"

[Freo95]

Regardless of it being a NAB cup or season proper, Freo sustaining a "winning mentality" is what i want, and is of upmost important IMO

 

[anti.]

i dont know, its hard to judge whether you really want a winning mentality in the preseason comp. while winning is the aim, you must realise you're playing teams who arent going 100% giving you somewhat overconfidence, when its not needed.

personally i find the nab cup a tune up, and winning isnt really an issue. as long there are little injuries and players in good form...thats all that really matters. i'd lose every nab cup game forever as long as we won in round 1 of that season.

 

[The Night Shift]

i dont know, its hard to judge whether you really want a winning mentality in the preseason comp. while winning is the aim, you must realise you're playing teams who arent going 100% giving you somewhat overconfidence, when its not needed.

personally i find the nab cup a tune up, and winning isnt really an issue. as long there are little injuries and players in good form...thats all that really matters. i'd lose every nab cup game forever as long as we won in round 1 of that season.

Only round one???
Thats a little shortsighted...

 

[anti.]

lol, you know what i mean.

 

[The Night Shift]

I know what you mean anti, however I understand Freo1995's point.
If Fremantle FC are to instill a permanent "winning culture" then we have to start from the ground up, and thats what we are doing with basically our entire football department being new.
You know darn well that we do not take the first practice match derby seriously or the NAB Cup, even though some of your fellow supporters are actually delusional enough to believe that myth, which was started by WC Fans anyways.
If winning a few pre season matches assists our side to being on the right side of the ledger for the H&A matches and beyond, then I'm cool with that.
Besides, who wants to win the NAB Cup anyways. The thing seems cursed the past few years.....
You guys made the final a few years back and it didn;t harm your season or fortunes at all.

 

[anti.]

but i find it's best not to gather too much in terms of whos going to finish where based on preseason games.

for example, the bulldogs got flogged last night, now people are saying they're bottom 4 material.

at the other end we got essendon, they've won 2 of 2 and some are saying that they can make the 8 now.

 

[The Night Shift]

The Bulldogs ain't bottom 4 material, in fact should really improve.. whereas essendon are very much likely to be bottom 4 IMHO.
Pre season matches are like masturbation. They help you practice for the real thing....
Now, I'm saying if your a winner your a w***er....

 

[DockerNJL]

The Bulldogs ain't bottom 4 material, in fact should really improve.. whereas essendon are very much likely to be bottom 4 IMHO.
Pre season matches are like masturbation. They help you practice for the real thing....
Now, I'm saying if your a winner your a w***er....

lol's NF, i see nothing wrong with going out there and giving it a crack.
we wont be giving 100% in the tactical front, players into the team and player positions but you expect a 100% effort everytime a player steps out to play.

 

[The Night Shift]

edit: what I meant to type
I'm not saying if your a winner your a w***er

silly me

 

[dominguez]

The focus should be on preparing your list for round one which means a lot of changes, but the players want to win each time they take the field.

Win, lose or draw tomorrow I'd like to see significant changes for next week so that everyone who is 100% fit gets atleast one game.

 

[Cheetah]

i dont know, its hard to judge whether you really want a winning mentality in the preseason comp. while winning is the aim, you must realise you're playing teams who arent going 100% giving you somewhat overconfidence, when its not needed.

personally i find the nab cup a tune up, and winning isnt really an issue. as long there are little injuries and players in good form...thats all that really matters. i'd lose every nab cup game forever as long as we won in round 1 of that season.

If you achieve this, then there is every chance you will win.

 

[YALLS]

West Coast players gave it 100% last week. They obviously where missing players due to fittness, conditioning, drug abuse and so on but the players on the park didn't let our boys waltze in and pick the ball up and kick goals at will with no pressure.
If you go in half hearted out there you'll be found out pretty quick and probobly get injured to boot.

 

[Frigate]

The Bulldogs ain't bottom 4 material, in fact should really improve.. whereas essendon are very much likely to be bottom 4 IMHO.
Pre season matches are like masturbation. They help you practice for the real thing....
Now, I'm saying if your a winner your a w***er....

That is one of the funniest analogies I have ever heard!

 

[ImperialPurple]

The Bulldogs ain't bottom 4 material, in fact should really improve.. whereas essendon are very much likely to be bottom 4 IMHO.
Pre season matches are like masturbation. They help you practice for the real thing....
Now, I'm saying if your a winner your a w***er....

Picking up on just the bolded part of your comment... they will be bottom 4 if they continue playing McDoodle in a key defensive position.

He was, still is, and always will be an absolute hack of the most highestest order.

 

[dominguez]

FFC should go all out to win the NAB cup.

The winning culture must start somewhere. We cant all of a sudden get to round 1 of the season proper and then announce: "lets start winning from here on in".

We should aim to crush every opponent we come across in the NAB cup so that we have an egde over them during the season proper.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Weagles playing squad is mentally scared after their last two encounters with FFC.

Does that mean playing our best side each week? If so, what about the guys who miss out but might be required early in the season? Isn't it important that they get some match fitness too?

 

[FreoGirl]

I think they should put forward their best players and have a red hot go. Any pre-season win will only give the team some much needed confidence.

 

[chook2734]

Different clubs and different players need different things from the pre-season. With a new coach, and losing one of our top midfielders (especially given it's a weakness already) our priorities need to be working on Harvey's game plan and instructions and finding a way to re-work our midfield. We also have an aging list apparently, so it's important to rest some of our senior citizens and there is also the travel factor to take into account. If we win, it's great, but so long as the structures are working and the plans are falling into place, who cares.

 

[dominguez]

I think it would be crazy for anyone to play 5 pre-season games (South Africa + 4 NAB games).

 

[Reveler]

I think it would be crazy for anyone to play 5 pre-season games (South Africa + 4 NAB games).

we will do it anyway won't we with the NAB challenge. Thats why we rest different players each week and didn't play an intraclub match.

Personally I think we should concentrate on giving everyone some game time and go out to win every game. I don't think we should play our best 22 each week though.

 

[Rabbitoh]

I'm a big believer that the NAB should be scrapped for extra rounds in the season proper...BUT...as long as it's here, I'd prefer the lads keep winning, as to go into the season with a string of losses has gotta do something negative to the players minds.

 

[dockers_bengals]

The way I see NAB is everyone is given a go for match fitness and that they give 100% not matter where or when they play.Even if they struggle in the position they play they could show signs that could get them in another like marking,tackling,speed etc...Winning is not the priority but playing as a team to a basic game plan is.The players know what team is fielded,changes that are made and how it will effect their chances of winning so losing to a stronger selected team still could give them confidence

 

[FreoGirl]

At the very least, we could try to add something to our incredibly empty trophy cabinet?

 

[purpleman]

We should play the best possilbe team we can get on the park week in week our. Having said that we must take in to consideration player fitness, age, the next 22 weeks etc, and if that means our best available includes 4 rookies and a couple of roughies so be it. Everyone on our list is a professional and will (should) always give us 100%.

 

[Keys]

FFC should go all out to win the NAB cup.

The winning culture must start somewhere. We cant all of a sudden get to round 1 of the season proper and then announce: "lets start winning from here on in".

We should aim to crush every opponent we come across in the NAB cup so that we have an egde over them during the season proper.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Weagles playing squad is mentally scared after their last two encounters with FFC.

I would pay to watch you do stand up

There is a difference between players trying to win every game they play (which they should do) and going "all out" to win a pre season comp (which is a waste of time and effort).

They are warm up matches designed to get your playing list ready for Round 1 in the best shape possible and I'm sure that is how Harvey is approaching the NAB cup.

I don't know how we can possibly recover form the trauma of our loss to you a week ago.

 

[dominguez]

we will do it anyway won't we with the NAB challenge.

The Fremantle Football Club will obviously play 5 pre-season games, but IMO no individual should play in all 5 of them. Even 4 is too many practice games for any player, hopefully we'll make wholesale changes next week.