Mental Toughness, Mentor Programme etc

[geoffryprettyboy]

Physical fitness is about 30% of what you need to WIN, 70% is in your head. You can be as fit as a fiddle, but if you do not have the motivation or the ability to within pressure, then doesn't matter how physically fit you're you will not make it to the line.
I've seen that in special forces selection, guys who aren't quite a fit as some other guys, but the guys who made it are the ones who absolutely gut it out mentally (which included a few who were pretty fit but not super fit like some).

That said GBP, you may be on to something, if the players physical fitness is not up to scratch then you're pushing s--t uphill before you even start which means you're going to go downhill mentally even faster.

God this bloody club is a mess.

If you were there M, you would have noticed fitness was an issue.

 

[geoffryprettyboy]

Wondered the same thing GR. Here is one team linked together and the others all stand apart from each other. Never guess which team won.

:hihi So ya reckon holding hands gave them a mental edge. :rofl

Watching the tape as I'm typing, from the 15 minute mark of the 2nd quarter the run in the Tigers is starting to fade. The real passengers are starting to shine bright.

 

[Tigerhart04]

:hihi So ya reckon holding hands gave them a mental edge. :rofl

Watching the tape as I'm typing, from the 15 minute mark of the 2nd quarter the run in the Tigers is starting to fade. The real passengers are starting to shine bright.

Don't always have to be a smart A Geoffrey. What I was suggesting is solidarity amongst the players. pretty simple really.

 

[geoffryprettyboy]

Don't always have to be a smart A Geoffrey. What I was suggesting is solidarity amongst the players. pretty simple really.

Hey, don't spit the dummy, :dummyspit all the Richmond players were told to have there hands crossed behind there backs, wasn't that solidarity? Maybe touchy, touchy, feeling each other made the Essendon players run all over us..........give me a break. :rofl

 

[Total Tiger]

Notice pre-game, Knights and his players arm in arm... and then, pre game huddle, Knights in there with his team...

That really stood out at the ground. After the week we've had, they looked united while we looked like a team of individuals.

 

[Massai]

If you were there M, you would have noticed fitness was an issue.

If that's the case GPB, then the Football Department Manager Craig Cameron is directly responsible for this mess as well.

If the players are not fit, they are behind the 8 ball for a start. They certainly aren't mentally tough enough, if their collective physical fitness is also in doubt then the club is an absolute disgrace and Cameron who took over from Miller BEFORE the last pre season, needs to have his arse kicked HARD as well. So too the fitness guru's because whatever programme they have designed simply has not worked, assuming that you're right about players individual levels of fitness.

As for the issue of the Essendon players linking arms, I for one have no problem with that. It clearly shows a united team and that is something that Richmond, is not, has not and will not be, until they get the right people in with the right attitude to get this club back up and running.

Once again I simply point out that Richmonds Player Development is WOEFULLY INEPT, INADEQUATE AND INCOMPETENT. So when they sack Wallace, they should also sack Bond and I'd probably add Cameron to that list as well. I don't want any of them at the club, they've had their time and to me all 3 of these so called football experts have failed miserably in their appointed roles.

I just wonder if the Board will have the collective guts to do what is so clearly necessary.

 

[BladeTiger]

You are right Massai, we need to clean the club out from the top before it is too late and we become the Tassie Tigers (re-located or extinct).

Gary March was Vice Pres before he became President so has been intimately involved in the train wreck we see paraded week in week out.

His continual hiding behind the football department review is becoming quite a cop out.

FFS, if he didn't twig after 2007 Wallace was a useless coach leading the club nowhere fast we are in real trouble. We need a 12 month review to work this out?

 

[TIGEREXTRA]

Agree with the top two posts.

I will not accept that fitness is the cause, and if it was then that is even worse.

Can someone out there orgainise and AGM, I want this whole board out, we need all new employee's into this club. We need a fresh start!!!

 

[Tigerhart04]

Hey, don't spit the dummy, :dummyspit all the Richmond players were told to have there hands crossed behind there backs, wasn't that solidarity? Maybe touchy, touchy, feeling each other made the Essendon players run all over us..........give me a break. :rofl

Geoff, if you think that was a dummy spit, please give ME a break. :rofl

How do you know they were told to have their hands behind their backs? Visual perceptions may appear to be just that, a perception, but sitting in the Ponsford stand I wasn't the only one making that comment. There were quite a few from both Tiger and Essendon supporters.

 

[rocketman]

We have VERY week management and THAT is the reason we are in such a position. I am a veteran Company Director and am appalled at the lack of direction given by the leaders of the RFC. Not only the football division but at all levels. What does Wright do?? I never hear from him - he is supposed to be CEO?? When did we last "retrench" someone through lack of performance - Bond, Royal, etc, etc.

We lose again and TW says it was OK in his post game address - top in hardball gets. HBG's are good but what about soft ball stuff ups??

One of my grandsons has left the tigers to follow Hawthorn and the other two are wavering (did you see the little tiger kid in tears on the telly last night?).

This problem (1-8) starts with the top and demands quick action....... make some (offfield) moves.......

I am angry...

 

[IanG]

We have VERY week management and THAT is the reason we are in such a position. I am a veteran Company Director and am appalled at the lack of direction given by the leaders of the RFC. Not only the football division but at all levels.

How do you know what direction is given internally? The fact that its not made public doesn't mean its not there. The administration displayed strength during the week in quelling the player revolt, its actually a strength to be sticking to their plans regardless of external pressure. Its not strength to give in to the whims of supporters and axe people willy nilly, there are other considerations.

What does Wright do?? I never hear from him - he is supposed to be CEO?? When did we last "retrench" someone through lack of performance - Bond, Royal, etc, etc.

Wright has little to do with the football side of things at least publically but he has the off field side of things purring.

 

[rocketman]

Thanks IanG..... enjoy your life at Punt Road....