Post match review after eagles game

[Mac]

I was one of the people clapping the team off the field that day.

I was genuinely pleased with their effort that day and the Eagles with their skill, toughness and experience were always odds on to get over the line even if we didn't have those couple of stuff ups at crucial times.

But Terry gave them the routine that he has done before about not good enough to have effort and lose. Maybe not quite as harsh as the famous "...I'll fair dinkum spew!" line, but I'm wondering how appropriate this approach was in hindsight. They looked disappointed with themselves walking off - I don't think they needed to be told, as they already knew.

After being relatively competitive for five games and losing, then being told your efforts were "not good enough" after getting close against a clearly better side, then the cats get away to an absolute flyer....did this just slap the drive out of them completely as a unit?

I can understand the logic of this approach sometimes as a motivator, but equally - sometimes good efforts need to be recognised as good efforts and built upon, rather than dismantled.

This is different from being mentally weak, which I know we often are. I just think this might have been the wrong approach this time. (alternatively, they should have been torn new ones after Sunday)

 

[Liverpool]

That was the 5th game in a row we could (and maybe SHOULD) have won....so if Terry did go off at them, then I think he had a right to in this case.

I honestly think something else has happened....or even, its a culmination of things that have happened over a period of time, as apart from Tiva and Gas, the team was the same, and if anything (as many posters had said), I also was excited that we had even more kids in the team.

Maybe the senior players are feeling like they are on limited time and protesting?
Was it a group decision to play to protest the treatment of Gas?
Is there a divide between senior players and younger players?
Do the players respect Terry? do they think he is just using the club to further his own agendas outside of football (e.g- media).

There has to be a main reason why a team can push the Premiers (and the Swans)....and then fold, in such humiliating and dramatic circumstances, to a much weaker opposition than the Eagles/Swans, in such a short period of time.

If the players dropped the bungle, and flew the white flag, because of Terry ripping into them after the Eagles game, then the players need to have a hard look at themselves, and maybe apply for a job selling Krispy Kreme Donuts at the Dome, instead of playing there.

 

[ToraToraTora]

Somebody's got to off at some stage surely. Frawdud's " yeah nah proud of the boys" approach only got us so far. David Sprigg's comments in the Hun on Sun about Bomber T. were quite interesting. Sprigg's reckoned he needed positive feedback instead of the negative assessments from Bomber....whether Bomber was looking to fire Sprigg's up is unknown, but Sprigg's was certainly forced into his shell. It's a toughie, but sure, I'm all for an old fashioned face full of spittle once in a while.

 

[Mac]

Yep some fair calls. And I expected the arguement that if the poor little boys can't stand a ripping into, then they shouldn't be playing AFL. I recognise that and agree with it. And I'm not even sure Terry ripped into them, rather just played on downside rather than the upside.

But it is a very fine balance getting the best out of the people under your managment. Get the call wrong and it can go pear shaped pretty quickly.

I think you can be mentally tough enough to cop it sweet when it warrrants. But sometimes, the timing isn't right to play that card - especially if the effort was in fact there, but you were just beaten by a better side and can learn from it for the future.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Going purely by TWs press conference's etc. in the past, I'd say Terry is pretty generous in his praise for the troops.

The reality is that the team went missing when the results were there's to have over the first 5 weeks. I'd say the spray was a culmination of the start to the season.

He wasn't the only one going off his nut. ullhair