gustiger12 said:
I didnt for starters and if you had told me that back in 05 I probably wouldnt have started hanging out with you!
Would of saved my liver a lot of damage :hihi
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I didnt for starters and if you had told me that back in 05 I probably wouldnt have started hanging out with you!
Would of saved my liver a lot of damage :hihi
Chiang Mai Tiger said:
And I always thought that was what turned you to drink in the first place.
I dont understand, this is Cameron's first draft and the role of Wallace vs Cameron or Miller sounds like its nearly identical, they all discuss the needs and available talent then the recruiters make the call, as Miller and this year Cameron did.evo said:
lamb22 said:
and breaking barb from carlton's jaw when he swung a cricket bat at the fence after getting out....
billyb#40 said:
If, but, maybe billybrownless.
Sadly nothing went to script for the Tiges that day from the moment we ran out.
We were struggling even before Madcow went off and whilst the hammie didn't help, you sensed the Blues were on top already at that point and we would have lost anyway.
Browny had an uncharacteristically off day for sure but he was not on his own. Most of our leaders let us down.
Richo too was also having his worst game of the season to date before his injury.
That just topped off what had already been a relatively dark day for him.
For whatever reason the team weren't up for that game when they should have been able to run through walls.
In relation to this thread was it Wallace's inability to fire up the troops?? I dunno but something was off.
Maybe it was the Hawthorn jumpers?
Shouldn't have mattered in reality. We should have been switched on for anything.
IMO up until this game Terry's coaching had been unconvincing during the season and the loss that day had more questioning his coaching credentials. Had we improved at all from the disaster of '07? :headscratch
In reality we'd actually been pretty patchy in the month leading up to that game with some relatively unconvincing wins against the Dees & Port(better admittedly) following the disastrous earlier games against contenders Sydney(rnd10) & Adelaide(rnd11).
The Centenary match was a huge not just in terms of our history but more importantly our season.
It was pretty well in tatters after that & both the players & Wallace had to wear that disappointment.
We were always destined to make up the numbers again after that loss.
Not a good day, best forgotten.
Ironically Polak being severely injured that night seemed to steel the side considerably and spurred on our team's performances from that point on for the rest of the year.
Wallace's impact as coach from this point is hard to gauge as emotion would have played a huge part.
I will give him credit that it was channeled correctly and the wins flowed freely with the memorable Lions win at the Dome capping a sterling three weeks for the club as it gathered around it's injured team mate.
No doubt we finished the year off strongly although perhaps we felt we had a touch more to play for than other sides we beat that were winding down. It's difficult to calculate the value of wins late in the season IMO as many teams have shut up shop. Certainly many of the sides we beat had.
This season coming we won't have the emotion of Polak's injury to draw on to eck out wins as we did late last year.
What we will have is pressure. Pressure to make the 8 or the coach is out the door.
Terry Wallace will be under the pump from the very first game and we will find out soon enough whether his players are really interested in playing for him.
Time will tell. Let's hope the plan comes together.
Freezer said:
Did you ever really think we'd make it?
It would have required a miracle to fall in.
As it ended up we finished ninth(again).
Tigers of Old said:
When I was serious about cricket, my coach used to talk about not getting us too fired up before a game as we'd become over motivated.
He had this theory that motivation for sport was like a bell shaped curve. The coach had to get players as close to the top of the bell as possible, without letting people go too far down the other side. If people became too motivated, he said they'd try too hard, often with poor skills coming as a result (eg because they lose concentration on the task at hand) or with people tightening up too early in the game.
I reckon the build up and everything had the tigers ready to come out and play about 30mins before they walked on the ground, and we saw that they ran out of steam far too early.
It’s a fine line the motivation thing. You look at some of those turkeys in the NFL and all the over-hype they carry on with and you think.....pfffft.
But on the other hand, there’s nothing worse than playing with a team mate who is a dozy over-relaxed, smiley dud who just goes through the motions.
But on the other hand, there’s nothing worse than playing with a team mate who is a dozy over-relaxed, smiley dud who just goes through the motions.
It was a pity the melb game wasnt a "live" game To0.Tigers of Old said:
We might have been celebrating
RICHO THE 08 BROWNLOW MEDALIST :beer :beer :beer
Agree, the second finals were ruled out, Richo had his worst game in 2 years.
His major weakness has never been it's kicking. It's always been his negative thinking.
Even watching the Brisbane game (round 17) last night, when the Lions got a few goals in front he got too emotional and you could tell he was thinking "we've lost... *smile*... no chance now". A few other players sparked a bit of hope again and suddenly Richo feels like it's possible to win and what does he do? Kicks 3 goals in the last quarter (and sets up another 2) to cap off another brilliant match. In previous years his teammates wouldn't have given him that hope to allow him to dig deep into that massive barrel of passion to find something extra that something nobody else can find...
I reckon if Richo was given the hope of finals, he wouldn't have had that negative mindset in Round 22, and he would have won a Brownlow Medal.
Ah well, we still love him ;D
His major weakness has never been it's kicking. It's always been his negative thinking.
Even watching the Brisbane game (round 17) last night, when the Lions got a few goals in front he got too emotional and you could tell he was thinking "we've lost... *smile*... no chance now". A few other players sparked a bit of hope again and suddenly Richo feels like it's possible to win and what does he do? Kicks 3 goals in the last quarter (and sets up another 2) to cap off another brilliant match. In previous years his teammates wouldn't have given him that hope to allow him to dig deep into that massive barrel of passion to find something extra that something nobody else can find...
I reckon if Richo was given the hope of finals, he wouldn't have had that negative mindset in Round 22, and he would have won a Brownlow Medal.
Ah well, we still love him ;D
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An interesting article regarding mind games in sport, (updated).
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