Yep, we really do suffer from a delusional process of thinking we can take something and mould them in to what we want as opposed to getting what we need from the start.
And all this ends up doing is making the original less than what it was when he arrived.
We have guys that have excellent years (Wines - atm, Ryder, Dixon, Wingard, DBJ, Houston, Rozee, Butters etc) but too many of them seem to go backwards and only occasionally do we see what made us so excited to begin with.
That's coaching. That's almost removing what once made them so good as they slowly adhere to a reasonably scripted way of playing. We remove the individuality and replace it with conformity.
When this happens guys replace that split second instinctive nature with a hesitancy when things aren't going to script, and it only takes a second to not get to a contest, to be second to the ball, to miss the tackle or to put yourself under pressure when if you had responded that fraction of a second earlier the pressure wouldn't have been there or would have been of a lesser scale.
Teams like this often appear to not have any idea what they're doing when things aren't going as expected and have to a certain degree lost the ability or desire to be instinctive. Scared to be creative, scared to be 'the one', scared of not doing what they feel they should instead of what they think they should.
That's how we look to me and that's always coaching.
