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the day the earth stopped spinning - x. doherty & nathan lyon
the day the earth stopped spinning - x. doherty & nathan lyon
Wickzki
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He is the coach just as any other professional coach is there. 95% of it is to motivate. Clearly he is NOT motivating this team.
"Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players." - Vince Lombardi
"Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz
I assume the sequel is "wide and short".
"Shit gets the reward" then completes the trilogy?
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good things come in 3s.
This just goes to show, picking a guy again who has not improved one aspect of his game after you've dropped him is a dumb move. Perhaps the next time they pick Usman he will have actually tried to improve
sherb
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I've heard this argument before. It's bullshit.
It's up to the players to motivate themselves. If they can't do that, they can **** off.
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You're right and Vince Lombardi, recognized as one of, if not the greatest sporting coach of all time, is dead wrong.
So is Lou Holtz, Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, David Parkin, Mick Malthouse, etc, etc.
He surely would have played ahead of Usman anyway. Why replace an opener who can't spin with an opener who can't play spin?
sherb
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Tell me why professional sportsmen need motivating by a third party.
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I think you're confusing individual motivation and team motivation. Two completely different things.
This is ridiculous.
If you're going to ask for insight, actually make them write a paper about it. What is really going to be learnt in a text message? The informal frivolity of the exercise is hardly going to garner much credibility with the players.
Johnson should have just replied in text "I didn't play LOL!".
Agreed with those suggesting the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
These guys are just scapegoats in a heavy-handed show of power.
If you're going to ask for insight, actually make them write a paper about it. What is really going to be learnt in a text message? The informal frivolity of the exercise is hardly going to garner much credibility with the players.
Johnson should have just replied in text "I didn't play LOL!".
Agreed with those suggesting the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
These guys are just scapegoats in a heavy-handed show of power.
sherb
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I'm not confusing anything.
The argument that a professional sportsman needs motivating on any level is rubbish.
If he can't find the motivation from within he shouldn't be there.
We'll just have to disagree.
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would have thought it'd be clarke's job to get the team up and about, I wouldn't expect Mickey Arthur to go around slapping butts and stuff like that.
Cousin Jed
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Usman ran over your dog didn't he?
Whilst I think it's pretty lazy not to get something so simple done over the course of six days...I have to question the task as well. I mean, there's a difference between a task that actually adds value to your team and truly adds to performance overall...and there are tasks that seem more like masturbatory wank-jobs for the task-givers (the administrators, etc in this case).
At the moment, I'm leaning towards the latter.
At the moment, I'm leaning towards the latter.
And meanwhile, just a short 747 ride away from India, Bangladesh has just racked up 630 against Herath, Mendis and Matthews.... (admittedly on a road)
And a bit further away, New Zealand racked up 460 after bowling out the Poms for just 167.
Right now, we are indeed the laughing stock of the cricket world.
And a bit further away, New Zealand racked up 460 after bowling out the Poms for just 167.
Right now, we are indeed the laughing stock of the cricket world.
Crashed his plane into my house
Nah look, the guy has got great talent. But it became increasingly clear that he is lazy as ****, and he should hardly be rewarded for it. particularly given he hardly gets away with it on the pitch anyway.
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Most of us here could jot down in ten minutes a list of suggestions in point form as to how the side could possibly improve its performance. And we are not even there.
And yet these clowns couldn't do it in a week or so.
And yet these clowns couldn't do it in a week or so.
If they were getting pissed, I'd agree with you.
But an email or an essay about 4 things they brought to the team?
**** off.
10 years ago, you'd get Ponting or Langer or Waugh or Hayden or Gilly to take him under their wing and teach him what it takes to be a Test player - who is doing that now?
What was Hughes reported to have written?
And where is the Captain in all of this?
Surely Sri Lanka are. Giving up 600+ at home against the Bangas take some beating. We're certainly more than just a support act at the Comedy Store though.
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this tour's become a complete farce.
