Pushed so hard in training some leaders had heart attacks. When some were upset, Monty said how good it was to weed the out before it counted.
Train hard, fight easy. An interesting off season.
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Train hard, fight easy. An interesting off season.
When sumich doesn’t know, it’s due to his IQ, not because he has been able to critically assess the situation with logic and come to a well thought out conclusion.
Who else would have taken schofield’s old role when he was promoted? Schofield chose who he thought was the best of who was left.
Lol an injury crisis before season even starts. He would have fit right in.
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Churchill reckoned "in defeat he was unbeatable and in victory unbearable"
Not sure someone who was hated by all the generals he worked with is the character trait we are after.
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Righto Montgomery it is then
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I keep telling you, he’s 88 years old and he’s dead.
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Mitchell forced Priddis to retire?? What?
I'd love to see him do that to Fredericks when he misses a shot at goal, would be payback
for his somersaults in the Derby last year.
As I said an interesting pre season. Many (well some) on here are keen for a tough coach without overt compassion. I suspect they couldn't work under such a person in their work place.
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Alright if you’re if not keen on Montgomery, what about this bloke?
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And you only have to look at what happened to Justin Langer when you hurt the feelings of this generation.
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Think Adrian Hickmott will get it if he wants it
My my how critical fans are. You really think it is elite athletes Montgomery had issues with? More likely it was the obese and degenerates - like those on BF.
Shittiest footballer can run 5km. Can you?
I can't imagine Chris Fagan doesn't get angry and raise his voice but he gets his team to perform week after week.
The idea that all coaches need to be (or currently are) cuddly and soft spoken is nonsense.
Players need someone they don't want to let down, who they don't want to dissapoint. Not through fear but through respect. This takes time to implement.
Maybe Schofield has some of that already. Getting the players to come out and win the second half yesterday maybe shows some of that. Maybe the first half showed something as well. But he has backed the players, especially Harley, publically and also shown his disappointment in them as a group. Players at this level are driven and competitive and need to be challenged at training and on game day.
That means giving them a pat on the back when they deserve it but also a clip when they do as well.
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In the sense that there wasn't room for the two of them in there and Mitchell pushed him out of the guts into a half forward role. Then he got the tap on the shoulder from Simmo and told he's no good, so he retired midseason despite having met a trigger clause to go on for another year and planning to. Don't want to reignite a debate on whether he should or shouldn't of retired but just remember it being very poorly handled and the players being filthy over it, to the point some said so publicly.
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It’s the last game of the year on a ground that we historically do not play well at , we have a very poor record against Geelong that has thrashed star studded Wce teams throughout the years ..
I haven’t seen the game yet nor do I want to .. But trusting Yeo and Kelly to be our Flaky midfield leaders is where the fault is . Both are only interested in money contract years to provide worth , See Yeo play for the money early in the year where does that effort go when the signature is signed or Kelly’s couldn’t give a **** attitude and selfish playing style and shitty kicks and turnovers ..
The midfield leaders are the problem not Schofield ..
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I haven’t seen the game yet nor do I want to .. But trusting Yeo and Kelly to be our Flaky midfield leaders is where the fault is . Both are only interested in money contract years to provide worth , See Yeo play for the money early in the year where does that effort go when the signature is signed or Kelly’s couldn’t give a **** attitude and selfish playing style and shitty kicks and turnovers ..
The midfield leaders are the problem not Schofield ..
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Well I can, but it is fun day post season. More a 200 and 400 runner but best 5k 17.10.
Seriously; I think we have a number of aging players that wouldn't get through a very tough pre season without serious compensations.
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He seemed very popular with the playing group the few times I went down to an open training sesh.
I'm hoping Schofield gets it tho
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From what Will Schofield said Hickmott was more of a development style coach whose job was to bond with the players but wasnt too strong tactically - although he did have a line roles. Tbh I worry that he's not tactically minded enough to be a head coach. He sounded like a great coach in terms of bonding with players a line/development coach - which was his job but its very different to running the ship.
Hickmott was the one that came up with the 'Web'.
Wasn't much tactically to it either, Schofield said he basically just told the players "Hey, if you want to get across to help your teammate, just go for it", or something like that.
Basically, hold your position but don't be rigidly locked into it, like most teams are.
Probably worked in tandem with Simmo's possession gameplan, as the players played well off their opponents, unlike other teams at the time.
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