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I am glad you worked on your mental tennis game and improved your backhand.Depends how you read it.
Jack's body language has always been pretty obvious given how raw it was.
You can take Joey's one of two ways
1) he doesn't give a f*** and thinks the entire thing is a joke
2) he is giving himself a little clip but keeping himself positive.
I was coached on this with Tennis, which to me is very like the FF in AFL. Very individual game and a lot of it is in your head.
The biggest issue i had was dropping my head and letting errors get to me. Could very easily let a 5-1 set get into a slog.
When you learned to shake your head and move on from it quickly, usually with a smirk/smile and quiet word to yourself, you were ready for the next point and not dwelling on the previous.
Put aside his goal kicking stats for the weekend and look at the remainder stats and you can see Daniher stays in the game and his output around the ground is high.
Football is different because you have 17 other team mates busting a gut to get the ball to you, the FF, so you can do one thing and one thing only; kick a goal.
When you are physically taxed it effects you emotionally. You've run umpteen kilometres, taken knocks and bumps, probably playing with some sort of niggle. All this effort to get the ball into the hands of this goofy looking dork who likes to laugh when he misses a kick at goal.
Not sure why Essendon supporters fail to comprehend why Smilin Joe is not a good thing.
Fairly basic concept I would have thought. Certainly not anything that needs to be defended or explained.