ant555
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- May 4, 2004
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Problem is on the outside you are only looking at part of the picture. What you see on the TV if you are not at live games and even if you are seeing live games are a lot of variables missing that we simply do not know about behind the scenes. Virtually no one is seeing the weekly match sim to start with and that has a bearing on selection.I'm not at 'dump the coach' stage by any means, however, I'm not lost on the irony of coaches demanding that players learn from their experience, when their own recent lesson was so obviously ignored.
Maybe Brad was really also more focused on the umpiring than on what he and his staff could have done better; which begs the question of whether there is a systematic reflective process built into a post-game meeting the day after, involving Brad and his staff and beginning their review at the past week's selection process.
I did not think they got it right for sure but even with the info I get every now and then I do not know what boxes the players are ticking off selection wise behind the walls.
Sometimes when you are building the culture attempting to fulfill the game plan has more weight than actual output which is not the case the further down the track you get.