LukeParkerno1
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You have way more confidence in Horse changing things than I do...now watch him roll out the useless 3 forwards now. 2 is PLENTY for goodness sakes Horse.
Autopsy Sydney Legacy in Grand Finals continues 10 goal loss to the Lions
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You have way more confidence in Horse changing things than I do...now watch him roll out the useless 3 forwards now. 2 is PLENTY for goodness sakes Horse.
The King!
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Its funny to even look at the changes he made or didnt make from the 23 final v the Blues to the side that shit the bed v the Lions. Basically only 3 who went out were essentially forced (can't remember if Wicks was technically back or not and to be fair he wasn't going to play)
Out
Hickey- retired
Mills- Injured
Wicks- suspended
In
Grundy
Jordon
Roberts
Basically all Horse did in 12 months from the last humiliation was swap Parker and Heeneys starting spots, largely forced and replaced players he couldn't pick anyway. If Mills had of been fit he probably would have pissed Roberts off too.
So not sure why he suddenly changes in the next 12 months,he never does.
I am too lazy to check , so If i missed anyone, just say I did a Sydney and ****ed up.
JackHiscoxWasFast
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Our legacy is being used in the workplace as what not to be / do when the pressure’s on.
Have heard multiple examples of ‘let’s not do a swans’ eg in needing to nail the Xmas period, hit budgets etc.
Have even seen our sad and sorry faces post GF on PowerPoint presentations.
Hard to take but it’s true sadly.
THIS GAME HAS ALREADY DEFINED YOU!
Have heard multiple examples of ‘let’s not do a swans’ eg in needing to nail the Xmas period, hit budgets etc.
Have even seen our sad and sorry faces post GF on PowerPoint presentations.
Hard to take but it’s true sadly.
THIS GAME HAS ALREADY DEFINED YOU!
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Put this up at work..(adapt for team football context)
Succes trap
1. Reconnect with Customers
2. Revive Original Culture
3. Reset Market Focus
4. Rebuild Innovation Systems
5. Restructure Operations
Succes trap
- Initial Phase: A small business finds a successful niche and outperforms larger competitors through agility and focus
- Success Phase: They achieve significant growth and market recognition
- Decline Phase: The company loses what made them successful because they:
- Become complacent
- Focus more on maintaining their new status than serving customers
- Lose touch with market changes
- Become less agile and more bureaucratic
- Stop innovating
1. Reconnect with Customers
- Resume direct customer feedback sessions
- Get senior management back into field visits
- Monitor social media and review sites actively
- Revive the "small business" approach to customer service
2. Revive Original Culture
- Document and celebrate the founding story
- Bring back key behaviors that drove initial success
- Eliminate bureaucracy that's crept in
- Empower frontline employees to make decisions
3. Reset Market Focus
- Conduct fresh market analysis
- Study emerging competitors
- Look for disruptions in your industry
- Question all assumptions about your market position
4. Rebuild Innovation Systems
- Create safe spaces for experimentation
- Allocate resources for R&D
- Encourage calculated risk-taking
- Set up innovation teams outside normal hierarchy
5. Restructure Operations
- Break into smaller, more agile units
- Remove unnecessary management layers
- Speed up decision-making processes
- Create direct lines of communication
Brilliant!
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The last time this club lost four grand finals in a row (in 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1945) we didn't make the decider again for 51 years. The carnival is over folks, welcome to the wilderness.
RUOK
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You have sat around with that fact since you were a kid. Your enduting nature amazes me. But don't think because of that that history repeats itself.
He's been around for awhile
Unfortunately our entire 2025 season campaign will be defined within the context of Grand Finals.
It won’t matter how well we go throughout the regular season, or the finals should we qualify, because every win, loss or draw will have an asterisk against it with ‘*it doesn’t matter, let’s see if they choke in the Grand Final again’ added.
Every commentator and opposition supporter will continually refer to us choking in the big one and it will get very boring very quickly, but the club will just have to suck it up because it will only have itself to blame.
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Spot on Davy
True. I just hope the media catch onto it and make the players aware that they are in fact defined by their grand final performances.
And if they were wise, and not misled by do-gooder psychologists who aren't worth their weight then they'll realise that ultimately, everything else is meaningless unless you can produce it on the biggest stage.
James Harden is an NBA MVP, had held the scoring title 3 years straight (2018-2020) but perennially chocked in finals, and has never won a championship. His career is defined by that.
Michael Jordan won the NBA finals in each of the 6 times he reached the finals. And for that reason, most people regard him as the GOAT despite the fact that LeBron James has broken many of his records.
Lebron James has been to the finals 10 times for 4 championships. Lebron has made finals almost 50% of the time over his 22 years in the NBA, but has only managed to convert 4 of those 10 attempts into championships @40% (compared to 100% for MJ 6/6).
Horse has converted 1/5 @20%, with an average losing margin of 53 points.
Where does that stack on the all time list.
Let's look at tennis. Djokovic, Federer and Nadal converting 64.5% to 73.3% of their grand slam appearances into wins.
I really hope the media are onto the Swans like wolves next year when it comes to expectation and keep bringing up the GF failures.
Time for the players and coaches to shape up and properly deal with pressure and expectation. No more laying low away from the AFL heartland and hiding away from the media.
Blowtorch on. Sink or swim with the pressure
Time for the players and coaches to shape up and properly deal with pressure and expectation. No more laying low away from the AFL heartland and hiding away from the media.
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We are now known as the chokers and absolute shit shows to watch in the gf. No neutral wants us near it. But they can’t bag I guess if they are not even close
Yes it’s a fantastic achievement getting there and many others can’t bag but **** this now known reputation
Yes it’s a fantastic achievement getting there and many others can’t bag but **** this now known reputation
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The gf rematch won’t even be much of a build up
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At some stage we have to move on , even as bad as it was . Lions were fantastic and the total opposite was our coaching panel
Interesting what the Dees are doing. I don't believe we have anything like their issues but I hope our review leads us to think along similar lines. With one move already made. I like that they are going with two coaches in the midfield.
Demons shuffle coaches after review, club great to lead midfield - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1251071
Demons shuffle coaches after review, club great to lead midfield - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1251071
The King!
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The King!
Chosen One
They could stop lumping us in as some great club with the cats etc just for making finals.
We are the good try participant ribbon club of the AFL these days.
Yay we made the 8.
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Like a dreaded racehorse with the 2222 formline.
You could still have included us in the Top 3 or 4 this century for success around 2018. Behind Hawks, around the mark with Lions (given how long they'd been out of it), Cats and maybe a bit ahead of Eagles given they had some worse years.
Now we're only Top 8.
Still top few in terms of keeping the dream alive year on year, but if we can't convert, then we don't even really have that.
Personally, despite all our issues, I hope we never mimic Melbourne.
