I spoke to Neeld after the lacklustre Anzac Day training session. He simply stated, "I didn't see that coming".

  On 03/05/2013 at 03:44, AdamFarr said:

Lazy coaching. Try and replicate a situation the players might face on game day. Intensity. Pressure. The things we clearly don't cope with. That way on game day, when faced with the same situation, they might improve.

It was one 15 minute drill in a trainging regime they have been doing since October, what is this, let's find the smallest fault and magnify it, perhaps there was a point made that there wasn't enough voice on the field, and why the ball is handballed to somebody static, does that appeal to your obvously superior coaching skills, going to apply for Brian Royal's job I take it.......and I have coached as well

  On 03/05/2013 at 03:38, AdamFarr said:

Well that pretty much highlights why most of the time our players handball to static team mates. I'm a coach and I've gotta say that sounds like a drill you might get away with in primary school. A disgraceful lack of innovation for AFL standard.

aargh, goodness me... obviously its about trusting their instincts, & reacting to 'voice' to move the ball quickly. learn intuitively the sounds of their teammates voices, & direction of the voice, & react with the ball to that target.

a valuable tool to speed thew transfer of the footy & to build trust into the players, 'in their own instincts'.

  On 03/05/2013 at 04:09, Goodvibes said:

I spoke to Neeld after the lacklustre Anzac Day training session. He simply stated, "I didn't see that coming".

Actualy he said that in reply to a journalist's question

"Neeldy do you realise that 30000 members have re signed for the season because despite the results and to the contrary of some of the postings on Demonland and the constant regurgitation of the same tired old newspaper reports, they can actually see what you are trying to achieve and are willing to give you a chance to do it"

  On 03/05/2013 at 04:22, Satyriconhome said:

Actualy he said that in reply to a journalist's question

"Neeldy do you realise that 30000 members have re signed for the season because despite the results and to the contrary of some of the postings on Demonland and the constant regurgitation of the same tired old newspaper reports, they can actually see what you are trying to achieve and are willing to give you a chance to do it"

Got any stats to back that up?

I'm one of the 30,000 and I signed up to support the club that I love in part because I don't want to see it fade away. What I don't love is the lack of hope the club has been peddling, particularly since round 1 2012. I think if you asked all of our supporter base less than half would support the current coach. Why's that? Because he's not giving them much to believe in.

I'll always be a member, just like I'll always be an atheist, but it doesn't mean that I don't want to have something to believe in.

  On 03/05/2013 at 04:19, Satyriconhome said:

It was one 15 minute drill in a trainging regime they have been doing since October, what is this, let's find the smallest fault and magnify it, perhaps there was a point made that there wasn't enough voice on the field, and why the ball is handballed to somebody static, does that appeal to your obvously superior coaching skills, going to apply for Brian Royal's job I take it.......and I have coached as well

Once again, you don't have to coach to point out a fault with one's coaching. I merely made the point that I coach because I've seen more inventive and constructive coaching sessions undertaken by year sevens.