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buck_nekkid Redleg

buck_nekkid   5,818

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We have put a rabble out onto the park this year. The lack of intensity, the lack of team cohesion, the lack of 'culture' have all been identified. Not the least the lack of talent applied in the games.

So imagine the start of 2014. First pre-season training session. What would you do?

Here's an idea based on group and psychology:

I would invite all the people then on the list to assemble, and give them all a Casey scorpions jumper. I would hang 22 Melbourne jumpers on a fence, and make each member of the squad EARN the right to wear the jumper. If you havent earned the jumper, don't expect to get selected for a game.

I would then establish a really intense set of criteria that need to be achieved to earn the jumper. Once you get one, you are on 'probation' to keep it.

At certain points, those who have earned the jumper oversee the efforts of the others to earn the jumper that theythemselves have earned.

Once you earn the jumper, then have bonding sessions only with those that have earned the right. Have competitions then to see who makes it into the leadership group from the Melbourne boys. Have the 'Melbourne boys' decide on the standards and punishments for breaching them, including demotion to the 'Casey Squad'.

Just because you are on the list does not mean you have earned the right to wear the jumper. Use cognitive dissonance, group norms, FIRO theory and a few other theories to create a real sense of achievement in wearing the red and blue. Make it mean something.

What would you do?

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Assemble the best coaches we can get. Hope like hell our new recruiting/list management team can get the best possible list turn over that produces some genuine ready made quality footballers with potential. Train the players in marking, kicking, tackling, contested ball, gut running. Sit back and watch.

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Assemble the best coaches we can get. Hope like hell our new recruiting/list management team can get the best possible list turn over that produces some genuine ready made quality footballers with potential. Train the players in marking, kicking, tackling, contested ball, gut running. Sit back and watch.

I agree tm

Cannot think of what much more that can be done.

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What are the key dates for FA and Trade periods? Can the players be asked to return for pre-season training 1 week prior to that and told if you turn up without any fitness at all you may as well pack your bags? That single week puts the pressure on them as they won't have 'club time' to get their fitness to acceptable levels, that's the players responsibility.

From what Riv was saying when he got to Geelong, the expectation was on the players to have a good level of fitness when they returned and preseason was focussed mainly on skills.We're sadly lacking in skills and need to start putting some serious focus on that, players can run laps anytime, but they need to show they want to succeed before the club perseveres with them any longer.

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