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Culture changing win - discuss

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Culture is hard to measure, what we can see and measure is a commitment to our style of play. When it is working we are very aggressive getting numbers behind the ball, with a smash mouth bullishness to move the ball forward. The clearance work around stoppages doesn't get enough credit considering we are getting smashed in the ruck.

When it works it is glorious. When it doesn't we lose to average teams.

 
2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Winning 2 of the next 3 (North, GC and Pies) is the absolute minimum expectation in my book.

The club has set the bar so high after a performance like that.

A big test with respect to our very questionable culture (over the years).

This will go a long way to putting some semblance of success back into the season. We need to beat a few more of the power houses and moreover the fringe players need to put in regularly. In fact one needs a purple patch.. (perhaps Wagner)

We have a long way to go before we demand the respect of the general football world.

 

There's nothing we saw last night that we haven't already seen this year - just not as consistently or for as long. It's a performance that they've dangled in front of us all year, which is partly why it's been so frustrating.

At least now we know what they're capable of. And so do they.

2 hours ago, praha said:

I said it before they played Richmond and a few on here hounded me. Breath on them and they fold. 

GWS is not much different. They are a pack of individuals with stars in their eyes but they're not a great team.

GWS are interesting - early days I thought they played the game well, even if not winning they seemed to love the hard stuff. But watching them last week I'm not so sure. Saints applied manic pressure and run and Giants couldn't match it. Will be interesting to see how they respond, yesterday's game was underwhelming from them too.


Culture changing win ? Beat north next week and it may grab some attentiveness from me but otherwise not a culture changing win.

So far this year we have beaten teams we lost to last season, and lost to teams we beat last season, so we will win next week, if we lose then last night changes nothing!!!!

Losing next week stands to devalue this week's performance. We need to win when we're expected to in order to really "turn the corner". We seem to perform when no one expects us to.

 

I think it will have set in the minds of the players, and the coaches, that they really are not only headed for finals but likely to 'to some damage' there. 

I think it was also a big deal for shaking out any sense of 'no Gawn, no Demons' or that this middle part of the season is just about holding onto respectability.

Doubt was creeping in about whether we were really going to make it to finals, whether we were really rising. I think the doubt is set aside for a while, and that means players [cliche alert] 'buying in' more enthusiastically.


wining games is an output of cultural change, not an input. It's been changing for a long time. There never has been or never will be 'line in the sand game' - they're simply narratives that make us feel good, or help us make sense of why things changed. It's purely about process process process...

20 hours ago, btdemon said:

A watershed game that we may well look back on. I hop I don't put the moss on next week.

I dont want to jump to conclusions but i'm lichen that prediction

2 minutes ago, binman said:

I dont want to jump to conclusions but i'm lichen that prediction

love it @binman

5 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

This.

Winning when expected to win is the challenge.

Indeed. But most will expect us to lose. Because we are favorites. So we will win. Because the expectation is that we will lose. Because we always lose when we are favorites to win.

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1 hour ago, binman said:

I dont want to jump to conclusions but i'm lichen that prediction

corrective spelling thingy. Mozzzzz


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