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Sports Psychology

ElDiablo14
in Melbourne Demons

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This may be a dumb question but, does the club have a sports psychologist?

I feel like ,given the drop off of the AFL, AFLW and even the VFL teams in this last season, the players may need some good mental work to face next season.

Feels like the club needs to find a way to both erase and forget about the ghosts from recent failures and focus on the potential and talent of our lists.

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    17 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    This may be a dumb question but, does the club have a sports psychologist?

    I feel like ,given the drop off of the AFL, AFLW and even the VFL teams in this last season, the players may need some good mental work to face next season.

    Feels like the club needs to find a way to both erase and forget about the ghosts from recent failures and focus on the potential and talent of our lists.

    yes, good guy, knows his stuff, Stephen Rendell.

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    22 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

    yes, good guy, knows his stuff, Stephen Rendell.

    He has a busy Summer Schedule coming up…

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    A very good point raised @ElDiablo14.

    When the pointy end of the season has come, to me it appears that the fear of losing has outweighed our drive to win. 

    We are very good at front running, but when we’re behind we panic and go into our shells (both the men and women). Fear of failure is definitely in play with our club atm.

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    Should we write a letter to the club asking if they have thought of this? A few of us could offer to mentor the players, maybe at the same time as some goal kicking practice with them and offer tips to improve their routine and ball drop.

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    40 minutes ago, chookrat said:

    Should we write a letter to the club asking if they have thought of this? A few of us could offer to mentor the players, maybe at the same time as some goal kicking practice with them and offer tips to improve their routine and ball drop.

    Ex player Mark "Jacko" Jackson might be available. Could cover the goal kicking practice as well.

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    12 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

    A very good point raised @ElDiablo14.

    When the pointy end of the season has come, to me it appears that the fear of losing has outweighed our drive to win. 

    We are very good at front running, but when we’re behind we panic and go into our shells (both the men and women). Fear of failure is definitely in play with our club atm.

    It is pretty hard to go back to back in any top level sporting comps in the world.  Rarely happens, teams spend preseason working on ways to beat you.

    The bottom line for our sides you turn the footy over you lose, hit targets by hand and foot you win.

    I think they need sports physiology just to bring it back to basics and stop over thinking the game.  Control the footy you control the game. 

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    6 hours ago, drdrake said:

    It is pretty hard to go back to back in any top level sporting comps in the world.

    Could be said that we did go back to back in 22/23 but not in a good way

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