5 minutes ago, Axis of Bob said:

One of my pet peeves is people complaining about the word 'learnings'.

In a teaching context, a learning is a student-oriented term that refers to the information by its importance to the student, whilst a lesson is a teacher-oriented term that refers to the information based on its delivery. It's a shift in the education from being teacher-oriented to student-oriented, and our language didn't have a good way of making that distinction as it happened. Students are taught a lesson by a teacher but there's no guarantee that this lesson results in learning. The learning comes from the student.

For a coach, the lesson is unimportant in this context. The lesson is a team kicking 8 straight goals against you. The important thing for the players is the learning, which is an improved knowledge on how to make better decisions.

great explanation - all makes sense to me now. Thank you AOB.

11 hours ago, Where Demons Dare said:

Skills weren't great to be honest today. But it's a new game plan and everyone is still figuring each other out with the massive turnover of staff and players this off season. Our composure will improve in the coming weeks. Even Kingy is absorbing a lot as head coach, I expected him to be more demonstrative and loud, barking instructions but he was quite tame.

He’s been in AFL system a week — let’s relax on the kicking assessment

11 hours ago, Where Demons Dare said:

. But that's why we have trainers... to help players develop their technique.

Clarry, Tracc and Viney say hi....

Slightly off but I expect with the new game style there will be lots of overlap run feeding the ball off to the quality kickers. As long as Onley can take a grab and hit a player coming past at speed, he’ll do just fine in transition footy

58 minutes ago, Neil Crompton said:

great explanation - all makes sense to me now. Thank you AOB.

I will add that this isn't anything official etc, just my particular interpretation and how I use it/see it being used. However there is a pretty clear distinction in the use (from my view) between the two terms.

Can I just say that I really appreciate everyone's thinkings on this matter.