Great interview and well worth the watch.

You’re right across all the latest mainstream and not @dazzledavey36

Much appreciated!

33 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Great interview and well worth the watch.

Thanks so much Dazzle. The JVR interview is a great insight into the players and life under Kingy. Sounds like the culture Kingy is building is pretty awesome. Roo is interviewed in the first 30 minutes. Highly recommended to Demonlanders, especially during this Easter weekend. They're giving away a gather round Dees jersey signed by all the players. This would be great for the rapidly growing number of young Dees supporters.

Happy Easter everyone!

When asked about the difference between the two senior coaches, JVR describes Goodwin as intense, whereas King runs a more relaxed and fun program. Intense will work for a time in a workplace (hello to the ‘21 flag) but probably is not sustainable over the longer term.

Surprisingly entertaining interview and JVR was extremely eloquent and honest….nice job

1 hour ago, FarNorthernD said:

When asked about the difference between the two senior coaches, JVR describes Goodwin as intense, whereas King runs a more relaxed and fun program. Intense will work for a time in a workplace (hello to the ‘21 flag) but probably is not sustainable over the longer term.

Best motivator in the world is 'fear' (getting dropped, shame from teammates coach etc etc) it works, but only short term, its too fatiguing...

I'm about to record a podcast on Norway at the Winter Olympics - some similarities...

Q1. Norway bans scorekeeping until 12 and then embarrasses countries ten times their size on an Olympic medal table. What’s going on there?

It only looks like a contradiction if you think development is driven by pressure. It isn’t.

The logic is quite straightforward: remove the scoreboard, and you remove the sense of threat. Remove the threat, and children can actually pay attention to what they’re doing. They learn movement, coordination, and how to deal with difficulty... not just how to cope with being evaluated.

In Norway, around 93% of children take part in organised sport. The guiding idea is simple: sport should be enjoyable. That’s the priority.

Compare that with Australia, where many children lose interest early, and a significant number stop playing altogether by their mid-teens. Despite strong facilities, good weather, and a deep sporting culture, participation still drops off.

The difference isn’t resources. It’s timing. Norway delays competition until children are ready for it. They give them years to build skills, confidence, and enjoyment first...without unnecessary pressure.

Later, the results speak for themselves. A small country performs well above its size on the Olympic stage, not because it pushed harder early on, but because it didn’t.

It’s a long-term approach. Calm, patient, and difficult for most systems to stick with and effective.

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Was also interesting to hear when he was talking about the casual clothes, that for the past couple of years something like that would have leaked to the media early in the week but this year it was kept quiet. Sort of crazy that even the players were aware of how much we were leaking.

Is it now safe to assume the leak is either no longer at the club or has finally been silenced?