Axis of Bob

Few things make me happier than the thought of you strutting through town, casually throwing around the phrase "Chillax, bae!" 😁

Welcome to pre-xmas Demonland! 😁 My apologies for it all getting out of hand, it was just a little thing in the back of my head that I'd typically ignore. A particularly slow work day combined with a particularly slow everything else day somehow made this a conversation worth having. I actually don't have a very strong opinion about it at all, I just enjoyed the discussion. 👍 The right size for this phrase is zero.

You're missing that the coaches are part of the collective receiving the knowledge. They aren't just the teachers anymore, they are students with the players. Learnings, in this context, could be replaced by 'things to learn'. The game provides many things to learn. The distinction for coaches is that learnings are information whilst lessons are events. Not everyone will draw that distinction because culture has changed over time and that difference would have previously been unimportant, but the new language is about promoting the games to players as opportunities to learn rather than simply final judgements of their worth.

I'm sure that this is the case a lot of the time. I have many, many of these where incorrect usage drives me up the wall. Things like a bouncing football being the 'personification' of luck, or similar idiocy. I just think that in coaching, which is an education role, the usage change is more reflective of a change in the perspective of the coaches that are doing it. Coaching used to be about yelling and screaming. It was an active role where the coach told players what to do. Now it's more of a focus on the collective and the importances of process, which leaning is certainly part of. I think the language change has happened alongside that because that distinction was important for the modern coaches who popularised the terms - coaches who played under a different coaching philosophy (Goodwin playing under Malcolm Blight, Hardwick under Sheedy, Beveridge under Northey, etc). Each new generation moves the language slightly to better reflect the cultural changes that have happened in their time. One of the great strengths of English is the variety of borrowed words it has to say the same thing with subtle difference, like calling someone a porker or a swine - they're both technically a pig but have subtle differences. I think this is one of those instances (and very different from those monsters who describe footballers moving laconically!!).

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.

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.

How is that one going now? The Banfields still keen to nominate as a father-son at West Coast or would he feel safer in the open draft? 😁

I’ll take ‘ Things that never happened’ for $400, thanks Alex.

Everyone better get ready to learn small forward!

I remember the behind the scenes video of the recruiting group watching that highlight on the draft coverage. They all knew it was coming and still laughed with beaming smiles.

So many people having site issues tonight, yet picket fence is unaffected. What a dystopia this world has turned into.

Wow

Rapt. Could not be happier.

It’s happening……

* checks draft nomination list for Ross Lyon’s name