well in all honesty your initial post was more of an attack on my perceived intellectual capacity, but moving on
yes i understand it is a positive approach, but beating adelaide did not come from a 'last-chance' game to play finals, it seemed to come from the players believing thy could beat one team on one day, and that is a positive way to look at the game.
it is not 'pathetic' to only look one week ahead, it is simply the way players must be thinking in order to reach finals. i like his optimism and that he is being positive, however i would just prefer he direct it to a fierce approach on the pies and the one week coming up. as i said, the teams that make the finals attack each individual week. if the kids going into monday are thinking 'if we win this, we can play finals still' i'd wager that we're a sure thing to lose.
however hopefully green's optimism behind closed doors turns to the little things, because if our boys are only thinking of collingwood and knocking them off, we certainly will