apoplexia

Maybe the name was an afterthought?

A premiership flag as the objet petit a?

Interesting viewpoint. I hadn't thought of that way, but it makes sense. I've worked in tertiary education for the last 30 years and I've come to realize that there is a distinction between my teaching and the students' learning. I can control my end, but have less control over theirs. But if my role makes no difference, then I might as well give up. If they don't want to learn, well, you can't lead a horse to water. But I don't. Every semester break I try to unpack what didn't work last semester and make it better (not always successfully). But these are my kids at university who don't even know why they're there half the time. Here we're talking about kids who have worked probably half their lives to get a shot at playing in the AFL. We shouldn't have to worry about their motivation. But as Demonland proves, we do. A lot. And we can all name players who we think are motivated, and players that coast (rightly or wrongly). But that's why I think development is something we need to be investing much more in (time, money, people). Every year we want our team to get better. New players come in, from the draft and trades, but once they're in our system, it's our job to give them every advantage to succeed. Not that that all will, but once we start writing off players, then we might as well just pay them out.