bornadog
24-07-2012, 09:21 PM
Link (http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/member%20message%20from%20brendan%20mccartney/tabid/18836/default.aspx)
Dear Member,
We did a lot right to create an opportunity to win the game against Carlton and then lost that opportunity in the last quarter — there were a significant number of one-on-one battles late in the game that they won which hurt us.
From a result point of view, purely short term, we certainly were disappointed with our inability to control the contest in the last quarter, which stopped us from getting our hands on the ball — the ball should’ve been retained in our forward 50 much better.
A big part of this game is that sometimes you have to learn the hard way, the best education and learning often comes off the back of a more experienced opponent pushing you out of the way. It happened last week to a couple of our midfielders and it happened again on Saturday night, but they’re the right type of people and they’ll learn quite quickly.
We saw Ryan Griffen build on some strong form from the week before. We were really pleased with a couple of our young players who had games they’d rather forget the week before and bounced back and showed they’re made of the right minerals.
A high number of our young players continued to show the sort of players they’re going to be for a long period of time.
We will keep coaching our players to go quick with the ball sometimes and that it’s ok at other times to hold the ball up and deal with what’s in front of them – we’ll keep practising it and implementing it under high pressure and that’s the only way we’ll know what type of players will take us forward and what type of personalities we want to build our team around.
We’re confident we are going to do all that – to build a Club around strong, resilient people, good team players and the type of people that the harder it gets the harder they fight.
Sincerely,
Brendan
Dear Member,
We did a lot right to create an opportunity to win the game against Carlton and then lost that opportunity in the last quarter — there were a significant number of one-on-one battles late in the game that they won which hurt us.
From a result point of view, purely short term, we certainly were disappointed with our inability to control the contest in the last quarter, which stopped us from getting our hands on the ball — the ball should’ve been retained in our forward 50 much better.
A big part of this game is that sometimes you have to learn the hard way, the best education and learning often comes off the back of a more experienced opponent pushing you out of the way. It happened last week to a couple of our midfielders and it happened again on Saturday night, but they’re the right type of people and they’ll learn quite quickly.
We saw Ryan Griffen build on some strong form from the week before. We were really pleased with a couple of our young players who had games they’d rather forget the week before and bounced back and showed they’re made of the right minerals.
A high number of our young players continued to show the sort of players they’re going to be for a long period of time.
We will keep coaching our players to go quick with the ball sometimes and that it’s ok at other times to hold the ball up and deal with what’s in front of them – we’ll keep practising it and implementing it under high pressure and that’s the only way we’ll know what type of players will take us forward and what type of personalities we want to build our team around.
We’re confident we are going to do all that – to build a Club around strong, resilient people, good team players and the type of people that the harder it gets the harder they fight.
Sincerely,
Brendan