Quote Originally Posted by Topdog View Post
If players stop listening to the message doesn't that mean that the coach has lost the players? I'd say Mcmahon was one that never wanted to listen.
I didn't quite mean it that way. What I was driving t was that players stopped listening in the sense that they stopped doing all of the things which had made them successful. I don't think that this was a refelction on Rocket, but more of a reflection that the group as a whole drifted into a comfort zone.....things were going well, natural improvement would automatically come, someone would play a blinder and drag us over the line, darcy was back (and Murphy and hahn) etc.....those sorts of things.

Rocket warned us that reaching the finals in 06 wouldn't guarantee success, but I think some guys just failed to listen and take heed of the warning. is that rocket's fault? maybe, but then I think some guys, McMahon, Faulkner, Eagleton, Power, Robbins etc were probably not the type of guys to listen and learn.