Re: Team Round 7
Originally Posted by
mjp
On one level you are right. On many more, you are wrong.
Assigning a loss to a single moment in a game is short-sighted...and allows the group as a whole to absolve themselves of the loss - after all, it was Stacky's fault. It allows the coaching group to absolve themselves of the loss - I mean, if he had only...
I don't like this thinking, it doesn't helpt the idea of team and I always believe that unless skill/decision making errors are being consistently repeated then selection decisions should be made based on players who have not done ANYTHING rather than those who had the courage to ACT but made a mistake.
Against Fremantle we had 9 players with less than 15 possessions (an average score in modern footy) and 14 with less than 3 1%'ers...11 fit into both categories (Stack was in neither). To me, a young kid who offered run and carry and committed to team acts was not the main problem we had that night.
Well said MJP.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus