You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

[alwaysadog]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

Yep, you didn't imagine it.

Aker is a very intense player; he would have wanted to do more on Sunday and to push himself and the team. That is the message he brings.

I suspect that perfectionist that he is, he was pissed that Johno didn't look up and see him that time in the last quarter when he just blazed away from a hopeless angle... and he would have wanted to show how to put Geelong away.

Eade on the other hand thought he'd done enough.

What's more Aker was right on both counts football wise, Eade was also right about wanting to keep Aker fresh for the long season player management wise.

It may have been a day when nearly everything our fantastic No 6 did turned to gold, but he could have done even better, that is the Aker premiership message; you have to be more mentally disciplined. Johno doesn't always think team when he's running hot, but when premierships are on the line you need to show greater discipline.

I hope we are listening because this season has to be about finding that next level.

It also will be a test of Aker; he knows what has to be done, but he can't afford to keep sacrificing his game for others as he tried to do on Sunday. His lack of ego and working for others was a startling and refreshing revelation.

So we've brought a highly intelligent, super committed player to the club who is incredibly intense about getting the best out of himself for the team, and we've already got a couple like that in Darce and Westie, just ask the trainers or the runners, the challenge is how to manage those dynamics.

It's a challenge I supect Eade is not only equal to, but one he is looking forward to with keen anticipation.

[Twodogs]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

Aker is a very intense player; he would have wanted to do more on Sunday and to push himself and the team. That is the message he brings.

I suspect that perfectionist that he is, he was pissed that Johno didn't look up and see him that time in the last quarter when he just blazed away from a hopeless angle... and he would have wanted to show how to put Geelong away.

Eade on the other hand thought he'd done enough.

What's more Aker was right on both counts football wise, Eade was also right about wanting to keep Aker fresh for the long season player management wise.

It may have been a day when nearly everything our fantastic No 6 did turned to gold, but he could have done even better, that is the Aker premiership message; you have to be more mentally disciplined. Johno doesn't always think team when he's running hot, but when premierships are on the line you need to show greater discipline.

I hope we are listening because this season has to be about finding that next level.

It also will be a test of Aker; he knows what has to be done, but he can't afford to keep sacrificing his game for others as he tried to do on Sunday. His lack of ego and working for others was a startling and refreshing revelation.

So we've brought a highly intelligent, super committed player to the club who is incredibly intense about getting the best out of himself for the team, and we've already got a couple like that in Darce and Westie, just ask the trainers or the runners, the challenge is how to manage those dynamics.

It's a challenge I supect Eade is not only equal to, but one he is looking forward to with keen anticipation.

More than once on sunday all the players stopped, from both sides, but Aka just kept going. Each time the umpire called him back but I thought it was interesting.

[mjp]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

i'm surprised as players aren't often "benched" these days, especially at the dogs, we rotate players so often it's not unusual to spend time on the pine.

One of the kids I coach is in this years AIS intake. They aren't allowed to call the bench 'the bench'. It has to be referred too as the 'rotation station' if you can believe it.

[Raw Toast]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

One of the kids I coach is in this years AIS intake. They aren't allowed to call the bench 'the bench'. It has to be referred too as the 'rotation station' if you can believe it.

Gawd. And I thought 'training services' was bad enough. While I'm at it, all this 'our brand' stuff irks me as well. It's not like we can copy-right our game-plan or anything like that.

[alwaysadog]

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Gawd. And I thought 'training services' was bad enough. While I'm at it, all this 'our brand' stuff irks me as well. It's not like we can copy-right our game-plan or anything like that.

This corporate state language is a problem. It dominated thinking in business and government from the mid 80s to the mid 00s. The mood has changed but many can't throw off the shackles it imposed.

If we want to be exciting and different; the qualities that have always been characteristics of the Bulldogs IMO, a corollary is that we need to employ language that speaks to the supporters and not to the business regulators.

The corporate BS was designed stultify and make manageable all individualism and initiative let alone make creativity redundant.

Why when we have the wherewithall to do things differently are we clinging to the language of a former era? Aker has come to us to escape from its clutches: if we want what he brings we need to look at why he chose us.

[alwaysadog]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

alright

I wont call it a "brand" any more. (My friend Rodney said he didnt like at the footy show).

should it be profile?

have we all read don watson?

Even went to his book launch.

[Twodogs]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

I'm not gonna let the language nazis tell me what to say. BRAND BRAND BRAND!

[alwaysadog]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

I'm not gonna let the language nazis tell me what to say. BRAND BRAND BRAND!

So I'm heating up the old iron; which cheek, left or right?

On a more serious note what the new language is doing is redefining our world and what is important in it. Which word represents your feeling for the Bulldogs, club or brand? A club has certain obligations to its supporters that a brand doesn't. Don't get me wrong, in the right context the idea of brand is important, but the way it goes today that context is universal and ignores other possibly more important considerations and imperatives.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

I blame a case involving the WAFL, and Adamson I believe, it was for the corporate face of football today. Not that it's a bad thing really. Club > Brand.

[Twodogs]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

So I'm heating up the old iron; which cheek, left or right?

On a more serious note what the new language is doing is redefining our world and what is important in it. Which word represents your feeling for the Bulldogs, club or brand? A club has certain obligations to its supporters that a brand doesn't. Don't get me wrong, in the right context the idea of brand is important, but the way it goes today that context is universal and ignores other possibly more important considerations and imperatives.

Club is much better than brand. Unless someone tries to force you to use the word club, then I would say brand just to annoy them.


The two words are mutually exclusive to an extent anyway.

[alwaysadog]

Re: You Melbourne based guys probably missed this at the ground

Club is much better than brand. Unless someone tries to force you to use the word club, then I would say brand just to annoy them.


The two words are mutually exclusive to an extent anyway.

Or perhaps it's what brand excludes that worries me, when they are used interchangeably.