Roos stuns me sometimes.

[Sanecow]

He can only prepare them so much during the week and before a game, once they are out there it is up to the players to be switched on.

Sure I get that; but if he feels that he can't be sure they'll be switched on, shouldn't he explore what causes the up-and-down performances? Doesn't someone dissect the pre-game preparations of the games where they come out half asleep?

At the very least I hope he's learned that announcing a retirement at half time doesn't work.

I wasn't actually trying to take a shot at Roos with this thread, I was just surprised that even he doesn't know why the team sometimes doesn't turn up.

[BurgandiLove]

As a general rule, people are fickle.
Goodsey of Mickey have an off day and there's trade talk here.
As for the mental state of players, does anyone know if we have a team psychologist yet?
Still amazed that we don't with the players' 'role model' status and media spotlight etc.

Yeah but most times the "experts" on this site are proved wrong, which is rather pleasing.

[BurgandiLove]

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[CureTheSane]

Yeah but most times the "experts" on this site are proved wrong, which is rather pleasing.

I remember once when I was wro.....
w... wr..... wro......

[swantastic]

He can only prepare them so much during the week and before a game, once they are out there it is up to the players to be switched on.

Spot on there Scott you are 100% right.

[Xie Shan]

Sure I get that; but if he feels that he can't be sure they'll be switched on, shouldn't he explore what causes the up-and-down performances? Doesn't someone dissect the pre-game preparations of the games where they come out half asleep?

You'd think so, but I'm not sure which is better - having explored what causes the up-and-down performances and STILL not being able to figure it out, or just admitting straight out that you have no idea!

[ScottH]

Sure I get that; but if he feels that he can't be sure they'll be switched on, shouldn't he explore what causes the up-and-down performances? Doesn't someone dissect the pre-game preparations of the games where they come out half asleep?

I would hope they do, and they probably do.

Most, if not all, of us have little idea of what actually takes place after, between and before each game.

You would hope they do, but some things they can't control only guide in the right direction.

[swantastic]

Sure I get that; but if he feels that he can't be sure they'll be switched on, shouldn't he explore what causes the up-and-down performances? Doesn't someone dissect the pre-game preparations of the games where they come out half asleep?

At the very least I hope he's learned that announcing a retirement at half time doesn't work.

I wasn't actually trying to take a shot at Roos with this thread, I was just surprised that even he doesn't know why the team sometimes doesn't turn up.

Sanecow as a coach you can only instruct them so much but out on the field its up to the cortinas to either do a race change or take it easy and do a double clutch job.Its all in the noggen on game day if the batterys flat the old cortinas will have trouble getting going.

[hammo]

Mick Malthouse said a similar thing a while ago after the Pies were smashed by Brisbane.

"There was no real defining moment, it was just coach's feel. Parents feel it, coaches feel it. I get it as a coach," Malthouse said.

"I look and see and I reckon I've got it right most times. You think, 'We're in for a big day' or 'We're in for an ordinary day', no matter what you do. It's not want, it's maybe that the planets have simply been re-aligned. I don't know what it is, perhaps it's a sense you have and it just didn't gel with me before the game.

"I'm sure most coaches that have been coaching long enough would get that feel. You just think, 'It's going to be hard work today'."

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[Mr_Juicy]

I never understood it as well. They over analysis everything he says or does and then always draw negative conclusions to it.

Its like they want him to stuff up to appease their own egos.

Like I've said many times, its much easier in life to be negative. If you are negative and it turns out wrong, you still win because your team won. If you are negative and your team loses you can always say "I told you so."

[NMWBloods]

Other coaches seem to take responsibility for things not going as well as expected:

Craig accepted much of the blame for Adelaide's 2-4 win-loss ratio in finals under him.
"We've created it, or I have created it, and I need to live with it, and in the end we need to change it," he said.

[Industrial Fan]

Other coaches seem to take responsibility for things not going as well as expected:

Would he take the same credit if they'd won?

[swansrule100]

id prefer the coach to just stop talking and win some games, dont care who takes responsibility as long as its changed!!!!!!!

[ernie koala]

Other coaches seem to take responsibility for things not going as well as expected:

Like Coach Eade ?? His latest gem was something along the lines of " We needed to have this really bad season before we improve, moving forward " Ah yes, the mastercoach at work .

[BRISWAN]

Just have a look at Roos record..............not that bad compared to others?