Booney wrote:That's why there's no recipe for success, nobody really knows but I stand by my view that come the last two weeks of the year if you need someone to motivate you to play your role then you're in the wrong game.
Coaches spend the summer drilling down game plans, if those plans work well enough, often enough, you make finals. After that you need to look in the mirror, not for someone to hold your hand.
MW wrote:Interesting take.
I would think you need a game plan to withstand finals as we all know finals is a much different game than home/away.
If your game plan doesn't stand up in the minor round you won't even be there.
I 100% agree there is no locked in recipe for success. I'm a Hinkley fan btw.
I don't think its so much about being motivated, I'm sure they are all motivated. It would be more so about having each player in a good mental head space (for them as an individual) and creating an environment that allows for individuals to thrive when the immense pressure hits. At all levels of sport there is blokes who stand up in the big games and blokes that go missing. How do you get the best out of each person under pressure is the trick to coaching in finals imo.
Even as country bumkins playing spud sport you feel the rise in pressure, intensity, importance at our level of sport so could barely imagine what that feels like at the professional level.
I dont watch Port close enough but i will also admit that there is certain styles of football that tend to stand up better under finals pressure. I could accept that a coach may have a style that works well in the minor round but when it comes to finals, the pressure is on, the game is pretty much umpired different etc that a style might not stand up. I think the general consensus and it stood up well was that Collingwood had a style of football that not only will win minor games but was also going to stand up to finals football well.
I guess its what makes the game so fascinating. Thats all before we start to talk about the physically peaking element etc etc.