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February 25, 2007
Its about winning not about The NAB Cup.
People seem to be almost scared of winning this thing after last year. Sammy makes a good case for not getting over excited , he calls it Fools Gold and if one is overly focused on the Cup aspect of this comp then he is right and after all its only 4 game's in a row and the opposition strength is usually questionable. For mine I’m not even sure it should be called a Grand Final. How grand can it be , after only beating 4 sides?
Having said that I’m all for winning it because in a club that has had little success it gives us a chance to add to the overall experience at the club. Just like the VFL GF’s , the final’s match does give one a taste of what we hope to feel later in the year. Yes its not home and away but its not inter club either and what’s important is it allows us to try shape mindset.
The mindset of winning or losing is habitual. Its not something that should be randomly played with. A clear message should be sent to every player that GFC exists for one thing. To win. That we play to win , every quarter , every match , everytime we play. We prepare to win. We plan to win. We practice all summer to win and if winning creates extra imputs to their mental state, then good. We don’t seek to avoid “pressure”, we seek experience “success”. Our mindset must be that we enjoy competition, and the bigger , the harder the competition , the better. So while its only very low on our ultimate goal list , it gives all players, especially the new kids a chance to experience the upside and downside of exposure. It allows them to show their stuff with a known level of club expectation against better players than they would have previously played against. It allows us a chance to build list confidence and prepare the full group for the season proper with carefully managed rotations because of the bigger team sizes. It gives all players a gradual build up in game pressure that should ensure us being cherry ripe for R1.
I know Sydney and others take a different view. They prefer to avoid early games and come to form at a later time say around R6. Its worked for them the last two years but I’m not sure we should try to copy this approach. We won the comp last year basically being fresh and under trained but we still got injuries and we still looked under prepared later in the year. Adelaide didn’t dive out of the comp yet they had a very good year and with a little more luck could have been in the GF. I’d much prefer to be winning the those early rounds and controlling the work load with wins on the board. Imagine if everyone took the slow approach we could have 5 or 6 before the other were at 100%.
If our prep has been as good as the blurb then there is no reason why wouldn’t should continue to play to win.
Posted by Turbocat at February 25, 2007 08:06 PM
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