Blue Vain wrote:
Posters can mock the concept of Leading Teams but the runs are on the board.
Leading Teams have had an ongoing relationship with Sydney for the past 12 years and Geelong for the past 7 years. Its no coincidence those clubs have the strongest and most successful cultures within the AFL.
The problem with the concept is people are told truths they aren't secure or mature enough to hear. Weak organisations bow to those people, strong organisations bring them into line or weed them out.
That's what Collingwood are going through now. I have no doubt they'll be a better and stronger club once the process is completed.
The concept also erodes the powerbase of autocrats with an organisation.
For all of those reasons you wont see the board or the coach of Carlton bringing LT back anytime soon.
There was some discussion on AFL360 last night and Cam Mooney said LT no longer works with Geelong, but your point still remains valid and according to Mooney the reason LT is no longer at Gellong is because the way of thinking is so entrenched that it's just not required.
Geelong and Sydney are very good examples of club's with strong cultures. When I first heard we were working with LT that was the aspiration I had, that Carlton, too, would develop a genuine team resolve and mental toughness.
I'm still waiting.
Mick has only been there for a few months, but if LT and/or a coach of Mick's standing in the game cannot get the playing group to man up, then we may as well wipe out the next 5-10 years and start again post 2020.
Perhaps that's being a bit melodramatic, but why do we continually fail against top 8 teams? Why do we only win 1 in 3 games at Etihad?
Whether the "line in the sand" game for Hawthorn really worked or not is debatable, but what it has done is given the club a very public reference point that they won't be pushed around. If nothing else it has given them a basis for belief that they can compete against anyone.
We're going into this game against the Hawks expecting to lose. Probability says that's fair enough, but even Mick's comments earlier in the week had a degree of acceptance about what will come tomorrow night. If Mick isn't even trotting out the "don't write us off, it's a two-horse race" cliches then that must filter down the chain.
And Synbad is right too, the hardness is not there off the field either.
The whole club is just too bloody soft.
If Melbourne won't take Kennett, perhaps we should?!
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