TruBlueBrad wrote:
camelboy wrote:
TBB, agree with you on Fev. I guess we just need the concentration to make the right decision/execution at the right time.
As great as the progress Denis is making with our team, our two biggest weaknesses IMO, are our scoring efficiency and our mental strength.
camelboy, how do we teach him to do the right thing at the right time though? Its instinct...
You sit him down with Pagan, go through the tape and discuss alternative decisions that could have been made at that time. Discuss the pros and cons of each option and then Denis can say which one he reckons is the best way to go, Fev can say his and generally just discuss the situation.
Because the decision cost us a goal it's easy to say that Fev made the wrong decision. But as we've acknowledged he acted in the best interests of the team. But there was at least one other alternative available that could have also been in the team's best interests. I'd just like it if that moment was scrutinised by the coaching staff a bit more. I'm not suggesting anyone cops a bollocking, rather a sensible and encouraging discussion on decision making under pressure.
That and some more bloody kicking drills. We clearly have a need to deliver the ball with more quality inside 50.
There were two parts to that play. Mental and skill. Both need improve, and that's a team wide criticism, I'm not trying to single a player out.
I'm really happy that so many of us are seeing the great positives that have come out of this game, but to be honest, I'm very flat. If we were able to get that extra goal in front I think we would have been able to win the game. That extra goal not being scored resulted from us and only us. Let's use that experience as a positive so thatr when in similar positions again we get an outcome that is better for the club.
Hey, if Fev had of hit Waite on the chest I reckon we'd be celebrating a win and praising him for his unselfish play. This is why I'm not bagging Fev, but just stressing our need to have the mental strength to make the right decision at the right time, and once that decision has been made that it is executed with the required skill to make sure it comes off.