Inspire us Ross….
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Inspire us Ross….
Some very famous footage of Ted Whitten has him leaning over his players at ¾ time in his last appearance as captain Coach and he says to his players “I want you to inspire meâ€
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5 prelims in 7 years. 40 wins from 49 games.
2009 and 2010 were 2 of the 5 best years ever by the St.Kilda FC.
Thanks for all your efforts Saints.
2009 and 2010 were 2 of the 5 best years ever by the St.Kilda FC.
Thanks for all your efforts Saints.
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Sigh. Listen to Blighty's 'special comments' on TV...he was/is a lunatic! My flatmate, a mad Crows fan, was furious the day we hired him, to which I mused..."Don't worry mate, he'll either make us champions, or we'll make him insane". Didn't take long. Still, when you come to a club several months after claiming they should be shut down (or words to that effect from MB, post-Alves sacking), your agenda is on the table for all to see. He was a greedy, power-hungry weirdo, and he sucked us right in, we should be happy we managed to escape with some good recruits.
Sad to see Sheldon and Alves go though. Was surprised by GT's sacking, but he was predicible.
Sad to see Sheldon and Alves go though. Was surprised by GT's sacking, but he was predicible.
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I was hoping/praying that we'd get Blight initially.....then I couldn't wait to see the back of him! Greatest and most passionless cash grabber of all time! His special comments make me want to throw up! Can't stand the bloke these days!
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Blights a dill.
His comments are inane not insightful.
"I reckon if he laced his boots to the left on Thursdays......"
Hes read the press about being the eccentric genius and now is trying to live up to it........shame in his prime when he had motivation he could clearly coach - not by the time we dangled 1m in front of him.....he saw a beach house and not much else....
His comments are inane not insightful.
"I reckon if he laced his boots to the left on Thursdays......"
Hes read the press about being the eccentric genius and now is trying to live up to it........shame in his prime when he had motivation he could clearly coach - not by the time we dangled 1m in front of him.....he saw a beach house and not much else....
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Should of stuck with him until the end of that year at leastTeflon wrote:Blights a dill.
His comments are inane not insightful.
"I reckon if he laced his boots to the left on Thursdays......"
Hes read the press about being the eccentric genius and now is trying to live up to it........shame in his prime when he had motivation he could clearly coach - not by the time we dangled 1m in front of him.....he saw a beach house and not much else....
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Re: Inspire us Ross….
So because we sacked coaches that made us more successful we should not sack a coach who has taken us rapidly backwards?aussierules0k wrote:
On the note of Coaches... as we know, Alves, Sheldon and GT all took us closer... all were sacked.
Now that is the st kilda way!
Give Lyon this year - if the team hasn't improved WHY keep him on? (personally i hope we do make finals -we do win a finals game and our confidence improves and we hit 2009 running - if so then keep him for 2009 and watch what unfolds)
He is not here to develop a list. His agenda was success in his term - does anybody really believe he can turn it around next year? If not then why keep him!
Why was Malcolm a poor choice - he had no desire to coach! he imparted no desire on an initially expectant player list! the one honest thing he did at the club got him sacked! Again the st kilda way.
Time for a change!
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Re: Inspire us Ross….
I think it was Greg Baum (I may be wrong - some journalist) on SEN on the weekend who said that St Kilda wanted a coach who would be steady, no ups & downs. He used the term 'metronomic'.Joffa Burns wrote:Ross the boss – as exciting as watching paint dry on a cold, cold day. Could inspire me to buy hot pie on a cold night at the footy. Doesn’t even appear to try to pretend he wants interaction….Inspire gauge 2/10
When the recruitment firm analysed the testing results Ross was that candidate.
It was suggested that they thought the team shouldn't have to be inspired by some external force. And therefore to some degree, I suppose, be subject to that force. It's been discussed here many times. Self starters, self motivators etc.
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at this level of comp the players shouldn need the coach to inspire them it should be just the internal want to be the best they can be that should drive them all these silly rev ups and pump up prove is that the player were not giving 100% to start off with . its like when a team lifts for a players last game ... why the hell not do that every week ? why wait for somthing to happen to give that little extra ??
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Blight only has a job as a special comments man because he was a great footballer. It is yet another instance of "jobs for the boys." His "comments" are evidence of his utter stupidity and if decisions were based on merit in the business of AFL, he'd be on a putting green somewhere and never allowed near a microphone. He is a total moron.
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If you could answer that st_Trav, you'd be a premiership coach by now.st_Trav_ofWA wrote:at this level of comp the players shouldn need the coach to inspire them it should be just the internal want to be the best they can be that should drive them all these silly rev ups and pump up prove is that the player were not giving 100% to start off with . its like when a team lifts for a players last game ... why the hell not do that every week ? why wait for somthing to happen to give that little extra ??
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Interesting thread.
FWIW, I've seen a few coaches over the years first hand. In terms of motivation, Tommy Hafey leads the pack, hands down. You'd run through 20 brick walls for him.
Malcolm Blight was very big on the boot laces thing, believe it or not. In his dossier on how to play AFL and all his rules, boot laces was very high on the agenda. I'd have liked to see him continue just to see what happened, but I knew he'd be gone pretty quickly after Round 14 of that year. Writing was on the wall of the coaches box of that game.
His motivation factor came mainly from his name of being a superstar player and coach.
As for GT, you'd be surprised at his level of ability to motivate. His demeanour and agro meant that you'd want to please him to get on his good side as you knew the bad side meant pergatory for months. But Joffa Burns' comments about him not being able to trust GT probably ring true also. I doubt you ever knew fully where you stood with GT.
Kenny Sheldon was a good players coach also. Well, unless you ask Craig Devonport!!
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FWIW, I've seen a few coaches over the years first hand. In terms of motivation, Tommy Hafey leads the pack, hands down. You'd run through 20 brick walls for him.
Malcolm Blight was very big on the boot laces thing, believe it or not. In his dossier on how to play AFL and all his rules, boot laces was very high on the agenda. I'd have liked to see him continue just to see what happened, but I knew he'd be gone pretty quickly after Round 14 of that year. Writing was on the wall of the coaches box of that game.
His motivation factor came mainly from his name of being a superstar player and coach.
As for GT, you'd be surprised at his level of ability to motivate. His demeanour and agro meant that you'd want to please him to get on his good side as you knew the bad side meant pergatory for months. But Joffa Burns' comments about him not being able to trust GT probably ring true also. I doubt you ever knew fully where you stood with GT.
Kenny Sheldon was a good players coach also. Well, unless you ask Craig Devonport!!
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GT did look to be somewhat of a motivator...he certainly wasn't the 'dead fish' the media liked to make him out to be. However, he was very devisive...live by the sword, die by the sword, eh?SENsaintsational wrote:As for GT, you'd be surprised at his level of ability to motivate. His demeanour and agro meant that you'd want to please him to get on his good side as you knew the bad side meant pergatory for months. But Joffa Burns' comments about him not being able to trust GT probably ring true also. I doubt you ever knew fully where you stood with GT.
Kenny Sheldon was a good players coach also. Well, unless you ask Craig Devonport!!
I loved Ken Sheldon, thought he worked wonders with a team that was battling it's way out of the dark past.
I was always interested in what made Stan Alves tick though...he seemed to (outwardly) treat the team like a bunch of kids (not helped by taking 'em to the movies and going swimming), but achieved results. Very stunned by his sacking...can anyone shed some light for me on Stan's coaching efforts at St Kilda?
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Re: Inspire us Ross….
And it is. GT was pushed into taking on the coaching role by Buttress. Have a listen to audio from the first ever press conference and it's clear Thomas was not expecting to take on the job, whereas Buttress sounds like it had been his plan for some time.aussierules0k wrote:A sad, sad day when we... sacked Malcom Blight.Joffa Burns wrote: Malcolm Blight – I was ready to pull the boots on and run out there to play. Had me believing we’d go from last to 1st in one year and that his Adelaide model would fire us in as contenders. Off the scale on the inspire gauge 11/10
Idiots. "oh but the golf" I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now. He should've been given 3 years at least. GT the social climber was a main instigator in MB's down fall... as I understand the story.... which could be far from the truth.
Clueless and mediocre petty tyrant.
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Re: Inspire us Ross….
Not wanting to turn this into an anti-GT thread (yawn), but who was it around the club (or was it just the media) that labelled GT 'Cornflakes', as he'd been tipped out of Blight's coaching box so many times for pretending he was the coach? He might have been surprised by the timing, but was GT was an innocent pawn with no control over what was happening?evertonfc wrote: GT was pushed into taking on the coaching role by Buttress. Have a listen to audio from the first ever press conference and it's clear Thomas was not expecting to take on the job, whereas Buttress sounds like it had been his plan for some time.
Re: Inspire us Ross….
It was Patrick Smith but you have the story wrong. It had nothing to do with being tipped out of MB coaching box so many times it was because GT had been tipped out of so many coaching boxes in his time.degruch wrote:Not wanting to turn this into an anti-GT thread (yawn), but who was it around the club (or was it just the media) that labelled GT 'Cornflakes', as he'd been tipped out of Blight's coaching box so many times for pretending he was the coach? He might have been surprised by the timing, but was GT was an innocent pawn with no control over what was happening?evertonfc wrote: GT was pushed into taking on the coaching role by Buttress. Have a listen to audio from the first ever press conference and it's clear Thomas was not expecting to take on the job, whereas Buttress sounds like it had been his plan for some time.
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OK...I geddit. Would you say he was a cereal offender then!?!plugger66 wrote:It was Patrick Smith but you have the story wrong. It had nothing to do with being tipped out of MB coaching box so many times it was because GT had been tipped out of so many coaching boxes in his time.degruch wrote:Not wanting to turn this into an anti-GT thread (yawn), but who was it around the club (or was it just the media) that labelled GT 'Cornflakes', as he'd been tipped out of Blight's coaching box so many times for pretending he was the coach? He might have been surprised by the timing, but was GT was an innocent pawn with no control over what was happening?evertonfc wrote: GT was pushed into taking on the coaching role by Buttress. Have a listen to audio from the first ever press conference and it's clear Thomas was not expecting to take on the job, whereas Buttress sounds like it had been his plan for some time.
Like the 'pressure for breakfast' comment. Surely that'd make RL tofu right now, due to his pressure absobsion qualities???
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Couldn't have been Lyon, he can do no right remember.saintsRrising wrote:It would appear that RL "inspired" the players for the Freo game.....the team was noticeably at a higher level against Freo.
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higher level?joffaboy wrote:Couldn't have been Lyon, he can do no right remember.saintsRrising wrote:It would appear that RL "inspired" the players for the Freo game.....the team was noticeably at a higher level against Freo.
i musta been watching a reply of a diff game.
we were ok
and freo were shite.
i did like the way Allen presented
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i also like the way mcevoy got hammered by sandilands in the ruck, but tried hard in the second effort dept trying to crumb his own ball.....i can see why we drafted him.
mini is gonna lose his head one day, in and under and chases.
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if that was north or the crows on friday, i would be well chuffed
but it was freo people...
granted they beat north...so hopefully that means anything can happen this week when we play them.