Well I do blame the coach for professional players making skill errors because the coach is the one who decides what training will happen.
I'm absolutely certain that you have had zero exposure to elite training in any endeavour, Morgan. Well I have but no I wasn't the coach. I assisted as a regular volunteer and committee member for 10 years at a swimming club that had a nationally qualified coach. This is the guy that regularly had his swimmers competing at both state and national level.
Guess what? He didn't just concentrate on effort. In fact he never coached effort at all. That was a given or you didn't last.
He coached skills, skills and skills. He had every swimmer regularly practicing pool entries, turning techniques, finishing techniques and he walked up and down to the pool constantly correcting minor stroke errors. He was aiming for perfect skills, just like every other swimming coach at his level.
That was obtained only by constant skills practice and not by swimming up and down a pool until you were as fit as Rocky.
When was the last time we beat a skillful team? Hawthorn concentrate on skills and I can't remember when we last beat them. The eagles, since Simpson's arrival, have concentrated on skills and how many years ago have we won a Derby?
The only reason we won today was St Kilda are also poorly skilled but gave good effort. We beat Norths because they were poorly skilled and gave no effort and it's easy to look good when you're playing against clueless witches hats.
A halfway decent team would have beaten us today.
So yeah, bloody Lyon
