Someone needs to slip a box of Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knives into the coaches box on Anzac Day. See if McRabies reaches for one during another 'honorable loss'.Hiss wrote:I wish he could be more exciting like Clarko or Malthouse. Lovely guy but too quiet. I want to see telephones being smashed, walls being punched, journalists being abused.
Welcome to Collingwood, Coach Craig McRae
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It's early I know but I'm already a big fan of McRae, with a number of things striking me about the bloke.
First, there's the pedigree of his training as a player and assistant coach, and you can tell it matters.
Second, there's his plain, no-nonsense speaking and the boundaries he sets. If he doesn't want to talk about something he says as much directly without apology. At a club prone to histrionics and targeted with media shenanigans, that naturally defuses any nonsense.
Third, he's clearly a next-gen coach in his knowledge and approach. On its own that doesn't necessarily mean much; however, if you put it with his character and experience, you know he's not just talking the talk. So, when he speaks about the team's DNA, he's not resorting to cliches as is the case when others use terms like that. When he spoke of the team and coaches getting back to doing what was working well before the Freo game, you know he was self-aware enough to step back and reset after couple of sub-par performances.
Fourth, and following from the third, this genuine embrace of newer approaches to people and teams means he's got a lot of tools in the kit bag for getting the best out of players and others around him. His response to the de Goey hysteria at the beginning of the year struck me as different to what we're used to hearing: "We like what Jordan brings to the club". No apologies, no shame, no reacting to the leading media questions, but instead formulating the best way to get the most out of that individual for his own good and that of the team.
Above all, though, he strikes me as mature, which is no doubt what enables him to speak plainly and is an enormous asset when dealing with young people. It's also just what the doctor ordered for an historically dysfunctional organisation that is easily provoked and readily entangled in its own insecurities.
Very promising indeed.
First, there's the pedigree of his training as a player and assistant coach, and you can tell it matters.
Second, there's his plain, no-nonsense speaking and the boundaries he sets. If he doesn't want to talk about something he says as much directly without apology. At a club prone to histrionics and targeted with media shenanigans, that naturally defuses any nonsense.
Third, he's clearly a next-gen coach in his knowledge and approach. On its own that doesn't necessarily mean much; however, if you put it with his character and experience, you know he's not just talking the talk. So, when he speaks about the team's DNA, he's not resorting to cliches as is the case when others use terms like that. When he spoke of the team and coaches getting back to doing what was working well before the Freo game, you know he was self-aware enough to step back and reset after couple of sub-par performances.
Fourth, and following from the third, this genuine embrace of newer approaches to people and teams means he's got a lot of tools in the kit bag for getting the best out of players and others around him. His response to the de Goey hysteria at the beginning of the year struck me as different to what we're used to hearing: "We like what Jordan brings to the club". No apologies, no shame, no reacting to the leading media questions, but instead formulating the best way to get the most out of that individual for his own good and that of the team.
Above all, though, he strikes me as mature, which is no doubt what enables him to speak plainly and is an enormous asset when dealing with young people. It's also just what the doctor ordered for an historically dysfunctional organisation that is easily provoked and readily entangled in its own insecurities.
Very promising indeed.
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I also am starting to see the influence of Leppa in our defensive efforts the last 2 weeks. Not getting opened up as much as earlier on and our pressure really told on the Blues who had their 1st goalless qtr of the season.
Human behavioural studies suggest people who use a lot of swear words tend to be more honest & trustworthy.
Pietillidie - very good observations.
I think McCrae is levels above Buckley as a coach - I mean after 10 years did anyone think Buckley was a gun coach?
There are clearly list holes but with Wright and McCrae these will be filled.
He is doing a terrific job of getting buy in from the players and keeping it fun and competitive. Totally agree that he doesn’t talk garbage in public. Smart guy and a good character.
I think McCrae is levels above Buckley as a coach - I mean after 10 years did anyone think Buckley was a gun coach?
There are clearly list holes but with Wright and McCrae these will be filled.
He is doing a terrific job of getting buy in from the players and keeping it fun and competitive. Totally agree that he doesn’t talk garbage in public. Smart guy and a good character.
Daicos, impossible angle ... Goal!
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/it- ... 5aqeg.html
A good article that explains, albeit indirectly, why watching Collingwood is no longer the frustrating, depressing experience, win or lose, that it mostly was for the previous decade.
A good article that explains, albeit indirectly, why watching Collingwood is no longer the frustrating, depressing experience, win or lose, that it mostly was for the previous decade.
Came to quote this as well. For mine this is the most telling (Damning for Buckley?) quote to come out if the article.Pies4shaw wrote:https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/it-s-mcchaos-out-there-collingwood-s-forward-new-game-style-20220601-p5aqeg.html
A good article that explains, albeit indirectly, why watching Collingwood is no longer the frustrating, depressing experience, win or lose, that it was for the previous decade.
“In Buckley’s time, the Magpies rarely did “front and centre” drills. Under McRae, they did them in every off-season session, for their own sake, but also to set up a trigger in the players’ minds. This was how they would play now; this is where the ball would be. It was all about rehabituation.”
Buckley tried to play perfect footy but got stuck bombing it long in a bail out. Always going to need to have front and centre skills but we never practiced them?
Love what Fly is doing! Says to me that big bodied mids and some small forwards might even be more valuable this coming draft than KPFs.
The match day thread is for unfiltered BS knee jerk reactions. The time for level headed comment comes after.
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Big praise for Leppa from McRae this week.Johnno75 wrote:I also am starting to see the influence of Leppa in our defensive efforts the last 2 weeks.
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Cam has posted the link to the following in-depth article in another thread but it should also be linked here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-29/ ... /101192714
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-29/ ... /101192714