knockersbumpMKII wrote:We need an attack coach and a sports psychologist at the very least, I'd say the latter is much more important than the former.
And I would say that the latter would be a total waste of time and money and the former may help - but only if it was the right person.
Do we really need dozens of coaches? By all means bring in specialists for certain aspects like kicking but do we want to end up like the England RU set up which has over 30 backroom staff - fat lot of good that did.
Sports psychologists in a team environment pure bull merchants. They may have some use in an individual precision sport like golf, snooker, darts for example where a steady nerve and the ability to blank out distractions certainly helps but its completely different in a fast moving team sport. Name me one successful sports psychologist who has lifted a team up and over the barriers preventing them from being champions. Instead you have mugs like Dr Steve Peters who flits from one team failure to the next while telling everyone how good he is.
Erik the not red wrote:And I would say that the latter would be a total waste of time and money and the former may help - but only if it was the right person.
Do we really need dozens of coaches? By all means bring in specialists for certain aspects like kicking but do we want to end up like the England RU set up which has over 30 backroom staff - fat lot of good that did.
Sports psychologists in a team environment pure bull merchants. They may have some use in an individual precision sport like golf, snooker, darts for example where a steady nerve and the ability to blank out distractions certainly helps but its completely different in a fast moving team sport. Name me one successful sports psychologist who has lifted a team up and over the barriers preventing them from being champions. Instead you have mugs like Dr Steve Peters who flits from one team failure to the next while telling everyone how good he is.
don't you dare talk sense, we need a hundred coaches and bumpy should own the club, we'd be invincible
Erik the not red wrote:And I would say that the latter would be a total waste of time and money and the former may help - but only if it was the right person.
Do we really need dozens of coaches? By all means bring in specialists for certain aspects like kicking but do we want to end up like the England RU set up which has over 30 backroom staff - fat lot of good that did.
Sports psychologists in a team environment pure bull merchants. They may have some use in an individual precision sport like golf, snooker, darts for example where a steady nerve and the ability to blank out distractions certainly helps but its completely different in a fast moving team sport. Name me one successful sports psychologist who has lifted a team up and over the barriers preventing them from being champions. Instead you have mugs like Dr Steve Peters who flits from one team failure to the next while telling everyone how good he is.
Ive long thought we need a skills coach, we have been poor for years on basics such as passing. I dont think an attacking coach with some new ideas would be a bad thing either and there is surely more budget now with two cups wins and very strong retail sales.
Chris71 wrote:Heres one very successful one, Eileen Drewery
lol
we should get her, in partnership with Rangi Chase as skills coach and Paul King as social co-ordinator, what could possibly go wrong. Add bumpy in as owner, seb as rugby manager, we'd be flying!
Erik the not red wrote:And yet you can't provide any evidence of a successful sports psychologist in a team sport.
There are if you'd bother to look but within a team environment it's about dealing with the individuals themselves not really the team as a whole, if you had any clue you'd know but you haven't.
knockersbumpMKII wrote:There are if you'd bother to look but within a team environment it's about dealing with the individuals themselves not really the team as a whole, if you had any clue you'd know but you haven't.
Really and you have such a clue that you can't name one. Surely if they were that good and vital we'd have heard about them.
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