The danger of psycho babble

[think positive]

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

We could do worse than introduce something like dianetics. I'm certain that with thorough auditing we could erase all those reactive minds and help set up sustained success over the next billion years.

[Geek]

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I got a big roll of tinfoil I bought from Costco if it will help

[Hiss]

I think we over complicate the game these days. After all, the majority of players are rather dumb. Just tell them to kick it straight up the guts! That�s about all they are capable of processing. Only In backwoods Australia do we pay so much for so little brain power! Oh I forgot, they do in the US too!

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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-fall-out-from-the-melbourne-pre-season-camp-fiasco-20180316-p4z4oe.html

[David]

This is a great discussion, thanks all. I�m also pretty sceptical about these corporate team-building programs, and am astonished to read about the Melbourne fiasco � this is the first I�ve heard of it! You really start to understand how cults get started with this stuff.

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[MatthewBoydFanClub]

For all the mistakes (?) Buckley has made as a senior coach nothing he has done can be compared to the fiascos committed by the Melbourne and Adelaide football clubs, which makes the decision to re-employ Buckley by the club at the end of last season, a very astute decision.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

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[qldmagpie67]

I've seen several various approaches to different ideas like leading teams and army style camps.
When I was involved in the NRL our coach ran a army style camp on a couple occasions. It wasn't popular with the players but generally taking people outside there comfort zone isn't a popular decision. You could say it worked once because we won the premiership that year on 2 other occasions we didn't so make of that what you will.
As for leading teams we tried that once (not with leading teams) it was a failure. Reason being when your working with a large group of people they all have vastly different personalities and vastly different goals they want to achieve as individuals along with team goals.
The club has used a guy called Phil Jauncy who works part time and only when the senior coach thinks a player or group of players might need some help. He works mostly one on one and some times it's as simple as a player might be having a relationship issue or a financial issue and that is impacting on there mental state.
I had my door knocked on more times than I care to remember by the head coach or a player or players manager looking for a change in a players payment schedule for some reason or another.
You see for as much as some players earn or how often they get paid some times like everyone they have over committed themselves and more often than not they feel embarrassed to ask for help.
In 1998 we changed totally the way we paid players. They went from monthly salary payments with quarterly match and bonus payments to weekly payments like a normal person receives there wages. This was on the advice of Jauncey who said financial stress was large factor on many players.
We then expanded our service to include dealing directly with banks to arrange personal finances lenders for a player and tailor there payments to suits the financial institutions requirements.
The point is taking away 1 less stress from a player can make a large difference in performance.
You see most of the guys playing professional sport aren't academics. There not dunces either but the majority are just normally educated people who's focus for most of there teen years has been spent preparing for a career in sport not in business.
All of a sudden they are handed large sums of money and just play footy. Some handle it well, some have great managers or family who help some waste it and struggle some just lose perspective on reality with it.
Everyone is different. I always spoke to new recruits or players who re-signing of there total package because more often than not they only look at a bottom line and think that's what there earning. They don't realise the ATO has there hand out, there manager has thee hand out and then they need certain levels of personal insurance against an outside accident meaning they can't play footy.
You see football clubs are more than just football clubs now due to the income streams.
I know Collingwood help the players well off the field. Dayne Beams told me that when he signed his first upgraded deal (after rookie deal) Eddie arranged a financial advisor to go through want he wanted to achieve financially from his football career. His priority was to own a home.
Some players have different goals so personalising any form of help be it financial or otherwise can make a massive difference in performance

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