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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 3134800, member: 8423"] The first thing I would have done as coach this week was walk into the meeting room with the players, told them to hand me their phones and say to them don’t you dare read the media this week. Then I would have acknowledged the elephant in the room (Milford) and then said to everyone, let’s have a quick heart-to-heart and ask them two questions: 1. Why are you playing league? 2. Why are you playing league at THIS club? I would then have shown them highlights from the GF winning sides. I would say to them, look let’s be honest, we are t even close to that but that doesn’t matter now. For today, let’s just go out a train for a few hours and let’s just have some fun, play like we did when we first picked up a football. And I would have had a group lunch and put them in groups: forwards, spine, left side and right side and I would say, which one of you is going to be the leader? Which one of you wants to be responsible for your squad this week? Any high paid player who doesn’t put his hand up is out and the most enthusiastic kids are in and then you talk to the team on the second day of the week about ownership and accountability. And you say it starts from the top and outwardly say you haven’t been going that well but that changes now. You the. Do some bonding activities. On the third day you walk in with a massive smile on your face in a Broncos jersey and you Zoom into that kid in hospital who lives and breathes the Broncos and you get him to cry about how much this side’s recent performances are killing him and when you stop the video, you sit in silence and allow the players to take that in and you wait until your leaders step in and say something. You are ok with the silence. The. You disperse for an hour or so and come back and do some training. The next day you come in and you get intense and you say to the players every time you drop the ball or miss a tackle today, you think of that kid in hospital and you apologise. Every time you drop a ball or miss a tackle you pay $100 into the swear jar. The next day you discuss with everyone how to blend fun with intensity and you go out on the training paddock and you do it. There coach, just do it and see what happens. [/QUOTE]

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