You've obviously never coached / managed a competitive team before

Mental aspect is huge. A real world example for you:

My American Football team got hammered 21-0 by a very s**te Div.3 team the first time I watched them before joining. Concentrated on the attitude and mental aspect and a month later they tonked the same team 48-0.

4 years later (this season) they (mostly a student team with few athletes) reached the national (i.e. top division) semi-finals before going out to the eventual champs (and champs for the last 4 years).

Granted, much time was spent on fundamentals and tactics but even if I was an NFL coach I couldn't have taught them enough in that first month (8 training sessions) to have turned them around that much.

Steve

Posted By: Steve in Holland on August 30th 2005 at 20:07:55

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Worthy quote (NCFC) - hound, Aug 30, 19:46:47
- coz if your not menatally right at this level (NCFC) - David Brent, Aug 30, 19:49:10
  - All sounds like a load of bollocks to me (NCFC) - Ben, Aug 30, 19:57:10
    - if oyu go out beleiveing you're gonna iwn 4-0/5-0 (NCFC) - David Brent, Aug 30, 20:14:29
      - Exactly but at the same time you have to (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 20:20:17
    - You've obviously never coached / managed a competitive team before (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 20:07:55
      - I think you've got to say though... (NCFC) - LeonTheNinjaTurtle, Aug 30, 20:13:06
        
        Probably a bad example... (NCFC) - LeonTheNinjaTurtle, Aug 30, 20:13:41
      - is American Football big in Holland then? (n/m) (NCFC) - ZambianCanary, Aug 30, 20:12:59
        
        No, minority sport but growing again. About 20 senior teams. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 20:15:13
  - Agreed (NCFC) - hound, Aug 30, 19:52:27
    - im sure they've been working on defending at Colney (NCFC) - David Brent, Aug 30, 19:58:04
      - Slightly agree but.. (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 20:10:45

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