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Chasing Glory - 2014 Doco

What I took out of this most, is that Madge's training and army camp fetish was over the top.

I know in hindsight all the boys said they were glad to at least do it once, but yeah, it's a useless exercise in a macro sense.

In the 60th minute some 400k player isn't going to execute his skill better or tackle harder because 6 months ago he was forced awake at 1am to go swimming, then counted some rice the next day.

Train for skills, train for football fitness. That's it.

The rest is fluff.
 
daRque said:
Okay, thanks for letting us know, I was wondering when you'd get to watch the rest.
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Thanks for letting us know regarding you thanking for letting us know, Opinion Approver™
 
raider said:
What I took out of this most, is that Madge's training and army camp fetish was over the top.

I know in hindsight all the boys said they were glad to at least do it once, but yeah, it's a useless exercise in a macro sense.

In the 60th minute some 400k player isn't going to execute his skill better or tackle harder because 6 months ago he was forced awake at 1am to go swimming, then counted some rice the next day.

Train for skills, train for football fitness. That's it.

The rest is fluff.
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I think as a once-off it was very effective - setting a new standard, shaking things up, so to speak. To do it more than once would lose it's purpose.

I'm hoping Bennett/Elkin/whoever come in and do something similar - not so much the over-the-top torture tests etc, but a "circuit breaker" exercise to show "this is how hard we have to train if we want to be winners" type thing.
 
raider said:
What I took out of this most, is that Madge's training and army camp fetish was over the top.

I know in hindsight all the boys said they were glad to at least do it once, but yeah, it's a useless exercise in a macro sense.

In the 60th minute some 400k player isn't going to execute his skill better or tackle harder because 6 months ago he was forced awake at 1am to go swimming, then counted some rice the next day.

Train for skills, train for football fitness. That's it.

The rest is fluff.
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The point is to see how the players react under duress. It isn't about improving skills or tackling ability. It is about giving the coach confidence he can put a player out on the field and know that he will stand up under fatigue and mental pressure.
 
yobbo84 said:
I think as a once-off it was very effective - setting a new standard, shaking things up, so to speak. To do it more than once would lose it's purpose.

I'm hoping Bennett/Elkin/whoever come in and do something similar - not so much the over-the-top torture tests etc, but a "circuit breaker" exercise to show "this is how hard we have to train if we want to be winners" type thing.
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Bellamy has that thing where only the new boys need to do it. I agree, I think as a level setting and team building exercise, they’re good.
 
Pplspoet said:
Bellamy has that thing where only the new boys need to do it. I agree, I think as a level setting and team building exercise, they’re good.
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The Storm system is simple genius. Go do 2 weeks of hard labour - brickie, roofer, digging holes, whatever. Right - now that's what you'll be doing if you don't make it as a footballer.
 
yobbo84 said:
I think as a once-off it was very effective - setting a new standard, shaking things up, so to speak. To do it more than once would lose it's purpose.

I'm hoping Bennett/Elkin/whoever come in and do something similar - not so much the over-the-top torture tests etc, but a "circuit breaker" exercise to show "this is how hard we have to train if we want to be winners" type thing.
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My point is that it was over the top. The torture style methodology.

You can elicit the same response with hard physical training and task objectives in groups, minus the torture.

Which is exactly what JD's army camp last off-season was. Documentary and all.

It looked awesome, bonding was high, players were connected... aaannndddd it meant **** all.

Which again links to my wider point. In a macro sense, I think it's fluff.
 
It’s gonna be good to be back on top.

What an absolutely joyless season 2024 was.

I have to continually remind myself that we sacked our coach in round 8! That’s a very low eb.

Always darkest before the light though. Bring on 2025 and number 22. I’m over this Panthers love-in. We ended St George’s run in 67. Let’s do the same to Penrith in 2025.
 
Pplspoet said:
Always darkest before the light though. Bring on 2025 and number 22. I’m over this Panthers love-in. We ended St George’s run in 67. Let’s do the same to Penrith in 2025.
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And then played 5 successive Grand Finals winning 4 of them.
 
yobbo84 said:
I think as a once-off it was very effective - setting a new standard, shaking things up, so to speak. To do it more than once would lose it's purpose.

I'm hoping Bennett/Elkin/whoever come in and do something similar - not so much the over-the-top torture tests etc, but a "circuit breaker" exercise to show "this is how hard we have to train if we want to be winners" type thing.
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I know it’s been mentioned a few times on here, but the players are in for a rude awakening with Elkins coming in
 
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I haven't watched yet because I haven't had time, but jeez I'm excited for it!!
 
It’s funny what different people take from it. For me personally I loved the army camp.

It’s about building resilience in the group and mental fortitude. Finding what you thought were your limits and pushing through them.

That camp, put the South Sydney back into South Sydney

Like Yobbo, I loved Crock’s quote ‘ Shut the f&@k up Ben, this is what we do here’ that should be on the walls of the centre of excellence not ‘ we Front Load our Energy’ makes the team sound like a bunch of premature ejaculators.

It’s sad hearing how we were once the benchmark training the longest and hardest, now that’s Penrith

Also took note of how it was built.

1. Get the Head of Football of the team that won the comp.

2. Sign a marquee in GI and don’t worry about cap space. Worry about that later

3. Continue to sign what we need and bring through our strong pathway group

4. Go for the best coach, not available take his recommendation and sign his assistant at the benchmark after winning his own title in SL

5. Bring in the Head of Performance from the benchmark

Sad we forgot those lessons
 
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