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Totally agree. So few can handle the ego of the brilliant, even though they know that they’re brilliant. My grandmother once said to my Dad, “who does this Dennis Lillie think he is?!” My dad replied, probably one of the greatest bowlers of all time. Likewise when 1966 surfing world champ Nat Young got beaten shitless by a guy I know at Angourie point, even some of his mates said he deserved it. Dreadful reactions from people he liked and respected who quite simply just couldn’t deal with the fact that he was one of the greatest surfers of all time. Understanding ego is what’s the problem with rugby globally. Between nations and within nations.
Between the governing bodies and the coaches and refs and the TV match officials and the touch judges and the players. I adore the game but gees there’s a lot of shit to get removed.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
Mate the balls to actually make the strong public statement is far more significant in itself than the timing.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
And the trick to influencing ego as a coach or manager is not being defensive about it to start off with. Which is natural since it’s so grating. It’s just another personality trait to manage and letting the person have their ego is usually the way to go since it leaves them out of the group to a degree in a mellow way since nobody is getting ruffled or being resentful. Then the ego gradually subsides since there’s no fuel to keep the ego creating the fog that you talked about. If people get all pissed off and resentful they’ll always be a girlfriend or relative who’ll say “they’re just jealous”. So it’s more a matter of the coach and staff tuning the rest of the team into being unaffected by it. Nobody likes being left out of the group for long, and so I’d say this approach speeds up the change in attitude.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
Yep dead true on all points and thanks re the boards.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
Thought I’d replied Freddie. Not sure what’s going on here. New to roar. But yeah it’s all a matter of dealing with ego. O’Connor likewise had enough moments of brilliance to start to think a little bit about his hair. But so what I say. If he can bamboozle (sp?) the opposition to the highest degree then let’s learn to deal with ego and help them to merge with the whole group and not get too upset with the Freaks cos they think they’re amazing, which they are.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
It’s impossible now for any kiwi to be objective about quade’s skills or value or talent after he rubbed Richie’s scon that day. This shows that all kiwis have such a deep and obsessive adoration for their top players, sir Richie especially, that very few of you can disengage your, sorry to say, teenage girl-like freneticism for your best.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
Stunning that this can actually be said. One day there will be a video record of the greatest and worst decisions and moves of the best 10s of the last few decades and Quade will be in the top few with some crazy errors and many many more masterful moves and moments. Managing a game cleverly when the rules are inherently stifling verses confusing the fuck out of the opposition with mystical unpredictability and huge flat bullet passes are polar opposites, and the northern hemisphere and NZ get erections about game management while the Wallabies and French and Pumas go, “**** it let’s have a dig”
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
“Character over flair” as a a credo and coaching theme reflects an inability to steer the most talented in the group. If it was a down to a life and death situation with ten snipers on top of a building against a hundred of the enemy trying to take out the lot of you then you don’t get all angry with your freak sniper cos he’s got an ego. That’s where we are lucky, it’s just a sport we are talking about, but the freaks in sport are the ones who actually do the impossible and so I’m all for finding ways to work with them without getting too upset that they actually know that they are on another level.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
Maybe, but I’d love to see one start and one on the bench.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
That’s the one key aspect with coaching though, to take the varied personality types in a team and find ways of creating a group that thinks in a similar way on the field. I’ve made surfboards for some of the best surfers in the world and when a young person is being claimed as one of the best on the planet that’s not easy for them to handle. But a surfer is independent and without a team around him. It would be a hundred times times harder within a team of 20 or more, whatever code. But that’s where staff needs to use some level of psychology to offset for the contrasts between members.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
No idea mate. His brilliance outweigh his flaws easily. Most people who don’t like Quade have their own personal issues with ego.
Quade Cooper swipes at outgoing Wallabies coach on social media
Excellent idea. A progressive or escalating penalty going up one point at a time would actually sit there as a bogie for the professional foul masters who are inspired by the gap between three and five points. Slow the game slow the game slow the game, only give away 3, would be transformed into no penalties at all after the second penalty. From the very first penalty all members on that team would be worried for being the one to escalate the punishment.
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