Eades coaching style

[floppinab]

Interesting view from here :

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/foo...E20322,00.html

IMO, still seems very negative, even in a pre-season game, a lot of blokes getting bagged and dragged.

It'd be an interesting contrast to the Roos box.

[NMWBloods]

I didn't see anything wrong with his approach per that article.

[floppinab]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I didn't see anything wrong with his approach per that article.

Fair enough, it just seemed to confirm the perception that Eade has developed a very low tolerance for mistakes particularly from youngsters during a game. Was a bit of a common thread once Roos took over of a stated aim not to drag any player on the basis of one mistake, players would get reminded of what is required during the breaks, and a lot more emphasis on the positive.

It could be the reporter being selective but Eade has only one positive comment about this team/players in that article. The rest is all criticism.

[Mike_B]

The thought I had when reading that article though is whether this is also due to it being pre-season, where he is trying to drill the desired behaviours into his players now, so that when things matter in Rd 1, they will be doing more of what the coach wants.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by floppinab
Fair enough, it just seemed to confirm the perception that Eade has developed a very low tolerance for mistakes particularly from youngsters during a game. Was a bit of a common thread once Roos took over of a stated aim not to drag any player on the basis of one mistake, players would get reminded of what is required during the breaks, and a lot more emphasis on the positive.

It could be the reporter being selective but Eade has only one positive comment about this team/players in that article. The rest is all criticism.

I agree that was certainly a problem of Eade's in the past. However, I'm not sure how much you can read into this small extract from a pre-season match. I don't think the circumstances where players were dragged were particularly unwarranted and it seemed to be the case of trying to encourage players to go in harder or do the little things. Difficult to do that without contact with the players.

[hammo]

These sorts of stories don't translate well into print.

My initial view was "why is he taking a pre-season match so seriously" but I suppose it was far more important match for the Dogs than we'll ever understand (for membership etc) and you don't want bad habits to creap in.

Wouldn't read too much into it. Dogs played a good brand of footy last year and I don't think that would have been possible if the players were scared of making mistakes.

[NMWBloods]

I think he's just trying to ingrain good habits into the players early in the season.

[BeeEmmAre]

Shepparton would be happy he thinks that way of them.

[Sanecow]

Fun article. Some bits were a bit unbelievable. 4.53423 / 5.