I loved how he kept hitting the whiteboard and obviously highlighting some strategy around positioning/rotations/match ups etc. Wished we could have seen exactly what their planning was around playing the Swans last week, and that they obviously managed to get the win against a quality side.
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Ha. If you said something like that to me I reckon I’d just burst out laughing.
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FKG LOL
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Early on he points on his whiteboard:
“We know we’ve got this and this”
My speculation would be he’s pointing at “flexibility” and “level of competition” - both funny concepts to be drumming into a bunch of early 20s football players.
flexibility: important in that you can rotate a bunch of players through contests and therefore have a good level of freshness/energy in those contests. But what does Jake S or Hobbs care about that? They just want their time in the guts so they can crack in.
Then “level of competition”: I guess it’s a combo of intensity of pressure on the opposition when we don’t have the ball and hardness at the ball when it’s in dispute… but what a dumb name for it… imagine Jye Caldwell out there at a random ball up at our def 50m line with “level of competition” running through his head… completely meaningless.
Both examples of language that would be fine for impressing Xavier but which are inadequate for communicating with the playing group. Kind of reminds me of the doco when Whoosha retired which was supposed to show how great the handover year was but was really just a bunch of old past it jocks talking at cross purposes during preseason planning meetings.
Rutten is a dud.
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So hes a dud based on the fact that he striked his fist on two areas of a whiteboard which contained messages you arent even sure of.
Incredible analysis.
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Well they’re his key messages aren’t they?
If we give Lions a game in Sunday and even roll either them and / or one or two of those other top 8 sides and do it with a system that starts to defend well as a team then I’ll say this season wasn’t wasted. We’ve nearly a full squad to pick from atm. Consistency is king.
Truck’s addresses to the troops don’t get me up and about. But if its getting these lads fired up enough to turnover the Swans then it must be sortta working.
Jury’s still out. Over to Hep and these Bombers to back it up now.
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Oh jeeze i dunno I wonder whether these are concepts which are schooled into our players during training and he reminded the players post game that they adhered to those concepts by visibly moving his fist to an area that they were written on a whiteboard.
Im not a huge Rutten fan, but some of the leaps that are being taken to bring him down after a good win are incredible.
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Incredible flight of fantasy 
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If Trucks address didn’t get you ‘up and about’ I wouldn’t worry too much.
We are supporters, it isn’t aimed at us.
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Think I’ll go with my fanciful interpretations of what he was pointing at.
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That right? Well ■■■■ me … better stop kickin every ball in the lounge then during games
I think he was pointing at ‘peace’ and ‘love’.
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I think you can still make it
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Yep
The best high-performance learning environments perfect the balance between psychological safety and accountability. Too much of the first and you get apathy, too much of the second and you get anxiety.
We’ve likely had far too much of the former over the last few years. But the idea that we would instantly flip the script by hiring someone who screams tokenistic platitudes at the playing group is asinine at best.
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I reckon I’ve got him covered.
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I learnt all my best swear words from women.
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I can also swear in languages other than English.
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Much respect!