I hope this is the case.
If he wants the players to be ruthless then he needs to be ruthless on the track
No more cuddles, no more mucking around.
Train the way you play.
Save the cuddles and mucking around for after training or when finishing off a grueling session with goal kicking game or something.
Edit: and yes you can smile during a ruthless session, especially if you or your teammates nail a tackle, smother, Shepard or whatever else they are working on
It is extremely perplexing how the closeness of the group and their seeming synergy on field has gone backwards over the offseason. Where has the “love you too” spirit gone?
Better of doing early in the week than 48 hours out of game day, all sorts could have gone wrong and I hope it’s not a close game as we will run out of puff as we are unfit already
Rutten had to teach Dusty Martin. Trust me he would had to have dumbed it down to primary school level. Lids, Chaplin had to explain it to him even after that
Certain players of ours want to do their own thing. Reading between the lines with McGraths comments etc there is a generational divide between the older and younger blokes. Seems the younger guys are over certain older players doing whatever they want and not following the structure