I just hope none of our players read comments like yours.
When the going gets tough …
Whinge, Whinge, Whinge
Everyone around here seems to think about our team in isolation.
As we change, everything around us changes.
Rules change.
The teams we play are changing and face their own dilemmas.
When two teams meet that both desperately want to win, who wins?
Sliding doors.
How many coin tosses have we won this year.
I think you will find that we have lost more than our share.
Should we fire Heppel because he can’t win a toss.
Sometimes, unlikely though it is , heads will come up 6 times in a row. Sh#t happens.
We are better than we appear to be.
It will happen.
Given each coin toss is an independent event, the probability of six straight heads is equal to getting three heads and three tails, or any other permutation of heads/tails.
Now, lets have a look at the geelong, richmond and hawthorn model. Il give you a hint, it involves winning, and flags. What a fkn utter joke that corporate jargon bulls*it above is for us. To not even put something about on field success, sums this fkn club up. It makes me SO angry when you look at other clubs. THEY get it. they get whats important. Establish clear and enduring brand position??? Drive purposeful innovation? WTF does that garbage even mean? Clearly, that rubbish and stregthening OFF FIELD stuff is clearly more important than winning a fucken flag, or a final. This is WHY we have a culture problem. Its the #1 example
Posted this in another thread last night but it probably actually belongs here:
The big issue has to be the culture throughout the entire club. We don’t have that cut throat will to win. I can’t imagine the radio silence we have put out regarding the shaking of the post would have happened under Sheedy or previous presidents. Off the back of the saga it seems the culture has become one where it is more important to be liked by other clubs and the afl rather than be feared. This comes out in the fact the skipper and a senior leader can share a laugh after a horrible loss to the team on the bottom the ladder.
As a club we need to get our ruthlessness back. Until we do that we will never be anything more than a nice middle of the road club. Think back to the marshmallow final - Sheeds drew a line in the sand that night and said we weren’t going to be pushed around anymore. 2 seasons later we had the best year a club has has ever had. That’s the only solace I can take at the moment- things can turn around quickly.
That’s not how it works.
He’s saying 6 heads is the same odds as HTHHHT.
Or TTTTTH.
Or HTHTHT.
They’re all equally likely, but none of them are anywhere near 2-1 odds.
That is a completely different assertion, to which I agree.
It’s hard to explain without getting overly mathematical, but you are saying out of all possible events it will not be this one. (Probability = 1-0.5^6, close enough to 1).
What I’m saying is that, with a 50/50 coin, each possible combination is equally as likely as each other. Which is also true, or else, it wouldn’t be a fair way to choose who kicks to what end.
Dead on the money westozzie. Sat with the Perth mob at Anzac last year, we didn’t do em proud, but what a dedicated bunch of supporters. And so devastated by thst loss.
Lindsay’s a nice guy but we need a leader right now, someone outspoken with a long association at the club. It’s obvious that we want to be loved and that just isn’t the way. No one ever loved the Hawks. They didn’t care either
There are coaches like that our there. We just need to show some balls cut our losses with Worsfold and find the best candidate to turn around our soft underbelly of a club
