Please try and stay rational ... no need to talk about world domination before your mum brings you your dinner ....
You must of missed my comments in my earlier reply. I will repeat them ..... the drive of personal pride and the drive of pride in team and colours ... wait for it ..... are not mutually exclusive. In fact I would go so far as to say very few, very very few footballers get to FG level without a great deat of personal pride in performance ...
Those that also buy into a pride in team and colours, a culture of belonging, mateship, shared adversary and shared glory ... a culture if you like ..... are worth twice as much as those that don't .....
You are the one who started with talking about leaders of countries rallying a population to fight for a bigger cause, i just gave you a contrasting view on the subject matter you pathetically added to the chat.
I never said they are mutually exclusive, i said one side of the coin is over hyped.
It's more about personal accountability and achieving markers which warrant respect from the rest of the playing group that you are doing your job, no-one wants to be the player seen as the one not putting in or cutting corners, that is what kills team pride so so easily, each player has to push the other player on leading to a better team effort.
Humans tend to take the easiest path, deflecting from personal accountability and sprinkling accountability over a greater number of people or under a promoted tokenism banner.
The markers Melb use to show performance is up to par are very tailored to Bellamy's work ethic and were ahead of it's time when he implemented them back in the day such as----
Players pushing up with the lead runner as an option, rated more highly after a long defensive workload.
Running straight lines with genuine intensity not just labouring up without purpose.
Even defensively moving laterally without even affecting a tackle or anywhere near the play but closing up the space is a key indicator.
Hasler does the same with his own markers with scale scores but was a little behind Bellamy in implementing them, Hasler probably goes too far with scope of numbers/indicators to the point of losing focus on the key factors of performance.
What i am trying to say is coaches target key responsibility and accountability more than anything else.
Against Newcastle Manly's sharpness and players pushing up in numbers during go forward sets really dropped off after the 20th minute onwards as the defensive workload increased from errors and penalties. Too much one out plays lacking any numbers, lateral play under fatigue was suffering and it was creating a hole that was getting bigger and bigger.
Then at 26-18 a big team huddle with a lame ass team talk about getting on top of things then what happens, a silly high short kick off and a lazy arm bringing Manly down to 12 men---team pride and team huddles mean nothing most of the time.
