OK, I stayed off the boards after we got back from Vegas for good reason; it had nothing to do with not wanting to face the music but everything to do with not putting myself in a position where I would react disproportionately.
I was what you might call 'extra-sensitive' when I got back from Vegas and it would have been like a red rag to a bull if I had come back on here to read some of the posts, that in my mind were just going to gloat.
I never read one, nor do I intend to.
We sucked in Vegas, of that there is no doubt, why we played so bad is all I have been concerned with for the past two weeks.
In fact, I had worked out why we played so bad on the Friday night of the tourney, all that I have been doing lately is working out the training schedule to put it right so we still qualify for the NPPL for next year.
Last year, where it culminated in the 4th place at Campaign, we had trained virtually exclusively in-house; we drilled Saturday and Sunday and played amongst ourselves Sunday afternoons.
We beat every Pro team in Eurpoe including the Rissinas twice, we were playing well.
This year we drilled nowhere near as much and just played against other teams, I think Glen Strong (Stongle) has already insightfully made the same point.
XBall then went on to camouflage the real problem, we just thought when we weren’t beating teams we would normally beat, we thought that it was the format change and weren’t adjusting as well as other teams, in fact, the real reason was our technical game had significantly deteriorated.
And now, well, we got some egg on our faces and I got a frikkin omelet sitting on mine..but for the last two weeks I was of no mind to listen to anybody pointing out the lack of tomatoes in my omelet and then throwing a few in my direction.
It is not in my nature to hide but as I get older, it is now getting to a point where I don’t wanna end up banning a few idiots coz they got agendas outside of rhyme or reason and getting me blood pressure ramped like a NXL marker.
We let our sponsors down, we let a lot of people down, the fact that we let ourselves down is the most singular aspect that will drive the guys on Nexus to make sure it never happens again, and now, well now we go back to square one and I take complete control, no more democratic management, I will hammer them back into players they once were.
If I didn’t think I could do it, you wouldn’t be seeing this post.
The guys on Nexus are an extremely talented bunch of guys, that has never changed but things don’t come easy when you play pro and talent only gets you so far, without the proper training, you might as well go and piss in the sea somewhere and that’s exactly what we have been doing this past year.
What’s needed now is dedication and commitment, I can’t think of one player on my team that will shirk from what needs to be done.
If anybody needed convincing that the technical aspect of play is by far the most crucial component of a player's skillset, then all you had to do was read any one of about 150 articles I have written that contain that very mantra I have been spouting for years, unfortunately it seems as though I had forgotten to read them myself
Nexus - through and through !!!
I was what you might call 'extra-sensitive' when I got back from Vegas and it would have been like a red rag to a bull if I had come back on here to read some of the posts, that in my mind were just going to gloat.
I never read one, nor do I intend to.
We sucked in Vegas, of that there is no doubt, why we played so bad is all I have been concerned with for the past two weeks.
In fact, I had worked out why we played so bad on the Friday night of the tourney, all that I have been doing lately is working out the training schedule to put it right so we still qualify for the NPPL for next year.
Last year, where it culminated in the 4th place at Campaign, we had trained virtually exclusively in-house; we drilled Saturday and Sunday and played amongst ourselves Sunday afternoons.
We beat every Pro team in Eurpoe including the Rissinas twice, we were playing well.
This year we drilled nowhere near as much and just played against other teams, I think Glen Strong (Stongle) has already insightfully made the same point.
XBall then went on to camouflage the real problem, we just thought when we weren’t beating teams we would normally beat, we thought that it was the format change and weren’t adjusting as well as other teams, in fact, the real reason was our technical game had significantly deteriorated.
And now, well, we got some egg on our faces and I got a frikkin omelet sitting on mine..but for the last two weeks I was of no mind to listen to anybody pointing out the lack of tomatoes in my omelet and then throwing a few in my direction.
It is not in my nature to hide but as I get older, it is now getting to a point where I don’t wanna end up banning a few idiots coz they got agendas outside of rhyme or reason and getting me blood pressure ramped like a NXL marker.
We let our sponsors down, we let a lot of people down, the fact that we let ourselves down is the most singular aspect that will drive the guys on Nexus to make sure it never happens again, and now, well now we go back to square one and I take complete control, no more democratic management, I will hammer them back into players they once were.
If I didn’t think I could do it, you wouldn’t be seeing this post.
The guys on Nexus are an extremely talented bunch of guys, that has never changed but things don’t come easy when you play pro and talent only gets you so far, without the proper training, you might as well go and piss in the sea somewhere and that’s exactly what we have been doing this past year.
What’s needed now is dedication and commitment, I can’t think of one player on my team that will shirk from what needs to be done.
If anybody needed convincing that the technical aspect of play is by far the most crucial component of a player's skillset, then all you had to do was read any one of about 150 articles I have written that contain that very mantra I have been spouting for years, unfortunately it seems as though I had forgotten to read them myself
Nexus - through and through !!!
