With our depleting squad, multiple injuries, uncertainty over the final implications of the salary cap issues, off-field indescretions, we are best not putting pressure on ourselves by looking at a ridiculously difficult task of winning 11 out of however many games we have left. It is very unlikely that we will do it - and once it is mathematically impossible - our performances will drop significantly.
We are better off playing with no pressure of table position, enjoying the contest, playing with a combination of toughness and enterprise without the fear of failure. It will be more fun for them to play this way - and will hopefully be more enjoyable for us to watch.
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Play to win every week. That's what the game is about. The culture of this playing group needs to last well past this season and the winning culture that started to show before all the sh*t hit the fan needs to stick around.
Regardless of finals football, we play every game with heart, skill and passion and we play to win!
I agree - we play to win - but the weight of unrealistic expectation as well as the fact that we are nothing like the team that started the season means that we should look at different reasons for competing. Things have changed.
They're professional footballers. They're paid to play professional football. That's the reason to compete.
I don't want another season where we just look to next year. I have expectations of this year and I hope the entire team do too. It ain't over till it's over. We need our team to continue to harden their mentality - when things get hard, when the world is against you...you fight back harder. That's the attitude we need. Don't care how big the mountain is...we climb it!
Otherwise we're back to the mentally weak Eels of old who play razzle dazzle footy but have no consistency and no mental strength.
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