Sports Psychologist/hypnotherapist

Is it worth BA bring either of these people in to help with confidence and consistency?I've had hypnotherapy for confidence and it improved my game. Just wondering what other people think

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  • If we hired a psychologist he would need his own psychologist after spending some time with our players.
    • Haha, but what if it were lead to more consistent footy
  • Ricky Stuart made a big deal of using a sports psychologist and it didn't seem to help a lot.

    My understanding is hypnotherapy makes more of a difference to sports where you require concentration - golf, cricket, etc. Rugby League where it's so much quick-thinking I don't know if it has the same impact. Although, I guess there could be a use in terms of concentration and staying in the game.

    Thurston apparently used a sports psychologist and reckon it helped him a lot.

    • Having known someone who was once coached by Ricky Stuart, he said that he was a horrible coach, focusing only on the negatives.Ricky Stuart constantly complained about how he didnt have the players to win a competition, so imagine how this must've made the players feel...

      With the hypnotherapy, it may not help as much, however it could help in terms of making smarter "in the moment" decisions. Also the study I read about hypnotherapy compared Basketballers who were receiving hypnotherapy and those who weren't, the study showed that the players who recieved the hypnotherapy played smarter and in the end won most the games (with many played over many days) against team who had no hypnotherapy.
  • Bring back the biorhythmists.

  • Then I'm all for it.
  • Why not, I'm all for anything that will help... we may have to threaten them with the Wests face slapp thing, bet that'll spur them into making the sports psych work!   

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