Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
Funny you should say that they scrap around and kick the living shit out of everything that moves

Because to me this is a failing of the EJ program

The kids getting in this are soft between the ears and are not there to grind out results /compete etc





The other thing that would be said there isn't a hell of a lot of FLAIR in the players in the program

They all robotic in their methods
Yeah I guess that's the balance huh.
Getting the 'toughness' as well as the actual footballing ability.

My impression was that coaches believe that it's easier to teach tough kids how to play football rather than footballers how to be tough.

If that's the idea then cool.

It just made me wonder if maybe the removal of the old school ethnic clubs has transformed this way of thinking. Because as a kid every time we played one of those old school Sydney clubs they were always WAY better footballers than us. We were always a bunch of classic white kids coached by a blood and guts type bloke, and that only went so far.


Just seems like it's all come full circle and GVE's wet dream of robots with good engines is alive and well.