NEWS Darius Boyd can't deal with Seibold

[IceWorks]

The official leadership strategy of the board for the rest of the year.

 

[lynx000]

A house divided against itself, cannot stand.

 

[Wolfie]

I'm not a big fan of playing the "mental health" card as an excuse. Getting inside your opponent's head, and "mentally disintegrating them" (as Steve Waugh called it) is key to professional sport. If you're too soft to handle the pressure, you don't get to play. And you certainly don't get to be captain or coach. Full stop. Playing and coaching at this level are extreme pressure jobs, and they're paid very handsomely for it.

As my coach used to say: strike first, strike hard, no mercy!

I dont see how Boyd isnt handling the pressure. He might have been in poor form, but poor form and not handling pressure arent the same thing. I dont see him not handling whats been thrown at him from the media and social media. In fact, i'd say these days he has shown he can take it all with a pinch of salt. As i have said a million times though, you cant keep getting at Boyd just because he is playing badly, you have to single out the coach for picking a player out of form.

 

[McHunt]

I dont see how Boyd isnt handling the pressure. He might have been in poor form, but poor form and not handling pressure arent the same thing. I dont see him not handling whats been thrown at him from the media and social media. In fact, i'd say these days he has shown he can take it all with a pinch of salt. As i have said a million times though, you cant keep getting at Boyd just because he is playing badly, you have to single out the coach for picking a player out of form.

Maybe he's "handling the pressure" by standing back and avoiding it. I don't know what the ****'s going on with him but it's clear Pies doesn't hold him in high esteem, and the feeling's mutual.

 

[Wolfie]

Maybe he's "handling the pressure" by standing back and avoiding it. I don't know what the ****'s going on with him but it's clear Pies doesn't hold him in high esteem, and the feeling's mutual.

Thats form on the field, the pressure is coming from outside sources. He hasnt been poor this year. I'd say he has just been mediocre, but fairly decent at fullback, where he has clearly improved our attack. I honestly cant believe people are that blinded by their hatred for Boyd that he is still the main target of people's ire for where we are now when you could pick every single player thats played this year who has been poor or made poor decisions in attack and defence. If Boyd did the pathetic hanging arm tackles i see from the majority of our players he would and does get crucified.


And again, as i said, criticising Boyd constantly just because the coach keeps picking him isnt the fault of Darius Boyd. Thats down to the coach who you say doesnt hold him in high esteem .I dont get what people think Boyd should do when Seibs picks him, turn around and say " no thanks coach ", that would just be another stick to beat him with. The root of all our problems, its the coach. Not Boyd, Turpin, Staggs, Haas, Flegler or anyone else people are having pops at. Its the coach, plain and simple. The buck starts and stops with him. He drives the culture, he build the team plays and structures, he sets the standards and picks the team.

 

[Kimlo]

Remember, this is all based on a 'rumour' from a reporter notorious for making stuff up.

It's not a rumour, Lockyer confirmed it.

 

[rnabokov]

I have been laughing at Darius' performances at fullback for you blokes for a while but I feel this one is a bit unfair. It was clearly a set play for the winger to go over in the corner so he was sliding across in cover defence and on a wet track turning around for a kick back on the inside (that realistically should've been stopped by one of the four players in front of the kicker) was never going to come off regardless of whether he slipped or pulled off the turn of the century.

You are right. The real issue here for mine is "... the four players in front of the kicker". WTF is this? Good grief! It is the dog's breakfast of our edge defence, yet again. Boyd is sadly the victim of a prior circumstance that still isn't fixed. Again, WTF? Do we have a defence coach after 13 rounds?

As for the Nicholl's try and Turpin, I agree with @BroncsFan above: "Jesus... I can see why Turps is copping some flack, but what the **** was everyone else doing. They got 2m off their line to a numpty prop on a settler."

None of the above in any way justifies Boyd undermining Seibold but it does expose Seibold's shortcomings as head coach, where a lack of coached structure in defence allows blind desperation with predictable consequences.

 

[Kimlo]

Honestly though, who the **** leaks everything about this club to the media? The story was Josh McGuire was the "rat" but it's not like they conduct anything in secret now. Is Karl Morris working to profit newscorp's media arm while trying to be chairman of a sports club?

 

[ozzball]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Well said stout Browny and I would'st add that when yon Darius opens his gob "it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious and perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters"

 

[john1420]

I'm not a big fan of playing the "mental health" card as an excuse. Getting inside your opponent's head, and "mentally disintegrating them" (as Steve Waugh called it) is key to professional sport. If you're too soft to handle the pressure, you don't get to play. And you certainly don't get to be captain or coach. Full stop. Playing and coaching at this level are extreme pressure jobs, and they're paid very handsomely for it.

As my coach used to say: strike first, strike hard, no mercy!

And my coach always used to tell me, if you can't beat them with talent, don't beat them at all, mind games are nothing but cheating.

Different views :)

 

[McHunt]

And my coach always used to tell me, if you can't beat them with talent, don't beat them at all, mind games are nothing but cheating.

Different views :)

Your coach was fucking with your head!

 

[Organix]

I'm not a big fan of playing the "mental health" card as an excuse. Getting inside your opponent's head, and "mentally disintegrating them" (as Steve Waugh called it) is key to professional sport. If you're too soft to handle the pressure, you don't get to play. And you certainly don't get to be captain or coach. Full stop. Playing and coaching at this level are extreme pressure jobs, and they're paid very handsomely for it.

As my coach used to say: strike first, strike hard, no mercy!

Kobra Kai!

But I 100% agree and I always thought (and may have posted) that Boyd having these mental health issues was a clear signal that professional sport was not a good choice for him. This is a huge reason as to why we keep losing. Mental fortitude. The leadership group doesn't have it. The young guys are losing it through a pervasive team mentality and confidence players such as Milf, Hayne, Boyd etc. relied heavily on the mentally strong e.g. Bennett, Lockyer, Thurston, Gallen etc. to keep going through the bad times in games and in general. This isn't exactly a teachable trait and obviously coddling due to huge contracts doesn't help.

 

[Organix]

And my coach always used to tell me, if you can't beat them with talent, don't beat them at all, mind games are nothing but cheating.

Different views :)

Talent will get you only so far. Mind games will be part of the game whether you like it or not, they don't have to be verbal things. Imagine the mental state of a player who gets smashed by absolutely perfect cutting tackle, they have a choice to run at the tackler a second time and try to beat him or to pick a different defender and thus affecting the team strategy. That is a mind game in and of itself. Gaining a psychological edge in cricket by a batsman pacing down the pitch can be countered by a bowler bowling a yorker or a bouncer, it has nothing to do with talent, simply having the mental acuity to face a challenge from a competitor. Milf gets targeted in defense and so he tends to hold down in tackles and slow the play and recently that has resulted in many 6-agains, but he hasn't copped to that and continues to lazily defend, then he feels targeted and phones the rest of the game in.

 

[Cult]

Kobra Kai!

But I 100% agree and I always thought (and may have posted) that Boyd having these mental health issues was a clear signal that professional sport was not a good choice for him. This is a huge reason as to why we keep losing. Mental fortitude. The leadership group doesn't have it. The young guys are losing it through a pervasive team mentality and confidence players such as Milf, Hayne, Boyd etc. relied heavily on the mentally strong e.g. Bennett, Lockyer, Thurston, Gallen etc. to keep going through the bad times in games and in general. This isn't exactly a teachable trait and obviously coddling due to huge contracts doesn't help.

Michael Phelps, Serena Williams and Rhonda Rousey all have depression. You and McHunts take is fucking stupid

 

[McHunt]

Kobra Kai!

But I 100% agree and I always thought (and may have posted) that Boyd having these mental health issues was a clear signal that professional sport was not a good choice for him. This is a huge reason as to why we keep losing. Mental fortitude. The leadership group doesn't have it. The young guys are losing it through a pervasive team mentality and confidence players such as Milf, Hayne, Boyd etc. relied heavily on the mentally strong e.g. Bennett, Lockyer, Thurston, Gallen etc. to keep going through the bad times in games and in general. This isn't exactly a teachable trait and obviously coddling due to huge contracts doesn't help.

Yeah, I'm not casting dispersion on so-called mental health issues, and the gamut of personal problems that get painted with that brush. And certainly not bipolar disorder, depression and other clinically diagnosed issues.

Just in this instance, these guys are extremely highly paid elite athletes. Some are on more money than jet fighter pilots, surgeons, elite soldiers and the Prime Minister. Consider they were in Special Forces training. If they fail the mental side, they don't make the cut. Well this is even more competitive, and the pay's much better, plus you get public adulation.

 

[McHunt]

Michael Phelps, Serena Williams and Rhonda Rousey all have depression. You and McHunts take is fucking stupid

None of them play a team sport.

 

[Dexter]

This is why Bellamy and good coaches recruit on character first talent second.

 

[Jedhead]

Michael Phelps, Serena Williams and Rhonda Rousey all have depression. You and McHunts take is fucking stupid

Mate the way these pricks are playing at the moment half of Brisbane has depression. Not sure it means we'll end world beaters though.