WOTS | Ep.45 | 'The Pressure of Penalties' | Sports Psychologists v Ex-Pro | OTB
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What happened to Ireland's World Cup dreams?
off the ball gaa this is the first full year again of the new rules and we kind of concentrated on that over the winter how we could play to our advantage what we could do well and as i said we've got that consistency there in the league which we've been striving for the last couple years and i think with the consistency then brings confidence join in the obsession subscribe now at off the ball.com forward slash join I think they'll go all the way to the final, to be honest. Yeah? Yeah. I believe in my county, and I suppose they're good at football, they just have to believe in themselves. I love playing 12, I love playing 10, I love being on the pitch, to be honest. Are you confident? Absolutely not.
No! Thank you for all the supporters, thank you for the team, thank you France. Merci la France, merci les baguettes, merci les croissants. Je vous aime, I love you.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Word on the Street. We are back. We weren't here last week. It was Prague week because this day, last week, the Republic of Ireland national team were playing Czechia in our World Cup qualifier semi-final defeat on penalties. I think we're not saying anything that nobody already knows. It's been a week now. Rachel, how are you feeling?
Time is not a healer, Eve.
No, no. I was in the breakfast show the next morning and that was maybe less than 12 hours, maybe eight hours after it. And I was expecting a very cathartic experience and it wasn't. But we've tried to have a bit of catharsis maybe today. We decided to look at the penalties from a sports psychologist point of view. So this is kind of a little special episode. We've chatted to three people, performance psychology coach Rob Kelly, sports psychologist Dr. Aoife Quinn and friend of the show and former Ireland international Keith Tracy. They got a wide ranging view, I suppose, on what it means to take a penalty in that sort of high pressure environment from the psychological side of it and from the player side of it.
And I mean, I can't wait for you all to listen to it because my takeaway from all of this is I could never have been a professional footballer and do what they do. It sounds incredibly, I've taken penalties in my life before, never in any kind of situation like this. And it's stressful enough on a good day.
Yeah, and even when you were talking, I was talking to Dr. Aoife Quinn and it sounds so easy when you're talking to her. It's like, yeah, you just create your routine and you stick to your routine. And I had my mind made up. And then we spoke to Keith and he's like, this is actually what it feels like in the moment. Yeah. it's a like as a sports person especially as a footballer it doesn't get any more pressured especially you know we find penalty shootouts at like the worst possible times because it's a lot of the time it's your country on the line so yeah I wouldn't be stepping up either I think I'd be cowering away
So this is the 45th episode of World on the Street, which is a crazy thing to say. And we're presenting you, yeah, with three points of view. Let you come to your own conclusions, because I feel like whether you've played sport or not or what kind of background you have, you're going to have a different answer as to would you put your hand up and take a penalty for Ireland? Let us know. Here and we're going to start with performance psychology coach Rob Kelly. It is a week to the day since Ireland lost on penalties to Czechia that kind of dashed our World Cup dreams. So this episode is all about exploring the psychology behind penalties, the psychology of elite athletes. And we are delighted to be joined on the line by Rob Kelly, who is a performance psychology coach.
Rob, how are you?
Hi, how are you? Thanks for having me on the show.
No problem at all. Now, I want to get right into it. And I'm going to ask you to explain, how does your work differ from perhaps other sports psychologists? Because I was looking through your website, looking through your work, and you seem to be a bit more unique in the way that you tackle sports psychology.
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