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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The Monday means test with Adam Simpson. The pressure index is now very clearly the Giants who are 13th. They're six wins and eight losses. Adam Kingsley was asked in the aftermath on Saturday whether it's a mental block.
Don't know. I think it is. I mean, the reality is we've had players in and out of the team all year, but so has everyone. So that shouldn't really impact you too much. I think the guys that are playing are healthy. I think we're fit. We had a pretty strong pre-season. The guys who were able to complete that.
Chapter 2: What is the pressure index for the Giants after round 15?
So I don't think it's a physical issue. Must be a tough gig. Is it the hardest coaching job overall, the Giants job? You deal with so much isolation, trying to get the crowds going, trying to be relevant in a saturated market. Trying to keep your players, trying to recruit staff. Yeah, it's a tough ā it looks like a tough role.
Chapter 3: How does Adam Kingsley address mental blocks in the team?
And he's made a pretty good fist of it. And right now they're in a bit of a pit. The bye was two weeks ago. They beat Brisbane by whatever they beat them by, that one quarter. Act of God. Act of God, as you mentioned. And then they beat Melbourne in Alice Springs. And then they had their bye. And it just hasn't clicked since the bye.
And we both thought, geez, he's so casual with, I think they lost to West Coast. And it was none. Well, we normally come good from now on. And so I really like the confidence. But yeah, they clearly got something wrong with that bye period. And then it just has not clicked just yet, which, you know, is it the coach? Is it the style of play? Or is it the players?
And the coach is interesting at the moment because he's controlling his emotions. It looks like it's a challenge because he's so calm and collected in a press conference. But then you see a quarter time, you know, where's the stress ball? I need to calm down a little bit. And then what you do in the box, Gerard, is different than when you talk to the players. You're in the box.
You are berating all of your players. They're all hopeless.
Yeah.
Well, I was anyway, back in the day. And then, then you, then you calm down and then even, even the message you send, you're like, go tell, you know, whoever it is to pull his head in and, you know, whatever. And then they go, do you want me to send that message? No, don't do it. Don't send the message. And then you get to quarter time and you're quite calm in front of the players.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does coaching the Giants present?
Guys, this is what we're doing well. This is what we need to improve. We need you to lift. Well done for you. That's a trademark. And then you sort of direct them on their way. Yeah, I feel like sometimes it's to control those emotions when your expectations aren't being met is a real challenge for Adam sometimes. And most of the times he gets it right.
It's hard from the outside to... tell, but if three quarter time was a spray, it was a weird time is they just played their best 10 minutes of footy in the game. It felt like that was a bit of problem solving and how are we going to win it rather than the failure of effort or anything like, which would typically prompt a spray. Um, so I, that's.
Part of his, so he feels as overt on that front as any coach we've seen in quite some time. And you say six bullets, he's deep into the third round.
The chamber. Yeah. Well, I mean, and what was it at three quarter time? They're up by, I don't know, eight contested possessions. So the stuff that, the hard stuff that's unacceptable, that seems to be when a coach would go, you know, more aggressive to his players. The effort's not there at tackles and all these type of things.
I mean, tackles, they had more tackles as well at three quarter time. So, um, yeah, it's, it's interesting what happens with, from a coaching point of view, where you're at with what, what the players need to hear in the last quarter and, We saw the spray that he gave in the preseason and that was orchestrated in my eyes.
I think Toby Green was like, give it to me and we'll collectively, we'll send a message and it really worked.
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Chapter 5: How does the bye week impact team performance?
So why wouldn't you go back to it when you really need to? And when does it become tied with the players? So that's, and that's a longevity thing too, Gerard. If you're coaching for 10 years at one club, you can't keep firing players. 10 bullets every year. So you have some work to do there from getting the best out of your players. And then there's a style of play.
It's an interesting, I really like the fact there's different in the AFL. I like handball meters going. Sydney, 600 meters. Adelaide, 100 meters. They're terrible at it. They're good at everything, Adelaide. They just can't handball the ball forward. But they're both competitive teams. I like the control. I like the chaos.
And I like the fact that the Giants play one way, and that is we are a back half turnover scoring side, and the rest of the game is a distant second. So on the weekend, they kick four goals from the back half, from the turnover game, which is pretty good, but not great for a team that relies on it. But the front half, they kick one goal off a turnover in the front half. And
I'm a front half football guy. Get it in there, supply, overload, you know, hungry jacks. We're just going to give you, shove as much food down your throat as we can. And we're quantity over quality. And obviously teams are different than that. And the Giants, they rely more on efficiency and overlap and score and the fun stuff. So it's not working just now, but it's worked before.
Chapter 6: What coaching strategies are effective during high-pressure situations?
So yeah, interesting where they're at right now. Pretty big game this week. They've got the Hawks and it's almost a line in the sand type of game for them. Can they agitate the Hawks and get in their face and really make it a bit of a bit of a war? Or are they just looking for this back half springboard stuff? So I know how to scout them. I know how Mitch is going to scout the Giants.
It's just, what can the Giants do?
All right. They met in opening round of the Giants one there. So Friday night is a key fixture for them.