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CibbuanoFinals not the only focus, says Craig
July 25th 2008 05:23
ADELAIDE coach Neil Craig says he won't sacrifice his game plan in order to play finals football.
The Crows have lost their past five matches and need to win at least four of their last six games to climb back into the eight but Craig said he won't be making any major changes to his team's game style which he believes will help deliver the club's next premiership.
"If you concentrate too much on the end result, finals, finals, finals, which is what everyone talks about and people do the calculations ...
"I understand why they do it, but we as a playing group and a coaching group can't get caught up in that because then you lose your focus and your thought process about what we should be doing to get the result we want," Craig said on Friday.
"There are a lot of people who can focus on the end result for us and give us feedback on how many games there are and what you've got to do to win them.
"We've got 50,000 supporters doing that for us; we've just got to concentrate on our end. We can go two ways. We can persist with the situation we're in at the moment or we can let it consume us and we're going to persist; persist very strongly.
"I think it's important for us to hold our nerve, otherwise we start chopping and changing. Whilst we know where we want to go this year, we've also got to have an eye on long-term and some consistency in what we do."
The Crows have lost their past five matches and need to win at least four of their last six games to climb back into the eight but Craig said he won't be making any major changes to his team's game style which he believes will help deliver the club's next premiership.
"If you concentrate too much on the end result, finals, finals, finals, which is what everyone talks about and people do the calculations ...
"I understand why they do it, but we as a playing group and a coaching group can't get caught up in that because then you lose your focus and your thought process about what we should be doing to get the result we want," Craig said on Friday.
"There are a lot of people who can focus on the end result for us and give us feedback on how many games there are and what you've got to do to win them.
"We've got 50,000 supporters doing that for us; we've just got to concentrate on our end. We can go two ways. We can persist with the situation we're in at the moment or we can let it consume us and we're going to persist; persist very strongly.
"I think it's important for us to hold our nerve, otherwise we start chopping and changing. Whilst we know where we want to go this year, we've also got to have an eye on long-term and some consistency in what we do."
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