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CibbuanoWorsfold puts Eagles on notice
April 14th 2009 05:08
WEST COAST coach John Worsfold has declared player's careers are on the line if they don't put in a more committed effort against the Western Bulldogs at Subiaco Oval on Sunday.
Worsfold put the crushing 97-point loss to St Kilda down to poor mental attitude and while he acknowledged there had been some good performers in the side, he also said every player was guilty of some poor efforts at times.
"Most of it was a mental lapse, no doubt about that," Worsfold said on Tuesday.
"It certainly showed that with a poor attitude and if you're not as good as the Saints, if your squad's not as up and going and if your attitude's poor, you're going to get thumped."
"They were totally aware St Kilda were a pretty hard side in close, were going to put a lot of pressure on us and believed that they were ready for that challenge."
"But for whatever reason across the board, our work rate was down, our ability to take good decisions was well down, some skill errors just looked like lazy skill errors, so when you put all those things together, a lot of things add up to say the mental attitude was not at the level it needs to be."
Worsfold said he would give the majority of the 22 that played against the Saints a chance to redeem themselves.
"We had a good review of it yesterday [Monday] as a group and individually the players have assessed their own performances and where they could have had more of an impact," he said.
"I've got faith that those guys that played on the weekend are a lot better and a lot tougher than what they showed on the weekend."
But Worsfold also put his players on notice.
"(So) if you see that again as a group or from certain individual players, they're putting their careers at risk," he warned.
Worsfold put the crushing 97-point loss to St Kilda down to poor mental attitude and while he acknowledged there had been some good performers in the side, he also said every player was guilty of some poor efforts at times.
"Most of it was a mental lapse, no doubt about that," Worsfold said on Tuesday.
"It certainly showed that with a poor attitude and if you're not as good as the Saints, if your squad's not as up and going and if your attitude's poor, you're going to get thumped."
"They were totally aware St Kilda were a pretty hard side in close, were going to put a lot of pressure on us and believed that they were ready for that challenge."
"But for whatever reason across the board, our work rate was down, our ability to take good decisions was well down, some skill errors just looked like lazy skill errors, so when you put all those things together, a lot of things add up to say the mental attitude was not at the level it needs to be."
Worsfold said he would give the majority of the 22 that played against the Saints a chance to redeem themselves.
"We had a good review of it yesterday [Monday] as a group and individually the players have assessed their own performances and where they could have had more of an impact," he said.
"I've got faith that those guys that played on the weekend are a lot better and a lot tougher than what they showed on the weekend."
But Worsfold also put his players on notice.
"(So) if you see that again as a group or from certain individual players, they're putting their careers at risk," he warned.
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