Coach Benji 👑

[innsaneink]

Hopefully Benjis thinking leaving Tavana out there is a show of confidence and a bit of a learning curve for him....highly exposed now what he needs to work on.
The way Toa was playing he may as well have not been there so subbing Tavana probably wouldnt have changed a great deal ...hooking him early while the score was close throws our bench out and couldve really dented his confidence.
Junior development...he will learn from this arvo

 

[You Know Who]

I don’t have a problem with Benji picking Tavana or not hooking him as we had already lost AD and had used the interchange on Jock. It backfired spectacularly but you can’t predict something like that.

Having said that, I’ll be pretty livid if he picks Starford again. He is lazy, has piss poor body language during the game and is then having a laugh with Sharks players after the game.

He is a reminder of the exact mentality we are trying to rid our team of. He got his extension and has regressed back to his normal standard.

 

[bigsiro]

After watching Benji's press conference, I find similarities with him and Jurgen Klopp (at least his Liverpool tenure). Yes, Benji is a lot more serious in interviews, but his swagger and charisma, like Klopp, makes him just as compulsive viewing.

Klopp was famously a people's person, whose coaching style of leadership was purpose-driven and emotionally intelligent.
He concentrated efforts on making his players realise that their level of effort and performance was more important than the result.
He made himself fully accountable for losses, and yet gave all the glory to the players when they won.

He inherited a bad team on paper. Changed it.

He wanted to stamp his attacking style on the team and league, and he never let the players be afraid to go for it.

Most importantly, he took the fans from doubters to believers.

Everybody loved Klopp, even traditional Liverpool enemies couldn't help but admire him.

It just all sounds a lot like Benji to me.

And by the way, Klopp delivered his first trophy of many to Liverpool after 4 years. 😏

 

[tiger_one]

After watching Benji's press conference, I find similarities with him and Jurgen Klopp (at least his Liverpool tenure). Yes, Benji is a lot more serious in interviews, but his swagger and charisma, like Klopp, makes him just as compulsive viewing.

Klopp was famously a people's person, whose coaching style of leadership was purpose-driven and emotionally intelligent.
He concentrated efforts on making his players realise that their level of effort and performance was more important than the result.
He made himself fully accountable for losses, and yet gave all the glory to the players when they won.

He inherited a bad team on paper. Changed it.

He wanted to stamp his attacking style on the team and league, and he never let the players be afraid to go for it.

Most importantly, he took the fans from doubters to believers.

Everybody loved Klopp, even traditional Liverpool enemies couldn't help but admire him.

It just all sounds a lot like Benji to me.

And by the way, Klopp delivered his first trophy of many to Liverpool after 4 years. 😏

Champion @bigsiro,

Looking at some of Klopp's quotes during his Liverpool tenure - and they sure gel with our coach's thinking:

"Everyone has a good day. But on a bad day, you have to be able to.:"Everyone has a good day. But on a bad day, you have to be able to."

"Doubters to believers"

and

"To be successful, you need to be brave, you need to make decisions .... "

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