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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[lathami]

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

Will he?? Or does that kind of bath ruin your confidence for good? Sometimes u need to take them out of it, for their own good. I personally believe Benji did the wrong thing by him leaving him out there. Could have longer lasting effects on his career. But we will see.

 

[SwervinMervin]

Will he?? Or does that kind of bath ruin your confidence for good? Sometimes u need to take them out of it, for their own good. I personally believe Benji did the wrong thing by him leaving him out there. Could have longer lasting effects on his career. But we will see.

He had no choice once Madden came on for Douhie. You can really only afford to replace one back.

 

[TIGERS]

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. 😏

Nice post man! ,except Klopp had already done magic things and won titles coaching at Mainz and Dortmund before he went to Liverpool, -- totally different to Benji. Also a lot of the players bought in during his tenure were selected on some serious pioneering data driven analysis and not just scouting intuition. Liverpool were a top, well established team when he joined with very intelligent, conscientious owners -- Very much not HBG

Besides, Klopp isn't just massive veneers and warm press conferences. Klopp was an incredible, pioneering tactician as well and not just a vibes guy. They're both incredibly charismatic.

Here's my theory -- I see Pep Guardiola taking over at Barca as the better football/soccer analogue for Benji;

Pep was a club icon who had never coached a club before taking over. Bought back a lot of the OG Johan Cruyff approach and DNA tactically, which in 2008 was considered too idealistic and attacking to work in the modern era (sound familiar)-- kicked out all the party boys after taking charge too. (Ronaldinho admittedly a slightly bigger deal than David Nofoaluma). Never lets players train with the first team if they don't pass skin fold tests after holidays.

I feel like Benji is doing the same thing. It's kind of 80% Sheens tactics with mixed in with his own brand of charismatic self-belief, plus his 'sensitive-new-aged-manmanagement' style somewhat inspired from his time spent with Wayne Bennett.

 

[Odessa]

I’ll stand by Tavana. No one had an issue with that call pre game.

The Little bit I heard on the radio at the beginning Luke Lewis was going on about attacking Tavana with kicks because he won't be able to see the ball because the sun was directly in his eyes and the Sharks should take advantage of it

 

[Odessa]

Yeah im with you on that. In hindsight it was a terrible coaches call, but everyone seemed to agree we needed his aerial threat with Bula out....ironically it was the very reason he is in the team that really cost us.

I dont want to go hard on the kid (ill save that for the cat Toa), but it really seemed like he would get himself into a good position but then not really try and catch the ball. Did anyone else see it like that? He would jump up but had no desire ir effort to catch the dam thing

Luke Lewis on the radio said the Sharks would attack him with kicks because the sun was directly in his eyes and he won't be able to see the ball


But To'a was he really that bad I am a fan of his but it's sounds like he had a very bad game and bad defence

The centre to my understanding has to hold his ground hold the line and the winger goes with him and holds the line and if the centre makes a bad read it screws the winger and makes him look bad for a bad read by the centre


They is only 1 exception to the rule and that is Nofo he had is own defence patterns and reads and did what ever he wanted when ever he wanted

 

[lathami]

He had no choice once Madden came on for Douhie. You can really only afford to replace one back.

You do have a choice, why have 3 backs on your bench out of 6?? You just have to run with 2 forwards on rotation. What would happen if a forward got injured??

 

[hank37w]

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

Bench was already thrown out with the Doueihi injury.

We were well an truly on the back foot after that.

Agree with leaving the kid on, but Toa, just can't understand his selection at all.

 

[hank37w]

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.

Yeah, that laughing after the game was the last straw for me.

His defence stats for the game paint him in a much better light than they should - 15 tackles - 3 missed - 1 ineffective - just under 79% tackle efficiency.

Should be a stat for not even close enough to attempt a tackle.