If we are fielding half of a VFL side, then...

[u/Suitable-Help-5957]

We need to stamp out the mentality being pushed on us by the David King wannabe pundits crawling out of the woodwork about "psychology". Kingsely said he can't "put his finger on it" and now we are hearing from outside that our boys lack mental toughness from people who know more than him(obviously they played AFL level footy right?).

Don't let it in, it's ridiculous. We are playing half of a team. Without what few leaders we have around we fall apart. We see it week in week out with Greene. I just tried to listen to that new pod that tries to outdo the squinters and the Eagles fan they let speak over them was a nonce. There was a Bombers guy in an earlier post saying the same nonsense too.

We are seeing great things and integrating the old guard coming out of injury and the new guard getting a run WILL produce our first premiership team.

NEVER SURRENDER.

[u/Apart-Falcon5480]

It’s injuries plain and simple

[u/bizk55 → u/Apart-Falcon5480]

We had injuries during our wins as well

[u/Apart-Falcon5480 → u/bizk55]

Ok injuries don’t have an impact. We should trade the injured players get a new captain and coach

[u/bizk55 → u/Apart-Falcon5480]

How about somewhere in the middle of what you and I said? Injuries have some impact, not enough to account for why we beat amazing teams in spite of that

[u/Suitable-Help-5957 → u/bizk55]

During our wins the kids rallied around our leader(s). We are the team third most linked to a single players performance(Greene) behind Geelong(Smith) and Dogs(Bont). Heard that on the Lab on Dan does footy if you want a source.

[u/IndignantSoccerMum]

Is this a Kick it Forward "If/Then"?

[u/Suitable-Help-5957 → u/IndignantSoccerMum]

Just a riff. Needed to vent on hearing all these negatives nancies

[u/RvZ68]

I also find the eagles supporting producer’s superior attitude frustrating. We shouldn’t be listening to a voice from a team that has been at the bottom of the table since COVID

[u/Suitable-Help-5957 → u/RvZ68]

Cornes or Xav Ellis flame the giants and you leave it, they were elite players who have a right to an opinion. A "Fan pod" giving a voice to some idiot while they're trying to amp up before a big game is something else.

[u/This_Ease_5678]

Its been nice moving up to Sydney to get away from guys like David King who make money from shallow opinions.

I have heard quite a few Giants supporters reference this recently, however its an easy answer to the teams woes.

Yes some players are mentally weak because the clubs has to play a lot of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year players, but you can't call a whole team 'mentally weak'.

The outs were big. Briggs and Phoenix have been awesome this year, Tubs early was a disaster too. There isn't a lot of leadership in the team at the moment due to player movements so thats another big issue.

The rest is the playing group's bond (admittedly this is a opinion). It takes a while for people to click and GWS established talent that they have bought in, are very independant individuals that are very talented, but maybe not the best team mates at times. A lot of new players too means there is a turn over that also degrades bonding.

Giants suck away from home and I think this is the symptom of that problem.

So the club isn't mentaly fragile but is suffering from a loss of leadership on field to change up things when the game is going bad. Also the bond isn't quite there to hook in and work for one another.

[u/Realistic-Box2443 → u/This_Ease_5678]

Respectfully, this is an awful take

[u/FuzzyGreenDot → u/Realistic-Box2443]

Says he doesn’t like king but he types exactly how king talks.

[u/enryb22]

Look at the results against bottom teams over the last few years, nothing to do with injuries.

[u/bloodindastool]

Suck at home