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Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 48.0%

  • No

    Votes: 118 52.0%
  • Total voters
    227
Chipmunk

Chipmunk

Coach
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I'm wondering if anyone in the know is aware if we have/use a sports psychologist with the team.

If not, I think it's something we should be seriously looking into. The biggest differences for mine between the teams at the NRL level is more mental than physical.
 
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Cloeel

Juniors
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Chipmunk said:
I'm wondering if anyone in the know is aware if we have/use a sports psychologist with the team.

If not, I think it's something we should be seriously looking into. The biggest differences for mine between the teams at the NRL level is more mental than physical.
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Yes - a bloke called Andrew May...

If you search him on instagram he has in his bio that he is the "Mental Skills coach" for Parramatta Eels.
 
Poupou Escobar

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
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Chipmunk said:
I'm wondering if anyone in the know is aware if we have/use a sports psychologist with the team.

If not, I think it's something we should be seriously looking into. The biggest differences for mine between the teams at the NRL level is more mental than physical.
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I think so too, but I think these mental skills are mostly inherent to adults and develop very gradually. Like how no amount of gym time will turn Opacic into Latrell Mitchell. That said, Opacic (and Mitchell) would certainly both be stronger now than when they made their NRL debuts, and also both players would become weaker if they didn't continue spending time in the gym. I will end my shitty analogy by saying that mental skills are probably the only ones (compared to physical and technical skills) that should continue to improve through the length of a player's career. But that doesn't mean Moses or Drown will ever be as smart as Reynolds or Townsend.
 
Eelementary

Eelementary

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Chipmunk said:
I'm wondering if anyone in the know is aware if we have/use a sports psychologist with the team.

If not, I think it's something we should be seriously looking into. The biggest differences for mine between the teams at the NRL level is more mental than physical.
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www.google.com

May day: Parramatta turn to mental skills coach for finals edge

As the Eels attempt to snap a 35-year premiership drought, an anonymous member of Brad Arthur’s brains trust could prove to be the most important.
www.google.com www.google.com
 
Eelementary

Eelementary

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Poupou Escobar said:
I think so too, but I think these mental skills are mostly inherent to adults and develop very gradually. Like how no amount of gym time will turn Opacic into Latrell Mitchell. That said, Opacic (and Mitchell) would certainly both be stronger now than when they made their NRL debuts, and also both players would become weaker if they didn't continue spending time in the gym. I will end my shitty analogy by saying that mental skills are probably the only ones (compared to physical and technical skills) that should continue to improve through the length of a player's career. But that doesn't mean Moses or Drown will ever be as smart as Reynolds or Townsend.
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Really good point.

My psychologist always tells me that the mind must be regularly exercised, just like physical muscles, in order for treatment to stick.

If the players only do what is required of them when the club asks them to (ie: they don't practice mindfulness in their own time, etc.), then it is simply a waste of time.
 
hindy111

hindy111

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Eelementary said:
Really good point.

My psychologist always tells me that the mind must be regularly exercised, just like physical muscles, in order for treatment to stick.

If the players only do what is required of them when the club asks them to (ie: they don't practice mindfulness in their own time, etc.), then it is simply a waste of time.
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On the ABC last night they had a program about physdelics and treating trauma. Maybe we need this for our players. Get them on muscles and re map their brains to beleive they are unbeatable.
 
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