Neil Craig

Neil Craig
Neil P. Craigis the Director of Coaching at the Carlton Football Club, a former Australian rules footballer, fitness adviser, former coach of the Adelaide Football Club, a former caretaker coach of the Melbourne Football Club, as well as the former General Manager of Performance at the Essendon Football Club...
afraid change lose people quite situation
Quite often when people get to a situation where there is a big prize, they are afraid to lose . . . they change their game.
applies clubs coach experiment law sure
The new kick-in law is an experiment but it is now a rule. It won't be all hunky dory but it applies to all clubs and I'm sure each coach is going to have his own philosophies and strategies.
centre good looks paper quite ready reality says square
It looks good on paper and it would look good to have No.32 in the centre square but reality says he is not quite ready to do that yet.
paranoia wait
Let's just wait - there's been a lot a paranoia that may not be justified.
followers game generate point stage state year
From a bigger-picture point of view, to generate a game at this stage of the year for the state and footy followers is just fantastic.
convince game himself putting
He'd have to do enough to convince himself that he can actually play the game without putting himself, the hamstring at risk.
less training volume
We've had less regimented running, but our volume of training has significantly increased.
difference week
The only difference to any other week is we will not take any unnecessary risk.
good sit win
We are in it to win it. Let's not sit here and say that was a good win and will do for the season. That is not what we are on about as a club.
careful trains
We're being careful with him we'll see how he trains on Friday.
players
We don't like our players getting reported, it is not part of what we are all about. But I need to get all the facts.
bit
We did not have enough opportunities to play our kids, ... We've stagnated a bit there.
believe good improvement opinion outsiders
We believe we have got a lot of improvement to make yet which is good for us internally but outsiders have got an over-inflated opinion where we are at.
close finals football trying
We were trying to be too precise, too perfect. Close finals football is not about perfection.