St Kilda midfielder Brad Crouch insists confidence stays excessive at Moorabbin and there are not any lingering psychological demons from falling away dramatically final 12 months.
Since profitable their opening 4 AFL video games, the Saints have gone win-loss over the past 10 weeks to be precariously positioned forward of a significant conflict with the Brisbane Lions at Marvel Stadium on Friday evening.
St Kilda began strongly in opposition to Richmond final Saturday evening, however had been ultimately taken down by a Tigers facet impressed for Trent Cotchin within the three-time premiership captain’s three hundredth recreation.
The Saints burst out of the blocks in 2022 with a 8-3 report however received simply three matches within the second half of the season to overlook out on finals.
The fade-out led to the membership sacking Brett Ratten and bringing again prodigal son Ross Lyon as coach.
Crouch, who will line-up for his one hundred and fiftieth AFL recreation this weekend, believed final 12 months’s outcomes had been irrelevant to what they may obtain this season.
“You’ve just got look across the competition and how even it is, how up and down performances can be,” the previous Adelaide participant stated on Tuesday.
“We feel that over the first 13 or 14 games, the effort’s been there for probably 11 or 12, where we’ve been really up and close in games.
“We simply need to ensure that we will do this for the remainder of the 12 months and contact up a couple of issues with our recreation plan and the way in which we transfer the ball.”
Crouch said St Kilda had addressed their inconsistency and inability to string together consecutive victories since the first month of the season.
“Obviously the final half (in opposition to Richmond) was fairly robust with the situations however we have misplaced no confidence,” Crouch stated on Tuesday.
“We’ve spoken a bit bit about it at completely different occasions; we discover that we’re responding nicely to once we lose after which we’re not responding that nicely the following week once we win.
“We understand it’s a long season, but we want to start putting together a real patch of footy; most teams want to be playing well in the second part of the year and that’s what we want to do as well.”
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