Mentoring program

[Scribblar]

Agreed BigBear. Mentoring is great used wisely. I thought the programme was fantastic, and to those that were dissing the calibre of player, the point of mentoring is not a replication of skills, but a sounding board where commonsense can be considered, challenging life skills can be discussed and even grievances kept in perspective once shared.

I miss my mentor.

I know one of the mentors. He was an average player....and the player he mentored was average.
Two negatives equal..... duh!

 

[Phar Ace]

I know one of the mentors. He was an average player....and the player he mentored was average.
Two negatives equal..... duh!

Tommy Hafey by his own admission was just an average player - would have been a nice mentor to have if you were also an average player like Sheedy or Bartlett................

 

[Baloo]

I know one of the mentors. He was an average player....and the player he mentored was average.
Two negatives equal..... duh!

That's the glass half empty view.

The other way to look at it is often average players have to work a lot bloody harder to make the grade due to their lack of natural talent. Lining up a mentor who has traveled the same road would be a very good choice.

Mentoring isn't about telling them how to kick a ball, how to position themselves for a mark, or where to run on the lead. That's the job of the coaches.

The mentor is there to help with the other, non-technical, aspects of making it as a player. A good mentor will rarely give the mentee a straight answer, instead keep probing with questions until the mentee works it out himself.

It's the classic teach a man to fish scenario.