Monday Musings starts with Space Invaders
Monday Musings starts with Space Invaders
A simple game but now I'm told, gaming has a button for flames, another for grenades, another for switching grenade types, for dash, for punch, for a chainsaw, and a whole bunch other moves and things.
Twenty years ago you could sit down and master Space Invaders fairly quickly, now you have to put in the hours of practice before you hardly get started.
You want to sit and enjoy playing your game but there is a learning process first.
To play tennis you need to practice first or all you would do is serve and pick balls up.
It is no different with a new manager, who has seen things from the outside, seen things from a different perspective and certainly in a more knowledgeable perspective than supporters.
He comes in and has to assess a squad, physically, tactically, mentally, in addition to their skillset.
The players have to learn about their new manager or head coach, what he wants, how he wants it, his system, they almost have to completely re-learn their game.
Conte, for instance, is a you go here and you go here on the pitch, if these circumstances arrive type of manager.
The players have to learn a set of robotic moves to fit a situation and have several in their head.
It's a bit like a musician with a sheet of music, they have loads, just have to all find the right one to all play the right tune.
One instrument doesn't and the piece falls to pieces.
One player not learning his piece and the football team system collapses.
We all learn at different paces, learning isn't instant.
Like our video game, it takes practice to master it, practice away from prying eyes, practice, practice, practice until you master it.
Hence a new system, a new manager, takes time to get his views across, it takes a season of practice to master a new system to a level that allows you to compete, from our starting point.
Then you have to add players in and they have to practice to come up to speed, although of course fans seem to think it is an instant process with them, it isn't.
This transfer window is not about this season, it is about preparing for next season, that is the way Conte looks at it, these stories of unrest are complete nonsense from people who don't know what they are talking about and are probably part of the agenda anti crowd.
You can't put a Tanguy Ndombele in a team and expect it to work, when he isn't interested in having loads of music sheets he has to choose from.
He doesn't want to play the same tune as everyone else, but a tune he wants to play.
Giovanni Lo Celso has been injured for most of the time Conte has been here it would seem so again, his learning time, his practice time is longer that everyone who has been fit.
Learning what a new head coach wants is like an American watching a British comedian, say Al Murray.
Before they can enjoy it they have to really listen hard to understand the accent, often replaying it until they get it, then there are jokes, such as a Paddington Bear joke or a Wombles joke, that they just don't understand.
It might be in the same language, the finest language on the planet, even spoken in space as any fan of Star Trek will tell you, but it still takes practice to understand.
Once that learning hurdle is over, then they can enjoy the comedy and usually do.
That is football players under a new coach, they have to go through that learning process, they know the language, they just have to learn a different interpretation of it, a different accent.
Now a player coming from abroad, who perhaps doesn't understand English, is naturally going to take longer to understand and enjoy Al Murray, or his coach, his teammates and need linger to adjust.
Fans don't recognise this, such problems don't seem to exist in their alternate realities.
Players are not sent out onto the pitch to all just do their own thing and hope it all comes together, no, they are send out with a formula of how they must play, they have to all instantly know what music sheet they are playing.
You see it regularly at the moment where one plays a ball expecting another to be moving into that area, while the intended receiver is playing a different tune and the two simply don't match.
The whole thing goes wrong and it looks dreadful, fans ask what is he doing, well he is playing his tune from his song sheet.
Conte is the conductor, he practices each song, again and again, yes we learn by repetition, which is again why emotionally experiencing something is so important.
Winning the UEFA Europa Conference League was important because it should have been the easiest trophy to win and that emotional experience could then be repeated in other competitions.
Now we have to wait longer and build a stronger team for stronger competitions.
The trouble is people want the easy route, fans only see an easy route, even if that is outside the rules.
That distortion is only kidding yourself and to mount protests and complain about something that is illegal is plain mad.
You can see how that clouds judgement and thus an opinion arises based on illegality, nuts.
Do these computer game addicts spent all their time in a virtual reality world, video games, football manager, metaverse, and apply that to Tottenham?
For those of you who don't know what the metaverse is, it is basically a virtual reality, it is life lived online, buying houses, everything you do in your real life.
If you are spending all your time divorced from reality and playing make believe, your subconscious brain is going to start merging the two.
You can be on your own and get aroused by thinking because your subconscious brain thinks it's real.
A player like Dele Alli has fallen to this type of distraction, mentally he has not totally been committed to his football, his image took over, social acceptance took over, playing to the online crowd took over, looking cool took over, distractions took over.
He might now end up going on loan to Newcastle United for the remainder of the season, all parties have agreed to the provisional idea.
Harry Kane, for a while, became distracted and his form plummeted, incidentally, I don't hear any praise now for Daniel Levy refusing to sell him.
Doesn't fit the agenda.
These distraction are poison to the brain.
A footballer should be totally committed to his football, it's what he is paid a huge sum of money for, not to only work as lazily as he wants to work and doing what he wants to do, rather than what should be done and what he boss tells him.
The very successful take that to heart and want their annual appraisal to show how they have developed themselves further, not just trundled along doing the same thing and collecting your wages.
Those who take self-development seriously get on in business, it's the same in the football industry.
Tottenham need a squad of players like that, we don't need passengers.
Tottenham need supporters who understand this, we don't need virtual reality passengers.
In effect the agenda driven anti fan is the supporters equivalent of Tanguy Ndombele.
Spurs are doing well, improving slowly, but there is plenty more practice needed before our tune is fine tuned and taken to the next level.
Understand and enjoy the process, don't shy away.
Building Spurs is a process, building the team comes after building the process to allow it and the next two years should see that taking place.
COYS
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