If you consider having an egg in one place and a female chicken in another place, both with a degree or two of freedom - you can sit and look at the egg to see what it does if just left there. Answer – nothing except putrefaction. If you watch the chicken on the other hand - you will see, first the seeking out of a mate and submission to copulation. The chicken will then seek a warm quiet place and start to lay one or more eggs on which she will sit for about 3 weeks. Result – one or more chickens. SO, quite clearly the chicken comes before the egg as long as there is some intervention, first from the female chicken and then from a male chicken.
With team spirit I conclude there is also a need for external intervention. And this is what the manager chiefly does. Can you imagine Sir Alex Ferguson tolerating any player not giving his all for Man U? Other factors are also involved. Winning matches vastly improves team spirit but team spirit is needed first. No sportsman/woman enjoys losing (though it’s good to lose occasionally) so, the more games won the happier the players are in general terms and the better the team spirit. That’s why it’s so important to have a good start.
For Derby the good start was down to the manager and the board of directors who appeared to have all their plans in place to get new players on board early (in spite of quite a high cost in extra wages). This allowed them all to become well acquainted and so blend together better as a team. In comparison look at Forest. New players in late and no gelling so far of the team. A few more defeats and their season will shot. I’m sure team spirit was also improved by not so big a disparity in wages. No Commons, Hulse, Leacock and Savage compared with last year.
So all Nigel has to do is to handle things with care and to maintain the good atmosphere. All the players have to do is keep playing their heart out and get continued good results and when there are ten or so games on the board we should be in a good position to be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.
Simple really.
Which comes first? team spirit or good resu
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its all a bit chicken and egg aint it
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could eat a tower
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Ramdini,
Sorry, but you put an article on here the other day that was basically a brief history lesson with no point to it at all and this one is similar. Pointless, boring, too long and a good example of posting something for the sake of it.
posted on 5/9/11
A good run of form cannot be sustained without good team spirit.
Good team spirit is essential if the team is to be better than the sum of its parts.
If they are underlying problems within the camp they will materialise sooner or later with deterimental effects.
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Team spirit and a good work ethic will get you so far but you need a bit of quality or class in key areas. Sadly we havent got either in front of the back four.
Not that they are bad players but I wouldnt have thought they would get in any of the top sides in this division somthing IMO Derby should be
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It only takes one bad apple.
I'm not casting aspertions, (I cant even spell it let alone cast them) but I suspect that there are certain senior players who Nigel is keen to get rid of not just because they are being paid loads but also because they are "disruptive" and "challenging" and possibly think they know better than the management.
Team spirit can be built with or without results but there's no dount that good results do help.
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comment by Im not Spartacus (U4603) posted 44 minutes ago
Have you much experience of this peni?
you can actually feel the egg if you shove it in far enough
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Scrambled egg or Omelette??
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posted on 5/9/11
The word you was looking for was "hen"