Great rugby player Brad Fittler urged Broncos players to “get out of social media” and make Footy a priority after collapsing on Saturday night for their sixth straight loss.
Brisbane’s coach, Anthony Seibold, his players and the entire club have been under extreme pressure since they were beaten 59-0 in round 3 and tensions reached their boiling point on Saturday when some players cried after losing to the Warriors.
According to Fittler, players must stop engaging with what is said about them and instead eliminate the external noise.
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“The players have become so emotional and tense because I think they are so invested in what everyone is saying about them,” he said Sports Sunday.
“You have to hang up your phones and get rid of the newspapers.
“Even the players when they were interviewed afterwards talked about ‘everyone pounds us’ and ‘everyone does it’.
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“You just have to put everything aside and go to training and start being a footballer instead of those identities that you have created in your own mind.
“Footy has to be the priority, get off the social media guys and stop listening to everyone and just exercise.”
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Fittler then doubled further The Sunday Footy ShowThe players’ obsession with other people’s opinions about them is a “sign of how immature” the playgroup is.
“A lesson in distractions would be pretty important at the Broncos right now to get rid of everything everyone else is saying because it really doesn’t matter,” he said.
“The first thing they have to do is get rid of all that crap, because all they talk about is what the public thinks about them, how everyone smashes them, and I haven’t heard much about the Footy.
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“I want to hear why they don’t play Footy well, why they allow all attempts.
“They have invested so much in this other life, in this social media site and in other people’s opinions about them, that they are only overwriting what they are doing wrong in the field.”
“That they are even involved in this part of their lives at the moment is just a sign of how immature the group is.
“Put your cell phone away, don’t buy a newspaper, turn off the news and go to training. How you allow it so that you can get up well and be so tense is just crazy, it’s only 101. ”
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The NSW coach says it is up to Seibold to crack down on his players and enforce a ban on social media, but believes that he shouldn’t even do that, but that the players should be able to make that decision themselves .
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“You don’t have to (live online), it’s not mandatory and all it does is make your life worse. As a coach you have to say: “If I see someone from you, then you are not on the team, I cannot have any distractions at the moment.”
“It’s only 101, it’s not even a question, that’s the starting point. That way you can tick this off, no, let’s find out why we’re losing. “
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