{"id":14753,"date":"2017-08-03T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:09:30","slug":"young-lions-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2017\/08\/young-lions-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Lions: A Tale of Success and Woe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With our struggles in defending, I realised it is probably best we avoid… defending. We aren’t very good at it, so why bother? The opposite of the growth mindset I so readily<\/span> promote every day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We can’t not defend though. It isn’t possible to ignore this part of the beautiful game, but what if we did it less?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Having more possession will help us with this. I had early on decided to relinquish possession in hopes that we could defend in numbers. Evidently<\/span>, with only one win in 10, it did not work. We were getting outgunned and out classed. Back to basics then.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n