Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

In short, sub-optimal performance when under pressure is choking.

Do you have an issue with the definition of choking in sport?

They are doing that to decide which slight variance in definition is correct. Not that sub optimal performance while under pressure is choking. So no, they don't agree with you at all. 🤣

I have. You've picked one paper which aims to clarify the exact definition of choking and decided that this means they agree with you. Even though they have done nothing of the sort. It's laughable. 😂

Why don't you just quote the whole thing? Oh, it's because it shows that they don't agree with you at all. 😂

'In sport, choking under pressure is a negative athletic experience that may have psychologically damaging effects. The media recognizes that choking is a dramatic drop in performance, whereas researchers have labeled choking as any decrease in performance under pressure. This discrepancy between the media's and researchers' perception of choking leads to ambiguity among terms and confusion among researchers, applied practitioners, and the general public. Thus, the current position paper will, critically analyze current choking definitions and explore why they are not appropriate operational definitions; explain the current underperformance and choking terminology debate, offer an alternative choking definition that should be debated, and also identify ways that researchers can improve the robustness of choking investigations. It is hoped that this paper will stimulate debate and improve the quality of future choking research.'

And this is one paper of the many I provided. So yes, laughable indeed.

If you're a mod, if you can't win an argument you can just ban discussing it. Like a young lad taking his ball home after losing a kick about. 😂

First of all, I'd like to say well done on actually making constructive posts, some posters here should learn from you.

I do disagree with you however. 😀 It may have been New Zealand's best performance in a few years but I think the key factor was that it was our worst performance in a few years. We made it easy for them. We played nowhere near our level. We were risk adverse. Taking a safe pass instead of trying to make yards. Not offloading or throwing it wide when opportunities arose, instead keeping it tight.

This is not the way we have played. It's not what made us the best team in the World. He doesn't like it but Neil3030's stats do back up the fact that we played a different game. I can't believe that was under coaching instruction, that wouldn't make sense. It was the occasion in my view. The pressure got to a number of players. Most notably Sexton.

And the truth is that this wasn't a very good New Zealand team. They were very average, especially by their standards. They did make errors against us but we didn't punish them often. It also wasn't a great South Africa team, they didn't have to do much to win the World cup. It was there for the taking, that's why it hurts so bad. The players know this deep down. An awful England team nearly made the final for jaysus sake.

When you look back, South Africa showed the bottle when it was on the line, unfortunately, our players did not. We've talked about having one of their coaches involved with Leinster, we need someone like him involved with the national team for when the next World cup quarter final comes round.