Do they want to be here?
The answer is in the body language, the attention to detail, and the conversations.
There is no carrot or stick big enough to motivate someone who has decided they don’t want to be here.
There is no stopping someone who is right where they want to be and determined to make a success of it.
“He must have had the playbook on the plane over because he’s not missed a beat… Because it might take someone else 10 days to fit in”
That was Jonny Sexton talking about Owen Farrell not letting his 3 week late start deter him from being a great Lion, again.
There was a parallel in the documentary the Brady 6, where the quarterbacks picked ahead of Brady admitted to resting on their laurels expecting to have an easy first year and you compare that to footage they showed of Brady who was rattling off moves off the top of his noggin. He’d done his homework and he was ready to take the field at any moment.
It would be unfair and stress inducing to say these are the standards but the coaching staff are eternally grateful and impressed by the effort.
Thomas Duggan 